I feel like I’m about to absorb lose my s@£t!
My husband has an old 53 reg standard Golf. It gets driven about twice a month! We were going to sell it a few months ago, but he couldn’t part with it. It’s not one he’s had for years, bought it 3 years ago for him to commute to work and golf.
He has been working from home now since early last year, and will still work from home so I just think it’s a waste of expenses just sitting in our drive. The amount of arguments we’ve had over this car is insane, not proper arguments though, more like heated discussions!
It just doesn’t make sense to me to pay £40 a month in tax and insurance for it to sit there. He says he wants to keep it because it’s handy to have 2 cars. I ask why, he says incase he needs to go somewhere when I’m not there, this never happens! Last MOT he didn’t even do a 1000 miles over the past year, it’ll be interesting to see how much he’s done this year, while he’s been working at home! I bet not even 200. I work 3 nights a week so that’s the only time the family car is gone. And if he goes to play golf he could easily catch a lift with his friend who goes with him, and only lives down the road. Or I’m normally at home when he’s playing golf anyway! I usually do the school runs, or if he has to it’s because I’m sleeping after a night shift anyway so the car is at home!
I know some people might say it’s maybe a sense of freedom to have his own car to go when he wants, but he doesn’t go anywhere! And he’s trying to get me to sell my car (family car), anyway! My car does have its issues, nothing too serious, but enough for us to want a newer car in a couple of years, the latest. But he tries to say his car is better than mine. Mine is an 12 plate, so a lot newer than his, has less milage, is a big car so perfect for us, whereas his is small, the boot doesn’t open, the doors don’t lock, and so on!
Please someone tell me I’m not insane for wanting to get rid of the Golf and save £40 a month, ok it’s not much, but that doesn’t count for MOT and service cost, or tyres or anything, so this adds hundreds on to what we would save.
Oh, and I have told him if he wants to keep it he could take it off the road and take the tax off, but we have no space for it in the new house so he’d have to park it at his parents who have a 3 car garage, but they like to hoard stuff. But he always mentions this car business in front of his parents, to which they tell him to out his foot down, and it just angers me so much!! What would you do? And should I just accept the unnecessary expense of a second unnecessary car?