Vehicle Maintenance and Money Management
I love analogies especially when there sailing, golfing or travel analogies. Why? Maybe it's from past echoes from my days as a teacher but probably more likely because financial planing and finance jargon is so very boring and often complicated. Today's analogy and life lesson is about vehicles and their ongoing care and maintenance. The last service for my car was due at 36,000 km. By 37,980 km as of a couple days ago I still hadn't taken my car in for a service. That was until the air conditioning stopped. Now you might be thinking this is not an issue, but I live in Cairns and hot is an understatement. During our summer up here; which it currently is, our lives are lived in air conditioned comfort. We travel between our air conditioned home, in our air conditioned car, to our air conditioned office, gym, shopping restaurant.... everything is done with air-con. Trust me living without air conditioning is not an option; that is unless you like the the feeling o...