Well, I may have overreacted to the car situation. I got a second opinion and got the brakes fixed for $175. That’s still a lot of money, but it’s a lot cheaper than the $325 estimate I got at the first place. We have some money saved for a rainy day. We figured this qualifies.

Still, I am starting to prepare myself for the fact that sooner or later, this car will die. Whenever that happens, I’ll have to figure out how to handle it. But getting another car is not really financially feasible and I don’t expect it to become feasible anytime in the near future. I hope that this one will hold out for a long time, because I will probably have no choice but to be car free, at least for a while, once it does.

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