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In reply to the discussion: Why is there a crusade against Apple products but not foreign cars? [View all]hunter
(38,301 posts)Someday maybe I won't have to have a car. As it is, I drive a mid 'eighties car with a salvage title.
I have an old Mac SE/30 that I got for free, but only only because I used to work with them and I wanted the emulator on my Linux desktop to be as legal as possible. (See! I own the ROMS and original software!)
Many years ago I stopped buying software and computers. The appeal of Apple products or new cars eludes me, but if people want them and earned the money to buy them, I appreciate that. One of my kids has an iPhone, another some fancy Android thing. Not the sort of phones I ever bought for them, but it's money they make as adults and I'm glad they've got simple things that make them happy.
I bought a new car when I was young, and it made me happy, but I'd never do it again. Making the payments was, at times, pretty damned brutal, especially when our oldest kid was born and we discovered what our medical insurance wouldn't pay. 80% coverage seems like a lot until you see the hospital bill for unexpected complicated things.
But I managed pay the car off and drove it more than twenty years longer until it just plain wore out. Our kids taught friends how to drive cars with manual transmissions using it, which may have hastened its demise.