One car family

[cincystache]

We sold our second car recently and are really enjoying the one car lifestyle so far (about 1 month in). We have a Leaf so longer roadtrips will involve renting a car 3-4 times per year which is much easier and likely cheaper than maintaining a 12 year old gas car that rarely got driven otherwise. I take the bike to work 90% of the time already and my wife drives the car to shuttle kids to a from school. We've been wanting to go to one car for awhile but finally went for it and hope to keep it that way as long as possible

[Gin1984]

Congrats!!! We were a one car family for five years and I actually miss it.

[mspym]

Congratulations! It’s been over 8 years for us - before that we were a 0.5 car family (divorced parents with joint custody and the car went with the kids. Made handover very simple)

[Fru-Gal]

Been a one car family for 17-20 Years. If you raise your children this way you will not regret it.

[Chris Pascale]

Just sold mine to Carvana - would recommend.

However, I can't call us a 1-car family. My 2 in college have vehicles.

[Cranky]

I don't drive, so we've always been a one car family! LOL

However, currently we're living with extended family, so we have 5 adults and 2 cars, which doesn't seem too bad as we could actually be 3 separate households.

[kanga1622]

We've been a one car family for about 20 years. Even with 2 kids and 2 full-time workers, we've built our life around this. DH has an electric scooter now which is handy for days he drops off the car to get the oil change or needs to be in a meeting across town while I need to be feeding/medicating the dog. A bike would work as well but he likes zipping around on the scooter. :)

[jpdx]

Welcome to the 1-car club!

As I say this, I'm realizing it's pretty sad that owning "only" one car per family is out of the ordinary.

[roomtempmayo]

We're going into our fifth year as mostly a one car family (there was a little overlap where we ended up with two at the start of the pandemic), and with two adults in a large city it seems like the easiest approach. 

Been a one car family for 17-20 Years. If you raise your children this way you will not regret it.

We're heading into parenthood now with one car, and I'm curious to see how it goes.  I think the biggest challenge will be maintaining a feeling of equity with kid responsibilities once we're both back at work full time.  In a northern climate with very real winter, it seems inevitable that more of the pickup and dropoff tasks will fall to the parent with the car.  My biggest concern is how that affects our relationship dynamics.  But I know lots of people do it successfully, and we're going to give it our best.

[Fru-Gal]

One of the greatest joys of my childhood and my children’s childhood was getting to and from school in inclement weather via bus/walking/bike.

As a slight aside there’s a generational difference because in the 1970s and 80s it didn’t even occur to my parents to drive us anywhere 😂 . But when I had my kids I made sure that their daycares were in walking distance. Once they started going to school across town they insisted on getting there most of the time on their own 2 feet. I did do a lot of school runs as well when I had a car (we had no car for some time and that made me feel poor because 15 years ago it wasn’t commonly perceived as being any kind of an environmental gesture).

[roomtempmayo]

One of the greatest joys of my childhood and my children’s childhood was getting to and from school in inclement weather via bus/walking/bike.

As a slight aside there’s a generational difference because in the 1970s and 80s it didn’t even occur to my parents to drive us anywhere 😂 .

Same here, although I grew up in a small town.  From the first day of Kindergarten, we kids were all on our own to get to school.  It seems bonkers to me that it's totally normal for parents to drive their kids a handful of blocks to school.

[HawkeyeNFO]

From the first day of Kindergarten, we kids were all on our own to get to school.  It seems bonkers to me that it's totally normal for parents to drive their kids a handful of blocks to school.

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