Kristan Higgins’ My One and Only is happily ensconced on the NYT and USA Today bestseller lists, and I have been offered a fun little collection to celebrate.
If you leave a comment and tell me the most essential item in your car’s glove compartment, you’re entered to win. Easy! And what could you win? A prize pack that includes a really cute travel bag, some travel essentials like lip gloss, mascara, and bronzer, and a copy of the book.
My glove compartment essentials are kinda boring: a mylar reflective heat blanket, bottles of water, hand wipes, about 14,000 pens that don’t work, and a really bad GPS. If you know which one is my car and want to steal it, go for it – it gives really crap directions, like getting off the highway and getting on one of those roads with stoplights and big box stores every 200 ft. I think it would take me to Manhattan by way of Texas if I allowed it. I do have a candy stash, though. No touching!
Standard disclaimers apply: I am not being compensated for this giveaway. Void where prohibited. Hang up and drive. Texting while operating a moving vehicle is punishable by a lot of hateration and some glaring, and possibly a heaping ticket if the cops spot you. No hateration in this dancery. You’ve got 24 hours. This contest is open to residents of the US and Canada.
So, what’s in your
wallet
glove compartment that absolutely must stay there? Got a dashboard mascot that is required in your car? Anyone have a mini-library in their car, too, or are you one of those people who can’t read in a moving vehicle?
I have extra napkins and straws for when I’m snacking. I also keep a few bucks in there for emergencies.
My vehicle registration and (if there is such a thing) owner’s manual are my 2 glovebox essentials. The rest of what ends up in there is generally a result of a frantic clean up of the car because I’m giving someone a ride. It’s a mad conglomeration of things which makes for a good laugh later when I clean it back out again.
On another note, I just wanted to say that I read My One and Only earlier this week and think it just may be Kristin Higgans best work yet.
Well I thought Napkins would be kind of different but I see there are a lot of people who think napkins are the most important thing in the glove box. I still agree and besides, i try to keep the car clean so besides the napkins there is just the car manual in the glove box, which I don’t think I’ve ever looked through. It’s more for show. Like, I could look up how to change the clock but I think I’ll just live with it….
At first I was thinking of my notepad and pen and then my cell phone charger. However, after giving it more thought, I have to definately say napkins. There is nothig worse than needing one in the car and not having it. My One and Only sounds like a really good book. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
Phone charger and doo-dad to connect my phone to my car, chapstick, lots of half-empty bottles of soda, gum, napkins
In my glove compartment? other than the manual and registration plus insurance card:
Plastic utensils,( fork, spoon, knife) for when you leave on the run with yogurt in hand then realize you forgot what to eat it with while waiting for kids. and straws a must to avoid spilling water/juice on you when car stops unexpectedly- passengers of course- no drinking and driving ;D.
Little first aid kit with band-aid and wipes, needle, safety pins and thread too.
pen, napkins,
mini cranking flashlight.
hand sanitizer
Breath mints! For when I’m on my way to a meeting and realize that I had tuna salad for lunch.
I don’t have a car anymore but when I did I had to have tissues, hand lotion, spare sunglasses and at least one bottle of water.
I have the usual boring Car Requirements: Insurance, Registration, Owners Manual. Then there are the assorted empty CD Cases and random sauce packets. I have a short story collection called “Cthulu’s Reign” in the back seat for when I forget my book. My Red Queen (Car’s Name) has a mascot. It is a glow-in-the-dark Skull with a snake in it’s mouth. His name is Murry. I also have a collection of The Shadow Radio show cassets and a tire pressure gauge.
Then there is also the emergency kit, jumper cables, hiking boots and water.
Gawd, my glove compartment is SO boring! Other than the necessary paperwork, my iPod car charger and a pair of cheapo sunglasses that don’t work for me anyway because they aren’t prescription, I got….nuthin.’
Now, my purse, on the other hand—spare thumbdrive with WIP backups, breath mints, a teeny tiny foldable super-absorbent towel, condoms (duh), Gas-Ex dissolving strips (for me, also duh), and lotions and sunblocks in tiny containers.
Hand sanitizer, Kleenex, pens, you can always find in there. Doesn’t mean they work or there is any left though.
I’m so embarrassed! The most inportant thing in my glove compartment other than the flashlight and the book on my car are the feminine hygiene products. Every where I go, someone always seems to need one. I just started keeping them in my glove compartment so that they would be nearby. *blush*
Oh,I forgot, a sample size deodorant and a sealed toothbrush (from dentist visit).
As long as I’ve got my iPhone, the cord that plugs it into the stereo and a water bottle, I’m good to go. At least for the 3 hr trip it takes me to get home from school 🙂
I am a cake artist and I keep an emergency cake cutting knife in my glove compartment. You would be shocked at how many times it’s come in handy!
Hmm, I guess my tire pressure gauge is the most important item. I also have a small teddy bear that used to be on my dash, a hair brush, the owner’s manual to my car (or as I call it, the wtf does that blinking light mean guide), and a pack of breath fresheners.
This is going to sound really wierd but here is my list.
1) Crystalk Body deorderant ( really works), and dosen’t melt.
2) Living Will. I want to have a say if I am in an accident, along will all of my allergies, and emergency contact numbers.
3) picture of my kids, (daughter Sam, Puppy, and Kitty)
4) spare car charger for cell phone.
5) hand sanitizer
6) Visa gift card for 50$, just incase.
7) List of local starbucks ( 50 mile radius)
8) List of Barnes and Noble (50 mile radius)
9) magic towels
10) nail files
The most essential item in my glove compartment is the tire pressure gauge. There are also maps, CDs, and some plastic thing that I never figured out the identity of (it even has its own leather holder). I also have that little gizmo to break the window in case of an emergency but I’m hoping to never use it.
spare sunglasses and extra tampons!!!
our stash of cash is our most important thing we keep in our glove box- just enough that we can splurge once in a while on a breve –
My insurance card!
There could be any number of things in there! Aside from my registration there’s all the receipts from any car work. Then a pad of Post-Its and a pen, not that I can find it when needed. Baby Wipes. One of things to check your tires…it’s never been moved/used though. At least one, if not two, Chapstick. And a dog toy, probably a squeaky stuffed animal.
A green tire gauge! LOLOL But it has to stay there. There are probably 100 tire gauges around here. But guess where everyone else goes when they need one!? LOL
Most important – the charger for the DS and DSi that keeps my kids tranquilized for the five hour drive to my IL’s house. It’s the most used item, anyway.,
I too have a really bad GPS.
I’ve gotten lost 3 times while using it.
I have my first aid kit, gloves and pictures my kids have put in there v
Along with all the usual junk in our glove box I have a bag of bacon dog treats and a leash. The only reason being that not long ago we were driving down a busy street and I saw a loose dog limping between cars. There was no good place to park so I had hubby drop me off at the closest red light and I ran back to see if I could coax the dog out of the street. I finally did manage to get a hold of her but decided that next time it would all go a little better if I had a bribe and a leash.
Btw – we drove around the neighborhood and did eventually find a lost dog poster that pictured our new friend so she got back to her home.
All I have are my insurance information and a box of tissues! Not that I ever use the tissues, but the twice a year that my dad happens to ride in my car he will inevitably ask for tissues and get mad if they aren’t in there. =) His car has about 4 boxes.
Starlite mints, a pen, and a phone charger, because I don’t even have a crap GPS.
A tire gauge and a first aide kit.
I’m pretty weird with my glove box stuff…I have two dog leashes (one is my shelter lead plus a spare), a broken pair of sunglasses that will fit over my regular glasses, two ripped plastic bags for protecting the seats from spilled tea when I haul ice tea to the shelter on Saturdays, I think I have my insurance cards in there somewhere…receipts from car repairs…I haven’t thoroughly cleaned it out recently. Whoops!
My glove box just has boring stuff like insurance, gas card, registration, flashlight. My trunk and back seat have the interesting stuff: bottles of water, a pair of gloves and ice scraper, a blanket for riding with shedding dogs, napkins, spare book, tape, and pens. And that’s just for normal going to the grocery store drives. Road trips require packing of extra food, drinks, medicine, music, electronic equipment, and books. Nothing beats my dad, though, who has been known to bring spare toilet paper with him!
My glove box must-haves are an extra pair of reading glasses and a small tube of Neutrogena sunscreen. All the serious auto emergency stuff is in the trunk.
GPS, Insurance card, napkins, baby wipes …
Oh, who am I kidding—there’s a bunch of wadded up candy wrappers in there.
Insurance cards, a Christmas Music and Hank Williams Jr. casette tape in case we get stranded down south and the manual to my 11-year-old Grand Cherokee with 210,000 miles plus.
Suzy K and I are on the same page. Ever had to change a tire in -30 weather three days after a blizzard buries every air pump in the area keeping you from checking that tire that looked a little low BEFORE the temp dropped? I have. If I’d had a gauge in the car, I’d have taken a shovel to the gas station & unearthed the pump myself. So:
#1. Tire pressure gauge.
wet wipes (sam’s club size) which just barely fits into the compartment along with – about 10 dvds including barbie mermadia, fairytopia, tom & jerry, and shrek 1 and 4 (the only ones that matter); a USB thumb drive (for when i need to download something whilst driving?); underwear for everyone (that’s five people) in case we are in a car accident and need to change our underwear before the ambulance comes… (so morbid) or someone pees or is thrown up on; and finally, wipes stolen from chick fil-a in case we run out of wet wipes..
at least we will have clean underwear…
a spare book so if i run through the one in my purse i have a spare, a candle (for reasons i can’t explaine) but no matches to light the candle with (go figure), i have this nifty little hammer that is also 4 different sizes of screwdrivers, tire gadge, insurance cards that date back to when i bought the car in a little folder my mom got me as a gift, stickynotes, a can cozy that says “the police never think it’s as funny as you do”, a couple of pens, and the car manuel
Tampon, napkins, packets of saltine crackers for the car sick, and most importantly a corkscrew. I can’t tell you how many picnics were a disappointment before that investment. Never again!
Napkins for sure, but why have I never put tampons in the glove box.