The following post is from Christina of Northern Cheapskate:
photo credit: Eugene Peretz
A car won’t run without oil. A body will get sick without a healthy diet and exercise. A roof will leak if old shingles aren’t replaced.
It doesn’t matter what you own – you’ve got to take care of it if you want it to last.
Unfortunately, this was a lesson we had to learn the hard way. I remember gently telling my husband that I thought the brakes on our SUV didn’t feel quite right. He put off a trip to the service station because the brakes seemed okay to him and we had a lot of other bills at the time. Eventually, the brakes starting making a lot of noise. The end result – a repair bill of nearly $600 – much more than if we had brought it in for maintenance weeks earlier.
