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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
Nice metaphor.
but the only problem with it is that the car may run fine, although if you lift the floor mats you can see the asphalt through the rust holes, when it rains heavily the sunroof leaks, and it is in general just so unattractive and unfun that the wife won't even ride around in it, the kids are starting to resent you for driving it because you look like an idiot in it, and its splitting the family apart because you can't go for fun drives in it anymore because it is just too fragile and needs to be maintained.
Basically the work on the house is already tabbed and budgetted for, and yeah would a new car hurt your pocketbook a little? sure but the kids don't want to do anything with you anymore and realistically the new car would be a great way to rekindle that sense of family.
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I love the analogy.....so teach our kids as soon as something is a little old we should just buy a new one, no matter the cost when in reality the magic is supposed to be the actual partaking in the activity together not the vehicle at all.
Words to live by right there.