No Car - the first test

[mrsbrown]

This week we relied on friends to transport us to the regular Monday thing.

Then we managed to get it together to join the car share company and I booked a 6 hour stint to visit my sister on Sunday and the 4.5 hours we'll need for our monday night thing.  total cost - $130.  It's $75 per day to have the car fo 24 hours, and $72 to have it for 6 hours.  So I looked at the cost to have a car for two whole days and compared it to hiring.  Now I've hired a car for two days, total cost $80 plus petrol.

And tonight I checked my car ownership figures again.  If we hire a car for two days every week, and use flexicar for miscellaneous trips less than 4 hours, we'll still come out ahead of owning a car.  The downside is that the car hire place is a bike ride instead of a walk away, and there will be some time taken to do the paperwork, but I think my time is worth the $30 difference.  A hire car will also give us the freedom to take as long as we like for both the visit to my sister and Monday night, and it means that mr-bassman can do some car based stuff during the day on Monday and Tuesday as well.

and I don't think we'll need to hire a car every weekend.