Guess who forged her mother’s name on the paperwork and then ran away at seventeen to join the Navy? And got herself a degree in main propulsion engineering? And worked on some of the largest deep water oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico?
And perhaps most ballsy of all … hired a housekeeper for over a year and never told her husband?
Me!
Just kidding.
As if.
I only forged my mother’s name once, while in high school, to get out of gym class so that I could go four wheeling with an asshat whose muscles were three times bigger than his brain. My gym teacher caught me and then my mother psychologically banished me to Siberia and to this day, my frontal lobe suffers frostbite the instant I enter a school gymnasium.
I never had the chutzpah or genetic disposition to do anything cool like join the Navy. I was a self-absorbed, uncoordinated, seventeen year old rebelling the only way I knew how … in a miniskirt and four inch black patent leather heels. So even if I had tried it, I’d have probably gotten as far as the driveway before breaking both my ankles, resulting in an emergency trip to the ER where I would have met Dr. Hottie with whom I’d become totally infatuated and over whom I’d cry buckets after being discharged. From the hospital. Not the Navy since I never made it to the Navy in the first place because of my lousy DNA.
Did I mention that my entire body swam in stupid at seventeen?
To answer my own questions above … I’m talking about Jessie of Designs by Jessie. You can find her ad over there —–> in my sidebar. She’s the one offering $4 off your first order and she’s just extended the offer through the end of November! Enter CREATIVEJUNKIE4 at checkout!
I have an anal-retentive, penmanship bond with Jessie. Her children drive her nuts because they write their letters from bottom to top. My youngest drives me insane because she starts her letters out fat and then they gradually succumb to anorexia by the time she gets to the right margin.
Jessie takes the plain and ordinary and transforms it into something pretty damn good looking. I’m about to jump into a FedX box and ship myself off to her, out of sheer desperation.
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This is one of her pretty camera strap slip covers. The front and the back. Don’t you love how they coordinate?
I wish my front and back were so coordinated. What the hell, Mom and Dad? Were you blind when you made me? Drunk? What?
These patterns make me feel refreshed, like someone splashed ice cold water on my face while I was in the throes of a hot flash. You know? Hot flash? When the sun decides to cop a squat in your bra for ten years?
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Jessie’s camera strap slip covers slide right over your existing camera strap, that plain, black torture device the manufacturers include with their cameras. What they lack in imagination, they more than make up for in functional hideousness. We’ve all seen the straps, right? Those thick, mini-seatbelt looking things that hold your camera and hang from your neck and cut into your skin and give you a rash and make you scream OH MY GOD, I SHOT TWO HUMANS THROUGH MY PRIVATES, HAVEN’T I DONE ENOUGH ALREADY? SOMEONE ELSE HOLD THE DAMN CAMERA after three hours at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
My PSA for today: Don’t shriek in aquariums. It scares the fish.
Think of the manufacturer’s camera strap as an ugly ass couch with scuzzy dog hair all over it, ripped and torn, held together with duct tape and dried up mustard. Who wants to sit on that when you have a party?
But everyone will fall all over themselves to get near it if you cover it with something pretty!
Not that I’m advocating treating your camera strap like a couch. You don’t want your guests fighting over who can sit on your camera strap first, especially if it’s around your neck. That could be awkward, especially if you’re lying there dead from asphyxiation, leaving your guests to wander about aimlessly, asking out loud “Who wants to play Scattergories?”
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They’re lined with fleece interfacing for durability and comfort. Oh, and guess what? They’re washable too. So if your neck oozes ring around the collar, or your daughter eats Cheetos and grabs your camera so she can play Ansel Adams, no problem!
Have I mentioned that I’m a sucker for polka dots? If Nate had just worn polka dots on our first date, he wouldn’t have even had to buy me dinner. Just dessert.
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Looky, looky! Jessie can make a little pocket for your lens cap! So now, you won’t lose your lens cap when you set it down on a guard rail in order to take a shot from atop the 120 meter ski jump in Lake Placid, only to miss the shot entirely by having a myocardial infarction because your husband likes to stand at the edge of tall buildings and pretend to jump off them due to some latent Superman tendencies. It’s not until four hours later, back at the hotel, when you realize your lens cap is still perched 120 meters up in the sky and Clark Kent refuses to go back and fetch it, even though you offered him a quickie with your 17th personality, Lois Lane.
Hypothetically speaking, of course.
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If you love the feel of softness around your neck, you can even ask Jessie to attach some plush, furry minky to one side of your strap. Personally? If I had my druthers, I’d wear nothing but minky all day every day. Unfortunately, I have kids and they absconded with my druthers a long time ago, probably burying them in the back yard somewhere, right next to my social life.
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This is one of Jessie’s Perfect Pockets. It’s made to carry your cellphone, small camera, iPhone, iTouch, iPod and quite possibly your toddler, if she’s small boned and squishy. She can even customize it to carry your crackberry at no extra charge!
The Perfect Pocket, not your toddler. I assume you’ve taken care of all those customizations yourself.
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.I don’t know about you, but I throw my phone into my purse where it cavorts with all sorts of sharp things like pens and keys and my favorite four pronged fork that I lost last year and recently found hiding on the floor of my car’s back seat, underneath a fossilized Christmas ham. My poor cellphone screen winds up being used as an etch-a-sketch with half its keypad stuck down by chewed-up spearmint gum and then when I try to dial my mother in North Carolina, I wind up yelling CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? HOW ABOUT NOW? to some poor, socially challenged, agoraphobic shmuck in Idaho who just trampled over his thirty cats to answer the phone.
I could avoid that entire scenario if I had a Perfect Pocket.
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I’m not sure what I’d do with all the free time I’d have from not scrounging around the bowels of my purse for my phone. Knit a sweater, maybe? Learn a language?
Conquer a small country? Is Liechtenstein still available?
Is Liechtenstein a country? Or a small musical instrument?
I’ll take How The Hell Did I Graduate College Suma Cum Laude for $800, Alex.
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Hey, how many of you work at a place where you are required to wear a lanyard with a security tag around your neck?
I do!
OK. Fine. I work from home. Happy now?
But security tags make me feel important so, every once in awhile, I create one in Photoshop, print it out, laminate it, throw it around my neck, run around the house in my jammies and pretend like I actually matter. Sometimes I’ll even pretend to be really important and duct tape my cellphone to my ear just like a bluetooth and then buzz my imaginary secretary and request a lunch reservation at Le Cirque with Anderson Cooper. Around noonish.
But if I had to wear one in public? Like, officially, with actual real live people?
I’d make sure it was pretty.
Or rather, Jessie would.
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Like these. Why the hell not? Is there a law that says lanyards have to be dull and boring, devoid of any and all personality whatsoever? I mean, what are they, Wolf Blitzer?
Sorry, Wolf. You just make it too easy. By the way, tell Anderson not to be late for lunch. I hate waiting.
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Up for grabs:
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Two (count ‘em, TWO ) $25 shopping sprees at Designs by Jessie!
Not just one.
Two!
That means two winners, for the mathematically challenged. Not that there’s really any math involved because I’m not a sadist, no matter what they say.
Think holiday shopping!
49 days until Christmas. Thought I’d throw that out there!
Alright, so I’m a teensy bit of a sadist. Sue me.
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The devil’s in the details, right?
- To enter, leave a comment in this post and tell me what I’d find if I jumped into your car this instant and looked at the floor. I’ll go first … my car? I shudder to think. Get your shots updated. And bring a shovel. Maybe we’ll discover Jimmy Hoffa!
- Anyone 18 or older can enter. You young’uns – do you even know who Jimmy Hoffa is?
- Shopping sprees expire one month from winner notification.
- Winners must confirm notification within 48 hours or I’ll have to choose a substitute and then my blog schedule will be totally messed up and I’ll be cranky.
- No entries after 9:00 pm eastern time on Sunday, November 8, because that’s when I will be famished and dragging myself up to the trough for a snack. Stay back. DO NOT FEED THE ANIMAL. Unless you have a donut.
- I will use Random.org to choose the winners. Oh, it’s no problem! No problem at all! You are so welcome!
- One entry per person. Entering more than once drives me batty. And believe me, I don’t need to be driven batty. I can walk there quite easily on my own.
- My blog theme Thesis is still messing with my comment numbers. It numbers all the way to up comment #300 and then starts back at #1 again. It’s infuriating but I’m aware of it so go ahead and post your comment and don’t worry if there are duplicate comment numbers! I’ve got a handle on it!
- I’ll announce the winners on Monday!
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That’s it!
Good luck!
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I know … no one ever wants to go first because the odds of random.org picking #1 is … well, I think it’s the same as any other number right? But psychologically speaking, random.org never picks #1.
So, even though I already answered the question in my post, I’ll just stand here and take up #1’s spot.
See? It’s all good. Now, go forth and enter!
Ok, well I’ll go second then :O)
Well, if you went to my car, you’d have to first locate it to where ever to bank took it when I lost my job last February. Sticky folk, those bank people, and their need to get paid. But before that you would’ve found empty cherry coke bottles. lots of them. and possibly an empty snickers wrapper ( or 5 ).
Basically it was one big 7-11 trash can.
There’s quite a bit of paper (old newspapers, magazines, notes, flyers, etc.) on the floor of the back seat of the car. Good thing I don’t take passengers very often. Thanks for the givaway!
You, my fellow blogger are funny. I loved reading this post!!
Oh my gosh…am loving the camera strap covers! I would love to win one of the gift certificates.
Let’s see…on the floor of my truck right now: nothing! ONLY because I had to give my mom a ride somewhere the other day, so I threw everything in the back! (Don’t even ask what’s in the back!)
Hmmmm… Backseat – two car seats one littered with cookie crumbs cashew pieces and smarties. On the floor beneath seat one – one and a half pairs of baby socks and one pair of baby shoes – maybe an empty juice bottle, a travel doodle thingie, and a book. On the floor of the other car seat – nothing – I try to keep this clean since the teachers at Ry’s school help her into and out of the car at drop off and pick up. Front seat passenger floor – a big black garbage bag full of various candy wrappers old bank slips, fast food containers and about 20 empty Starbuck’s Doubleshot cans. (I decided to clean out the car last week). A torn up and stained 8×11 ‘used to be fluorescent green’ paper number 23 that I’m supposed to put in the window when I pick up Ry but am to embarrassed to use anymore. And, three books on cd. I listen to them on the 30 minute commute to work and am terrified that one may end and I wouldn’t have a
back-up.
A bucket with dog toys, leashes and a few treats! Of course a few dog hairs and bits of dirt and leaves that he picks up on his daily walk!
oh I tried to make a camera strap myself, ya its not so good. My car floor, I hope you will find my USB key that is so freaking small I keep loosing it, it has some stuff on it I really need…….
Twitter: MissusSmith
November 6, 2009 at 7:44 am
ON the floor of my minivan right now, you are likely to find a few teeny-tiny shoes belonging to various Disney princess figures, the stray Lego or twelve, a dinosaur herd intermingling with some African safari animals, more likely than not a few dozen CHeezits and Goldfish, and eleventy million bottles of water that have wriggled their way free from the case I bought at Sam’s Club and stowed in the way back, and now come careening forward through the roadblocks of dinosaurs, princess shoes and snacks of yore to jam up under my foot in alarming ways whilst I’m cruising the expressways. Good times!
Oh, and also you’d probably find some stray H1N1 germies, since we’re freaking rife with them right now.
front seat covered by purses, plastic bags for the library, old sales ads, probably old napkins used as kleenexes, old wrappers from slim jims, old can of coke or some type of soda pop, next area chip bag empty of course, more snot filled napkins used as kleenexes, pony tail holders ont eh floor, in the booster seats, backseating area fix a flat maybe jumper cables, way back box of cd’s for donation to a charity, old shoes that no longer fit for charity, and folding captain chairs for soccer…did I mention desert sand,dust, and dirty is mixed in them.
I think my van killed the h1n1 virus by sophication…call csi to find if it worked.
Yikes~ my car is a mess right now! You would find lots of “artwork” that my toddler creates at daycare and a few dozen Halloween candy wrappers. And 3 coats. I don’t know why.
If Jimmy Hoffa is in your car, who is that in mine? Under the empty water bottles I keep planning to put in the recycle bin, but never seem to get to? The ones that fall out whenever someone gets in or out the passenger door? If it’s not Jimmy, perhaps it’s Amelia Earhart? Under the expired Costco coupons. Yes, that must be her.
a handfull of change, an emergency light and a towel
Hard french fries, stale cheerios, and quite possibly a half-eaten cheeseburger. He’s 3. It’s all on the floor in the backseat with a half million Hot Wheels. I never have leftovers, so there’s no food up front
I have been pretty good about the front seat of the car, but the kids and the backseat…well, you’ll find books, stuffed animals, and probably a sleeve of crackers!
potato chip crumbs is what you would find – what can I say – I love those chips….
I actually have a shovel on the floor of my van. Along with 3 umbrellas, enough crumbs to feed a third world country, various empty wrappers, soccer cleets, 2 empty gatoraid bottles and a sock. I don’t even want to know what is growing under the kids booster seats so please don’t make me look!
You would easily find enough dog hair to construct an entirely new dog from scratch. I have three large dogs – I couldn’t keep up with the shedding even if I vacuumed the car every day!
Ha! You caught me on a good week. In the front seat? A file folder (yellow) with directions to the place where I had my last job interview. (also the GPS, but the streets around here change names 50 thousand times between each suburb and I get lost!) In the way back of the station wagon? Cloth grocery bags, my pink wind breaker, a quilt with Grover dancing all over it, and 6 floor tiles that I bought at a garage sale in August. I was going to alter them, but they are still in the car. What is not in my car? A window scraper. We just moved South from Ontario to the Southern US. That makes me happy!
First of all, you would never want to look on the floor of my car. However, if i had to tell you – it would be all sorts of PAPERS. Paper cups, reciepts, wrappers, newsletters, mail… you get the jist.
In the floor of the minivan – do you really want to know???? You asked so here goes – some books – of the kid variety – some goldfish (don’t know how long they have been there) – maybe a couple of tissues (i can’t tell you right now if they are used or not – yuck! – blame the two year old) – a pull up (an extra in case the 2 year old needs it) – some clothes – and a bag of goodies from a halloween party. Off to clean the van now – thanks!
You’d probably see a few dimes on the floor of the car. I bet I could buy a milkshake with all that change LOL.
Floor of the red minivan…
Lots of couponc scattered about not saving the van any money!
A picture album that need to be taken back to the store that cannot put it together right.
An orange folder that probably contains something important.
An art creation from preschool.
An empty fast food sack.
Does Jessie make car organizers?
Oh, my. I hate to think about what you’d find on the floor of my minivan. I know there’s a build-a-bear bunny wearing a cinderella dress back there. There are also crumbs from who knows what kind of snack foods. Oh, and probably some random hot wheels and lego people.
I love her designs. I wish I could sew anything, but I can barely sew on a button. My mother is worse – she once hot glued a hem…
In my car you will find 3 hoodies discarded by my son, his water jug from tennis, about 5 half-filled water bottles which I stupidly left in the car and now can’t drink from because I hear leaving the water bottle in the car causes cancer; several torn up copies of Smithsonia because I like to look smart when I am sitting at one of my kids’ appointments waiting, which is how I spent a lot of my life… oh, and Jimmy Hoffa. My son plans to take him to school as a science project soon…
An old Ranger Rick magazine (that dd looks at when in the car), some headbands, ponytail holders and bobby pins. Crunched up leaves, a box of tissues that makes it’s way from the back car seat to the floor and back again. Perhaps a treat or two? =)
If I don’t win I know what I’ll be adding to my wish list for Christmas this year!
Have a good one,
Jen Davis
Wisconsin
Love the straps! I have so been wanting to dress up my plain black yuck! Thanks for the giveaway.
I love her work-so beautiful and clean looking.
So, would it surprise you if I said nothing was on the floor of my van? yep, I need a clean van. it does get messy, full of crumbs and kids stuff, but I try to keep it clean, ordering my kids to pick up their stuff. Now the carpet on the floor is another story. it is stained and gross. I’ve even told my husband that i would love to get it cleaned and would accept that as a Christmas present.
Right now… 6-8 empty Red Bull cans-various sizes, a bottle of multi-vitamins (how long can I live on caffeine and vitamins?), a size 5T sweatshirt, an adult windbreaker, legos, scraps of paper, a ball cap, a fews pens, a small box of crayons, wet wipes, an assortment of G.I. Joe figures, some hot wheels…… and on and on and on
Great giveaway!
Shawna
Ok. This might shock you – but I am OCD when it comes to my van. I am somewhat obssessed with keeping it as spotless as possible! LOL
You would find a pile omagazines that I am trying to find a new home for
lol, I actually just cleaned my car out, so you’d just find the tiny trash can I keep for the kids in there.
What a fun post! Thanks for the chance!
The floor of my car is covered with Christmas CD’s, various receipts (mainly from Starbucks), a few fuzzies, a lone raisin, probably a dust covered lollypop, six bottles of hand sanitizer, and maybe a partridge in a pear tree.
Great giveaway – love those camera straps!
Love your blog – I was LOL!! You would only find dirt on the floor of my car right now. I have actually been keeping all the crap out of it! Yeah, my husband can’t believe it either considering what I had in my old car!!
This blog is awesome
Nothing on the floor of my car… with the T-tops off it goes everywhere, so I’m really good about keeping it clean. 
Back seat: O magazine, 2 free health magazines from ER waiting room (been there twice in the past 2 weeks!), and 2 half empty water bottles from same ERs.
Front seat: sled dog beanie whose name escapes me at the moment, change cup with only pennies b/c everyone else takes the silver, and some trident wrappers.
Not bad considering the past month!
I’ve drooled over Jessica’s camera straps for some time now! It would be way cool to actually win this so I could finally buy one.
Is that pathetic enough? Do you thin the random generator number thingy will recognize the patheticness and lameness of this comment and take pity on me?
I didn’t think so.
I need help!!! I collect everything!! Some of the clothes in my closet date back to the 70’s and all are so jam-packed in I have trouble pulling out only one item at a time. I love and collect costumes, wigs, glasses, hats, scarves…… you name it!! My kids tell me I need up to date clothes! My friends just look at me and smile……
There is nothing on the floor of my car besides sunshine, rainbows, unicorns and the sweet smell of rose petals. HAHAHAHAHA. Wait, that’s my mom’s floor. Mine has a fake 2′ long penis we made for Halloween.
I’m fairly certain that I just drooled so much it broke something electronic on my desk. Had to have. Good lord that stuff is awesome! I’ll take a camera strap and a pocket pretty please
I don’t really have a car. My husband bought one last year and “gave” me his, but he still calls it his, so I don’t really have one to call my own. BUT, on the floor of either car you will find nothing but lint and dirt because my husband is OCD about leaving stuff in the car.
In my old car though? The one we donated? You could find $35 in change from a jar the fell over and rolled around and I was too lazy to clean up. Throw in some decade old McDonald’s french fries (from back when they were good, before they change the oil), some hair ties, and 85902 scraps of paper, and you’ve got yourself the normal state of a car that I own.
FAB stuff!!
Oh goodness, I could say “nothing!” but that’d only count for the front seat. Back seat?! Windshield visor I never use (hubby bought it but I hate them), various sweaters of mine and daughter’s, trash, trash, trash, Bible & Bible study books (I figure I need them in the car, why take them in?), and more trash.
Seriously, this weekend that’s my goal… of course, I said that LAST weekend…
OUCH! Getting a little personal here Andy! LOL
My HUGE water bottle for emergencies… we live in the Mohave Desert and you never know. Sun block under my seat… again… think desert living and sun, jeep, top off almost all year. And then there is the dreaded crayons melted in the crayon box from the last time sweet grand-daughter sneaked them into the car so she could color on our little road trip… Ugghhh Trying to come up with a way to recycle those little suckers.
ok… My Jeep has the top and windows still in the back seat from taking them out last spring and they never did make it to the garage for storage. A car seat for my grand-daughter so I’m always ready. A handy carry bag with my favorite fabric swatches and my latest quilt designs (Cause you never know when you might spy a quilt shop that you just HAVE to stop in! The one who dies with the most pieces wins!) A Tupperware container of dry cereal for the grand-daughter after hours in that quilt shop
Thanks as always for my daily dose of laughter and not feeling so alone in the world with similar experiences and thoughts that if I blogged or said my family would have me committed!!! And for the great little give away!
board books and sucker sticks and wrappers would be my best guess. I try not to look at the floor. My children do all kinds of horrible things to my car.
Ahhh! I love it! Well, let’s see, The floor of the car is MOSTLY covered in cheerios, and a baby dummy or two… and LOADS of stray McDonald’s french fries, I know, I know, gross. Some of them appear to have fossilized the last time I cleaned them out… Ugh. This is what happens when you have 4 car seats in the car, though. And jackets, sweaters, and the random sock that never gets brought into the house, for some odd reason. And the rain cover for the old car seats, which aren’t even in the car anymore. Oh, and some carrier bags. And a packet of crisps, unopened, but been there for eons. And some hair bobbles, and… oh man, I need to clean that car out!
Let’s see, probably food crumbs (my daughter’s, of course, never mine) and a few random sweathirts.
There is nothing on the floor, but I don’t think you will manage to find the seat to get in!! Do you really want me to rat on myself here, sheesh… on that seat you will some halloween candy wrappers, some kleenex, clean of course, mints from my frequent trips to Sonic, some bank receipts, a pen or 2 (hey that might be exciting!), maybe some of last weeks lunch! HA!
Twitter: RJFerret
November 6, 2009 at 11:30 am
On the floor of my car are six things: Two floormats, two seats, two amplifiers (one disconnected, both under one seat so actually, you wouldn’t see them looking down at the floor of my car).
There are innumerable uncountable things, mostly grains of sand, pebbles, maybe a fragment of dried leaf as it has been wet recently and I mowed the leaves a couple days ago so they get stuck to your shoe and end up in all sorts of weird places despite removing my sneakers upon entering my abode.
There is also wear, plenty of wear, as the car is from 1991.
Thankfully you didn’t ask about what is in my trunk, which smells like feet. (Thankfully not Jimmy Hoffa’s feet.)
(Hmm, now I wonder if she makes actual seatbelt covers… Shift knob covers? My shift knob is so worn it’s sticky from the abraded material underneath.)
Currently the floor of my car has dried leaves on it and some kid magazine they got in their ToT bags
If you were to walk out to the sunfire right now and look on the floor you’d find tons and tons of leaves and pebbles and gross out-doorsy type stuff! I keep her pretty clean other than the floor
and right now there are leaves everywhere so it’s hard not to track them in the car, house, office, etc. =)
My car floors are scary. Thanks to the kidlet, there are books & nekkid barbies & crayons. Oh my! There are markers & wrappers &old food…thanks kid, I’m now grossed out & want to get a new car. (Have to blame the kid, right? 5 yr olds leave coffee cups all over the place, don’t they?)
There’s an umbrella and some papers…really boring right? =D
What a great shop! I love those phone cases!
Thanks for this great giveaway.
a little bit of change mverno@roadrunner.com
You’ll probably find some candy wrappers, sucker sticks, empty water/pop bottles, oh and my favorite some puke left over from our DS getting car sick LAST CHRISTMAS on our way down to Kentucky! Oh yeah, an umbrella and window scraper.
Twitter: janmary3
November 6, 2009 at 12:59 pm
What you would NOT find is the floor of my car!! there is so much stuff on the floor I have forgotten what it looks like. You would find marbles, dinosaurs, bits of Lego, hairbands, pony tails and whatever else my kids have discarded. If you are very lucky you won’t find a mushed grape and a half-eaten biscuit (cookie)!
Would love to win – have had my eye on one of jessie’s camera straps for quite some time.
Does the random number generator have amy Irish roots? Here’s hoping!
Yesterday’s mail and an empty DietCoke bottle…oh and my husband’s pride. He hates my dirty car.
I don’t have a car – just seem to walk everywhere! But if you were to ask what’s stashed in the shopping net of the pushchair (that goes everywhere with me – along with the kids) …. probably the same things that everyone has listed on the floor of their cars.
Love these. I have to wear a lanyard everyday and love the camera strap covers!
On the floor of my car. Heaven help you. French fries, pencils, pennies, soccer shoes, a stray sock, paper, Halloween candy wrappers and whatever else my kids didn’t pick up like I told them to last night!
If you were to look at my car floor right now you would see my millions of “green” shopping bags. Those things are like crack and I can’t stop buying them. Other than that you would see various pieces of food and dirt drug in from my kids…which reminds me. I so need to vacuum my car out!
I have an 8 month-old who still does not sleep through the night. In my car you would fine a whole bunch of empty coffee cups from McDonald’s, Starbucks, local coffee shops, convenience stores, etc. In addition, you would find all the receipts that correspond with said coffee cups.
If you jumped into the floor of my car (and omg who would?) you would find numerous petrified chicken nuggets and other food laying in and around my youngest’s seat. Discarded hairbows from the older girls. Toys. lots and lots of painful, toe gouging toys.
Two small kids= floorboard full of toys, cheerios and probably a loose dumdum from trick or treating the other night.
Whew in my car you’d probably find cups and waterbottles everywhere. For some reason those are the last things to get picked up! lol
I’d love to win for the perfect pocket for sure as I dont even have a camera! lol Thanks great contest
The things you’d see on the floor of my car: Umbrella, tennis shoes, reusable shopping bags…boring stuff! There is no excitement there! The phone cases are cute! I really like the patterns she uses.
On the floor of my car, you’d find a bunch of old water bottles and those stupid fliers people stick under my windshield wipers. And my window scraper/brush for when it ices over.
Thanks for the giveaway :]
Its been a few years (6 to be exact) since I was 18 but Jimmy Hoffa was still before my time. However, thanks to my love of E!’s True Crime shows, I do know who he was!
If you got in my car right now, I would be really embarrassed. You would find a ton of CRAP. Magazines, tupperware (clean, don’t worry!), shoes, sweaters, probably some trash….ugh, I should really clean out my car.
If you got into my car (wouldn’t that be fun? That would mean you’d be visiting me!) you’d find some garbage, a 2″ wide curtain rod that my mom gave me and I haven’t removed since I got it 2 months ago, and my youngest daughters backpack with a change of clothes in it for preschool so I won’t ever forget to bring it. That’s about it!
embarrassingly enough you would find tissues (used) and a ton of baby toys and match box cars.
Sadly enough, I am lacking a car at the moment. The last time I took the bus it was pretty clean, but the drunk sitting in front of me dropped his bottle of Karkov voldka. Yeah, I need a new car.
I read this at the right time because I just vacuumed, believe it or not. I couldn’t get over how well it sucked LOL.
BTW, you brought back a great memory of the ski jump at Lake Placid. I missed out on a quickie though.
So adorable! I’m off to check out her site and make out my wish list, and my Christmas shopping list. My car? a soccer ball, 1439 receipts, 284 dirty tissues, enough sand to give the Sahara a run for it’s money, 83 happy meal boxes and their corresponding toys, 15 shoes (because, of course they don’t all match each other), an assortment of unmatched gloves and mittens, a few coats and jackets, and, well, to be honest, last week I found an unopened package of turkey lunch meat from our last trip to Costco. Somehow it went unnoticed when we unloaded the trunk. I know. ewwwwww. Just bein’ honest.
The front seat isn’t too bad. The BACK seat, however, has a sun visor, a pink cowboy hat (that has been in there since my Toby Keith concert in August) a box of Kleenex, and the contents of my work bag that spilled out this morning that I was too lazy to clean up. Oh, and a Nalgene bottle.
Well the front ain’t so bad, but the back thanks to my daughter there are sunglasses, her little purse, oh her school hat, let see oh and a clipboard (why???) and shoes (about 2 pairs). Who knows what else is hidden in between the seats too afraid to look.
This is an AMAZING giveaway! I just perused the store and found all I need for my sisters this Christmas! (And something for me too!) So, what’s on the floor of my car? NOTHING. I just sold my car and am stranded at home, so help this desperate homebound chica get some shopping done! : )
Ah! Everything is so amazing!
My car’s actually pretty clean right now. I’ve got the disk set for the audio book Eclipse (3rd in the Twilight series) cause I’m trying to keep up with the cool kids. That’s probably it on the floor right now.
If you looked on my car floor you would find an umbrella, garbage, newspaper ads, and a dress. (I have been meaning to drop the dress off at the dry cleaners for months now)
If you jumped in my car? The driver’s side would be okay…mostly. It’s the back that makes ms shudder. So go ahead, climb on in! Just don’t turn around…
My Eclipse is never, never, never, did I mention never clean. Everyone who knows me, knows this and still they always laugh when they get it my car. God love ‘em.
You would probably be able to find enough cereal and other breakfast foods to have quite a tasty meal. Well, I guess it wouldn’t be too tasty because they would be old and stale.
You’d find dried grass all over the floor. I just picked up everything else last week because someone broke into my car & threw every bit of paper and stuff they found in the glove compartment, console, door pockets, etc. all over the stinkin’ car! Only thing they took were my beloved sunglasses
Don’t know why they didn’t take the d@mn grass, though!
Thanks for the opportunity @ at a great giveaway.
Mud from the kids’ soccer cleats
Crayons
Half the CD cover from “Wicked”
Pens
A few goldfish (the cracker kind)
Thank you!
sippy cups with leftover juice, milk, or water….dry cereal, books, baby blankets, shoes, socks, and who knows what else.
Since I don’t have a car, nothing.
An argyle sweater!
Great giveaway, thank you for the chance!
Oh goodnes… my car is a mess right now! it has a polo shirt, a dress, a coat, a brush, a basket with random painted christmas ornaments and scrapbooks stuff sitting on the back seat. Also… like 7 packs of notebook paper unopened, random toys from kids meals (meant to go in my treasure box), a uga flag, a note book from a premarital retreat my fiance and i went to, a few books, a bible, and probably sooo much more! My car is a MESS!
Nothing at the moment because I was in an accident last week and just got my Jeep back from the repair shop yesterday and they cleaned and vacuumed it really well for me!
Give me a day or so and it will be very messy again!
Dog hair holds my vehicle together. That’s why I drive a Jeep that is 12 years old and has 160,000 miles on it. You probably can even find some cat hair from the previous owner. The dogs are pretty pissed about that, but it’s their punishment for shedding all over my Jeep.
On the floor of my car you will find all kinds of pre-school papers with practice writing on them, fruit roll-up wrappers and empty water bottles. And a couple of jackets in size 4T and 12.
First off I must say that those camera straps are just adorable. I love the bright, fun designs.
If you were brave enough to open the door of my pickup you would be hit with a funnel cloud of dog hair that would rise from the floor. If that wouldn’t scare you then you could check out the old weekly fliers where I am sure have since past their expiration date.
Ugh, I hate that I’m admitting this outloud!
You would find several toddler toys and books, sippy cups, months old goldfish crackers, several empty coke bottles, my construction hat and boots, granola bar wrappers, and dog hair. I need to go clean now!
If you went into my car right now you’d find:
school uniforms
bookbags
empty Chick-fil-A cup
gym clothes
3 pair gym shoes
teacher’s editions of 3rd grade math, history and English books
If you kept digging, rumor has it that there is carpet on the floor. I don’t know if this is true because I have three children who think my car is a rolling closet/office/dining room/trash receptacle.
I think I’ll go on an archeological dig tomorrow and see if I find carpet. lol
You’ll find some bits of fall leaves, and coins that my friend Deb tossed into my car for good luck when I first got it. Oh, and a diet iced tea bottle or two.
You would only find the floor mats and a bit of gravel in my car. I honestly try and keep my car clean and don’t leave any trash in it. I think that I’m getting a bit neater as I get much older.
My car is fairly clean. You’ll find a floor mat and that’s about it!
Being 20 my SUV is like my 2nd home so there’s a lot of stuff. In my backseat there’s my backpack for school all my textbooks and like 3 packs of notebook paper. Like 8 different hoodies for outfits and 3 different pairs of heels when I go to the club. There’s also like 3 empty gatorade bottles and a never ending amount of chewing gum wrappers. I’m gonna go clean my car now!
Psssssst random.org pick me! I never win ANYTHING.
My car is pretty clean but now I have an umbrella
My grocery list is hiding in the front floorboard and the backseat is my 2 year old’s toy box. She’s got a few balloons, a pillow case that acts as a mermaid tail, and a zillion tiny Barbie bits and pieces. Combs and shoes, not boobs and arms.
i just cleaned it out last week. and I found my sunglasses on the front floorboard broken. hubby claims to know nothing about it. he uses the car majority of the time. also lots of trash & pop bottles.
you would find leaves…I park right underneath a tree
Yikes. Let’s see, I have three little kids and a mini van so if you looked in there currently, you’d probably find a little bit of everything. Mostly, crumbs, toys, books, and that pair of socks dd insisted on taking off because they were “bumpy”. Yeah. I couldn’t figure that one out either.
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November 7, 2009 at 12:42 am
Some idiot at the rental car place gave the mom with 2 young boys (me) a 2010 model, so I’ve been very anal retentive about keeping it clean. On the floor in the front seat you will find one child’s monkey backpack/leash for a 3yo who refuses to hold hands and will just lay down in the middle of a store then get up and run like Forrest Gump, a box of Kleenex, my ice scraper (already!), cell phone charger, and Zune connector.
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