To think DH should have told me he sold this car

[Farkinell]

One of our daughters needed a newer car so we've upgraded her car, and wanted to sell her old car privately to maximise income from it.

It's taken longer than expected.

I went away for a couple of days over the weekend and came back late last night.

As I left the house this morning I noticed it wasn't on the adjoining road where it's been for about 4 weeks. I'd expressed concern about it looking unused on the road (I shifted it around a few times over the month to make it look as though it was being used regularly) abd had suggested a crook lock for it, but hadn't got round to that.

I called DH worried that it had been stolen, but he didn't reply.

I sent him a WhatsApp and about 90 minutes later he replied that he'd sold it over the weekend, forgot to mention it. He did reply as soon as he saw the WhatsApp, had been in meetings all morning. He was apologetic for not mentioning messaging me about it.

I've had a period of time thinking we'd got all the rigaramole of dealing with the insurance.

AIBU thinking he should have updated me?

@Illbethereforyouuu apologies I misread your post

Sometimes cars sell very fast, I sold one on Facebook in about half an hour once! It probably all just happened very fast and he forgot to mention it to you if he wasn't messaging you at that particular time!
I wouldn't overthink it ☺️ you had a weekend away and came back 4k richer with no admin work done. Winner winner 🤑

Is it only me who is wondering why you are buying your daughter all these cars?! 😂

You know that age old saying? If it's not going to matter in 5 years/months/weeks time then don't spend 5 minutes posting on Mumsnet about it.
Well, that.

Oh my gosh! Honesly I would have had a bit of a laugh with him. Told him I had called the police and they were here now!
You seem to be worrying over something trivial that is over.
Do you think there is a deeper issue? I wondered if this is why he was sending trivial messages to cheer you up? Or is it that you are a little bit controlling and he thought he may get get aggro?

Christ, I’d be bloody thrilled if my husband could handle something like of his own accord. He can’t fart without some help from me!!!

Well, depends. The car was destined for sale, you were away and your husband very competently managed to complete a sale without supervision or getting you involved in any shape or form. I would consider myself quite lucky there wasn't one more admin thing for me to worry about.
In fact, similar thing happened to me just a couple of weeks ago. I knew the car was going to be sold, I came home after two weeks of seeing my family and didn't find it on a drive. I immediately assumed the car was sold in my absence and, what do you know.. it has!