When Randy and I moved to Florida we brought the 2 vehicles we had in Missouri with us. Randy’s HUGE Silverado HD long bed, club cab pick-up truck barely fit in the driveway, not to mention the garage. We did get it in there once. There were about 3 inches in both the front of and the back of the truck inside the garage with the door closed. And because land in Florida is expensive, parking spaces are pretty small most everywhere. We often felt like a bull in a china shop driving that truck around our little retirement town. Because we’d bought it to pull our camper which we no longer had, we decided we could live without that behemoth of a vehicle.
When we sold it we decided to try to get along with one vehicle for a while. That worked out pretty well even though our one vehicle was a 2014 Volkswagen Passat 4-door sedan. On the rare occasions (3 or 4 times in 2 years) where we couldn’t haul something, we had two friends who live close by who own pick-up trucks. A 6-pack of beer served well to rent both truck and driver on those occasions. It was also a very rare occasion where we needed 2 cars at once.
Late last summer we bought a new SUV. The VW is more than 10 years old and we figured the SUV could haul everything we needed except a sheet of plywood. So now we have 2 vehicles again, only one of which fits in the garage. We conducted an experiment in keeping 2 vehicles again for 6 months and have come to the conclusion that one is enough. The cost benefit analysis shows that it’d be cheaper to rent a vehicle on the extremely rare occasion we might need another one at the same time than to maintain two at once.
I love being a one car retired couple!
Anyone want to buy a well loved 2014 VW Passat (diesel)???
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