Well.. I make it sound dramatic, when it's not really anything of great importance. But we just sold our old car.
It'd been sitting on our front lawn procrastinating for well over a month, battery dead, grass growing wild around it.
We had initially thought we might possibly keep it and use it for the rougher journeys, but we realised, and rightly so, that we are not a 2 car family, and for the little needs we have (stocking up on fruit at the markets each week), we really couldn't justify have an extra set of wheels sitting around.
For a while also, we thought we may have to pay someone to come and remove the thing. Here in Queensland, cars are more expensive than other states, but surprisingly getting rid of old cars, is not a simple issue. In other places the wreckers will pay you for them, but not here.. here you have to pay them to take them off your hand.
Fortunately for our little car, it managed to find a new home. We sold it for $50 to some couple who live on 300 acres, that'll use it for purely driving around on their property. $50 was basically given away, especially as it likely had more than that in petrol in the tank.. But it at least us saved us paying $80 for a wreckers to come and scrap it, and at least, too, it will see out the rest of it's life on a farm until it finally dies of whatever it's destiny prescribes..
So yesterday they came and picked it up.. drove it off on it's own steam.. and left the lawn looking bare and forlorn.
I think for Květa especially, the car holds a lot of memories. She had it before I arrived on the scene, and it had really been a Godsend for her, suddenly making shopping and getting around so much easier.
So it's gone now.. End of an Era..
It'd been sitting on our front lawn procrastinating for well over a month, battery dead, grass growing wild around it.
We had initially thought we might possibly keep it and use it for the rougher journeys, but we realised, and rightly so, that we are not a 2 car family, and for the little needs we have (stocking up on fruit at the markets each week), we really couldn't justify have an extra set of wheels sitting around.
For a while also, we thought we may have to pay someone to come and remove the thing. Here in Queensland, cars are more expensive than other states, but surprisingly getting rid of old cars, is not a simple issue. In other places the wreckers will pay you for them, but not here.. here you have to pay them to take them off your hand.
Fortunately for our little car, it managed to find a new home. We sold it for $50 to some couple who live on 300 acres, that'll use it for purely driving around on their property. $50 was basically given away, especially as it likely had more than that in petrol in the tank.. But it at least us saved us paying $80 for a wreckers to come and scrap it, and at least, too, it will see out the rest of it's life on a farm until it finally dies of whatever it's destiny prescribes..
So yesterday they came and picked it up.. drove it off on it's own steam.. and left the lawn looking bare and forlorn.
I think for Květa especially, the car holds a lot of memories. She had it before I arrived on the scene, and it had really been a Godsend for her, suddenly making shopping and getting around so much easier.
So it's gone now.. End of an Era..
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