End of an Era... Sold my first new car
Yesterday I sold the first new car I ever purchased, a silver 2002 Honda Accord to CarMax. It’s always a little sad to lose something like that, but it isn’t bothering me. I hadn’t even driven it once over the past month. I was just sitting in my parent’s driveway doing its best impression of a bird’s outhouse. It was so unused, that I even had to jumpstart the car twice yesterday! Once at the house to get it going, and then again after I got gas (Maybe I shouldn’t have left such little gas in the tank). I even told the appraiser to keep the car running for fear of it not starting back up!
It had been at my parent’s house because nikki and I live downtown (Columbus, Ohio), and we only have one parking spot, which we use for our other car, a 2003 Honda Civic. It’s not bad only having one parking spot, because we only need one car. And that’s why I could sell the Accord. Now that I’m working from home and have a scooter, we just don’t need a second car.
Downsizing was one of the advantages that we saw when deciding on living downtown. For most of my errands, taking the scooter, bicycle, or even walking suits my needs. It’s nice to not have to deal with the maintenance, gasoline, car insurance, registration, etc. It’s really amazing how much goes into owning a car. Oh yeah… it was also nice to get some money for it!