OH just told me our old caravans listed on the dealers website......
I feel quite sad that it's up for sale even though I knew that was ineviatable as we traded it in for our new brand new one but it still doesn't make it easier! This was our first ever caravan and we looked after it very well.
How daft is it to get attached to a caravan and feel sad it's stood on a forcourt homeless!
I just wondered if anyone else looked at the dealers for there old caravan and felt gutted? To be honest I had no intention of looking for it myself but OH is just too nosey!
We did the same - more out of curiosity to see how much they were selling it for. We were at the dealers collecting the new awning carpet & saw our old van on the forecourt. We even went & sat in it for a minute. We love our new van but I still felt a bit emotional letting our 1st one go. I'm the same with cars too
You fell in love with another van and dumped it for your "new love", so I don't doubt it feels terribly unloved and rejected! You should of thought of all the pain and suffering your flirting with others could lead to before even seeking another.
Hopefully somebody else will find they can give it some love.
My old girl knowns the score; if I feel I need a change she knows her time is finite but it was great whilst it lasted.
We are loved our previous van, but it didn't bother us when it went because we love the new one more. If it had bothered us, I think I would have been concerned that we may have made the wrong choice.
Quote: Originally posted by JTQU on 22/4/2010
You fell in love with another van and dumped it for your "new love", so I don't doubt it feels terribly unloved and rejected! You should of thought of all the pain and suffering your flirting with others could lead to before even seeking another. Hopefully somebody else will find they can give it some love. My old girl knowns the score; if I feel I need a change she knows her time is finite but it was great whilst it lasted.
Thanks for eplies i'm glad i'm not the only one then adsheadv, I think its because it was our first caravan. (i'm the same with cars too!!)
The decision to swap wasn't mine but OH decided that it wasnt practical anymore with us being young and having a growing family. But i have to say yes i love the new one now its here, but the old one has lots of nice memories.
The price they are selling it should have made it easier for me too, they are selling it for only £500 more than they gave us! And to top it off we had it 4 years and paid the same price they selling it for!!! Meaning we must have bought a bargin at the time and 4 years of usage has only cost me £500! Not bad then!!!
(ohhh i forgot it came with an awning that we've still got & have been offered £150 trade in!)........Oh i feel much better now.
Aw, it is hard we have a new van now and my sister now has my old girl her/my old van is still on my drive until it moves into strorage this w/e dont get me wrong I love my new van it's everything the old girl wasn't ( 4 berth) but I do still sit in her and think of all the fun we have had and I'm glad it's staying in the family but there is nothing like your first van
but think of the fun your old van will give to someone else :)
We felt a bit bereft when we sold our Fleetwood Heritage, but our new van is a much more practical layout (and doesn't have any damp!!). Took the new one in to workshop to have some bits fitted to be told our Fleetwood is on it's way to Australia! It's all been fixed up of course.
Hope whoever's bought it has as much fun in her as we did.
I'm a bit like that myself. Our Compass Liberte goes to a new home tomorrow and I have found myself in and out of it over the last week or so since it was sold. I will miss it, it is a lovely van and we have had some great times in it.
Amway, hopefully we will have more great times in the replacement.
Taken to its extreme, you cou be sad when you chucked out an old pair of socks. I can understand someone being happy with their van, and sad if something happened to it and they were unable, for various reasons, to replace it like-for-like.
But being sad when it is replaced by choice? Come on, it's just an inanimate object, manufactured on a production line from a batch of man made materials, passed through several hands for profit motivation until it reaches its first owner.
Be "loved" our last van until we bought our present one. The outgoing one sold quickly, and came back into the dealer about three years later. We saw it on the forecourt, and I can honestly say it affected us not one iota.