Our Chicago winter this year has been a lot less like a Midwest winter–the snow storms have been few and far between.  A few weeks ago we finally got hammered by a storm that dumped 10 inches over the city.  At the height of the snow storm I had to pick up my son from [...]

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Over the years, it has become increasingly more common for people to rent cars or to drive abroad when they are going on holiday. With the increase in people driving vehicles abroad, there is also the inevitable increase in road traffic accidents. If you are involved in a road traffic accident abroad that was not [...]

Not content to upset the recyclers in the community (See: Is Recycling Bullshit), I’m moving on to electric cars today.  Rob at Say Anything Blog had an interesting post the other day citing a report from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville that talks about how electric cars might be worse for the environment than [...]

It’s been a couple of months since I last updated this series.  You can go back and read the preceding 4 parts if you like. (part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4)  The basic summary is this.  One of our cars blew it’s timing belt and royally messed up the inside [...]

If you need to catch up (It’s been since early March since the last update) here are parts 1, 2, and 3.  And this, this is part 4.  And yes, there is likely to be at least a part 5. When we last left off, we had bought the suburban, and the other car had [...]

Your car will be is likely to be one of the biggest expenses in your budget, but if the thought of getting rid of it and catching public transport makes you cringe, don’t worry, because you don’t have to get rid of your car to save money. Instead, you just need to take some care [...]

Certified pre-owned cars (CPO for short) are certainly something that you may want to look into if you are out and about shopping for a new vehicle. Selling certified pre-owned cars has become quite popular at dealerships of late because of the demand that consumers have had for them. The good thing is that most [...]

I was hoping that when I wrote this third part of the recent car troubles series (part 1 and part 2), that it would be the last of them for a long while.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like the car karma is with us on that.  On the bright side, it doesn’t appear that anything [...]

Many of you, having read the previous posts on car trouble (part 1 and part 2!) will likely be asking why we think we need to have two cars.  And why we don’t do something a little more healthy, like bike commuting. And, to be honest, I’ve considered it.  We have bikes, and our commute [...]