I cannot overestimate how much I dislike spending money on vehicles. I go out of my way to avoid buying gas and consider it a personal victory if someone else (i.e. my husband) has to drive my vehicle and buys gas for me. It doesn't matter that our money comes out of the same account. Buying gas feels like throwing money away. If it was financially viable, I would buy an electric vehicle except I don't like to pay electric bills either.
Really, I'm just cheap.
Right now, my van sounds like an airplane and I should probably have the tires changed and the oil changed and the muffler fixed. Except I'm busy and it seems too inconvenient to be out of a vehicle for a couple of days for a fix.
And I don't like spending money.
People (i.e. my brother) have told me that you have to get oil changes regularly because... I actually don't know because I cannot pay attention to the end of the sentence. Sure, preventative maintenance is likely an important part about having a well-tended vehicle that lasts for a long time.
Boring!
I belong to the school of thought that if you have to own a vehicle, you should spend as little as possible on it and drive that sucker until it literally falls apart.
It is a good and solid plan that I will not be able to use because I drive my kids around in Becky the Minivan and it should probably be safe-ish - and clean.
The safe will happen, the clean, probably not.
Trying to clean a vehicle when you have kids is an exercise in futility and disappointment and who likes to waste time with cleaning?
I would much rather waste time reading or sleeping or whining about things I don't like to do, like taking my van in to get fixed. But (she says begrudgingly) sometimes you have to spend the money, be a grown up and fix the stuff that's broken.
But it doesn't mean I have to like it.
