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Old 05-01-2025, 9:01pm   #21
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Nope. The math really only works in my favor if I do something like this below, which really works for this area. I can actually get to the grocery store using mostly a scenic path that goes along the river.
You are becoming matt guber more and more.

Do you have a place to drop it off or will you pay them to pick it up?
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Just me but i would keep it Doug...I liked the pictures you took after the cat...looks like a nice stang.
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Not really. Non road trip miles are like 7 miles a week.
you'd be ok without having your own wheels?
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Nope. The math really only works in my favor if I do something like this below, which really works for this area. I can actually get to the grocery store using mostly a scenic path that goes along the river.
Should work pretty well as long as you aren't ran over by a teen girl texting while driving the family suburban, you know the parents that buy their teen daughter a fucking suburban because they're worried about how bad of a driver she is... or struck by lightning.
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Nope. The math really only works in my favor if I do something like this below, which really works for this area. I can actually get to the grocery store using mostly a scenic path that goes along the river.
Do it - it will do wonders for your monthly nut. Not to mention your health.
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you'd be ok without having your own wheels?
I'd still have two.

It's kinda funny how connected we get to our cars even if we don't really use them.
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Do it - it will do wonder for your monthly nut. Not to mention your health.
Health?
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Do you have a place to drop it off or will you pay them to pick it up?
Not that far in the process.
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You have heard of exercise right? Are you aware of its benefits?
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You could always pick up a $3-5k older Honda Civic. The older Civics are simple cars that last forever.

And then you could watch the cats never jump up on that one, just to mess with you. LOL.
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Should work pretty well as long as you aren't ran over by a teen girl texting while driving the family suburban, you know the parents that buy their teen daughter a fucking suburban because they're worried about how bad of a driver she is... or struck by lightning.
If Suburbans start using the bike trails we've got bigger problems.

As you can see, the drive is mostly River view and a small neighborhood, then Aldi.
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You have heard of exercise right? Are you aware of its benefits?
Exercise from a self propelled vehicle?
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As you can see, the drive is mostly River view and a small neighborhood, then Aldi.
I can see you riding a bike with a cute wicker basket on the front to hold your Winking Owl.
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Exercise from a self propelled vehicle?
The bike in your picture has pedals - I assume they are functional and you can use them if you're not too lazy.
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The Mustang annoyed me again today, man they don't make these Fords like they used to, now I know why Lars dumped his.

So as the little hamster in my brain is trying to feel like it has to do something, I looked up the latest Carvana offer. This is only a few grand less than what I paid.

Really if we're not out beating on this thing on the weekends racing crotch rockets, the only place I go is a mile up the road to Aldi, for the most part. It's a waste of a nice car just sitting there so fucking cats can walk all over it or I can worry about hail lol

Sell or not sell? This increase is from the tariff nonsense so this number won't stay here for long.
Much of the same logic when I sold my split window, post-COVID local car shows had all but dried up, the congestion in my area and @holes in traffic made me paranoid every time I rolled out in the car, after one major wreck in it already.

After the crash repair it was nearly a 'museum quality' restoration and most of my car buddies were dead, out of the hobby or gimpy. Then out of the blue some buyer hit my number and that put me over the top....and the split window 'mania' was in full swing - its backed off some now.

Cash buyer no auction or advertising fees or low-balling. It was time...
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The bike in your picture has pedals - I assume they are functional and you can use them if you're not too lazy.
You do realize we are talking about Doug here, right?
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This might be a slippery slope, Doug...be careful.

The next red flag is if you disconnect your water heater to save money and begin window shopping the curbs on trash day to scavenge free items.


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You do realize we are talking about Doug here, right?
Yup, as you know, I've never had a full-time job, ever, in my life.






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This might be a slippery slope, Doug...be careful.

The next red flag is if you disconnect your water heater to save money and begin window shopping the curbs on trash day to scavenge free items.


When he starts putting an electric stove heating element into his bathtub it's all over.
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you'd be ok without having your own wheels?
7 miles a week he can lyft or uber and still be ahead by not paying for insurance, etc.
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