I lost my Chapstick tube

[Niagara]

In between the console and the drivers seat last week.

I had some difficultly removing the tube even with my long skeleton type fingers.

I had to use a wooden yardstick to push the tube forward. I finally got it after awhile.

I purchased a purple pool noodle today and did this.


drivers side:




passenger side:

[Harker]

1. That's a clean machine, Niagara. n/t

[Niagara]

6. Thank you, Harker

I attempt to keep my vehicle in pristine conditions at all times.

[Shermann]

2. I've noticed this with newer vehicles

I dropped some spare change in that slot on my new Ford and thought I'd never get it back. My old Ford didn't have that issue.

[Niagara]

7. My last vehicle was a 2010 Ford Escape

If I dropped anything it landed under the seat and there was enough space to grab the item.


There's not any space to grab for lost items in this vehicle though.

[multigraincracker]

3. Stick shift?

[Niagara]

8. It's both an automatic and a clutchless manual

I don't know how to drive a manual to save my life.

[multigraincracker]

11. Saw that leather boot.

[Niagara]

12. Most Mazda's come with both

All it takes is to shift the lever from D to M or from M to D.

That's it. Easy-peasy.

[multigraincracker]

13. I learned on an old Hillman with a 4 on the column.

Not an easy one to learn on. 😆

[Niagara]

14. I'm really good at stalling!

[Tbear]

4. And you are all set if you ever drive into a pool!

nt

[Niagara]

9. Absolutely!

[LuckyCharms]

5. Good idea! That's using your noodle, Niagara!

Good job.

[Niagara]

10. Thank you, Lucky

I believe that I took the idea from a YouTube video.

[True Dough]

15. Brilliant!

Perhaps the least surprising part of your OP is revealing that HallowQueen has "long skeleton type fingers."

[Niagara]

16. Thank you, True

I like the peace sign that the skeleton fingers are forming!




By the way, I had something to say about your Canadian $5 bill thread today but I didn't know how to word it. So I only rec'd it.

[True Dough]

17. It was probably something along the lines

of me being as phony as a three dollar bill.

[Niagara]

18. No. I was going to say how we (America) could have all these inspiring people

on our money bills.


I was thinking abolitionists like Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison or Harriet Tubman.

Or perhaps someone like Jean Stratton Porter.

I don't know if it would effect value but maybe rotate people every so often on all bills. Is there a reason why we have to have the same faces on the same bill all the time?

I didn't know how to word it so I didn't say anything.

[True Dough]

19. I think you worded that just fine, Niagara

Makes good sense to me. I hope it becomes reality someday (not likely during the next four years, but when sanity rules again).

[Niagara]

20. Thank you, True

I believe the next four years is basically going to be survivor mode for a great deal of people. Sadly.

[UTUSN]

23. Whup, corrected Reply below!

[UTUSN]

21. Good noodle hack!

[Niagara]

22. Thank you, UTUSN

It's not exactly a good time looking for stuff in between the console and the seat!

[UTUSN]

24. Whups, Replied to a different post!

Your post got my attention on both counts - the chapstick and the noodle.
11:46 PM
Just recently used a chapstick for the first time in literately multiple scores of years, had to ask a grocery clerk where to find it, surprised to have to choose at the variety of "healthy" ingredients, hassled to de-wrap the plastic, surprised again at the new appearance of the tube, then found that the lips are dried out in the morning.

Then the noodle - have zero idea how they're used in pools, have used a small piece on a protruding pipe in the ground for warning visibility, and a neighbor uses a longer piece sliced lengthwise to cover the sharp prongs on his chainlink fence where he reaches over to dump trash.

Life hacks! Have been thinking of starting a topic on that for a while.

[Niagara]

25. No worries, UTUSN

I'm a Chapstick addict for years so I always know where to find the item at the store.


Opening a new tube certainly takes some skill. You could start a life hack on how to open a new tube!


I garbage picked some 3/4" PVC pipes a few years ago. My neighbor cut the pipes for me so they're all the same length.

I place the PVC pipes into the soft ground with a specific vintage hammer and I place the pool noodles (with a slit going down the pool noodle) over the PVC pipes.


I then add Halloween solar lights to my "Do It Yourself Temporary Fence" for my Halloween yard display. I'm going to see if anyone throws out any 3/4" PVC pipes this year so that I can add to my Halloween yard decorations arsenal.

You should absolutely do some "life hack" topics. You might end up helping someone that needs the help.

[Ocelot II]

26. Great idea! I'll have to do that, since I'm always losing stuff down there.

[Niagara]

29. Thank you, Ocelot II

I'm all about preventive measures to keep life simpler.

[Maninacan]

27. Noodle

In my budget range!

[Niagara]

33. $1.25 from the Dollar Tree

[Nittersing]

28. Speaking of chapstick

How much actual lip balm is in those things? They seem to run out a lot faster than they used to.

[Niagara]

34. I have multiple Chapstick and lip balms tubes all over the place

It's rare that I run out. It's common that I misplace them.

[AKwannabe]

30. This is pretty smart!

I lose my lighters
(fries if I eat them)
(joints)
(coinage)
ALLL THE TIME!



And in my rig I have to go to the back of the seat for the extraction which is hell!
I need a black one tho…

[Niagara]

35. The Dollar Tree didn't have any black

So I went with purple.


I dropped a joint in someone's car in my younger years as a passenger. Luckily, it didn't fall between the console and the seat.

[Freddie]

31. Great idea!

I’m always dropping things in the Black Hole between the seat and console. Once I had to get a new debit card (and all the PITA things that entails) and guess where my card went.

[Niagara]

36. I'm hoping this works out splendidly, Freddie

It only takes one time for to lose an item for it to be a PITA.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. Now that's what I call using your noodle!!

[Niagara]

37. Thank you, InAbLuEsTaTe

I think I took the idea from a YouTube video.


I watch way too many videos.

[Emile]

38. My wife is always looking for ways to use noodles.

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