hi everyone. i’m alejandra from alejandra.tvand in this video, i’m going to share with you how to organize your car, everything ikeep inside my car and i’m going to share any tips for having a less cluttered car whenyou are driving around town because a less cluttered car is a more comfortable car andeverything is easier to access, things are easier to find, and it’s just a more enjoyableexperience when there’s less clutter while you’re driving inside your car. but first, if this is your first time watchingany of my videos, you can check out my free three-day video series on three tasks to dotonight to feel more organized tomorrow when you wake up. there’s a link below.
all right. so let’s go ahead and get started.all right. so this is the side door of the driver’s seat and the only thing i keepright here – sometimes, there’s like chapstick right there. but the only thing i keep righthere in this side door is this little fuzzy wuzzy duster that i got from ross for $1.99about a year and a half ago when i got my car. i love this thing because i can justsit here while i’m pumping gas at the gas station or i’m waiting for ed or something. i will stay here and i will just dust thedashboard and dust the wheel and dust up here. it’s just great. so i think it’s calledthe fuzzy wuzzy but dollar tree makes their own version of this. it’s blue and you canget it in the garage auto section.
all right. so now let’s move to the middleconsole. all right. so right here, i have my phone charger and i use one of these cordorganizers that just looks like a macaron. it’s like a french macaron. i showed thisin my office video last year. but basically it takes a longer cord and you just ravelit around and make it as short as you want it or as long as you want it. then you justclose the sides just like that and then you just feed this through the big end just likethat and you have a nice, short cord, so nothing is dangling down inside the car or whereveryou’re using the cord organizer. i love these things. they come in all sorts of funcolors. that’s my favorite color. all right. so then in the middle console righthere, so i like to keep the cup holders free
of trash, free of anything. so when i havea water bottle in the car, i can actually put my water bottle right here. on this sideor on this side, i always keep hand sanitizer. the rest of my personal care items are inthe middle console which i will show you in a second. but i use the hand sanitizer pretty much everysingle time i drive. i’m always spraying it and putting it on my hands. so i will justkeep it right here since it’s frequently accessed. the chapstick, i keep it right here.if it’s not right here, it’s usually inside of my purse. all right. so now let me show you the middleconsole. ok. so here’s the middle console
of the car and i will show you what’s inside.so let’s look at the top part first. the top part is nice and empty and clear becausewhen i open the bottom part, which i open often, things roll around here and there’ssomething mounted under the doors. so if there’s more stuff in here, it makes the door heavier.when the door is too heavy, sometimes it doesn’t stay open. so i just keep that nice and empty. all right. so the bottom part here – actually,i’m going to close this in and reopen it. all right. so the bottom part – the toppart here, i have this life hammer that’s mounted on the door right here with a commandstrip. basically a life hammer is in case you’re stuck in the car and you can’tget out. you can just grab this tool. it’s
nice and accessible right here on the frontseat of the car and you can just bang this against the window and the window will instantlycrack. so it’s in case of emergencies and it’snice and out of the way on the door. all right. so inside the middle console, i have everythingstored vertically. everything is stored vertically to make it nice and accessible. so i can justcome here, grab this. i don’t have to remove this to get to what’s in the bottom. nothingis stacked on top of each other. everything is nice and vertical. all right. so let’s show you what’s inside.so the first thing is wipes for the car, so in case i need to wipe anything down. thereare hand wipes. so in case i need more than
hand sanitizer, i can grab a wipe in casemy hands are sticky. there’s a notepad in case i need to takeany notes or make any lists while i’m waiting in the car. there is car freshener. so incase i need to spray the car for whatever reason, i have that. there is a pack of dentalflossers in case i can’t brush my teeth and i need to. i have food stuck in my teeth. then right here, i have a cosmetic bag withall my personal care items. so i always keep this cosmetic bag open. if it’s zipped,i would have to open this door, unzip the bag to get to things inside. so it’s easierjust to keep it unzipped. all right. so this is just one of those verabradley cosmetic bags. i love these things
because they come lined. so in case anythingspills, you can just wipe these things down. you can also put them in the washer and washthem in case they’re dirty. all right. so i got this at the outlet for– i think it was like $4. it was 50 percent off. all right. so the first thing i haveis hand lotion. sometimes i keep the hand lotion right here if my hands are – youknow, they’re extra dry in the winter or something. otherwise, it’s just kept insidethis thing. all right. this is one of those things thatyou just wet it and you remove deodorant from your shirt or from your clothes. those thingsare awesome. we have a pack of tissues for blowing yournose, a pack of altoids, a pack of gum. i
have my favorite pens. so this is the uniballjetstream 0.7. this one is actually 0.5. point seven is my favorite one but 0.5 is nice aswell. i love these things because they write smoothly.they come in fun colors and they don’t smear. i’m left-handed. so a lot of pens will getthe ink on the side of my hand. but these ones are just awesome. i will put a link towhere to get these in fun colors. usually in the store, you can only get red, blue,and black. but if you go online to a certain website, you can get fun colors like thispurple one right here. purple, pink, green and orange, you can find them online. all right. so those stay at the bottom andi have pain relievers right here. it’s labeled.
so in case i’m not in the car and someoneelse is and they need something, there’s a label. here is a reusable proscription bottlethat i put quarters in for parking at meters and in case you want to know what’s inside,there’s a nice label, nice clear label with white font that says, “$0.25â€. ponytail holder. there’s a small pack ofhoney. so this is in case of emergencies. mojo has – mojo is my dog. she has low bloodsugar sometimes and when that happens, she has these episodes. so we will just put honeyon her gums and it helps. a key to our storage unit. everything is currentlyin storage and that is everything inside of this console.
ok. so here’s my glove compartment. i willshow you what’s inside. so the first thing is i have a poly envelope of napkins. so thatmight sound silly. like, why are these napkins inside of a poly envelope? they’re insideof a poly envelope so that they don’t get dusty, dirty or contaminated because whenyou want a napkin to blow your nose or to clean your hands, you want something that’snice and clean. so this is just one of those poly envelopes that’s from dollar tree.they’re two for a dollar. they’re kind of hard to find. i’ve only seen them atone dollar tree in all the dollar trees that i’ve been to and they’re really nice becausethey have a nice, tight snap just like that. you can kind of hear how nice it is. they’redurable. they come in pink. they come in green,
blue and i think black or white. i think it’sblack. so yeah, that just stays right there. then i have my car manual that came with mycar and inside here, i have a copy of my car insurance card that’s laminated. i havemy inspection car. i have my inspection report. i have a copy of my driver’s license incase for whatever reason i don’t have my driver’s license on me and i have contactinformation for the place where i get my car serviced. then on this side on the door, this is – i’msitting in the passenger seat right here. so right here, i have my coupon binder, whichi’ve done a video on like – something like two years ago. nothing has changed withthis thing. i love this thing. i will link
this video below. this thing is so organizedand it just makes it really easy to find your coupons and just maintain this thing. so that hangs out here. sometimes it’s insidethe house when i’m going through and cleaning it out and adding coupons. sometimes it’swith me inside my purse. but most of the time, it lives right here in this car door. ok. so here we are in the backseat of thecar. so there’s not much stuff in the backseat of the car because we don’t have kids. wedon’t have a lot of people that’s jam-packed inside the car. only when we’re carpooling,which isn’t that often. but let me show you what’s back here.
so back here on this door, i have an umbrella.so this stays inside the car at all times and every time i use it, i will air it outoutside the car and then make sure it comes back inside the car so i always have an umbrellain case i’m out and it’s raining. all right. so then back here, so right hereis a trash bag. i just have a paper bag from the grocery store and i will just put trashin here whenever there’s trash. then every time i go to the gas station, if the trashbag is filled, i will empty the trash in the gas station. if it’s not filled and there’snothing in there that’s like – could be smelly – if something is going to smellof the car, i’m not going to put it back here. i’m going to immediately take it toa trash can if i’m stopping somewhere or
i’m going home. whatever trash goes in hereis anything that won’t smell like a napkin, a paper towel, a wrapper of some sort. all right. so that’s that. so right now,i have a big trash bag. normally i just have a plastic trash bag from the grocery store.but right now, i have a lot of trash that i’m collecting because of our lifestyleright now. we’re in between homes and there’s just a lot of trash that has been collectedinside the car. so just – what i’m trying to say is justuse the trash can, trash bag, whatever size fits your needs and empty it every time yougo to the gas station or whenever it’s filled. ok. that was a long explanation for a trashbag. all right. so then back here, i just
have all my reusable bags and i just hangthis on the back of this headrest right here and everything is nested inside of each other.this is a good reusable bag. it holds a lot of bags. so everything is just folded inside.it’s old batches. i just kind of fold it in quarters and then just put it in there.there’s no real method to how i fold my reusable bags because they get used, theyget stuffed inside and it works the way it is. all right. so that is everything backhere. ok. so here we are inside the trunk. i’mgoing to show you everything i have inside here and all of the organizing systems thati have set up. all right. so the first thing is i have this cargo net right here. so incase i’m parked on a hill and i need to
open the trunk, everything is not going tocome rolling out. this is somewhat of a barrier to keep it secure and in place. the second half of this – the cool thingabout this cargo net is it has – right here. it opens and you can store things inside.i have paper towels in case of a spill, in case i need extra napkins, in case i needto clean something. who knows? but these are safe right inside here. you can also put reusablebags inside here. you can put groceries, any kind of stuff, sports gear. i’m going to take this thing down and showyou what else is back here. all right. so i have an extra bag of reusable bags righthere in front of me. so i normally keep this
inside of our house. normally i keep reusablebags inside the car and inside the house. right now, we are in between homes and allof our stuff is in storage. a lot of stuff is in different places that it’s not usually– this is not usually in the car. but this is one that goes inside the house. all right.so over here, i have things that are going back to the store. so right now, we’re inthe process of building a house and have all these floor samples right here. i’m goingback to the flooring place this week to make sure i don’t forget them. they’re alreadyloaded into the trunk. this right here is going to my sister. i’mseeing my sister tomorrow. so we will unload this when i get to her house, give it to her.same thing with this bag in the back. this
is going to a drop-off location in a coupleof weeks, like two weeks. so that’s going to go back to that place in a couple of weeks. ok. so the two things that i always keep insidemy trunk is this bag right here and then this really heavy organizer right here, which i’mgoing to go through and show you every single thing that’s inside. so the first thingis i have a towel inside my trunk in case i’m hauling something that’s dirty, thatmight scratch the bottom of the trunk. i will just line it here. if i know i’m going tobe hauling something, i will bring a bigger towel or a moving blanket or a felt pad fromhome instead of this towel because this is a little small.
all right. the second thing – oh, and thisbag is from vera bradley, the vera bradley outlet for 50 percent off. ok. the secondthing is this big organizer right here. so this organizer, i love this thing. i got itfrom kmart for $9.99. it comes in two colors. it comes in this fun, navy color and thenit comes in a fun pink. it’s like a milkshake strawberry pink. all right. i felt like this matched the carbetter, so i got this one. but it’s an awesome deal because it’s so heavy duty. it hasall these pockets. i can store stuff inside. it has a nice handle. it’s secure and it’sjust nice. all right. so let me show you everything that’s inside here.
let’s start on the side. out of everythinginside this organizer, this measuring tape is used the most. i feel like i’m alwaysmeasuring things. it has a nice hook right here and it just stays right here and i willjust take it wherever i go if i need it and then put it back right there. there’s rope if i need to rope anythingdown or tie something down or hauling something. here are all these plastic grocery bags. soif i’m not using a paper trash can in the backseat of my car, i’m using a plasticgrocery bag in the front seat of my car to carry a small amount of trash. all right. these just get shoved inside here.in the front of the organizer, i have one
of those tire pressure – taking tire pressureon your wheels thing. i have a knife that has multiple tools in here in case i needtools and i broke down or i just need scissors or something. i have mojo’s poopy bags right here. soin case we’re hiking, going on a picnic and keep those in the back here. matches incase i need matches. i never use them but if i need a match, i had a match. on thisside, there’s a thermal blanket. so in case we get broken down and it’s freezing outside,that we have one of those thermal blankets to keep us warm. these right here are thosehand warmers or foot warmers. again, in case it’s really cold and you’re trying tostay warm.
all right. inside of the organizer, i havethis little ice scraper for the windshield of the car. i got this thing – i think ipaid like seven bucks on amazon. this thing is like the best ice scraper. i will linkeverything i’m showing below, so you can check it out. this was an awesome deal. all right. this is that bowl – mojo’scollapsible pet bowl that i said we had two of. this green one stays in the car. justlike that. these things are awesome. i have a flashlight in case i need a flashlight.i don’t keep the batteries inside because the batteries will die faster if they’rekept inside. instead, i keep them in a plastic bag just like this. i will just load themin when i need a flashlight.
i have a flare light, again in case i get– i break down. its’ night time and i want to send out a signal. this thing i thinkhas like 18 different flare lights, different lights, whatever they’re called. i spentlike four hours one day researching flare lights and this thing had the best reviewsbased on everything we want inside of a flare light. some of these things i know are just in caseof emergency. but i’m one of those people that would rather be over-prepared than beunder-prepared and in a situation where you need some of these things. painter’s tape in case i need to tape somethingor in case i just need tape for whatever reason.
i have a first aid kit. so inside the firstaid kit, i have different sized band-aids. i have ointment, first aid ointment. i havea moist, cleansing wipe, and then that’s it. it all goes inside this nice first aidorganizer right here. all right. energy bars. so in case i’m ina situation where i’m not going to be eating for a while or i’m broken down and i’mhungry, these are emergency energy bars. i can’t say that they’re only saved foremergencies because sometimes i get hungry and i eat them. they’re kept in the trunkso they’re hard to access. so i won’t eat them. just like – you know, if i keepthem in the front seat, i’m more likely to eat them. that’s why they’re in theback.
now the last thing is a drink [0:17:40] [phonetic]of water which i can say that i do not drink these waters. i can be really thirsty andi will not come back here and drink these waters because they are expensive. so i keepa four-pack of glass water bottles in here in case of an emergency. i keep glass becauseplastic, when it gets heated, it can leach chemicals and get into your water and youdon’t want to drink that water, especially if you’re just using it in case of an emergency.you don’t want it sitting in your car for a really long time and then you could be drinkingwater with chemicals inside. so i have glass. this has been through a verycold winter and the glass does not break. it has not broken and it has been in a reallyhot summer and nothing has happened.
now if you go to the grocery store and youlook for these glass water bottles, they’re probably the most expensive water bottlesin the whole grocery store. however, tj maxx carries these water bottles. i just saw themyesterday, four for $5.99, which is still kind of expensive. but for a glass of waterbottle, it’s not that bad. now if you just put this in your car withglass, four-glass water bottles, it’s going to rattle and you’re going to hear constantglass shaking. so what i did was i wrapped two of them in paper towels and now you shakethem, you don’t hear any glass. so if you have glass, you can do that and you won’thear the annoying sound. all right. that’s everything inside of mytrunk. it’s everything back here. now, the
one thing i’m always mindful to do, whichi kind of mentioned in the backseat of the car is to constantly take things out of yourcar if they don’t belong in the car. so when you come to your trunk to put thegroceries away, you’re not scrambling for space. you’re not throwing things around.you have space. space is plentiful. so if something doesn’t belong in a car, takeit inside your house when you get home. if there’s trash, when you get to a trash canor go to places like the gas station when you fill up your tank, take your trash. putit in the trash can. just try and keep the things that you useand you need inside your car and nothing more. the less stuff you have cluttering up yourcar, the more comfortable your car is going
to be for yourself, for your passengers andanyone in the back seat. they don’t want to be sitting in the car and they can’teven put their feet on the ground because there’s just so much stuff that’s in theway. when you have a clear car – not a clearcar, but when you have a less cluttered car, it’s just more comfortable for everyoneinside the car. so i hope you found this video helpful. iwill go ahead and link all the products i showed you down below in the description.if this is your first time watching any of my videos, you can subscribe for more tipsin getting organized or check out my website alejandra.tv.
i will see you in a later video. thanks forwatching. bye.
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