Parking spot savers started to pop up across South Boston the day after the snowstorm. It's grueling work to carve out a vehicle out of a thick pile of snow so locals have traditionally used orange cones or any grabbable item from the home to reserve the spot afterward. The unofficial reward for shoveling out a spot in a neighborhood notorioius for lack of parking is to earn the right to the spot for some amount of time. For how long is something locals like to argue about-- some would say that it’s for the entirety of the season while the city says it’s for 48 hours after a snow emergency ends.

Take a look at some of the creative items used by Southie residents to save their spot. If you spot one in your neighborhood, send a picture to us.

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A view of parking cones in South Boston from above taken Sunday morning.

As the snow came in over the weekend, the space savers came out as residents in South Boston dug out their cars. Pictured: A snow-filled Baxter Street.

From chairs to strollers, residents used a variety of techniques to lay claim to their freshly shoveled spaces.

Pictured: Chairs defended residents’ parking spots on P Street.

Many residents labored on Sunday and Monday to clear the snow that buried their vehicles, other chose to give in to Mother Nature.

Pictured: A barley visible car on East 2nd Street.

Chairs and cones seemed to be the preferred method to save a space in the neighborhood.

Pictured: A lawn chair held a space for the owner on East 3rd Street.

A trash bag and an umbrella held this space on East 2nd Street.

It never hurts to have a little Bruins pride while you head off to work.

Pictured: A Bruins trashcan is used to hold a space on West 4th Street.

Even if the golf courses are closed there’s still a use for a golf bag.

Christmas only comes once a year, but the tree base makes a pretty nice space saver. Pictured: Baxter Street.

With all the cool weather fans aren’t getting used for their intended purpose.

Pictured: A fan was used to save a space on Emerson Street.

Maybe the residents who shoveled out this space were thinking of summer when they put out their space saver.

Pictured: A cooler used to save a space on O Street.

An umbrella and chair combo saved a parking spot in South Boston on Saturday.

A human parking spot saver on Marine Road in South Boston. Actually, Jessica Mercaldi was taking a break from shoveling snow as Sean Ledwidge continued working. The chair stayed, though.

A saw horse hed a parking spot near F and Second Streets after heavy snow in 2005.

On Marine Road in South Boston a lounge chair was used to save a spot in between two vehicles in 2011.

Eventually, the parking spot savers have to go. Vladimar Diaz with Capital Waste Services carried a table to the trash truck that was left on East Third Street in South Boston to save a parking spot in 2010.

Diaz with Capital Waste Services contemplatesdwhat to do with a TV/VCR combo that was left on East Third Street in South Boston to save a parking spot. His crew went around collecting trash on the regular trash pick up day but were also ordered to put all place-savers in the trash. He was not allowed to put the TV in the truck and put it in a snowbank instead.

Some of the unusual things people leave out to mark their shoveled-out parking spots on the streets of South Boston, including this cart with a concete cylinder block inside on Columbia Road.

This propane tank (hopefully empty) was left on Columbia Road.

This fan was spotted on K Street in 2009.

A pair of bar stool chairs were left on E. Fifth Street in 2009.

In Boston, spots shoveled are not suppose to be saved all winter long, only a short time after each snow emergency. In Boston as tradition goes its almost an annnual right of winter even when the snow has cleared the ground. Chris Powers cleaned up his marked spot with a chair on N Street in 2009.

Residents in South Boston, as well as other municipalities around the area, stubbornly leave cones and chairs to mark parking spots despite a city ordinance mandating their removal 48 hours after the last snowstorm.

A cone that’s probably city property.

Parking spots on East Seventh Street were reserved with different objects, as The Boston Public Works rubbish truck made its way down the street to remove all sorts of items used to mark parking spaces by residents on the street in 2008.

Seems like a waste to use this half-keg of beer on Telegraph Streett in 2006.

Saving parking spots in South Boston after the weekend blizzard, has people using ingenuity, but a fight erupted when someone tryed to park in this spot across from 36 Thomas Park in 2006.

A comfortable-looking dining room chair was left on Columbia Road in 2006.

A propane tank was left on a ladder (probably to improve visibility) on G Street in South Boston in 2006.

Bill Patts left a chair in a parking spot near the corner of F and Second Street in South Boston in 2005. He was on his way to work at the Post Office.

Rae M. Surprise, 81 used a walker as she carried her groceries from her old Buick she parked in a spot on Old Colony Avenue that she reserved with her folding lawn chair in 2004. Her neighbor shoveled her out. She has lived in the Old Colony Projects since 1965, and has a handicap sticker hanging from her mirror,and uses a walker to get around since having 2 back operations. "I would of been upset if the chair was gone. I would of kept driving around the block until I found a spot. " she said. "But then I'm not very mobile walking anymore. I'ts not easy being old." she added. On Sunday during the snowstorm she recieved a $35 ticket for parking in the same spot during the snow emergency. "They have handicap parking spaces, but they don't have your name on it." she said. "I guess I would just have to sit in my car until a spot opened up." she added. The spot next to her was reserved with a dining room chair.

Boston Public Works employee Jimmy Grossmann threw cones into the rubbish truck as he walked down East Fourth Street discarding all sorts of items used to mark parking spaces by residents on the street in 2004