One Less Car

Sometimes it's hard to put your money where your mouth is.  We've been a two car family since before there were kids in that spare bedroom.  It started when my wife was in graduate school and started taking a class three nights a week.  We lived outside town a little bit and I got kind of tired of not having a vehicle.  Funny thing is if we'd lived in town where we do now it would have never crossed my mind since we don't drive much anyway these days.  Anyway, that second car turned into a beat up old pickup after we bought the house.  That was truly a useful choice other than the rattle and leak that was that old Chevy.  When some friends moved away and offered to sell us their big Ford that could seat 6 for a more than reasonable price we decided it would be nice to have some extra room since we kept a truck as our second car anyway.  Geez that thing got terrible gas mileage!  We drove it out of town once and used something on the order of 5 times as much fuel as our little diesel wagon.  Maybe extra room isn't so important.  Well, for all the convenience of having a truck (and we really did use it for truck type stuff) we've finally plunged back into being a single car family.  It was actually harder than I thought it would be to make that final decision.  It was also completely worth it.  We joined the local car share so we can still use a truck if we really need one or if we need two cars every once in a while.  So, here's to one less car!  If your on the edge, dive in.  It's surprising how much lighter you feel without that second car sitting there.