100 Tips for Recycling Your Useless SUV
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Gloat? Who, me?
A couple of weeks ago I was walking Rocket, our Malamute dog, which is pretty much what I do every day after I get home from my slave shift at the cube farm. Looking both ways at the four-way stop at corner of the suburban block on which we live, I confirmed the way was clear and stepped into the intersection.
Immediately a HUGE SUV jolted to a stop inches from me and the dog. Where did it come from? Who knows! Where do any of them come from? I stopped too, right there in the middle of the street, and stared right into the dull, dead eyes of a well-dressed young woman talking on a cell phone. She barely registered the fact that she had nearly killed me and my dog, and continued to talk on her cell phone as if nothing had even happened.
Then I said a really bad word that described her and her mother in an unflattering, even vulgar way. (I'm not from around here.)
We finished crossing the street and she continued on in her mammoth vehicle, never so much as dropping a participle much less her phone.
I admit it: I'm a class bigot.
I grew up on the wrong side of a rough, rust-belt factory town, fought my way through college twice against the advice of pretty much everyone in my life, and somehow ended up in suburbia just last year. My boyfriend and I were looking for a house in the country up in Michigan. He grew up in Michigan and works here too, but we soon found we could not afford the country life we wanted. Then this ramshackle house on the edge of what I've come to refer to as 'White People Land' came open on a wooded acre.
We jumped on it. We love it. The house and the acre, that is.
So now, here we are living in this little old house on a great big lot, surrounded by great big new houses on little tiny lots. They have mini-mansions and SUVs and professional landscapes, we have a 1981 Ford pickup and an apple tree and a dog.They hate us. We hate them. But for most of the year they can't see us for all the trees growing along our property line and we can't see them either. It's an uneasy peace, but I guess American life in general is an uneasy peace. We didn't move in to make trouble.
It was the only house we could afford that came with land.
They hate that too.
I'm thinking of getting some chickens just to piss them all off some more. We already have 50 wood pallets and a tractor sitting out back, which offends the Great White Ones pretty effectively, (Bill is building a shed out of salvaged wood), but I want goats too. Maybe a burro...anything good and stinky.
But I'm getting off topic.(Sort of.) Back to the SUV issue...
Don't Throw It Out, Recycle!
A recent NPR guest was listing all the different things that SUVs can be used for now that they are unaffordable to drive. It was pretty funny, and I got to thinking, what a great book title that would be:
100 Tips for Recycling Your Useless SUV!
If you go to www.lifetips.com and register as a writer for them, you can submit book proposals so long as they involve the words '100 Tips for...' as part of the title. They will then market your book at Amazon.com and pay you $2 for every copy you sell. I'm thinking, that's not bad, especially if you enlist your friends to spend an evening quaffing pints of whatever and thinking up the 100 things for you.
In fact, that could be tip #1:
1) Invite your friends over for a 'how to recycle your SUV' party. The friend who thinks up the fewest tips has to take over the payments on your SUV. You get rid of your SUV. Your friends have a great time at your party. You reap all the book profits. You retire early and drive a Tesla!
See how easy and fun green living can be? Once you get the hang of it, the possibilities are endless.
Here are a few other ideas (to get you started if you want to write the book):
2) Apply for a performance grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. From what I understand, you should be able to get quite a nice chunk of change for something like this, especially if it involves pee. Pay off your SUV with the NEA grant money, then stuff it full of foam peanuts and set in ablaze in front of the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit while cute young women in "Hello Kitty" outfits from Japan dance around it and roast marshmallows. Make sure you film your performance piece so you can post it on You Tube and reap the residuals. For the finale, have the laid-off third shift at the Ford plant put out the fire by peeing on it. Retire early on all the money and publicity. Drive a Tesla!
3) Park your SUV by Lake Michigan, build a deck around it, and rent it out at $1500 a week as a summer cabin. Not only is this going to pay off your loan real fast, if it works out for you, you can buy up all your friends' useless SUVs and make a whole franchise out of it. God, you could make so much money off of people from Chicago each summer that you could actually retire early. Seriously, you could. You could drive a Tesla!
4) Drive your SUV to New Orleans, donate it for temporary housing. It's only been three years since George W. Bush promised to rebuild New Orleans "better than before" and heal racisim in the United States, so understandably it's still a work in progress. The FEMA trailers are filling up with mold and formaldehyde gas, and before Dubya got even half a chance to heal racism, some upstart black guy started running for President. So FEMA can use some help at this point, and your SUV could be just the ticket. Take the charitable tax write-off, and if your lender gives you any crap about the balance left on your loan, call your local TV station and make sure the camera crew understands that what really bothers you is how little your bank cares about hurricane victims. Chances are they'll give you money, and guess what? You could take that money and retire early, and, that's right, drive a Tesla!
5) Give it away this December at your office's 'Secret Santa' gift exchange. Come on, you know that somewhere in that sea of cublicles lurks the bastard who re-gifted you that Rube Goldberg hard-boiled egg peeler that takes up an entire cabinet shelf in your kitchen. Don't you think that fool deserves the keys to your gas-swilling, money-sucking status symbol? Of course he does! If people in your office recognize your vehicle, you may have to shove this task off on your spouse. But think how much better off you'll be financially once that monstrosity (the car, not your wife) is gone! You could, well, I'm not going to tell you what you could do with all that extra money. I can't do everything for you, you know. Take some inititiative for Chrissakes!
Jesus, haven't I helped you out enough already? I mean YOU'RE the one with all the money and the big stupid car, right?!
A Final Appeal for Help
I confess I don't have time to write this book. But I know that someone here at HubPages does, and not only that, if enough people leave ideas for how to recycle a useless SUV right here right now, all that person will really have to do is copy and paste and then rake in the cash. Why even bother with MLM or affiliate marketing with a gift horse like that staring you in the mouth. (Wait... no, never mind. Close enough.)
So I invite you all to leave your ideas as comments.
When the book is done, email me.
I'll buy the first copy.
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Again, awesome hub. I LOVE your humor. At $4.65 a gallon yesterday for gas, I was pretty much ready to push my SUV into the ocean and let it become a coral reef. Entertaining read, thanks.
I thought, in one of your other Hubs, you said you worked in a bank in Connecticut! I must be further gone than I thought!
I've recommended on several occasions that anyone with one of those vehicles should just sell it ASAP. If selling isn’t possible, just stop making the payments. Let the bank repo it. “Credit” isn’t going to be around much longer. Besides, it’s all really debt anyway. There’s no such thing as credit in our debt based system.
I can't wait for the inevitable sequel Hub - 100 Tips for Recycling Your Useless President.
Although I'd imagine most of them you could just reuse... particularly the marshmallows and Hello Kitty girls.
I like this idea of SUV as alternative living space. Don't most of us live in our cars anyway?
How about donating/selling the SUV to the national park service for use as a portable yurt? As gas-guzzling as they are, SUVs usually beat the mpg of RVs! Move over VW buses!
A varation on the theme: parking a large, retrofitted SUV in downtown San Francisco would be a viable alternative to renting a small apartment there. Just pay the parking fee and brush your teeth after you get to work. Showers? The gym membership will take care of that.
Ahhhh pg--this is great as usual. I don't drive an SUV(lucky me). I have a sedate sedan. Laughed myself silly over your description of life on the edge of McMansionville. You must be driving your upwardly mobile neighbors crazy. If I had an SUV I'd send it to you to use as a chicken coop. Come to think about it, a couple of junkers in the front yard could really add to your street creds in the hood:-). Thumbs up as always.
Here in the UK we call them Chelsea Tractors, because it's what the wealthy people in Chelsea and Knightsbridge use to drive their children to school. They need them because occasionally they have to run over any passing mailman or cyclist who gets in their way. So - how about this - we recylcle them as ACTUAL tractors. Take them back to the fields where they belong and have them pulling ploughs or whatever and powering threshing machines.
So Cool! We have 5 more to add to the list now thanks to all of you:
6) Recycle our Prez as performance art project instead, forget the SUVs. (Satori)
7) Portable yurt for the National Park Service, or...
8) San Francisco apartments (Both courtesy of wannabewestern)
9) Chicken coop (couresy of robie2) and
10) Tractor (courtesy of CJ)
Thank you Rochelle, Shadesbreath, and ColdWarBaby for your comments and nice things to say about me--any tips?
Satori, nice to see you back in action!
I've heard roosters are like this: That they can take on dogs and win. On a less funny note, I really do want some smallish chickens, but I don't think they are allowed in the city limits. They eat garden bugs and make eggs.
What a hoot this is. I meticulously coax 30+ mpg out of our family Subaru. I'm so glad I don't own one of those large behemoths of the highway. I understand their utility, but come fill-up time, I'm loving my much smaller family roadster. As for your pickup, here's a testimony. A 1992 Ford Ranger, 4-Cylinder, manual transmission, no AC, no FM radio, manual windows, .... great MPG, one clutch with over 237,000 miles, no oil burnt, .... sold it to my neighbor who drove it like a panicked tank until he burned the tranny (his fault). Long story short, the days of the large SUV are waning except for the few who really need them and can afford the $10.00/gallon gas which is on the way. -- Keep up the great hubs. Always fun to read.
Oh, I laughed, and I cried. This Hub is hilarious. But you know, you always have to laugh at the truth. I especially like the first photo of Entitlement. How about another one - send your SUV to the American Government to use as training tanks? Well, maybe not - because hopefully we will be out of the war mess soon. Then again, maybe McCain wants to use a bunch of SUVs for his campaign???
Yeah, I had a tip up there, dump them in the ocean with the windows open and they can be the foundation for new coral reefs.
Hey Rob! BTW, that Ford pickup of ours get 12 miles to the gallon--which is why it mostly sits in the yard, but you know, when you need a truck you need a truck! I own a 1984 Honda Accord with 158,000 miles on it. It runs great! It gets about 30-32 mpg but still, a 1984 anything that runs great is fun to have.
New Day & Shadesbreath, thanks for adding to the list! Now we have:
11) Use them as training tanks for Iraq, and
12) Use them to build coral reefs.
Only 88 more to go for the book. Come on, who's next?
Fill 'em with water and have your own outdoor aquarium with great big fat ornamental carp swimming around.
Love this hub! Great info., great brainstorming, and hilarious! Sadly, I have an SUV...a 1996 Tahoe...smaller than a Suburban or Denali or Escalade, but not by much. She sits unused, she did us mch service, back when kids were home and I was a girl scout leader, lugging lots of kids and kid gear here there and everywhere, plus I had an acre outside of Seattle and the Tahoe great for lugging all sorts of stuff...and great for wading mildly flooded streets of my Seattle suburb (nothing compared to Iowa today!) Now...do I make her a planter, an aquarium, a rental unit? she's paid for, and we couldn't get a cent for her these days, but we don't drive her...a relic from another era. You watch, pgrundy, betcha lots of those neighbors of yours are stretched to the breaking point financing their SUVs and manicured mini-lawns and McMansions. Let us know when the first foreclosure sign goes up. It just happened here in my "safe, solid, secure" neighborhood...even behind it's security gates and flower-filled medians. Two elements I'm almost embarassed by in your esteemed, talented company. Layoffs, national debts, mortgage crisis, the world it is a changin'.
Yes! And we're now at 13 thanks to CJStone and:
13) Fill it 'em with water, make outdoor aquariums.
Desertblondie--I know what you mean about the keep-u-the image right until foreclosure thing. Thereis this guy who wrote a book about the suburbs turning into the slums in the near future. It's already happening in CA in some places--squatters and meth labs in foreclosed minimansions. You can read about his books and so on at www.kunstler.com
Park it in your garden and use it as a potting shed and for for storing gardening tools. It will have the added advantage of being a greenhouse. Just line up your little pots and seedlings on the dashboard near the windows. Also all of those cupholders could be used for containers to start seedlings.
Rochelle, that's brilliant!
14) Park it in your garden and use for a potting shed/greenhouse.
Awesome!
Anyone for #15?
We missed an obvious one, even if not as funny as the rest: Use them for scrap metal (recycling and all that environmental stuff).
OMG Shadesbreath, that IS obvious! Good one!
15) Recycle that monster, metal part by part.
Next?
OK - I had to come back. Disassemble and then creatively re-assemble in your back yard in place of a jungle gym for your kids. :-)
Yes! Thank you New Day! Now we have sixteen, only 84 more to go...
16) Dissassemble SUV, reassemble as backyard jungle gym!
we're getting so close now, who's got #17?
So So So funny, and painful. And while I am on my second small SUV, that I still love because i think it keeps my precious cargo safer than a tiny piece of tin would, I now cannot afford to drive it. But here is a vehicle that I feel should get more attention. The SUV's and trucks that people lift to monster size! Those things are truly scary.
So use for my SUV now? Since I can't afford to drive it, how about we pretend we are camping and sleep in it?
Organize an SUV collection rally, assemble randomly on an open field, and charge admission to your newly-incorporated paint ball course.
This is one of my favorite hubs! LOL. I have another idea. Take off the wheels, yank out the seats, saw off the top and fill it with water: Cheap-o swimming pool.
:-) I hope you make it to 100 ideas!!
Hi pgrundy, I had to go through your list to see if this idea was taken - close, but not quite. How about decorative plant containers? Maybe not for modest homes like yours and mine, but for your McMansion neighbors! HA!
I kinda wish I had my SUV back again - after our home gets repossessed it's make a comfy little house on the prairie! (or where ever else it ran out of gas!) LOL!!!!
This is so great--we are speeding along here thanks to amber ,NEw Cay, Rob, Stephie, and Chef Jeff! Voila:
17) use it as a pretend camper.
18) incorporate it into a paintball event
19) cut off the top, fill with water for a cheap swimming pool
20) use it to make a decorative planter to upstage yuppie neighbors
21) live in it after your house gets re-poed (low cost heating!)
ONLY 79 TO GO!!! YOU GUYS ROCK!
Who's next?
Black out the windows, replace the windscreen with a plasma screen, and hook up a video player.
Then charge admission to this new intimate mini theatre.
I like that one Eric-- if you show travel programs it could almost be like going on a road trip.
I'm still ROTFL about you adding chickens to your little farm in the midst of McMansionland, pgrundy! Go for it! If they can terrorize pedestrians in Rolling MurderMobiles, you should have a few egg-layers in your backyard. The goats too. Gas-less lawnmowers! Can't get more "green" than that.
Eric is onto something. High schools could convert dead SUVs into drivers' ed "classrooms". Much safer than a real car barreling around town with 4 chatty teenagers and one terrified instructor. If the student driver's attention wanders, the instructor could secretly cue a video of a head-on crash. (The leather upholstery makes clean up before the next class a breeze! )
On a serious note, drivers of every SUV I've seen lately seem more aggressive than usual. Shelling out a C-note ($100) at the pump so they can run their little darlings to soccer practice, dance lessons and play dates has that effect. It's no longer the "Ha ha - I have money to burn and you don't" status thing. Now it's "I'm STUCK with this gas-guzzler and I'm PISSED"!
@ Rochelle - Or show 4WD movies to the kids in a few years time, and explain that people actually did that for REAL in cars just like THIS one, but the practice dwindled out when petrol reached $20 per gallon.
@ JamaGenee - Yes, the classroom idea is great.
Another use would be to show adult films on the plasma in the mini theatre for couples who need a bit of privacy, because their house is full of 24 relatives who were kicked out of their own houses after not being able to keep up the payments. (And I'm NOT joking with that one! )
Eric, the similarity of the plasma screen-slash-mini theatre to drive-in movies of yore did occur to me as a use for useless SUVs. i.e. line up several in a field or parking lot, with a neighborhood kid going car-to-car hawking popcorn and soft drinks. But it'd only work if they're in or near an apartment complex where people could walk, not drive, to them. But then the light went on! A grouping of your mini theatres in a retirement village or near an old folks home would be very popular! With a choice of regular movies for couples to re-live the Good Old Days at the drive-in, or adult films for those who want privacy but can't quite remember what they want it for. :)
As for the 24 relatives, hope it's not your house they've taken over!
22) Courtesy of Eric--Make mini-theatres out of them!
23) Courtesty of JamaGenee--Use them for in-classroom driver's ed!
24) Eric redux--Use them (maybe in museums) as exhibits and run movies in them about how people used to drive cars run by PETROL!
25) Eric again again--Live in one when you are forced out of your own home by relatives who have moved in with you after being forced out of theirs (yes, this is really happening--it could happen to ME actually with my grown kids...)
26) Courtesy JamaGenee again--line them up in front of old drive in movie screens as deluxe seating--revive the drive-in (but take the bus to it!)
I agree about the increased aggression on the roads these days. People are mad. I don't think it will take much to start violent reactions here--it actually kind of frightens me, hence the attempt at some humor.
A family mausoleum or burial vault. Pull out all of the seats and use them for furniture. Push the vehicle into a cave with the back flush to the entrance. Through the back opening there should be roome to slide in a few caskets and several urns. Close lock and chain the back door for a secure final resting place.
@JamaGenee-
No - I don't have any squatting relatives :lol:
And another idea: Line the SUV with firebricks, and turn it into a wood fired oven for when the power supply fails :-)
Whoo hoo! Thanks to Rochelle and Eric we now have:
27) Back the thing into a cave and use as a family mausoleum.
28) Line with firebricks and turn into a woodfired ovr for when the power supply fails!
You could also paint the windows & outside black, put in a water heating system. I just got into my gas-friendly little vehicle that's been out in the sun for only a few hours and it was so hot it could have just about boiled water!
Chef Jeff, that is so true. These things are natural solar heaters:
29) Paint the windows black, place in the sun, convert SUV into a solar water heating unit!
Oh, I just had another idea (I really need to stay away...LOL): Just in time for Independence Day in the United States. Get some pyrotechnical guys over to line it with firecrackers and then have an awesome fireworks display shooting out of it! Extreme Caution required. Kids will have to be a safe distance away. Those little firey cones will have nothing on the SUV Patriotic display!
I was all excited thinking you were going to givem real information on how to recycle my suv...I guess I just have to keep hiding it from the repo man!
A variation of #29: use as a pig roaster for family reunions or keg parties. A neighbor actually roasts whole turkeys (in a pan of course) in the back window of his CAR parked in the sun.
But I like Rochelle's idea a lot! Many SUV owners practically live in them anyway, might as well be "buried" in 'em!
funnebone, I suggest disguising yours as a potting shed until you get caught up on the payments!
Excellent, excellent! Thank you!
30) Courtesy of New Day, use for a blow out fireworks display!
31) Courtesy of Jamgenee, use as a solar turkey cooker--You know, I confess, this is one I actually wish I could try.
funnebone---So sorry! Why don't you just let the repo man have it? They might not even repo it you know, because THEY can't sell them either. Send it back and look for an old honda--1 have a 1984 Accord that still runs great at 30 mpg.
LOL. Nice Hub
I've been crying for the fifteen minutes it's taken me to read this great hub and its comments. Tears of laughter, and tears of distress, too. I LOVE my SUV, and I've been imagining it turned into a coral reef, tractor, and other indignities. (Although I must say I particularly like Rochelle's mausoleum idea; there's something enduring about it.) Poor car!
However, being realistic and seeing the future clearly, I will soon have to park it in the garden, open the moon roof, and start filling it with compostable materials. I will then invite the top 10 engineering students from my state college over to the garden, and challenge them to make it run on compost heat. Once the *bugs* are worked out, I will not only have my SUV back on the road, chugging along on compost energy, I also will be a re-made version of the old market farmer, going door-to-door, now selling salmonella-free tomatoes growing in my rolling compost bin...at top price!
I feel better now.
Hi Sally's Trove! I love this one! An SUV that runs on the energy created from compost:
33) Invite some MIT students to figure out how to harness the combustible energy in compost to run the thing!
I would definitely buy your tomatoes too, although, I actually planted 21 tomato plants this year---I'm a city girl and it's my first veggie garden, so I was thinking two or three tomatoes per plant, I'll can a few, eat the rest in salsa etc--My in-laws are laughing their asses off at me. Well, that's another hub--requests for tomato recipes---long about August!
Who's got #34?
Pam, if you have 21 tomato plants and they like where they are, you are going to be dealing with the pickle problem that marisuewrites has had. I wish you luck with your tomatoes...worst case for you? They'll be producing 75 tomatoes per plant. I will gladly truck the excess along with me in my SUV. :)
First gardens are often magic.
Hey guys, there's another type of vehicle that's about to go the way of the Edsel. The double-cab, full-bed, monster Bubba pickup. You know, the ones so big they should have their own Zip Code. Yes, many ARE used for for the original purpose of hauling crews and equipment, or an entire family, but the majority are just for showing off (a friend's husband being one of these).
Aside from the obvious - recycle as a kiddie pool in the backyard - they can be used to expand Eric's Guest Housing for the Recently Foreclosed.
Back the pickup up to either side of the SUV and the monster pickup bed becomes a DECK. Remove the seats, black out the windows and install a bathtub (and water of course) and the cab becomes a solar-heated extra bath, thereby giving your guests one LESS reason to be in the house and in your hair. 'Course ya have to remove the monster tires...use 'em as planters...and put the pickup on blocks or the doors to the SUV won't open from the "deck".
75 tomatoes per plant??? Oh my God Sally's Trove! No wonder they are laughing at me! Well, I know what everybody is getting for Christmas THIS year! A case of Pam's Special Anglo-Hungarian Homemade Salsa! (we'll see if they're still laughing then!"
JamaGenee, I like how you think. Modular housing built of monster vehicles! It's so obvious why didn't I think of it? No reason to confine our plans to only one gas hog!
#34) Combine your SUV and your monster truck to make a luxury condo for poor relatives--with deck and pool!
I have laughed and cried and had to go to the bathroom twice over this pgrundy! You have to be the one to write that book. No one should steal this idea. It's YOURS Baby! I think the garden on wheels could give "meals on wheels" a 'RUN' for their money, pardon the puny pun.
I'm so weak from laughter I can't think of another use - O wait. My husband just did a Mobile Salad Bar, with SUVern grown tomatoes. - or "your buns are up burger bar."
too funny, I love your humor.
Regarding your near hit experience...we are constantly thrown the finger here with friendly Floridians on the move.
Driving is a risky business and you sure make a lot of friends if all the waving is an indicator. Lynn was nearly hit in a gas station and I was in the parking lot of WalMart a few days ago. When you get in your car it's even worse. You can't change lanes, or turn left or right without getting a mad honk and a creative wave. P I T I F U L
Thank you mariesue! I agree with you--I think driving in general has gotten less civil. People feel like they are invisible in their cars, and the bigger the car the more invisible they seem to feel. In some big cities, they have had real problems with people shooting handguns at each other on the freeways. Craziness.
Thank you for the next two tips!!!
35) Make it into a backyard salad bar.
36) Turn it into a burger bar! (Maybe even a'fast food' restaurant?)
OK, here's number 37.
Get an excavator and crane, dig some holes in a circle and plant about 20 SUV's vertically in the holes.
Balance a few more on top of the half buried SUV's, and you have the latest tourist attraction:
SUV-HENGE.
(And I hope you're going to remember us all when you're on the Letterman show with your million dollar royalty cheque, and talking about your latest book on what to do with dead SUV's. :)
And number 38.
SUV's make a great promotional gimmick.
You could give one away with every gallon of petrol or diesel fuel.
Oops!
I think that there are some seriously wierd people commenting here.
So if you like black humour, check out new hubber shadebreath's hub:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Water-to-Gas-vs-Self-Canni
Cracked me up!
Cheers,
Eric G.
Yay Eric! Here we go:
37) Rack 'em stck ;em SUVhenge!
38) A free SUV with every gallon of gas!
Now I'm off to read the promised black humor....
Thanks Eric!
Oh my, this is so good. How about a 21st century art form that needs to wait for 100 years? When it goes up for auction in 2100 or so, it goes for sale at Sotheby's. So, preserve the SUV, put it under cover, and let your great-grandchildren handle the future sale as the legacy you left them.
The purpose of hanging on to the SUV that is useless now, is to hold on to it as a collectible or antique in the future.
Are we having fun?
Sally's Trove I like that! And it is so you, if you don't mind me saying so!
39) Keep your SUV as your great-great-grandson's legacy---In 2108 it will be worth a fortune in mint condition as an antique!
haha great article incl. posts
You could always convert the old suv into a giant still. That would gain the favor of your rich neighbors especially, if you took a jug over to their house the next time they have a soiree!
I love it Jeanette!
40) Convert SUV into a backyard still, share moonshine with snooty neighbors, loosen 'em up!
I'm loving all of this.
Come on, folks, there are 60 yet to go.
So here's 41 (keep in mind that I LOVE my SUV): Remove the seats and set them up in your home media theater (these are reclining seats, well structured, and comfortable...don't forget that they are wired with heating cables to keep your butt and back warm). Remove the Bose audio and wire that up as well.
Send the engine to Sir McCain so he can use it as a laboratory example of how the current internal combustion engine doesn't work in today's economy, which will support his case for offering mega dollars to someone who can come up with a technology for becoming energy-independent in the auto game.
With what remains, put it on the roof of your house and decorate it with lights...a perfect landing beacon for either Santa's sleigh around Christmas, or alien abductions.
Pam, I am so looking forward to your acute summary of this idea.
SOOOO creative Sally's Trove! I may have to break this into multiples--I think that's fair given the intensity of the plan!
41) Use heated SUV seats w/cupholders for a deluxe in-home theater!
42) Donate engine to John McCain's evil laboratory so he can create a better Franken-SUV that runs on blood or something. (OK I made that part up myself.)
43) Decorate the frame with Christmas lights and mount on the roof! Be the envy of the neighborhood when the yuletide light competition fires up!
Weld a few hundred thousand SUV's together and fill with concrete to form a sea wall against rising water levels.
This one I really like, Eric--just in the nick of time for hurricane season:
44) Weld thousands of useless SUVS to create levees and sea walls that last!
I like Sallys idea! I would like to add to her comment..
Stack up the tires and cover it with a cloth. Place this in the centre of the seating area you created in the home theater for use as am ottoman.
And the doors could be screwed onto your crazy 4 year old kid's bed sides. He'll love to 'open' a door or roll the window down for you to read out bed time stories to him.
Thanks Rookie Expert! Great ideas!
45) Stack SUV tires and cover with a tablecloth to make an ottoman.
46) Attach discarded SUV doors to kids' bedsides and roll down windows for story time!
You certainly are creative! I enjoyed the idea of living in the SUV. Isn't it time we get back to living in our covered wagons again anyways? Whatever happened to self-sufficiency stemming from pioneering instinct?
Keep writing! Where can I send money to for you for having written such a witty article? What do you count as real money? Gold nuggets? Ameros? Euros?
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Hi STaeschner! Wow, a request for an address to send me money? Cool!
Truly, I only do it for the attention. It's my little moment in the sun without getting fried. Thanks for stopping by! (Good luck finding that Gold!)
Great Hub... I don't literally have an SUV but I do have a Mini Van I hardly drive anymore... and now I am thinking in applying your recycling ideas on it. I happily move around in my little four cylinder compact car, changed my working hours so I don't drive during rush-hour and convinced my boss to let me telecommute on Fridays. With gas prices through the ceiling, its like getting a raise!
This one may have been done before-- I know you did chicken coop-- so how about other animal habitations? rabbits? ducks-- if you ad a small pond? Actually it would be good for a doghouse, if you roll the window down and blow a fan on it, the dog can stick its head out the window and feel the joy of cruising down the road.
Hi Overminded and Rochelle! Great #48 Rochelle--we're almost halfway home!
#48) Use as a doghouse (or bunny hutch, or chicken coop, or goat condo...). Add a water feature for waterfront property!
How about donating them to the Army for artillery target practice? As rides in a giant, Texas-sized bumper car amusement park? (See how many times you can roll one!) Use it as a roach coach, selling lunches at factories? Line them up and fire them up alongside runways for landing lights? Use the doors as SWAT-team shields? Some of them are just about long enough to serve as indoor shooting ranges. Remove the wheels and seats, and it's about the right size for a burro or miniature horse stall.
Hey Cheryl, great ideas! Let's add them then:
49) Use them for artillery practice at military bases!
50) Use as giant bumper cars at amusement parks! (I like that one a lot.)
51) Sell factory lunches out of them (but to what factories? Are there any left?)
52) Line them up along airport runways for landing lights.
53) Use the doors as SWAT Shields for local out-of-money police departments!
54) Use the stretch limo ones as indoor shooting ranges!
55) Keep your burro in it sans seats (I love burros!)
So cool--thanks to Cherylthewriter we are in the home stretch! Only 45 more to go! Who's next?
You got me started. Now I just can't stop.
Statues in Central Parks? (One wheel flat, the driver was injured in action. Two wheels flat, dead in action. You get the idea.)
When you put up the Christmas decorations next year, give the Three Wise Men something more interesting to lead than a camel.
For those greenies who love to feed the birds in their backyards, well, I probably don't need to explain further.
Remove seats and gas tank. Coat the floor area with pure olive or coconut oil. Add one to two inches of popcorn. Set fire beneath. Have the neighborhood teenagers rock the car till popping subsides.
Next time you give a gift, don't put it in a gift bag. Just use the SUV.
Cut off the roof and stretch an elastic tarp in its place. Hey presto! Instant trampoline.
You've seen ant farms, right? Why not in the giant economy size?
Attach a rotating blade beneath and sell it to a golf course as the next BIG thing in mowers.
Once upon a time, more than 15 years ago, my mother gave me a tiny little plant called an umbrella plant. It was in a three-inch pot and looked lost in there. Well, now it's in a 50-inch pot and coming out the sides. I was just starting to wonder what in the blue-eyed world I'd find to plant it in next.
Remove engine. Stretch wires inside that big hood space. Insert pedals. Play Chopin and Debussy.
Somebody stop me.
Oh my God Cheryl, these are so outstanding. I'm just going to number them. (Any NOBODY stop her!) Too cool!
56) Statues in Central Parks? (One wheel flat, the driver was injured in action. Two wheels flat, dead in action. You get the idea.)
57) When you put up the Christmas decorations next year, give the Three Wise Men something more interesting to lead than a camel.
58) For those greenies who love to feed the birds in their backyards, well, I probably don't need to explain further.
59) Remove seats and gas tank. Coat the floor area with pure olive or coconut oil. Add one to two inches of popcorn. Set fire beneath. Have the neighborhood teenagers rock the car till popping subsides.
60) Next time you give a gift, don't put it in a gift bag. Just use the SUV.
61) Cut off the roof and stretch an elastic tarp in its place. Hey presto! Instant trampoline.
62) You've seen ant farms, right? Why not in the giant economy size?
63) Attach a rotating blade beneath and sell it to a golf course as the next BIG thing in mowers.
64) Once upon a time, more than 15 years ago, my mother gave me a tiny little plant called an umbrella plant. It was in a three-inch pot and looked lost in there. Well, now it's in a 50-inch pot and coming out the sides. I was just starting to wonder what in the blue-eyed world I'd find to plant it in next.
65) Remove engine. Stretch wires inside that big hood space. Insert pedals. Play Chopin and Debussy.
Personally, I really liked #59. I love popcorn!
#63 could be the next Big Thing, and not just for golf courses. Those who bought or built McMansions way out in the boonies when gas was cheap now have acres of grass to mow but can't afford to drive the SUV to town and back every day. But a few gallons WOULD be enough to run the McMower around their little manor. For sure the Bubbas would love it. Enclosed space with cushy seats, AC and Surround Sound beats the heck out of that open-to-the-elements riding lawnmower!
Hi JamaGenee,
We have an acre and I was thinking the exact same thing--what a cushy way to mow! Seriously though, it's all getting a bit alarming. I only live 3 miles from work, but there's no bus route that takes me any closer than a mile, and that with two transfers. At some point, it will not be cost-effective to drive there even at this short distance. I was going to test drive riding my bike today but it's pouring rain. Bill feels its too dangerous the way people drive here, but at some point, something has to change. I'll have to try walking it. See how long that takes.
Hi pgrundy,
This is great! How about turning it into a 'cathouse'? Take the doors off and remove the windows, cover the whole vehicle in used carpeting (you know you were wanting new carpet in your house anyway), then make ramps leaning against the vehicle. Use the car windows to create an aquarium, and place it on the roof/penthouse so the cats have something besides birds to watch or chickens to torment. Fashion the glove box and console into litter boxes. Up on the roof, place the steering wheel on a short pole (the stick shift?) so that it rotates. Tie skinny strips of the old interior to it and it will blow in the breeze as well as serve as an interactive toy. He/she can spin the wheel trying to catch the streamers. Get a copy of Phoebe's song on a tape or cd (Phoebe of Friends fame), 'Smelly Cat' and fix it so all the cat has to do is step on the button for it to play. Make sure the volume is set at full blast :)
This should go over well with your neighbors, what with your chickens running around the yard. Or, you can turn it into a large chicken coop!
Thanks for a fun hub!
Trish
Trish, at first I thought you meant a cathouse as in a *cathouse* so why don't we just stick that one in there as well? For this one, you don't even have to replace the seats. Just rent it to your favorite ho, and he or she can park it near that special corner and avoid the cost of a hot pillow hotel. Charge by the job and you might actually make some money off that thing.
We've got levees; how about seawalls, piers, dams? Just crush 'em and stack 'em.
Extend that thought slightly, and you've got instant offshore drilling platforms. Both of these can be combined with the coral reef concept.
With the sound systems in some of those beasts, you could rent them out for parties. In particular, they'd be great for class reunions, as they'd add that retro touch.
Mobile libraries! Stash it full of paperbacks and drive around to all the shut-ins. If you charge each one a small delivery fee, less than postage, again, that could be a going concern. (Actually, that's not such a crazy idea.)
Take it the next step: mobile x-ray stations. About 20 years ago, mobile mammography was all the rage, and with gas prices so high I can't imagine why it shouldn't make a comeback. Cram an x-ray machine in there, hire a nurse practitioner, contract with a developing company, and park it outside the downtown highrises. All the ladies (and some of the guys) can get their mammograms during lunch. With the window tinting on some SUVs, you won't even have to darken them for privacy.
I suppose we could keep going with mobile crime labs, mobile dog washes, mobile whatever, but let's not do the same thing too many times.
Could you transform an SUV into a sailboat? Yank out the heavy bits, maybe install some buoyancy tanks, straighten the hood and the roof vertically to serve as sails? Great for fishing, maybe not for deep sea stuff.
Hippie wagons! A great tradition that needs reviving. Unfortunately, VW camper vans have appreciated tremendously in price. We need a low-cost substitute . . . well, you can figure out the rest. Just think of that shiny big black beast with spray-painted pink and purple flowers all over it and 43 hippies living inside. No, I won't be one of them.
Does anyone remember the "high hide" from Jurassic Park 2? It was designed as a shelter for the scientists to observe the dinosaurs from a safe height, with a winch that raised it off the ground then lowered it for easy access. Surely we could use something similar in wildlife preserves to spy on lions and tigers and bears, oh my?
How about a big freezer? Insulate it, drop in some freon (or just use that built-in freeze-you-to-death air conditioning system), and you could fit several cows in there. Dead ones, of course.
Fountain? Bury it vertically up to the windshield and shoot water out the tailpipe. Use a second one, preferably one that tried to slide beneath a Mack truck, as a receiving pond.
Pam, I'm supposed to be working, but I can't get the image of a gigantic toaster out of my mind. You work on that one and I'll check back later.
I can't resist: postmodern hedges. Forget privet; plant a row of semi-wrecked SUVs along the front of the house or out by the road. Make an art statement and get something that never needs trimming, and just watch the rust grow.
Kid or dog sized swimming pool? Did we do that one? Bury it to the bottom of the windows, remove the glass, and take off the roof. Leave the door posts as handrails for getting out of the water.
Can we get bookcases out of them? Take them apart and mount the doors, fenders, hood, roof, etc. on the walls? Again, an excellent postmodern art statement.
Pam, for pity's sake, I'M SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING!
Jumps at a horse show or motorcycle rally? If you remove the glass, you could balance the poles across the door posts. Use a winch to raise and lower it inside a ditch to get the jump to the proper height.
We've got coral reefs, let's turn that idea on its head. Man-made mountains could add some interest and tourist revenue to flat parts of the country. Again, just crush and stack. Fill dirt could be added if desired. This could also be combined with the planter concept to create a modern alternative to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
We've done most other kitchen appliances. How about giant microwaves? Really useful for warming up leftovers after barbecue cookoffs or for fund-raising events.
Let's not forget the mixer. Remove seats, put a revolving blade inside the floor area, use the engine to power it. Great for selling smoothies on city sidewalks.
I'll forego the washer and dryer. Again, too much of a good thing.
Backyard hammock frame? For those who have no trees (and that's a town in western Texas, Notrees in Ector County, near Midland-Odessa, population 338) or while waiting for your trees to mature?
In high school, we had an aerodynamics project where we attached an engine to a trash can lid and flew it around the schoolyard. With current technology, could the military use SUVs as bombers, or American Airlines undercut Boeing?
Add-on room or mother-in-law apartment? Did we do that one? Real easy expansion project there and includes its own air conditioning.
Outhouses? The self-composting variety? Use your own imagination here. Could really contribute to the fertilizer industry.
AAARRRGGGHHH!!!
Hi Trish and Cheryl,
My goodness! You've both been busy! Well, here goes:
66) Convert the SUV into a deluxe little/box play station for cats~
67) Rolling Brothels! (Look out Las Vegas!)
68) Stack 'em up to make sea walls and/or dams!
69) Off shore drilling platforms!
70) Rent out the sound systems for class reunion parties
71) Stock with books and make your own mobile library!
72) Mobile x-ray stations
73) Mobile dog washes!
74) Convert into seaworthy sailing vessels
75) Paint with Day-Glo and make your own 21st century Merry Pransktermobile
76) Suspend them from trees as wildlife obeservation stations
77) Retrofit with freon and keep your side of beef in there!
78) Bury vertically and plumb to shoot water out the tailpipe for a fountain!
79) Hello? A giant toaster? All you need is a sunny spot and aluminum for the inside--in fact you could probably cook a turkey on that.
80) Postmodern hedges (I kind of like this one especially)
81) Take out the guts, stand on end, insert horizontal planks for unique bookshelves/etageres.
82) Use 'em for jumps at horse shows & monster truck events..
83) Create manmade mountains out of them (or pyramids?)
84) Remove innards, add revolving blade for giant mixer. Sell smoothies out of them at outdoor events.
85) Retrofit them with helicopter blades and fly them around.
86) Self-composting outhouses! (Eeeuwww>>>)
Cheryl, there's only fourteen left to go. You came up with so many, you should do the book, seriously.
Wow! Up to 86 already! Way to go, Pam!
As for the walking-to-work idea, 3 miles is a l-o-n-g walk twice a day (unless you can get a ride home). It'd take at least a couple of hours ONE way. But if the first couple of days didn't kill ya, you'd definitely get fit FAST! =) How 'bout riding the bike part of the way (in the "safer" places) and walking the rest of the way?
Yes, I was thinking a couple of hours on foot too--I walk a mile on the treadmill in 20 minutes, but I I work up quite a sweat. I wouldn't want to show up drenched in perspiration. I have to test drive the bicycle--it's the only sane alternative.
hi again,
Cheryl, guess I should have clarified my invention and called it a kitty condo LOL,,,but hey I like the idea of a cathouse LMAOOOO, NOT for me of course,,,too funny.
Perhaps line up four of em, cut/weld/model faces on them and rename it Mt RushNOmore, or gather 100 of em and fashion them so they can be walked through and call it an SUVeum,,,
Gotta run,,,
Trish
Mt RushNOmore. Love it! ROTFL!!! Plus they're portable...granite mountain not required...any old hill will do.
Even better, a NEW one such as the one arising north of my town around daily deposits from trash trucks. Four useless SUVs jutting out of the side that faces the highway would be Mucho Perfecto!
As for the four faces, that's a no-brainer: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Condie Rice!
Good one. Thanks for sharing :)
Nah. Try Carter, Gore, Clinton, and Clinton.
Which brings me to. . . .
Lectern and stage combination for political rallies. Remove the roof, stand on the seat, and lean on the windshield or tailgate. Political parties are used to spending large amounts of money--they won't notice the gas bills.
I like Trish1048's SUVeum idea. Let's not let that one get lost in the shuffle.
Piggy bank! Particularly useful for large fundraisers and charitable rallies, or for long-term savings such as a college fund. It'll earn just as much interest (none) as a savings account and it's where you can keep an eye on it. Just remember to remove the gas tank and maybe the engine, or somebody will use it as a getaway car, too.
Combine the hedge idea (planting them vertically) with those bright headlights for illuminating buildings, monuments, works of art, etc. Instant floodlights.
Manger! Remove the roof, smooth all sharp objects, and use it to feed the larger critters in the zoo.
Or replace the door panels with grilles and use them to hold hay for winter cattle feed on the range. (That one might have some potential.)
Did we do cannibalizing them? Seats for sofas or bucket seats for indoor movie theaters, tailgates and doors would make baby gates across stairs, doors and fenders could be assembled into a woodshed or deck, and the engine could be casually tossed into a corner of the yard to irritate the neighbors.
Parking garages for Smart Cars! You could fit one beneath it, one inside it, one on the hood, and one on the roof.
Remove engine and anything else heavy, remove windshield, and attach whiffletree. Instant horse carriage. (Don't laugh. It happened in Europe after WW2.)
I.T. room for the business without a lot of room to spare. Cram it full of servers and hook those babies up. Probably still have room for a stereo system, the SysAdmin's boss station, and the geek, too.
Cover it with a bunch of SolarShingle's, well, solar shingles. Would it run on that?
We did jungle gyms and bumper car rides, right? How about carousel seats? Park them on the turntable and put a toy steering wheel in front of every position. The most avid riders will probably be those urbanites who remember the "good old days."
Pam, you asked where all the factories went? (Down South, actually, down to the right-to-work states and away from the unions and high corporate taxes. See the ALEC-Laffer report, "Rich States, Poor States.") Some of those SUVs are large enough to hold all the machinery needed, and they can be mounted on treadmills to produce internal power. Remove the treadmill and drop them back onto the street to move to a state with lower taxes should the unions find you.
Nutcracker for pecan or walnut orchard. Spread nuts in back and hit reverse; spread nuts in front and hit drive. And by nuts I mean the ones that came off the trees.
And one more for good measure:
Targets! Whoever is still driving one three years from now becomes fair game for anyone driving a fuel-efficient car while carrying a paintball gun plus attitude. Now that's road rage worthy of Stephanie Plum.
OMG Cheryl! Call it 101!!!
Now, when are your publishing the book? (o:
Parking garages for Smart Cars! YES!!! Sort of poetic justice, isn't it!
btw, thanks to you and this hub, Pam, I can't stop grinning at every SUV (and monster pick-up) I see these days. Instead of seeing "just" an SUV, things it COULD BE flash through my mind, and THAT makes me grin from ear-to-ear!
Hi JamaGenee,
So glad you had fun with this! We might as well smile at them, we sure can't drive 'em anymore!
Pam, I've got half a mind to find a cartoonist and put this out as "101 uses for a dead SUV." What do you think? You wanna go halves?
Excuse me for the interruption, but this is really quite a serious problem... for some of us! I just spent $100 bucks to fill my tank tonight, so I'm thinking the idea of needing to live in it, is starting to look pretty viable. After all, its a Cayenne. lol
But, if we are able to save the house - I'm thinking of having it bronzed and using it as really cool yard art:-) Are you jealous now? I knew you would be.
Or, here is another one. A Vault. Who is going to walk off with my bronzed SUV? I think my money will be safer in my front yard than in the bank. lol
This hub would be very funny, if I was not stuck with what my husband refers to as the "albatross" I just had to have!
tDMg
LdsNana-AskMormon
Pity I got here too late, I laughed so hard. Especially the cathouse comment. I thought she meant something completely different than a house for cats.
Thank you so much for the laughs guys, you were all great!
ditto!
Cheryl--that would be an awesome cartoon book! 101 cartoons is a lo of cartoons though. Maybe I'll doodle around with it and if I come up with one I'll post it for group critique (expect early-Matt-Groenig not Chagall).
ldsnana I do know what you mean. I'm driving a Mitsubishi Galant that gets about 25 mpg in the city, but its getting to the point where soon it won't make much sense to drive to my low paid job. I've been looking for other options--I'm trying to laugh about it so I won't freak out. It'd be easy to freak out right now.
Donnaleemason & Wannabewestern thanks for stopping by. So good to see you both. (o:
Keep in touch on this project. Although it's a serious situation for LdsNana (and I feel for you, although you may be right about the vault)--although it's serious for you, well, it isn't for us. As a freelance work-at-home writer, I find I'm putting more gasoline into the lawn mower than the car.
Hi Cheryl, I will for sure! I have a three day weekend coming up. I'll test my long dormant cartoon abilities and post what I come up with no matter how lame---I promise. If it goes well, we're off to the races! (If it doesn't, we'll have another good laugh at my awful cartoons!)
Deal. I'll keep an eye out.
I would like to give my 1978 suburban to the president of MEH-HE-CO, as
a gift of good will!!!!
Hi dennis! He'd be able to drive it too--gas is a lot cheaper in Mexico. I guess it's a big problem in border states--Americans filling up in Mexico. The state there subsidizes gasoline.
@ pgrundy - How about a motorscooter?
I've been noticing a LOT more of these on the roads here lately.
Eric, I want a motorscooter SOOOOOOO bad. I want a Vespa. It's a bone of contention between me and my beloved. My sister in law also wants one and she and her husband battle over it too. So far, the women are losing in deference to the fears of the men. Their point is that other drivers here in SUVs, pickups, and minivans don't really care if they kill us, but our spouses care a lot. In fairness, somebody is getting mowed down at about a person a week here--three deaths of this sort in as many weeks. Drivers here are pigs, I swear. But as SUVs disappear, I will keep pressing my case, and someday, I will have that scooter.
@pgrundy.
The fact that 3 people have been killed in 3 weeks is certainly sad, but as an arguement against getting a scooter, it could be easily countered.
If your spouse smokes, tell him that x number of people in the last week in your area died of lung cancer. So could he please stop smoking.
If he doesn't exercise and is a bit overweight, provide him the stats of people who died last week from heart disease.
A similar argument could easily be made for drinking, dog walking, car driving, or almost anything.
The fact is, we take a risk when we do ANYTHING.
(Although I would agree that people riding scooters are at higher risk in accident statistics when compared to a car.)
It's a matter of recognising that risk, taking measures to address it, and driving very defensively.
Eric, you're right of course, but in some areas of life I find that it's worth choosing my battles, and this battle isn't worth the fight--and not the least of the many reasons it is not worth it is that I will almost certainly be losing my crappy job any time here anyway, and the whole issue will not even matter anymore. I actually pray I will be laid off. If there is a God, I will be laid off. If I really wanted a scooter badly enough, I'd just buy one, but it's not that important right now, all things considered.
I actually have one of those little electric scooters, nothing fancy but cute as anything. It's been plugged in for two years. My husband checks the battery occasionally, but whenever I talk about riding it he starts fussing. This area we live in, drivers don't even SEE scooters. Except maybe as targets.
Pam, get laid off. (Careful how I phrase this.) The financial services industry is nowhere to be right now and you're too good a writer.
Cheryl, thank you for the compliment on my writing. Yesterday the only midwest bank with a lower stock price than ours laid off 3800 people--about half of its employees. So it could be soon, especially with the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mess yesterday. We'll see. I don't really want to be unemployed in this market, it's just that I'm so beyond burned out it's affecting my health and my sanity. I know I should be grateful to have any job now, but I'm not. I just can't muster it. I hate them.
I was precisely there two years ago, pgrundy. It was so bad I couldn't even wait to be laid off and collect unemployment, even though I knew it was only a matter of time. There wasn't enough work to kick around for even part of the day (I was a legal assistant at the time) and mine was the vulnerable position. I reached end game and quit, and started looking for writing work the following month after pulling my head off the pillow.
Since then I've lived utterly without benefits--no insurance, no retirement plan, no holidays, nothing. It's been paycheck to paycheck sometimes, and we've cut our standard of living by more than half. We haven't missed a bit of it, there's no stress left in my life, and I'm happier than I've ever been in my working life.
For us, it came down to the decision as to what's important--sanity or things, quality of life or quantity.
For your situation, of course, it doesn't help that Michigan has been hit harder than most other states by the current downturn. I have to keep reminding myself that where I'm located hasn't really been hit at all.
As for the cartoons-- yes 101 sounds like a lot, but think about grouping them into categories.
Garden Uses, Decorative uses, Animal uses etc.... then you can do a cartoon that covers three or four uses in one panel-- and list the corresponding uses underneath.
No need to keep the original submission order-- you be the editor. You Could do twenty five or thirty. and of course, you wouldn't need to do one for each 'thing'.
Good idea, Rochelle Frank. I'm actually starting to think that this crazy idea could go somewhere.
everyone is in such a hurry
we all need to be more aware of these little motorized bicycles that are allowed to
ride in the fast lane (city streets)
maybe all cities should have the scooters and bicycles share the bike lanes
that all cities should of made on all of the streets to start with
horah to wider streets (probably an immpossibility)
again it's the fault of how wide two horses butts were to the great planners of our history ---- politics
there are safty lights on my website safetycmarty.com
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for your info. suv's dont get that bad of gas milage if maintain them i happen to have a jacked up 78 suburban with a 454 bigblock and i manage to get 27 mile to the gallon. if you'd spend more time finding a way to get better gas milage than complaing you wouldnt have a reson to complain.
Kindly gimme your useless SUVs! I always find ways to make money on useless stuffs lol!
Rochelle Frank says:
17 months ago
Hmmm... yes, there are many options, and as you suggested, some SUVs are bigger and more well-appointed than ordinary living spaces. How many people have a home with leather couches and seventeen cup-holders?
I'll give it some thought.
I have a few chickens-- hens are great, our rooster is a terrorist. Yet, he did save the hens from a very big dog who will never dare to invade his territory again.