The Feng Shui of junk car removal

Your junker is worth a bundle

Services that remover your junk car for a fee are laughing all the way to the bank. Instead of giving you money for your old vehicle you're paying them to take it off your hand. They not only get your money, they also get to sell your car for parts. Doubling down on their money when you could easily lay your hands om some of that money yourself. Just give family car buyers a call and they will pay you money for your junk car. They will even pick it up off your lot. Now that's surely a service we can get used to, isn't it? Plus they'll give you a fair deal on that old junker.

Getting rid of clutter

There's an old Chinese proverb that sais: "The car that clutters up your driveway could be blocking your new mercedes."

Allright, I admit it, that saying isn't really that old, but the old Chinese art of Feng Shui does say something like this. It sais that all the stuff in your life that is not currently of use to you clutters up your life and it disrupts the flow of things. If you throw a brick in the water, the water will flow around it. However enough bricks in the water can change the course of the water.

Chi, or energy, is like water. For your life to work you need to have the chi, the energy, moving freely through your life, through your home and garden, through your driveway and everything in it. Dead plants, flowers that are wilting and rusty car carcasses are serious disruptions of chi and having those around means you're blocking chi and interrupting the flow of energy through your life.

According to the Chinese this can block the flow of money, health, relationships: pretty much everything that is important to you in your life can be disrupted by having too much clutter. There's whole theories about what chi is being disrupted based on the placement of large amounts of clutter in your house. I've had one experience of this that was quite shocking.

Chi disruption in relationship corner

In the layout of my house the bedroom is on the right when seen from the entry. This is generally the place where Feng Shui starts to watch, the entryway. The upper right hand, where my bedroom sits, is the relationship quadrant of the ancient Feng Shui interpretations. In my case, my bedroom was a mess. I didn't have enough closet space for all my things and in the upper right hand (from the entrance again) side I had a large amount of clutter: magazines and books, some incense, an old key, a bunch of stuff that I could just throw right out. Again, according to the Feng Shui book I read back then, this was the relationship spot of my bedroom.

And honey, did my relationships at the time match that corner. I was breaking up and falling apart over a woman that I adored who, I thought, was just like me in so many ways that it was scary. So I indulged in the Feng Shui book and thinking nothing might come of it except maybe a cleaner bedroom, I started to clear out the clutter. Lo and behold: shortly thereafter I met a wonderful person and we're together to this day.

Coincidence? Maybe so, who knows? But I've made sure to keep the upper right hand side of my bedroom tidy ever since. Certainly something to think about when you're considering cleaning up your place. You may actually make room for something good to enter your life.

Selling the car yourself?

You could of course try to pawn it off to someone yourself. Put an add in the paper or on the world wide web trying to sell your car for the best price ever. And let's be honest: sometimes this get's you a few extra bucks, over and above what thewww.familycarbuyers.com folks would pay you. However, don't be mistaken about the kind of hassle involved in selling a used car. It's never the first person that come to look that buys your car, so you have to show the car to a few people, they're going to ask all kinds of silly questions and you're either going to have to lie about the broken airconditioning or they are going to try to get the car for less than you want for it.

So if you enjoy haggling over the price, assuring prospective buyers that you're selling a gem rather than a lemon and are if you willing to have their disappointment on your conscience afterwards for a few dollars more, sure, sell your car yourself. If none of that applies to you, perhaps family car buyers is the way to go.

How to let your old clunker go (and why)

Selling or giving away

These are difficult times and a bit of extra cash can go a long way. The financial crisis has been around long enough to clear out most of our savings and put our family finances past it's stretching point. To make ends meet we have to find ways of cashing in on stuff we've gathered over the years and that are perhaps less than useful in todays economy and that can be converted to cash, like that old clunker sitting in your driveway gathering rust. There's a lot of things that still hold value to others sitting around your home. Selling them to family car buyers can be a great way of simplifying your life and getting your clutter back in control.

One man's trash is another man's treasure

In Europe today the trend is to arrange things without money. Trading and giving away things is a good way of bypassing the flailing money system and it helps to recycle and reuse things. One of the more succesful sites in the Netherlands is “free stuff” where people can list things they are done with, like furniture that is no longer in use and people can come and pick this up for free. Doing it for free has the advantage that a things find their ways to peoples home. In spite of the crisis in money, people still own a lot of things and rather than paying for storage or for having it removed it's an easy and fun way to get to know people and lessening the pressure of garbage on our environment.

Recycling can be profitable as well. That old wreck that is cluttering up your driveway or garage can be sold a a profit. This way you can convert something that is a hindrance to you into something that can enhance your life, like cash. Selling your car can be done profitably at http://www.familycarbuyers.com/

Ask and you shall be given

There's also a trend, coupled with the free stuff initiatives that is called: “Ask for it”. People who dare to ask for what they need have a much greater chance of getting it than those who don't, is the simple filosofie behind the idea. There's a great many things that go from hand to hand because of people asking for it. And it's not all just junk either, I've seen people ask for Ipads and planetickets and get them, because someone had what they were looking for and didn't need it anymore.

Giving away stuff you're done with is also a way of contributing to a better standard of living for people who are down on their luck. In the past few months I've gotten a fat-boy from someone who no longer needed it and I've gotten rid of several cookbooks which I don't need because I allready know how to cook. I've gotten a wonderful stylish lamp and an end table from some nice people who didn't want it anymore and I've given away a bicycle that needed just a bit of repair, like new tires and a new lock.

Spiritual cleansing

Spiritually it's a good thing for the soul to clean out stuff that you don't need. A good practise in letting go, letting go of your attachment to stuff. There's a classic piece by American comedian George Carlin about stuff. Giving up our attachment to stuff is a very buddhist, new age, spiritual cleansing sorta thing which means that George was probably way ahead of his time on that point.

Some things have intrinsic value though and although giving stuff away is good for the soul, making money is also a concern. In particular getting some cash for your junk car can help meet the bills. There's a lot of components to a car that can and should be reused and selling your junker to www.familycarbuyers.com. They even come and pick it up at your home and give you a good price for it.