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ONE CAR FAMILY

The one car experiment is going really well.

Our goal is to live with one car. Definitely not the norm in Southern California.

But we have put in our time as a three car family. Then we sold Woody, the 1984 Chrysler Le Baron because we have no place to store him at the condo.

It wasn't as hard as we thought it would be.

Then the idea was that we would, as soon as we could, get a new vehicle and that would be the one car for us. We would sell the Jeep.

The timing for this advanced with the totaling of the Sebring Convertible for which we are getting a pretty good recompense.

We bought the Volvo XC70 station wagon and, since we have had it, almost two weeks, have been "pretending" that we only have one car.

So far, so good. Just a bit more communication of plans and making plans.

The Jeep will go on the block in a couple of weeks when my "used car" man comes back from vacation. He is the Craigslist expert and all. We will give him some money to do the work in selling it.

It is in good shape and does not have a lot of miles for a 13 year old Cherokee. 79,000. A guy at the gym who is into this stuff says it is worth 4-5000 sight unseen. He would even buy it or trade it himself. A backup.

So we are headed for one car.

When I go away, as I will August 16 for three days to San Diego, John has suggested that he rent a cheap car to get around and that I take the Volvo.

Since I was planning to take the rental, I demurred for a moment and then accepted his kind offer.

This is what we did in Boston for years. We never had more than one car until we moved here in 1997. It was the Cherokee that brought us west.

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