Do you and your dh car share, or do you feel l having two car is essential ?

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To your life ?

We have 2. We live rurally. I work in another rural town with very few bus links and no train etc.
Dh is all over Scotland with work and needs to take kit etc so no chance of him using transport.

We use to share as hubby walked to work or got a lift, but then he took up a hobby and without a car he would only be able to do this after work so for 6 months of the year it would be too dark.

Such a good investment having the two cars.

We've only ever had one car. DH walks 35 minutes each way to work and I'm a SAHM and we can walk for the school run. 6 buses an hour from the end of our road. We could manage ok without a car medium term but kids would miss out on after school activities, parties and days out.

We have one, DH walks to the station to commute to work, and in the week it's mainly used by me for school run and grocery shopping and general mum's taxi service.

The only time it's problematic at weekends is when the DC have different events at different locations but at the same time. We are lucky though in that my lovely mum will usually step into the breech or lend us her car when that happens.

If we move further from the city centre - likely in the next few years as that's where the best secondary schools are - I expect we'll need two cars then.

We need 2 cars! I’d love to get rid of one. They cost so much to run.

My work requires me to have a car as I’m site based and have no definitive office.

Dh works shifts, early shift and late shift, there is no public transport at 4am and none at 2am when he finishes.

Add getting the kids to school into the mix and 2 cars are definitely needed.

We only have one car. We do have to make complicated arrangements sometimes or have to take taxis or public transport but to me that’s a small sacrifice compared to the money we are saving and the environmental benefits.

As an example, dd goes to swimming once a week which starts before dh gets back from work. We get the bus there but it does get us there 45 minutes before we need to be there. So we sit in the foyer and do her homework. And dh makes a detour to pick us up on the way home.

If I do need the car for any reason when dh needs it for work I will give him a lift to the station.

We are the only family we know with only 1 car. And to be honest I think a lot of people we know could make it work with only 1, but choose the convenience and extra costs of 2

We did have 2 cars but since I started working in the city centre we've gone down to 1 because I go on the bus so the other car just sat on the driveway all week and majority of the weekend (because we went out together then).

Sometimes it's difficult, such as today when he's out of work later than usual and therefore later to pick DD up from nursery, but it doesn't justify paying for 2 cars.

We have two cars because we live rurally in an area with limited public transport and we work in opposite directions. We'd struggle with just one.

Definitely, as we both have company cars as they are essential for both roles.

We have 1 car, got rid of mine when we moved in together as I walked to work and he drove so made financial sense.

We live very much in the city centre, walking distance from my parents and a quick bus journey to his, so if I need to get anywhere it's very easy for us.

Plus I'm not sure we can justify the cost of a second car or if we need it at the moment...

We have 1 car. I get the train to work. DH gets the train to work.

There's occasionally a time when it's a pain not having two cars. But not enough to justify the expense of it.

We have 2 cars but could manage with one as dh walks to work and I don’t work . Basically I need a car and dh is happy to share however we were gifted a car so we kept it - always nice to have a spare .

If we could get away with having one car we would. Paying for two MOTs, services, insurance policies and registration is necessary for us though.

100% essential. I will always have my own car, and he will always have his.

I don't want to be restricted when he is busy that i'm stuck at home or vice versa

We share a car it used to be fine as dh worked nights and I could use it during the day. Now he does days it does restrict me a bit more as although I can get about by public transport and walking it is not so convenient as the car. It would also be difficult if I got a different job I couldn't walk to and I might have to consider getting a second car if that happened.

We have 2. Rural area, so no public transport. We have different interests so do a lot of things independently of each other (we are retired). Having said that, now I don't have to use my car for work, a tank of petrol lasts for ages.

We are a 4 car family.
I am an essential car user and would lise my job if I didn't have a car.
Ds us self employed. The buisness is 25 miles away from our home.
Ds2 is at college 26 miles away and DS1 has had his own car since he was 17.

Even if I didn't need a car for work I would want one. I get loads of time off in the week and go up to the Lakes, Scotland or The Peak District so need a car (to do my hobby!) to get to places quickly.

We have two cars. Mainly for taxi-ing our primary school aged children around e.g to and from school and also for their various weekend activities.

It wouldn't be impossible for us to cope with one car, but would be stressful and life is stressful enough as it is - having two cars does really help.

Once the children become self reliant, I guess we could go down to one car and I'd be happy to do so.

We have two cars, they are both essential for our two jobs, (site visits etc not just commuting) and ferrying children to appointments. We use public transport where possible but there are many days when both cars are in use.

I drop the DC at school and drive to work - the journey would take ages on public transport.

DH drives to the station and catches the train to work. It's a 15-20 minute drive, so would take hours out of my week to take him there and pick him up every day, and there's no bus he could get back from the station.

So, yes, I think 2 cars are essential for us.

One car here. For a spell when DD was a baby we didn’t have one at all and used a car club, and it was fine. We live in London, though, and commute by Tube.

We changed to only having one last year, I use it for work so need it at my workplace during the week. My husband walks or cycles, it's about 3 miles.

So glad we downsized! Sometimes it would be handy to have two, but it's not worth the cost. We are just reasonable with our time and journeys, and let each other know any plans.

We need 2, me for work (no public transport to my workplace) and him for work and school runs. However we're about to downsize from a pickup for him to a small family car to lessen the environmental aspect of it. He no longer works for the company which he needed the pick up for. I'm about to upgrade my wee old car to a newer environmentally friendlier version too.

We had 2 cars went down to 1 and swiftly back to 2. It was a nightmare I will never car share again even with my kids.

We have 3 cars between the 2 of us. A family SUV (mine) a commuter car (DH) and a large pickup for towing, hauling and fin stuff.