My Husband Sold My Car

Let me explain.

I’ve been driving my trusty, 110% reliable 1998 Honda Civic since September … of 1998. I was 16 when my Dad bought me my new whip and I have never looked back. I’m going on 30 this year, and 14 years later my trusty civie still gets me from point A to point B successfully.

That was…until today.

A couple months ago I got my oil changed. The service technician at the oil change site mentioned that since I’ve taken such good care of my car – inside and out – that I could probably sell it on Craigslist for $3,500 or so. Did I mention that I have over 227,000 (yes, THOUSAND) miles on it?! Well, I do, and it still gets me from A to B and it is still trusty and reliable.

Knowing that $3,500 for a 14 year old car with 227,134 miles on it was a great deal, Brian and I decided to post the ol’ civie…just to see what happened.

We posted it higher than we thought we could get. When we didn’t receive any responses, we reduced our pricing to $2,900, and that’s when we had a lot of interest. Not really thinking that anything would officially pan out, I was 100% fine with the posting of my car and the interest in it. But then it panned out, and when one couple who had particular interest came and test drove it and decided that they wanted it, I was a whole mix of emotions:

-I was surprised – is it really that easy?
-I was sad – this is the end of a 14 year era of my first and only car.
-I was anxious – we haven’t even test driven other cars, we don’t even have another car picked out to buy, what are we going to do without my car?
-I was excited – I get to get a new car!

But the one emotion that stuck out more than the others was excitement.  And it's sticking out!

I am excited about getting another car and I am excited for the next 14+ years in it. (If it lasts that long, at least!) Brian and I can certainly make do with one car until we get things figured out. (He works from home, for heaven’s sake!) And technically, we still have my car until the couple that is purchasing it receives their tax return back. They gave us a deposit and once they give us the go ahead, the transfer process will begin.

I can only blame thank Brian for the ease of this transaction. He, with his master selling skills (I am merely a novice), set the whole Craigslist post up, fielded all the emails and calls that came in, and initiated the one and only test drive. In a roundabout way – my husband did sell my car, but he did it for the well being of both of us; we are both excited for what our four wheeled future holds!