Sandbags in car for winter?

Wondering if it is necessary or more dangerous to place a sandbag in my trunk for the winter time? I have a front wheel drive honda civic.

Not necessary. Putting sandbags in the trunk is for when you have rear wheel drive and want to get better traction by adding weight to the drive axle. If you have front wheel drive, it's the drive axle failing to pull the weight of the car you should be worried about. Adding weight to the back of a FWD car is actually worse because then the drive axle will be struggling more to pull the weight of the vehicle and the wheels will most likely begin to spin in place. I had a Mitsubishi Lancer and I did just fine with it. They had FWD, except for the Lancer Evolution; that had AWD.

It will make things worse for you in a front wheel drive car.

Sandbags are for the extra weight (traction) over the drive wheels. Get yourself some radial chains instead.

Placing sandbags in the trunk, on a Front Wheel Drive vehicle, will DECREASE your traction and is a very bad idea.

Get winter tires.

Sandbags are okay for pick-ups and such that are rear wheel drive. This helps with putting weight over the drive wheels. However, your Civic is front wheel drive so it already has the engine and transaxle over the drive wheels. You don't need any additional weight in the rear to improve traction.

NOPE, YOU DON'T NEED THEM UNLESS, you think you may need them to spread out for traction.

(NO ONE ELSE ON HERE HAS THOUGHT ABOUT THAT, HAVE THEY?)