After this week, I can start breathing. Last week I finished up a week long class and this week has lots of things happening including big furniture moving which we hired the labor for, we can't be moving all these heavy things up and down stairs. Last week was a week long extensive training with just a few assignments to submit.
I also stopped in to the campus at another college where I will have one year contract starting in the fall. This does mean that once I've completed the classes mid-June, I'm free until mid August. Who knows what employment will look like after next year but we'll see how it goes.
Yesterday while driving in the car, I was listening to the radio and they mentioned that the average age of cars on the road is 12.5 years which is apparently the highest it's been in years. I thought this was very interesting. It makes me wonder about the switch from gas powered cars. We actually have three vehicles which feels a bit excessive but they are all older than the average age. One commuter car, one truck that belonged to my Dad (sentimental) and a minivan that we've turned into a little RV for travel. The minivan could die any moment because it's got 210k miles on it but if we can keep it going for the summers we use it, then we will buy something of greater value in retirement.
May 16th, 2023 at 11:38 pm 1684280298
My current car is a 2016. I generally drive my cars
until they no longer run. My last two cars both lasted
14-15 years.
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We both have 2017s at current but they both feel "brand new" to me and I would be happy to keep another 10 years. We kept our last cars for 13-14 years. (I expect that we will be happy with our current cars for longer than that. But it's literally the first time we didn't just buy the cheapest cars we could find. Went more with what we wanted, for this round). We do also have the 20yo car that my kids are driving. I expect we will keep this car longer because of the pandemic. Used car prices have come back down to earth, but we originally expected our kids would be able to work a lot more 2020-2022, to save up to buy their own cars. & used car prices are still on the high side of course.
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Wow