So here's the thing...my car doesn't need a fucking house. My car can live outside just fine. I don't park my car outside because my garage is "filled with junk," but because it's filled with gym equipment, tools, and gardening supplies.
this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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My garage houses my hobby.
Which is my car.
I can appreciate that your car is your hobby. My car is a neglected stepchild.
Better as a car than a hobby, I suppose.
Same. The daily lives outside. The old car lives inside.
I just got my new downpipe so she’ll be leaving the garage this weekend!
May your weather be sunny and the new exhaust note glorious!
Car in garage = no brushing off snow
I rest my case
Also, no hail damage.
While EVs are perfectly happy keeping their batteries conditioned when plugged in outside, having them in a garage may reduce the energy cost somewhat in particularly hot/cold weather.
Where you primarily store your car affects your car insurance rates. It's why they ask you when getting a quote.
I don't believe for a second that enough people are ignorant of weather-proof charger setups to make this an issue. Maybe if most people weren't struggling to survive on terribly-low incomes, or renting from cheapskate land-lords, but in this reality? Not buying it.
hoarding is a trauma behavior
Capitalism is a trauma machine.
When you grow up in poverty, you keep something because it will most likely be the only one of those things you will ever get. You may not need it now, but if you do later, youre fucked. So you keep it. Best case? You share "the things" with people you can trust and build a mutual aid network of friends that help each other, but by god you make sure you can get to "the things."
It's no wonder people being exposed to constant trauma do protective things. You could even say it's a reasonable response.
Hoarding is, too;)
I don't know what is up with me lately, but I am missing more of these than usual. Thanks.
No worries lol same here every so often.
Hoarding can be a trauma behavior. Their can be many more reasons for becoming a hoarder. There is also more than one way of hoarding. It is more a spectrum than a set standard behavior.
I believe it. But like...if the story was "Americans' cluttered bedside tables are hurting smartphone adoption, study says," we would rightly consider that story downright insane.
And not, like, the prices of said (non-Chinese) EVs or that many (most?) of us are barely getting by?
I believe it. I live in an area with lots of 3 car garages and it is shocking how many people have to park in their driveway. There's one house that charges in the driveway with the cord running under the garage door. Who needs a 3 car garage full of stuff?!?
I do, but uh ... it's in my username. If I weren't running multiple hobbies and a business out my barely-one-car garage, maybe my car could have a house. The one time I parked in my current garage, without stuff on either side, there still wasn't room to open the doors all the way.
Anyways, weather-proof chargers exist. Blows my mind that enough people supposedly don't know this to have any real impact. Well, it would, if I believed it.
I have a two car garage. One side is for the boat. The other side is for the tools and gardening setup and supplies for my business.
The cars can stay outside.
I don't have a car hole. Growing up we did, and it absolutely was filled with shit.
