People do judge, don't they. Very harshly at that. I find the practice needless and too time consuming. The way I look at it is this is my life. The only one I know for sure that I have. And I wish to live it in a way that I enjoy. If Joe next door doesn't like my car but I love it because I feel safe and secure inside it as I hurtling 60 miles an hour down a stretch of asphalt that would hurt if something bad happened, so be it. It is his time he is wasting, not mine. And it is his time he is wasting by spending more than he makes on the same sort of vehicle, almost exactly :)

The things you own end up owning you

:)