Workspace of the Week: A car’s glove box

This week’s Workspace of the Week is Toffer’s glove box modification:

Toffer explains what is featured in the photograph:

I shoved my spare hipster PDA into the tissue dispenser of my glove box, took some pens and put them in the slot to load napkins and then taped a pad of re-stickable post-it notes to the side.

Repurposing a car’s glove box as an uncluttered, personal workspace is a brilliant idea! Thank you, Toffer, for the creative suggestion.

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Posted by Erin on Dec 14, 2007 | Comments

6 comments posted

  1. Posted by R K - 12/14/2007

    Does it still hold papers (registration, insurance, car manual, maintenance records etc) without them flying out every time you open it? if not, where do you store these? (registration especially, since it needs to be in easy reach if you get pulled over or get in an accident.)

  2. Posted by Erin Doland - 12/14/2007

    @RK — It looks to me like the modification is only to the door of the glove box, not the interior.

  3. Posted by toffer - 12/14/2007

    I keep everything I need when I get pulled over in my visor. So I don’t have to dig around anywhere- I do not want to get tazed. I didn’t shoot the interior because that’s where the girlfriend’s emergency supply of “things” go. I do keep a Tide pen and a lint roller too.

    Thanks for picking me.

  4. Posted by Brett - 12/14/2007

    I actually did something similar a few months back in my 1965 Buick Skylark using an old jello pudding box and a hard drive magnet :)

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/inkedmn/365581339/

    Perhaps slightly less elegant than the glove box setup, but it gets the job done!

  5. Posted by puckhead - 12/14/2007

    This is great! I wish I had this last night when Boston closed down and it took hours to get anywhere. I was stuck in traffic for 7 hours trying to get home and could have gotten a lot of good ideas down on paper (or at least had something to doodle on).

  6. Posted by ArthurRitus - 12/15/2007

    Awesome idea. I guess u spend a lot of time in the car?
    DONT CRASH!!!

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