I'm one of those people who dithered when I shouldn't have. I should have sold my car last year or before that but didn't.
I have a 7 seater diesel car which is now practically worthless in terms of a sale and nowadays I hardly ever use it. I'm retired, I live in a flat city, I have a bus pass, I can walk, the train station is 500yds away, I have a bike - I no longer need a car but I just can't bring myself, at the moment to just 'give it away!'
I'm hoping for some creative ideas as to how to continue to make good use of it? For example, I've offered it free of charge to my niece and her family (they own a medium saloon) if they want to go a motoring holiday. I've said that all I want is for me to start off with them, they drop me off somewhere so I can hike and then agree to pick me up on their way back. She emailed me this morning saying that they have decided, due to the uncertainty of Brexit they are keeping their spending to an absolute minimum for the rest of this year. That's fair enough, I know lots of folk doing this, they worry they will have lots to lose if it all goes pear shaped.
Another suggestion is that I advertise in my local Tesco's and offer my car to take local off-road runners out to the areas where I run, at no cost to them because I'm already going there myself anyway, but to have a charity container onboard where they can, if they want to, drop in a 50p or £1 a journey. I'm a person who has had his Prostate removed by the Da Vinci Robot, that for me would be the charity that I'd give the money to.
One of my neighbours and his mate each have a BMW motorbike and they use them once a year. They tow their two bikes to the south of France, stay in a hotel, take rides out and eat drink and be merry. I'm thinking of suggesting that if they drop me off somewhere and pick me up later they can use my car instead of their own. As the mate said, nothing worse than having a towing bracket on the back of his Mercedes, people might think he owns a towing caravan! He's just a male Mrs Bucket!
I'm just trying to come up with a workable idea? I have no wish to make any money out of it, I just want my car to be used in a constructive way. Any ideas, please?