Its not too often when you all recieve a serious post from me. I like to have fun, and being a self-proclaimed “ultimate car guy” I have the most fun during the summer months. Being that its only the first part of February, I can’t help but get excited when I think about Automotion. To me, its the Daytona 500 of the car show season!!

I’ve made plenty of car show lifestyle changes the past couple years. Last year I bring my own lunch/snacks and drinks. I couldn’t believe the amount of money I didn’t spend! Not that eating food from a vendor is bad, but in this economy every penny matters. I also took a year off from buying die-cast 1/64 scale cars for my collection…almost. For what they get for some of those, I could go broke on any given Sunday. That was another place to save a lot of $$$.

This year, I’m going to incorporate more cheapness, er… frugality into attending car shows.

-Continue to pack my own lunches
-Bring my own drinks
-Resist buying collectibles I don’t need any more of
-Ms. Moparkid and I are going to only take one car to shows instead of two, to save on gas and registration fees

However, I am going to invest more money in sun tan lotion. It seems I burnt myself a few too many times this past year, and I really don’t want to end up with skin cancer. I’m going to try to get as many good, shady parking spots as possible, and always take the tent!!! Still going to do what I did last year, and go to some shows I’ve never attended. I find this to be really enjoyable, as you see new cars and how other shows are run. It makes for a good day! There’s also some shows I won’t be going back to (I wont get into any further detail), but I am going to hopefully replace them with shows I’ve never attended.

How about you? What are your plans for 2010?