in the past 18 years or so since i had my license and first car, i would probably think i've spunked about £100k on cars, around £40k on the estate, around £18k on the 3 door and probably around £15k on the saph plus all the other stuff that you don't tend to think about when you've bought around 25 cars to drive about in and only actually sold one

would i have been better off financially putting that money into property and retiring when i was 20? yes, undoubtedly so, property millionare by now with double the income coming in for sitting on my arse all day rather than working for a living and paying ridiculous amounts of money on a mortgage

but i would never have had so much fun if i'd become an architect or an electrician

my life has been a veritable rollercoaster and i regret doing lots of things and i don't regret doing others, and for sure, if i could go back in time 18 years i'd have not got into the car when i did or let someone else drive it, but you can't change the past so there is no point bothering about it

i do justify spending money on the car, but i also am in a position to be able to afford to spend money on other things if and when i need them so it's not as hard for me, and coupious amounts of cash money income aside, i feel the pinch of fixing/running/using the car financially and if worse came to worse i'd catch a bus or cycle, but i wouldn't sit down and say so myself "you twat, you should have saved your money and bought a decent car in the first place" because then i'd be round the dealers ever 10 minutes thinking "i wonder how much that rattle is going to cost to fix" or turn out to be like my uncle who once said "i've got the option to either have abs or air con, so i chose the air con, but i'd rather than my windows open as the ac uses too much fuel"

and i'd hate to be that silly a person