Tired of owning a car, but loathe public transportation? Now, there are options!

I'm selling my car.

Truth is, I don't NEED a car. I move my car from one side of the street to the other once a week during street cleaning. That - plus the maybe twice-yearly weekend trip and the maybe-once-a-month drives to nurseries for plants - is the extent of the driving I do. I take the subway or cabs everywhere I go. So - it makes absolutely no sense for me to have a car. I should have sold her years ago.

But see, I made a fatal mistake. I named my car. My sister-in-law thought the color was sort of "celestial," so she was dubbed Celeste. And Celeste and I have been on cross-country trips and drives to the beach (and she works as a fantastic storage unit for the stuff I need to take to Goodwill). I've laughed with friends and cried over boyfriends and sang Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dosed" and U2's entire "All That You Can't Leave Behind" album at top volume while driving her. My friend, Tash, from London, and I learned all the states and their capitols in alphabetical order in her (before we talked our way out of what would have been a really bad ticket in Nevada), and my Mom visited New York for the first time as a passenger in her. Celeste has been a part of my days during the best years of my life, and she feels like an old friend.

But here I am, greening my life; attempting to help everyone else green theirs.

And in maybe my biggest green lifestyle move to date (I really don't like to let go of things - it's just not in my nature), I'm getting a ZipCar membership and selling Celeste.

Someday, I will laugh at all my pictures of her in front of pretty much every landscape imaginable in the US. But in the meantime, I'm going to "recycle her on eBay," and knowing me, I'll probably be a big weepy mess when she is finally purchased.