We share a single car between family members. And we do not live in the same household or even the same cities / towns.
My parents have “the new minivan” and “the old minivan,” I guess that’s what happens when you adopt four kids and two dogs.
There are wealthy families usually from over seas. 3 brothers will buy a mansion together they will all live there with their wives, they all help each other and they buy 2 regular cars and a luxury car that they all share. They look at us Americans like we are crazy and I gotta say they kinda have a point.
Are the (unnumbered) wives allowed to drive in this 3 brothers owned mansion usually?
I have witnessed this with indian american families and south american families here in the US. They live together and the thought of not living with their siblings and parents is foreign to them. One wife deal and in the US, yes they can drive the cars.
I drive my partners car and my partner drives my partners car because my car is a PoS 2000 Ford Sudan with a frame bent to shit LOL
what the hell is a Ford Sudan
Ford Iraq
Chevy Afghanistan
Toyota Cymru
South Sudan got a corporate sponsor.
you make one tired typo and youre the laughing stock of the lemmyverse 😔
Have you seen the new Dodge Darfur?
My wife and I do this. We both have broncos. What you would call “mine” is a 2 door mostly used for off-roading and I leave the top off a lot. Hers is the 4 door luxury version with all the fancy things.
We take whichever depending on the situation. We will take mine if it’s nice and we want the top off or we have to park in a shitty parking lot, being 2 door it’s much easier to navigate. We take hers for long trips since she has the radar cruise control and lane assist and much better gas mileage.
You guys usually have two cars?
I know right? imagine having even one car…
Unless you have older kids, then more cars. It’s cars all the way down.
How else are you supposed to get to work? The bus takes 2 and a half hours and you will get there late and have to leave early. God I wish the bus was viable.
Where I live that’s not even the problem any more, and not because it was fixed either. You have to leave early regardless to have time to get stuck in traffic, find the only parking spot is far away, then walk 10 min in the rain, then dry off for work.
I love my wife, she can’t drive for shit though, nor does she respect vehicle maintenence, much less asthetic care.
Nope.
Also, she’s literally told me she’d be afraid to drive my car precisely because I keep it so nice and she doesn’t want to be responsible for fucking it up.
I fell into this trap. We have a nice, fancy, efficient EV that’s my daily driver, and a larger, less efficient gas vehicle that doubles as the family car/road trip machine that she dailies. We work roughly the same distance from our offices, but on days when she has to go across town on an errand, she takes the EV. It makes sense to save gas and whatnot.
Rims are fucked. I think she’s rubbed them on every available curb in a 25 mile radius. She doesn’t care. Fuck me for wanting a nice car I guess.
Likewise mine. I bought an electric car to replace her Honda to save the poor Jazz from her gear changing technique
We have two cars, but the electric gets used most by a long way as electrons are much less costly than diesel
It’s not that we grab whichever car, just we’re not in America and don’t need to travel by car all the time and whoever chooses a car second gets the Subaru
This is one thing I love about having old but reliable cars. Our bigger family car that my wife drives is banged up in so many ways but I can just ignore it. As long as the mirrors work I don’t have to worry about how many scratches are on the housing, and as long as the tires hold air it’s easier to ignore the wheels that look like somebody was practicing their angle grinder technique.
And then with my little commuter car, even though I like to park far away and I don’t drive into shit, I still don’t have to worry about other people or keeping it looking clean, etc.
In general I find it liberating and good for the ol’ mental health to not obsess over superficial qualities of material possessions. So if I can make it easier to do that, it’s a win.
We have two cars and they are both kinda mine. He bike commutes and way prefers it. I work two hours away though and have always driven more. So generally I take the van if I’m going to be at work for a few days, I’ve got it camperized, or the bmw if it’s a there and back, or other trips like that. Since I’m gone for a few days at a time he still needs a car for some errands, otherwise we’d just have the van. I do all the organizing for service work and cleaning, and general car stuff as well.
The kids are our deciding factor.
If one of us going somewhere with the little 'uns, then the “family car” with the nicer booster seats gets taken by whoever it is that has them. Whoever is getting the peace and quiet, drives the little runabout.
I usually take the little car, and it surprises me sometimes when I jump into the family car and I’ve got another 50bhp under my right foot.
That’s what we do too.
Propertarians have small minds.
My wife and I have only vaguely assigned vehicles. There’s whatever she wants to drive and what I normally drive to work.
I can’t even entertain this premise. There’s no way neither of them has a preference…
Maybe they just have 2 of the same cars lol
Personally, I’d still have a favorite…
My wife and I each have our own cars, but they’re both in her name so she can drive whatever the fuck she wants.
So if they were both in your name she couldn’t?
I know that is not probably not what you are saying, but that is the implication of this argumentation
Not hard to put both vehicles in both names. I don’t think they are “arguing” anything, just stating a legal fact about marital property.
is that a thing?
NOT sharing vehicles? In too much of the world? Absolutely.
I keep half my life in my car, I can’t imagine switching it to another car everyday…unless I just keep an equal amount of stuff in the other car…
A shared car accumulates less crap.
Not with lots of miles per week and young kids. So many food wrappers and other random kid droppings… I just deep cleaned it 6 months ago and its basically back where it was 7 months ago
I guess it helps to have one person among the adults who can’t stand mess
