Saturday, June 06, 2009
Helping Others Help Yourself
Remember a couple years ago all that trouble I was having with my VW? Really the only problem was a bad mechanic because the problem could have been fixed the first time around and far less expensively if I had found an honest mechanic. In the end, after shelling out thousands of dollars, I gave up and sold the car to one of those places that will take any car as long as it hasn’t been in a wreck and give you money for it.
I wish I had known about vehicle donations before I did that. See, I loved that car and I was very upset when I had to sell that car for a pittance just to have it end up in a junk yard somewhere. It’s not that the coolant problem couldn’t be fixed, it’s that I couldn’t find any honest person to fix it.
If I had known earlier about a car donation place, I would have done that, instead. They even take cars that don’t run so this problem could have been fixed easily and the charity could have used my car for a good purpose instead of it getting turned into some scrap metal.
If you have an old car that you don’t use anymore, you might consider doing just that. You’re not using it so why not give it to a charity that will use it to help people out? A lot of people in this country do not have cars or any way to get around. A lot of charities need vehicles to transport people, animals, large quantities of supplies or large objects to various parts of the city, state or country. When people think of charities they usually whip out their checkbook and write a check for $25 or $100 or so without realizing that they could really help an organization out by donating their car to that charity. For those of you who do use the tax write off, the charity uses standards such as Kelly Blue Book to rate the value of the car you are donating to them. Chances are, you’ll make out better with the tax write off than you will the measly little check you get from those places that will buy your car. Most importantly, you’ll be doing some good because you are really helping people out.
If this sounds good to you and you have a car right now that you can donate, then why don‘t you donate car here.
