I’m clearly a dork and this post will solidify that for you forever. I’m telling you that the things that excite me must just have you shaking your head. Yet here you are still visiting me, which is so sweet but makes no sense at all. Then I got to thinking that maybe you want to leave but can’t….you know similar to a bad traffic accident on the highway where everyone slows down to take a gawk just to see if it’s really as bad as it looks except in my case to see if I’m really as dorky as I appear. Let me save you the trouble, I am so a dork! Look what I bought over the weekend that cost me a few bucks but changes my life dramatically. Well okay maybe not dramatically, that might be a slight exaggeration, but it does make me ever so happy!
Let me tell you this fine little catch-all solves the really annoying habit I have of constantly sitting on my sunglasses in the van. It’s one of those cases with an adjustable arm that hooks into the vent on my dashboard. Would you just look at that…now why didn’t I invent this! Talk about a handy little contraption.
Perhaps you want to know why the heck I’m sitting on my sunglasses in the first place and why I need to throw $8.00 to the wind just to have a hunk of neoprene hanging from my dashboard? Silly you, because I’m lazy that’s why! Whenever I’m driving and stop somewhere, rather than take the 20 seconds it takes to put my sunglasses away in their case that lives right beside my seat,
I would just take them off and throw them on the passenger seat instead. Except then the next time I got into the van as a passenger, without fail, I would get in without looking and sit on them. Not no more, no siree!
I’ve just added an extra 20 seconds to my day……who you calling a dork now!
Gretchen says
Laura…there’s this thing called your head. Just shove those sunglasses up on it. They sit very well, and you won’t sit on them. 🙂 Gives a tres chic hairdo, too.
Seriously, the car (er…garbage scowe)is an area that could use a bit of organization because we do live in it every.single.day. If we were going some place with our kids, you know that you’d have to drive. Based on what I see here–I have car shame. Little Rhonda Honda needs help. 🙂
paleraven50 says
laura, obviously Gretchen doesn’t know you and you would never never shove your glasses up on your head cause then you would have your hair out of place and that just wouldn’t do on our friendly dork Laura, right right. I do like your glasses holder neat little gadget I say. Mine are always on my face. Have a great Tuesday Sue
Org Junkie says
ROTFL! Sue you are so right, you crack me up! I’m almost over my hair issues, but not quite 🙂
Tracey @ozcountryquiltingmum says
OMG, I have been bloging on organizing all week and frequently during the 8 months I’ve been blogging and today I posted on my love for containers and one of my commenters has sent me here to you…I’m in love already…and that’s just for the organized boot and sunglasses-my husband will want to steal you away…i must never let him see this!! Cheers, Tracey
Twisted Cinderella says
I love this! It is the little things that help in organizing that make me happy!
Alberta ('Berta) says
Seems you have something in common with my DH! The shortest record for owning a pair of sunglasses is about 10 minutes! I’ll be looking for such a case the next time I’m out & about!
Kara says
Wow, your van is more organized than any part of my house! You should share some more car organization tips 😀 And I think the sunglass holder is great.
Lauri says
love your site and have been lurking for a while … I am there with you on the sunglasses thing as I have spent 10 years buying new glasses every few months UNTIL…
last May (yes, a WHOLE YEAR AGO) I bought a new pair of glasses and as much as I cringed at the idea, bought a “croakie” – (not too dangly, not too hangy. It sticks fairly close to my head so I don’t look too old-lady) to go with them thinking it would help on the beach and at the pool. I have never taken it off my glasses have now passed my one year anniversary with my “good glasses”!!! WOO-HOO!!!
Shel says
I have sunglass issues as well. I put them on top of my head and they fall off and break a lot. I have been doing well with them recently, a new hairstyle holds them better. I am with you on the lazy thing, my car has a built in sunglass holder that pops down from the ceiling between the front seats and my sunglasses never get put there. I usually toss them on the dash, or and the little ledge behide the steering wheel in front of the spedometer and gas gauge.
Debi says
Okay great, now you’ve got me thinking I need of those things, too!
But seriously what I really need is a crated container system like you’ve got going there…wow…that’s awesome! I’m so sick of CDs and everything else just sliding all over the floor and under the seats. Unsightly, a pain in the butt, and probably unsafe as well. Yes, yes, yes, I am inspired!
Sandra says
You never cease to amaze me, just when I think there is NO way you’ll come up with something else so cool to organize things, you surprise us.
Well who would have thunk LOL
sunglasses holder in the car….I’m doing this myself, I have a habit of sitting on my sunglasses too.
Thank you Laura, you just saved me another pair of sunglasses LOL
Hugs,
?Sandra
Big Mama says
Forget the sunglass holder, I need a moment of silence to absorb the organization miracle that is your console.
If those CD’s are in alphabetical order, then there is no hope for me.
Birdie says
My hubby does the same thing with his sunglasses, and they have gotten sat upon! 😉
Jana (sidetrack'd) says
Too funny! I have a bad habit of sitting on my sunglasses as well.
Jaime says
oh my…. i think i may have just beaten you in the dork category; when i first saw the picture (BEFORE reading below) i thought it was some kind of airline toilet & you were going to say you just got rid of your sunglasses!!
*blushing furiously*
LOL
Melody says
Yay – a blog next to my own heart. I am a SAHM to 3 littlies. I live in South Africa and am thorougly disorganised but in my heart I am a NEAT FREAK. Love love love your blog. Hope you pop by mine sometime!
texasblu says
Here via “My So Called PErfect Life” – you and my sweetheart are kindred spirits. This would make him sooo happy as well – perhaps I should get him one for Father’s Day! 🙂
I think I will join your menu Monday, simply because I SOOO need motivation to do that, and I can’t seem to make myself. 😛
Kimberly says
I wouldn’t visit here if you weren’t a bit dorky. Seriously. I wouldn’t. =)
And I like it!
Tiffany says
I keep my sunglasses on my sun visor with a little clip that I bought for $1. I also store fast food coupons on the other side of the visor under the clip. Very handy!
here is a link from the container store: http://www.containerstore.com/browse/Product.jhtml?CATID=259&PRODID=67862
Mommy Dearest says
The glasses case is really cool, but what I really need is the basket organizer between the seats!
Faerylandmom says
You are not a dork. Just a little quirky. Quirky is a much nicer word – and lots more fun to say. 🙂
BooMama says
I’m with Gretchen on the sunglasses-on-the-head thing.
But can I just say? I am in awe of the console of your car. AWE, I TELL YOU. It’s a thing of beauty.
sara - The Estrogen Files says
Whoo Hoo, go YOU! I have a thingy in my van that holds the sunglasses – like the only upgrade in the whole stinkin’ thing – and it’s lovingly lined with soft stuff to keep from scratching. Very good.
Oh yes, the kids and I took a leaf from your book and cleaned/organized our van while waiting for OldestGirl to get done with her softball game. Multi-tasking! Organizing! SUCH FUN!
Michelle says
I found your blog from one of my friends and I am a SAHM to 3 kids to and I am so trying to be organized..I love all the tips you have provided and I am giving them a try..I am also trying the menu plan to..Thank you for letting me stop in ..
Barb says
I simply cannot believe the console in your car. Are you kidding me? It’s so perfect I wouldn’t touch a thing.
I can totally see how that clever little purchase made your day. Twenty seconds. Wow, Laura. What’s not to love about that? 🙂
Now what are you going to do with the sunglass container sitting on the console? I’m sure you’ll come up with some very practical use for it. I mean, you’re not going to be using it for the sunglasses any more. LOL
Andie says
Your console imspired me!! I cleaned out my entire van! I even took out the carseats and vacuumed under and around it all. My little basket between the front seats was so jam packed that it broke! Not good! So…I completely emptied it and took it down. Now I have a neat little container there to hold my cd’s. I even got two little plastic cups to go in the container to hold (1)my pens, chapstick/lipstick and (2) my cell phone charger. Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Blessings-Andie
Amy says
My sunglasses are always pushed up on top of my head. Always. I have playfully slapped my DH for letting me walk into family events, stores, church… everywhere, forgetting my lovely glasses are perched on my head.
DH, on the other hand, constantly squishes his. I wish I’d seen this before Father’s Day… he’d have gotten one of those handy little holders!