10 Things In My Car

Last year I participated with Erin for 10th on the 10th and she's continuing it this year, click here for those posts. Well this year she has come up with 12 new topics that I hope to participate in as well! This month is 10 things in my car. I have some pretty random things in my car, so here it goes.

The first few aren't so random... don't think.

My sunglasses, I did a post on my favorite sunglasses. My normal ones weren't in the car when I was taking pictures. But go here to see my favorite CHEAP sunglasses.

Next up is all of my car repair paperwork. Yep, every oil change and major service goes into this envelope. Strange I keep it in my car, probably, but hey it works and I always know where it is.

Then there is the thing that I use maybe twice a year, maybe 3 times...but yet it stays in my car full time. That is my umbrella. This thing is awesome, it has a button that puts it up and then the same button puts it down, so now fiddling with getting it down, just flip a  button and BAM it's down and in your car.

My windshield shades, a must in the summer. What I dislike the most is getting into my car to a hot steering wheel. I pretty much always use a sunshade, even when it's cloudy out, you just never know when it's going to be hot. Like yesterday, it was 85°F...29°C, totally random, and then Thursday is suppose to go back down to 67°, go figure.

This is pretty much always in my car, although I don't really like this brand, I bought it at Costco, so I have a Costco size pack to go through...talk about torture, but I don't want to waste money, so I deal with it, and give a piece to everyone and anyone who wants one.

Moving onto my trunk...

These are going to be totally random, but it has come in handy on more than one occasion. The worst is when you get somewhere and your stroller tires are flat, it happened to us once, and we ended up having to carry a 2 year old everywhere...everyone has an air compressor in their trunk right? Oh and a blow up mattress pump for the cigarette lighter. Hey we've used it a couple of times...might as well keep it in there right?

Always have some hand sanitizer in there too. I like these wet ones, and then I also have the spray kind too. Depends on how dirty the kids hands are for which one I'm going to use.

This one I talked about in this video...so if you want to know exactly what's in it, go look at it there, time: 5:37 in the video for details. Anyway, I've used it once and then a friend has used it once...totally worth it! What is it? A portable car jumper, so you don't need anything other than this thing, and it totally works and you never have to worry about finding someone to help jump your car because it's self contained. Everyone should own one!

My waterproof blanket, has come in handle so many times I can't count. I just keep it in the car all the time because you never know when you'll need it. Once we went to a play with the kids and the theater put the air conditioning under all of the seats, talk about cold! So got this thing put it on the ground and blocked all of that cold air from hitting us. See, never know when you'll use it!

Last but not least reusable bags? Need I say more?

Honorable mention goes to these guys: The BEST chair possible. It has it's own sunshade, and makes for a square backpack. We all have one and a good portion of the year you will find it in my trunk to watch all of the kids sports stuff.

Comes in handy, I think half of Baby Fox's league has one after seeing ours.

So those are the 10 things always in my car. What do you always have in your car that is totally random?

If you want to join in the fun, here are the topics.

3 Tips For A Spring Clothing Purge

I saw this on Keri Lynn's blog and knew I had to participate when I could. I did my pantry, but not in time to post for this challenge. But if you want to see that, click here.


| Tip 1 |

Try to take away the sentimental value of your clothes. I know it's hard, but how many things in your closet do you still have that you say, I wore this when I did this...or I had this when I turned this age. It's hard, but just do it! You'll feel so much better, and in all reality, you probably have a picture of yourself in that piece of clothing.

| Tip 2 |

If you haven't worn it in 6 months get rid of it, you're not going to wear it. You already know which clothes you consistantly pass over when trying to pick out an outfit. Do yourself a favor and just get rid of it. I got rid of something I've worn twice, it's super cute, but I don't EVER reach for it because I feel like I'm choking when I wear it. I wore it once to work, and actually had to leave work to go buy another shirt because I felt like I was going to suffocate (I"m weird like that I know).

| Tip 3 |

If you think you're going to fit into it at some point...just get rid of it. If you do ever get to that size again...just get something new. There is no need to have something in your closet constinatly reminding you of what you use to be 5 years ago. You are who you are now, embrace it. Don't let your clothes make you feel bad for who you are now. I don't need that negativity in my life, and either do you! So just get rid of it! Then you won't have to see it and be constantly reminded of what used to be.

I try to organize using all of these tips to get rid of things. I don't wear a few times a year, so I thought this would be the perfect time. I forgot to take before pictures. But here are some after pictures.

The bag in the back is our dry cleaning bag. Where do you all keep your dry cleaning bag? If you want a closet tour, I did one here, I haven't changed much except that we added shelves.

Something to note: because of where I live, we don't really have seasons, so I don't need to have different wardrobes. So everything I own is always out. I organize it, tank tops, t-shirts, long sleeves, and then sweaters.

I love that Mr. wanted to participate too. Mostly because he bought a bunch of new t-shirts and I told him he needed to clean out his closet or buy more hangers...he chose to clean out the closet, haha.  Here is everything that we donated from this round.

Of course I put a video together for you.

Here are the other topics if you are interested:

Friday Favorites #158

Hi Foxy Friends! Happy Friday! Currently we're in the mountains with friends soaking up the last few days of Spring break. So let's get to what we've been up to lately.

In case you missed it on the blog this week:

Monday: TBB Asks -  All Things Spring
Tuesday: March Boxy Charm Unboxing
Wednesday: My Favorite Cheap Sunnies
Thursday: Sentence A Day - March

Some photos I never shared. Every year a local realtor puts on an Easter egg hunt for our neighborhood, the kids look forward to it every year. This year we ACTUALLY made it in time for eggs...getting three kids to smile for a picture...impossible when they just want to get all those eggs!

Easter Bunny is finally here, they can start hunting eggs! I do like that they put the kids according to age group, so they release the kids youngest to oldest...works out great for the littles.

Yep all those dots on the grass...eggs.

Did a little face painting...or in Baby Fox's case, arm painting.

See past pictures with this Easter Bunny here.

 

Saturday was a great day, we started it off by going to the gym, and then I went into the steam room to relax a bit, then we headed to the mall with some friends to return a bunch of stuff and lunch.

The older boys pushing their younger sisters in the stroller.

Hit up the play place.

Then we went home relaxed for about an hour and headed out to go bowling with some other friends. We haven't done this in over a year and the kids have been asking when we could do it again.

After dinner we colored some eggs, because I realized we didn't do it, ooops!

We made it a tradition to set out your Easter baskets. I didn't want to have to explain why the Easter bunny used the same basket each year, and we can't leave them in the house, cause we only need one creepy dude coming into our house to leave gifts. So Baby Fox sort of came up with leaving them outside for the bunny. Hey it works.

We did church at my parents parish.

Then headed home to find this waiting for us!

We hit up Legoland a few weeks ago. It was nice we weren't in a hurry to get there, we only stayed for 5 hours and headed home. Let the kids mostly run around and play in the different areas.

One of the kids favorite rides.

She's so excited she's finally old enough to ride this!

This kid is tall enough to ride stuff on his own...he felt so big time!

While going on the carousel we ran into the Friends girls, Mini Fox loved that they asked her to ride with them.

Hope you all have a great weekend! See you on Monday for a little closet clean out!

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