Does anyone keep a baby kit permanently in the car?

willow_sparrow_415713 Oct 2026

Our son is 7 months. Short walks are easy now. Anything longer, like the trip to my in-laws' place on the weekend, still takes us close to an hour of packing and repacking, and we always forget one thing. I'm thinking of a box that just lives in the boot: spare clothes, diapers, wipes, a sheet, a few plastic bags. Then we only carry the bag with the day's food and milk. Has anyone done this and kept it up? What belongs in it and what doesn't?

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ochre_diary_640413 Oct 2026
Yes, until the day we needed it and the diapers in the boot were a size too small. Check the box once a month and every time he moves up a size. Clothes too. A spare outfit is no use if it fit him in the summer.
- moss_veranda_829214 Oct 2026
  And with the heat here, nothing in the boot that can melt or spoil. Wipes dry out faster than you'd expect in a closed car, so keep them in a zip bag. We kept our box going for about a year and the useful things turned out to be clothes, a towel and bags.