"shinypenny" wrote in message
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If you absolutely need two cars, make one an SUV and the other a
smaller car for those trips when you aren't carting around extra
people.


Okay, now you've hit on one of *my* peeves!

This has nothing to do with the rest of your post as we live in a
suburb with a 2 car garage and park nothing on the street --
or across non-existent sidewalks.

But we have 3, count 'em *3* cars (for 2 drivers) and 2 of them
are SUVs. The third is a minivan. This has been an ongoing
argument between DH and me. I don't see why we need more
than one big car. In my childhood family, my mom always had
the big car because she toted around the kids. My dad always
had a zippy little 2-door for commuting.

But even though I hate that minivan, we "need" it (so says DH)
for family vacations when we have a lot of crap to take along.
Apparently we can't fit it all in an SUV.

On the other hand, we "need" an SUV because we need the
4WD for our ski vacations.

We don't "need" the 3rd car, which is a 17YO pathfinder,
but hubby is very attached to it, and does like to use it for
trips to the hardware store to lug around mulch or whatever.

The minivan is almost 7 years old. I've told DH that I'll
keep it for 10 years, then I'm getting a small 4-door sedan
-- maybe a Prius. I need the 4 doors because I'm still
the one toting the kids around. He says that we should
be able to get way more than 10 years out of the van. I
said that's not the point -- I shouldn't have to drive some-
thing I hate for more than a decade. But then he pulls
out the ultimate guilt-inducer. Without the van, we won't
have room to take the dog with us.

Bizby