38. Invest in a cargo rack for your car.

“Nature abhors a vacuum” - Aristotle. This means we all have an innate need to fill an empty space with…anything, something, that-thing and general stuff. For example, if you push around the largest grocery store cart just to buy a single brick of Velveeta, the urge to add items along the walk to the cheese aisle will be unconsciously all-consuming.  

Bigger cars can carry a lot, but they will also carry your need to fill that space with potentially un-needed stuff. Also squeezing the larger car into city-living parking spaces can be an abhor-able task. The solution to invest in a cargo rack is actually quite ador-able…and useful.

To help you “Invest in a cargo rack for your car,” here’s a simple 2-step process:

1. Buy the smallest car possible (see exhibit A) 
2. Invest in a cargo rack for your car (and your car-go)

Your Future You will appreciate the space savings not only on the roads and in parking, but also the space saved in your future mind, by not trying to fill it up with subconscious worries about filling vacant spaces. This freed-up space in your future mind can be put to use planning items such as - planning out picnics, how to build better cargo racks or maybe finding better food alternatives to bricks of processed cheese-food.

P.S. - It’s been reported that Corporate Housing companies help people ‘Invest in a cargo rack for your car’ by delivering fully-furnished monthly rentals. This means that you typically only need to bring your luggage and your laptop. The space savings (and time and money savings) with Corporate Housing is so good, that you may not even need to buy a cargo rack…but if this post gets sponsored by a cargo rack supply company, we will delete this last line. 

This series is focused on Simple Sustainable Actions - based on Stephane Omsanski’s article in Parade from 2021.

https://parade.com/1300935/stephanieosmanski/ways-reduce-carbon-emissions/

38. Invest in a cargo rack for your car.

Instead of buying a bigger model car—like an SUV—ask yourself if you really need a larger vehicle or if you're