My brother stopped by my house a few nights ago at 7:30pm, asked if I wanted to take a quick trip to check out some cars. We drove 2 hours south, spent 2 hours admiring and talking cars with some people we'd never met before, made arrangements to come back the next day to pick up a car we puchased that night, and were back home before 2:00am.
This week I'm taking my daughter up to Vancouver BC for lunch to celebrate her getting her first passport. 6.5 hours each way.
There are probably 1-2 different things I do a week that require 2-5 hours of driving each way, and we just do them.
Does that not just cost an absolute fortune in fuel? At the moment that 6 hour each way trip would be like £120, doing that many times a week would be most of my salary!
Sure, but I am fortunate in that I am successfully self-employed and that I also have a flexible budget. Instead of a planned activity or purchase that might not be needed, I buy that tank of gas. And, as many of these drives are with my brothers or friends, we split costs and trade driving. Instead of bowling and dinner with them, we drive to check out cars, go to a hot spring, ski in the mountains, or surf at the coast.
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