Donated our second car

[pigpen]

I take the bus to work most days and generally only use my 1998 Honda Civic on the weekends. I did the math and realized that I could sell or even give the car away, using Uber on the rare occasions that I needed to get somewhere while my wife was using our other car, and still come out ahead financially. So we donated it to Habitat for Humanity, and someone drove it away about 5 minutes ago. We're now a one-car family. Now I get to call our insurance to cancel that car and get a nice refund in a few weeks.

[nouveauRiche]

Awesome.  Good work!

[HipGnosis]

I take the bus to work most days and generally only use my 1998 Honda Civic on the weekends. I did the math and realized that I could sell or even give the car away, using Uber on the rare occasions that I needed to get somewhere while my wife was using our other car, and still come out ahead financially. So we donated it to Habitat for Humanity, and someone drove it away about 5 minutes ago. We're now a one-car family. Now I get to call our insurance to cancel that car and get a nice refund in a few weeks.

How did you choose Habitat for Humanity to donate it to?

[pigpen]

Mostly because it looked like a fairly high percentage of the proceeds from selling donated cars actually goes to the organization.

[Vaulter]

Great job! That's on my task list as well.

ETA: Finally did it in August 2017.

[pigpen]

In my case, the car ran fine, but I needed to have around $800 or so of work done on it if i was going to be able to continue driving it safely. I added that amount to the average I spent for routine maintenance over the last few years, added insurance, and then ran the numbers. I figured that (roughly), I could still spend something like $30/week on Uber rides for the next year and still come out ahead. And I'll probably never even come anywhere close to that, so it ends up being a pretty good deal. I'm lucky because my employer has a deal with our city to help alleviate traffic downtown, the result of which is that I get a free bus pass to use for trips to and from work. Good stuff.

[mathstache]

Nice. I recently just donated my half dead saturn 1999 station wagon to the highschool I work at. It had coolant and battery problems, but it'll make a great project for the auto-shop kids.

Not as badass as you - because I got a new (used) car to replace it with. Still it feels good to know it'll be used for educational purposes.

[TheBeardandTheBohemian]

Gave our car away to my sister and started traveling in our 1998 Ford E350. The very next day our starter Went outand had to ask that same sister for a ride.  We didn't get the tax advantage of donating to a charity but Helping a family member in need gave us great satisfaction