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Get paid 3700€ (£3000) a year to get the body you want fast

Posted By: R.I.Chalmers | Posted On: 2008-09-04 | Article ID: 91262

Your car costs you at least 3000€ (£2,500) every year. And that’s before you ever use it or put fuel in the tank. There are many estimates available for the cost of running a car, but this one is the most conservative. Your car also stops you having the body you want by adding a kilo or two to your belly fat every year.

Car running costs include buying the car and its subsequent depreciation in value. Other costs are tax, testing, repairs and maintenance, and the obligatory insurance. That is what you have to spend just to have a car sitting outside your house doing nothing - something most cars do for most of the time. A hidden cost of car ownership is the creeping weight gain caused by the laziness and inactivity that owning a car encourages.

If you actually use the car you have to add in the cost of fuel, oil, tyres, parking fees, and even possible fines for things such as speeding and parking offences. Add these costs to your calculations and you will appreciate that a car is a considerable drain on your bank balance. AA estimates for running a car each year range from 3756€ (£3029) to 20,919€ (£25,943) depending on the car’s value.

The average UK salary is 27,159€ (£21,900) or 1721€ (£1388) net per month after tax. The average week is 40 hours, so the average hourly take-home pay is about 10€ (£8). Take-home pay is the money that you have available to spend on your car.

If you only spend the AA’s minimum estimate on your car each year, you are spending 72.24€ (£58.25) a week. As time is money, and money time, you have to work for 7.28 hours a week just to pay for your car. So by not having a car, you could work one day less each week, or 7 weeks less a year.

My wife and I do not have a car, and we both work part-time. Our lifestyle is comfortable and we are both fitter and healthier than most of our peers. We do have to get to work, but we get to work for free and work out at the same time. We both ride bicycles.

Many people who have toyed with the idea of cycling to work complain that they live too far from their place of work to make cycling a realistic alternative to a car or public transport. I have lived various distances from my work over the years, but I have consistently cycled, even when work has been over 12 miles from home. There are many cyclists who regularly cycle 20 miles or more to work each day.

If you really want to cycle to work and get rid of your car and that belly, you could find a job nearer to home, even if it pays less. After all, you will be 'earning' an extra 72€ (£58.25) a week simply by not having a car.

You should begin cycling gradually. Do not just abandon the car, buy a cycle and begin this new fulfilling chapter of your life. If the only exercise you have been having lately is walking from your house to the car and from the carpark to the office, the fat you have been accumulating at a rate of around 2kgs a year since entering adulthood is going to take a while to burn off. That belly fat is going to make any exercise initially difficult if the most strenuous thing you have done this week is heaving yourself out of your chair to grab a coffee.

Give yourself about 3 to 6 months in which you can gradually introduce cycling into your daily travel routine. When you have been cycling regularly you will find that the money you save on petrol and the increase in your level of fitness will spur you on to commit yourself to a car-free lifestyle.

Regular cyclists are fitter than sedentary car drivers. They are physically younger for their years, suffer fewer medical problems, and live longer, healthier lives. If you were to cycle to work every day you would soon notice the difference in your level of overall fitness. You would avoid the stress associated with driving. You would be doing something positive to help the planet, and you would be setting an example for others to follow.

The extra time a cyclist takes to get to complete a journey is repaid with interest in later years. The sedentary car driver can look forward to a dotage spent in a hospital bed undergoing extensive and expensive treatment for any one of a hundred afflictions brought on by lack of exercise. The keen cyclist, on the other hand, can look forward to a lifetime of active participation in all manner of enjoyable activities.

 

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