A Reader's Story - 1 Year After A Car Downgrade

It's simple Maths 

Long-time readers of the blog (Stealthites?) may recall this blog post from around a year ago dealing with a Reader’s car dilemma. The long and short of the persons query was whether they should downgrade their expensive car or not?

The answer seemed obvious – ditch the expensive car and get a cheaper one.

How To Buy Your Bank A Car

Zero shirts sold. 

Wait, what?

Why would you want to buy your bank a car, that's just stupid?

You right, it is stupid. Yet millions of South Africans do it! And in fact a lot of people will buy their banks 3 or even 4 cars over their lifetime.

It seems to indicate that despite all the moaning and groaning, South Africans actually love their banks. A lot!

Reader Question - Trade In My Car For A Cheaper One?

This may or may not be the car in question.

Someone got in touch with me with a car related dilemma. I was glad he didn't say that his cambelt timing had resulted in increased wear on his cylinder heads (is that even a thing?) - because I am definitely not the right person to ask about that.

His was more a question of whether it made financial sense to trade in his newly purchased car for a cheaper one.

Now that type of question I can give my 2c on...

Car Free Days

Monday morning rush hour at
Stealthville. 

Sometimes I get home from work, and I find our car parked in front of our garage. This gives me great joy - not because I am home while my wife is still slaving away, or because our car has not been stolen - but because it means I can tick off another day which has been Car Free for us (and usually care free too!).