rockits
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Fortunately / Unfortunately I am a lot like you. OCD to the extreme. I wont show you a photo of the inside of our kitchen cupboards. Lets just say everything is in line.
I too have wrestled with the keep it / sell it, get a banger !!!!
What I would say is I was offered not a lot less than I paid form mine in July. I have done around 3k miles (1600 touring Scotland) I have managed to accept that it will cost me £2k ish to keep, however now its gone for an impending clutch more. Luckily I did keep a bit back instead of stretching to a GS.
What I will tell you is that when I waved mine off this morning I was truly gutted letting it out of my site and "control".
Regarding the decisions around your daughters accident, try not to beat yourself up. I know its hard but I also know that at stressful times involving your family decision making becomes blurred. I was feet away in 2 separate incidents when my daughter broke an arm and leg, and when my son broke his leg and I sometimes still sit and reflect.....Why didn't I this and that.....but, I bet we all do.
Keep the car, enjoy it a bit more but do what I do, I drive it for an occasion, bit like Martin, that has included going for an Ice cream.......20 miles away..
Dave
Don't do that to me showing me a pic. I will only be jealous. I don't bother so much trying to organise or keep things straight these days. We now live in a 300-400 year old wonky cottage and the kitchen/bathrooms need ripping out and starting again! If I'm objective the whole house needs knocking down really and re-building. I organise the cupboards and it is all over the shop the next day so little point. Maybe moving here has helped! You can't make something that is inherently wonky straight
It has been a nightmare the last 18 months as we moved house and I have a ton of stuff in the garage. We never have got the house yet to how it needs to be. Then I closed one of the business offices and had another ton of stuff appear in my garage. It is going to take another 6 months I reckon to get it all sorted. I'm not moving house and/or offices again anytime soon!!
I think we need to take the ability out to edit our previous posts! That causes me issues as I keep finding grammatical errors and spelling mistakes that I have to go back and edit
Your opinions are all very useful and appreciated though and think I just need to say what the heck and drive her as much as I want. Deal with tomorrow when tomorrow comes to an extent. I beat myself up as I feel that is a way I can learn from my experiences and mistakes to be better. Maybe I should be a little easier and not worry so much. This forum is turning into a psychology treatment centre for the weird and wonderful! Certainly is helping me though Just finding more similar weirdo's with similar issues to relate to. All said in a nice way!
I would be able to run/maintain most of my vehicles myself ability wise with specialist help needed when required. However the vehicle is better if older and then not so much of an issue come resale with a slightly less than perfect service history. Also if you don't need to think about resale that it makes little difference anyway. I know when I do a maintenance job I do it well and to a good standard. Would a main dealer or specialist do it any better. Probably and often not.
I am looking at the car storage business now and would like to migrate from the IT industry to something car related for Phase 2 of my life. I think the 4200 needs to stay