What is the best way to keep your car from breaking down? A new one?! I have to agree with you on this one. I am a big fan of new construction homes and new cars. If you have a car that has a very old sticker on it, it is pretty useless to me. You don’t want to take that car apart and find out it needs a new engine, or possibly even a new transmission.
My sister (and her husband) have a car that has two different types of stickers on it. One is black, the other is blue. The black sticker is about an 8 year-old car, and the blue sticker is about a 4 year-old car. While the black sticker was probably written by a 4 year-old, who still drives, the blue sticker is an 8 year-old car that she has had for 6 years. That’s pretty awesome.
You may be thinking, “oh… that means she has been driving a car for 6 years!” She hasn’t. That 8 year-old sticker is actually from the car she had 8 years ago, when she was a child, that she then gave to her sister. It’s a car that was stolen when she was 3, and she still has the car.
The more I think of it, the more I realize that the plaque is more like a “my story” plaque than a “my car” plaque. That’s because you are a child of 3 and a child of 8, and your story is that you were a child of a 5 year-old who was given a car at age 3 and a 6 year-old who was given a sticker at age 8. The plaque is actually a “my car” plaque.
So it’s more like a plaque for a little sister than a car plaque for someone who is in their teens, but I am not sure if that’s any better.
The car was given to her by her father, and she was given it at age three. The sticker came as a way to help her with school. Its like she used to have a sticker on her car that she got at age four, and she stuck it on the car at age eight. It may have been a good idea at that point, but she didn’t know what she would do with it, so she just stuck it on the car.
Its a good idea if you think your kids will be better off if they have sticker on their car at age four. I dont know how many of you kids who have stickers stuck on the back of your car at age five or six have done anything useful with them. I bet you have. I bet you have gone on a date, gotten drunk, or gotten into a fight. I bet you have done anything that you think will improve your life by the time you are seven.
When we were kids, we had a sticker on our car that said “If you are a good boy, you can eat the toy.” We were always told it was a way to get our parents to buy us more of the same crappy stuff we had already. It was a great plan at the time, but it didn’t always work out.
A few years ago I had a friend who sold us stickers from his car. I used to pick them up at the yard sale. I loved them. I would always look them over and think about them, but they were always gone. I think he stopped selling them after the kids started getting in the way of his job.
A sticker is basically a sticker, and unlike a piece of candy or a toy, they aren’t a waste of space anymore. I mean that as a compliment. They are a part of our lives. The problem is there are so many of them in our life and we often forget we have them. Now that we have all of the kids in the house, we have to think about each of their stickers more than we used to.