To give you the background, dh and I have no dcs, but are planning to TTC in about a year. I am 26 and have a small car to get to work. DH has a pick up he uses for work(self employed). However, if we go on long journeys - holidays to France, Ireland etc, we generally go in the pick up as there is no room in my car for all our stuff, but this costs a bomb in diesel. We are also looking after my PILs dog on an increasingly regular basis, and it can't go in my car either. DH think we should trade my car in for a bigger "family" car and want a Volvo V50. I am a little bit reticent about the idea of going from a little run around to something so big, especially as we don't have a family yet, but dh sees it as planning for the future, whilst I think of it as tempting fate, and I can just imagine the suspicious looks i will get if I turn up to work in a volvo estate.
I'm not sure what the problem is really - if it's that the volvo/or estates in general have "old" / "soccer mum" connotations - (sorry to volvo drivers!!). I think we should get something "in -between" and then get a family car when we actually have a family!?
I know you will be thinking it's just a car, but i fel like part of my identity is sort of bound up in this decision!!