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Originally Posted by revfiddle
(Post 2397352)
I just now renewed my insurance, and one of our cars is a 2024 Tesla Y. The other is a 2020 Chevrolet Bolt. I used Hartford/AARP. The cost for the Tesla wasn't much different from the Bolt. The total cost was $1,778 for 2 drivers for 6 mos.
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Jeez. We pay less than that for a car, a pickup truck, and two golf carts for a YEAR.
Back on topic:
Why take a golf cart? Because I can. I don't have to EVER go down 441, or deal with cars on 441, or traffic lights on 441, when I go to BJs, Lowe's, Walmart, Aldi's, my dentist's office, Tropical Smoothie, Wawa. The only time I need to take my car there is when I'm picking up a pizza (so it doesn't slide off the golf cart floor) or filling up my car's gas tank.
I don't use my golf cart for golf since I don't play golf. Instead, I have a mesh bag that many other golf cart drivers own, that secures to the straps that golf cars have to secure golf bags. It's around 3 feet deep. In the bottom of the bag, filling most of it, is an empty box that keeps the shape somewhat rectangular and reinforces the bottom of the mesh. I also have a basket behind the seats, and seatbelts on the seats.
I can put all the "squishy" things like bread, eggs, and chips in the basket. I can stack 2 six-packs of Pepsi and an 8-pack of gatorade bottles on the bottom of the big bag in back. Then all my canned goods , and then top it off with my refrigeratables like meats and frozen veggies and whatnots. I now also have room in the front seat for a 40-pound container of kitty litter on the floor, and in a pinch, I can loop the passenger-side seatbelt through 4 more grocery bags to keep them from falling out of the cart.
At BJ's I buy Poland Springs water, 48 bottle packages. I can fit one where I normally would put the kitty litter, on the floor of the passenger side. That's a good thing to get when I need to put gas in the golf cart, along with a pound or two of cold cuts, a small container of port wine cheese, stock up on Texas Toast (great for dipping into my sauce), and a 4-pack of cafe bustello bricks.
There's plenty of room for all of that. At Lowe's, my golf cart will hold 3 bags of mulch or 1 brick of pine straw in the bag in the back, and half a dozen "almost dead so we'll give it to you for $1.00" plants, a bunch of the big paper lawn bags (we do all the landscaping ourselves). And maybe a pint of "oops" paint for a craft project. And there's STILL enough room to run for a half gallon of milk at Aldi's if we're running low.
