I have an embarrassing confession to make: I used to treat my car like a trash can.
Whatever I could crumple and throw into the front passenger footwell of my battered, clanking Subaru Crosstrek, I would. Crinkled receipts, balled up fast-food wrappers, empty plastic coffee cups, even used tissues—my car was extremely gross, but I just couldn’t be bothered to put in the effort I assumed it would take to keep my car clean. (Especially since that car, with over 150,000 miles and a check-engine light that seemed to always be on, made me a regular at the mechanic’s.)
But then I traded in my garbage can of a car for a shiny, clean Subaru Crosstrek that still had that new-car smell. I couldn’t bring myself to foul it with garbage. Something had to give—I had to take better care of my car this time around, especially since, as a lease, it’s not even technically mine.
Enter: the car garbage can. (The carbage can?)
You can hang this $10 lidded 2-gallon trash can on the back of a seat, in the footwell of the front passenger seat, or behind the center console. It’s also leakproof—critical for those almost-but-not-quite empty coffee cups. But most importantly, a trash can provides a convenient place to effortlessly stash trash while on the go—and it’s no exaggeration to say I’m a cleaner person now that I have a carbage can.
