This is part of a sponsored collaboration with State Farm and Latina Mom Bloggers. However, all opinions expressed are my own.
I treat my vehicle is like a member of my family. Why? Because I have depend on it everyday and like my home office on wheels. Aside from using my minivan daily, it has to keep us safe and be as efficient and functional as possible. But just like my teen can’t keep her room clean (don’t get my started), my minivan seems to get shafted in the cleaning department. My mobile office sometimes look like a wreck! But when we travel, our trunk has to be thoroughly cleaned out.
So if your like me, this is the perfect time of year to clean out the trunk and get rid of your junk. My kids & I recently cleaned out only to find hidden treasures from forever ago! Things like ear buds, empty chip bags, crushed water bottles and my personal favorite: papers I needed to sign for school. Isn’t that sweet of them?!?! I know I’m not the only one finding old french fries on the floorboards. I recently saw a fun article called: 13 randomly weird things list on Goodneighbors.com. It was an instant sense of relief knowing I’m not the lone ranger in the junk in the truck movement.
Now that it’s winter I take my recently cleaned out trunk and add safety supplies to the back of my ride. We already have emergency supplies in our stow and go, but I my kids to have access to several items in an emergency situation.
We rarely get below 20F degrees in Southeast Louisiana but I still prepare my vehicle for winter weather and also store our survival supplies in the trunk. Being a Girl Scout & Girl Scout Leader for all those years taught me a thing or two about being prepared so I create a survival pack and place it in our minivan in case of emergency.
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The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: new doors for our house. Not junk but still unusual! @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
I found a old battery in my trunk when I bought my first car at 19. The crazy thing is I was on my way to New Orleans and had some blankets in my trunk, I stopped at a gas station to top up on fluids and got me a blanket from my trunk. Within 10-15 min my legs started to burn, guess what the battery was leaking acid and burned through my pants!! I had to pull over on the high way and change!! It was horrible!! Never leave a battery in your car throw that junk away!! Lol,
My trunk recently had a cleaning—everything in there including a senior thesis I wrote ages ago (I left it in there!). I left the snow shovel, window scraper and some extra window washer fluid as well as a pair of gloves! Guess it had been a while since I cleaned it out!
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: a surf board. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: stale cereal. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is a fake arm from Halloween that is supposed to hang out of the trunk, but I just threw it in the trunk after Halloween instead of putting it in storage. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: a clown costume. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
For once our trunk is clear, although the back seat is another story, bit like a treasure hunt!!
The funniest thing I’ve had in my trunk was a huge glass aquarium.
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: a roll of cute penguin wrapping paper that’s been in there since last Christmas. Not that unusual of an item, I’m just amused that almost a YEAR has passed and I still haven’t managed to take it into the house!! @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
I keep all kinds of things that I might need for work in my trunk! Office supplies, bottled water, snacks, etc. Sometimes I have to clean it out as it gets too full! Thanks for the info and the giveaway!
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: my wedding dress. We left that night for our honeymoon, so I left my wedding dress in my trunk at the airport for a week while we were on vacation! haha @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
Now you have me curious about my trunk. I’m really not sure what’s in there at all!
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is 20 helium filled balloons @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: The Car Keys on our Wedding Night! Not funny at the time though….we could not get our luggage out until the next day! Had to wake up and put on my dress again! LOL @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
It is an awesome think to do and everyone should have a kit in their trunk. I don’t have a car so I don’t but would so love too. Thanks for sharing.
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is a giant teapot.@StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing that I have had in my trunk is a big screen tv and it was hanging out the back all the way home.
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is a huge Winnie the Pooh stuffed animal @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is a curling iron @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: assignments and books from my first year of college. My trunk doesn’t get much use and I found them cleaning it out for the first time in years. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: A live catfish in a bucket of water. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
Thousands of condoms. I was an HIV educator on my way to staff an information table.
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is:10 watermelons. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
yes for a family reunion
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I am just not that funny I guess. I can’t give you anything funny. It’s always groceries. And junk. Unexplainable and unnecessary junk. 😉
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is a lot of cookbooks. @StateFarmLatino #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is a broken high heel shoe. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: the bag of groceries I could not find after shopping for a couple weeks. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
My trunk has and always had been a home for many of things…Random things..Spoons, speakers, plates,cups,strollers, food, bikes, toys, car seats, shoes,clothes,knives,random tools, but the oddest and scariest would have been when my trunk caught fire…
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: ME! @StateFarmLatino #TrunkJunk I climbed through the back seat to get the latch unlock and for some reason paniced, lol
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is:gas can ;P . @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I ever found in my trunk was a three month old picnic lunch.
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk was a chair that didn’t fit (but was tied down). @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is a trunk full of beer (I don’t drink).
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: myself. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I ever had in my trunk was a 7 FT stuffed solder and a 5 FT stuffed Raggedy Ann doll looking at everyone driving in the back of us.@StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
I put books in my trunk ,thinking I would do a little reading . But we were to buzy.
The funniest thing I have found in my trunk was a baby calf.
a friend, we were sneaking into a drive in movie
A rotting busted baby pumpkin. Though I can’t say it was very funny when I went looking for the nasty smell coming from back there!
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is:15 boxes of cereal. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: an actual clown! @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
(My friend is a professional clown and likes to play around, lol!)
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: kitty litter for winter. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is: a duck costume @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is my best friend. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk
The funniest thing I’ve ever had in my trunk is 70 pounds of grapefruit. @StateFarmLatino #InviernoSeguro #TrunkJunk