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- What’s the most interesting thing you have found hiding in your car?
mu husband’s bar chocolate wrap!
My children hid his report card beneath the front seat
One of the most interesting things I found hiding in my car was one tennis shoe, no one was even missing one.
I found my daughter hiding in the car during a game of hide n seek once!
Most interesting thing I found in my car was an old apple that was never eaten.
The most interesting thing I’ve found in my car is dental floss! Nothing like stopping at a red light and doing some dental hygiene.
Probably not interesting but a good find. A long lost earring was found when I got my got detailed. Now I have a set again! Hung on to the single earring just in case. Glad I did!
Random groceries that rolled underneath the seat!
The most interesting thing I ever found was about 10 pairs of my daughter’s socks stuffed next to her car seat in the back row. She told me she left them at school, but was really taking them off on the drive home.
Just some loose coins.
Ants-Fire Ants! I am so glad I saw them before I got in the car!
Money
I find weird stuff constantly since I have a 3 year old and 2 year old – mainly food that I don’t even remember buying 😛
Nothing very interesting- just lots of crumbs.
A lizard…..it was alive, too!!
Nothing special, just some loose coins.
Not real interesting, but when I bought my last car, I found like $5 under the drivers seat.
A random sock that didn’t come from our family.
Money I thought I had lost.
Nothing at all interesting found in my car… just trash and dust unfortunately.
banana
The most interesting thing I found was my “lost” umbrella underneath the front seat.
I always find weird and unexpected stuff with having a 3 year old and a 2 year old . They are constantly leaving random items or food in my SUV
A butterfly cocoon
A shirt I lost a long time ago.
Spiders. My husband left a box in the garage once & didn’t check it before putting it back into the car. A herd of daddy long-legs took up residence in it & then decided to join us on a cross country road trip. It was a traumatic trip for me.
loose coins
The most interesting thing I have found in my car? Hmmmm….probably a book that I didn’t know where it came from. I think maybe one of my kid’s friends left it in there. Not super interesting, but I don’t keep much in my car – lol.
a precious ring I had lost.
A bag of bananas, it was beginning to smell 🙁
An empty retainer case. None of my kids wears a retainer, and neither do their friends?
We found a banana peel in one of the compartments in our SUV.
MY CAT. I was moving out of state and asked a friend to look after him until I got settled. I was driving for about 5 hours before the cat made his apparence. The car was filled with boxes and stuff so I didn’t notice. I called my friend and she didn’t even know he was missing. I guess my cat didn’t want to be left behind. LOL.
not nice but ants
I’ve found groceries I forgot to take out.
Lots and lots of crumbs from my kiddos eating snacks in the car!! :/
Ohhh, do I really need to tell…a mouse nest in the vent. Hate to say but that car had to go. 🙁
A twenty dollar bill that had fell, between drivers seat and console.
Spilled oil in my trunk.
i found a cheeseburger that had shrank to 1/10th its original size.
frog
A colony of ants, attracted to all the crumbs my family leaves behind. 🙁
A mouse building a nest in the air cleaner when we lived in the Midwest.
Leftover fish from a family fish fry!! Not good!!
Tools I thought I lost
One of our outdoor cats had jumped in and we didn’t know it.
Nothing that I can think of.
I found a pack of hot dogs that rolled out of one of my shopping bags after a shopping trip. And I also had 4 kittens JUMP from under the hood of my car out on to a busy highway – and thankfully, a Police Officer was nearby and stopped traffic so that we could search for the kittens. We only found three but 2 days later, my neighbor found the fourth one! Thankfully they were all safe and found good homes.
French Fries and crumbs!
Money!
A pair of sunglasses I thought was lost
Old french fries from my son eating in the backseat
Fake fingernails that my daughter put on at school and then peeled off in the backseat of the car.
I think the most interesting thing I found in my car was a half eaten sandwich.
I found old coupons that expired in 2013 under the back floor mats.
A pacifier but the funny thing is my children are teenagers so I had no need for a pacifier it still troubles me where it came from lo
I found hubby’s iPad under the back floor mat. He had searched *everywhere* for that thing! We still don’t know how it wound up there.
Nothing terribly interesting, bags of recycling or maybe a few loose coins
Old flip phone…….
I found a Publix gift card under the passenger seat. Was super happy to find a balance of $10.00
Nothing interesting just dirt and dust
2 very large wood spiders…I had to set trap to catch them…they were both caught, but I am still scared everything I get in there that I will see another spider.!!!!
Ferret food, from when we traveled with him. Under the seats, ferreted away for a rainy day. 🙂
An old apple which was all shriveled up, lol. Ooops.
A $20 bill! I don’t know whose it was but “Finders Keepers!”
I found a $20 Bill and my son’s eyeglasses after I had already bought an replacement pair.
The most interesting thing I have found hiding in my car is a mouse!
Well living in Florida, this an often occurence, but somehow lizards always seem to find their way into the car by way of the door jams. It’s always interesting trying to catch or chase them out.
We were graciously given a car by a relative and months later after we thought we had cleaned it out, we found some old newspapers that were 10+years old! Hope you have a great day! Mrs.Clark
Scissors 😀
The most interesting thing I’ve found was a $20.00 Bill. I was at a shopping mall, it was very windy, and when pI got out and reached into my backseat, a $20.00 Bill blew into my hand. Strangest thing ever.
I found a ton of cracker and cookie crumbs from hubby eating lunch in the truck everyday, SMH!
Stale, hard french fries under the seat.
I found lost car keys!
Nothing special….dirt…dog hair…
A credit card I lost THREE YEARS prior 🙂
I always find old french fries.
I once found an old gift card I never used!
I can’t recall anything interesting
Sunglasses that aren’t mine & yet no one asks if I found any.
A three year old jellybean:)
Money, $100 that could never be claimed by anyone. It was the best!!
My ID card, that I thought was lost, LOL!!!!
My wedding ring!
Not very interesting but I find a close to 5 dollars in change when cleaning out the car once.
My husband’s old debit card
I found a full box of french fries that were a month old. Scary they weren’t rotton.
Money enough to cover a toll that I was coming to & didn’t have enough money for.
Someone’s wedding ring. Car got stolen and about a month after got it back found someone’s wedding ring.
Found a $10 bill in my first car a used old car. Paid for gas.Yeah!
I found a driver’s license that I had thought was lost.
OH my..I immediately thought of a very unpleasant series f years in my life with a stalker I had..yikes..I won’t say..
On a particular cold winter for south Florida I found a little baby mouse in the trunk of my convertible..keeping warm.
Better than my Bff’s who found a snake after our hurricane..that would have given me a heart attack..hate them..lol
Money.
Mystery food ?? dropped by my granddaughter
I found a Ziploc bag of really really old grapes that were gross under the passenger seat.
a spider
I keep my car clean so the worst thing I’ve found is a dried up french fry and coins under the seat.
I keep my car neat and clean so I can’t think of anything.
Money.
I found old pieces of popcorn on the backseat floor.
My Sons wallet that had been missing for over a year. It was stuck so tightly between the seats that we had missed finding it over and over again. Until one year later it had dropped to the floor on the passenger seat while taking a road trip. Boy my Son now at 16. Was so happy to see his wallet come back to him with his 60 dollars still in it.
Two dozen Eggs I left in the car from shopping yesterday.
One of my husband’s socks.
I don’t remember finding anything interesting surprises in my car. A clean car is a boring car.
Smelliest is a dirty diaper, nasty
A mysterious sock (not mine — not my husband’s).
A baby bird!
The only thing ever hiding in my car is me.
Usually an empty candy wrapper that my husband leaves behind!
Fast food french fries
I can’t recall anything unexpected in my car.
Old french fries
a baggie of cheerios
socks
Someone’s high heeled shoe!!
Empty water bottles, socks, old fries, lots of good stuff!
I do find some french fries under my seat, another reason I need a freshener for my car
A sippy cup of milk that had rolled under the seat. Yuck!
Money that had fallen between the seats! Nice surprise!
Old sausage hat had fallen out of a grocery bag. Ugh.
money
A pair of shoes and blue jeans that didn’t belong to any one I know.
My son left one of our rabbits in the car overnight. Boy was I surprised the next morning.
A gallon of milk. Found in the trunk after several days. Ugh. Yuck.
A Hanger
I found my grandsons marbles. Only way I found them was because I heard a noise, They were under my seat in the metal workings of the seat rolling around
I would have to say a Tree Frog. Picked up my teenage son from a friend’s house and on the way home, it decided to jump on my chest. I nearly wrecked the car and terrified my son, who’s never scared of anything, lol.
Toys that went missing years ago, always a fun surprise!
In my previous car, I found the ground beef I had bought that my boyfriend did not bring in with the groceries…several days later, in hot FL at that! When it started to smell like something died in my car, that’s when I went looking and found it!
Have found a small tin can of Altoids that went MIA for a long time between the seats, pens and loose change.
Three days later, a dozen eggs that did not make it into the house from a grocery trip
A gallon of milk I bought day before and forgot to get out of car
i have found money and ive found some fries some lettuce and some gum my son left for me
spiders
The most interesting thing I’ve found in my car is a half ate sandwich probably 3 weeks after someone ate it. Yuck!
Lots of nail files that slide into little cracks and spaces.
Stinky wet socks.
french fries and a Nerf bullet.
I had braces so probably my retainer. So gross.
A container of potato salad that I forgot to bring in the house.
My son’s mp3 player between the seat cushions. He was already back at college, & didn’t even know it was missing.
Money, I did not realize was in the car.
Ugh…. a small frog. Eeek!
A sea of goldfishes under my daughter’s car seat!
I once found part of my nieces button collection!
old french fry
A dehydrated apple wayyyyy back under the seat. I guess the horse never got it LOL!
Old yummy Chick-Fil-A Fries … it was really crunchy now…lol
Sucker sticks are the worst thing to find along with fruit snacks!
A old container of eggs..Puke
My son was hiding in my car to “scare me” and boy did it work!!!!!!
I once found a grasshopper sitting in the driver’s seat. Haha
A very big spider was inside of the car door. My daughter screamed ! I was hoping it was spanish moss that fell in the car—-NOPE !
A black snake was hiding in my car and did not make an appearance until I was driving on the highway!
a very large spider came crawling across the dashboard.
One time while driving a bee was in the car and stung me!
A cockroach flew in my face while I was driving. Yikes!
I once found a frog in my car after it had been raining.
The most interesting thing I have found was melted crayons in the cup holder..pretty but very hard to clean up!
a magenta touch screen pen I like
I going to have to say my Sons underwear. Ughh hes 5yrs old, but how he managed to get underwear off and shorts back on is still a mystery, As well as why he took them off in the first place and hid them under the seat! He said he didnt like those one 😉
french fries.
I found a watermelon that wasn’t brought in from the grocery store that probably had been in the car floor for 2weeks.
Melted crayons in car seat cup holder
I once found an earthworm in my backseat… gross!
Chewing gum on my car seats and carpet!
A big dead roach.
a spider
A lizard that I chased forever to get out.
I would say my co-workers bra!
I have found fish worms after my husband borrowed the car to go fishing for the day.
Lots of change!
A caterpillar, which seems tame compared to some of the answers here!
A birds nest under the hood.