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I am already renting a storage room because there is not enough space in Mom's house for all of my stuff. I am not sure what to do with car parts while I wait to sell them, spray paint "Nothing to see here, move along!" on a tarp, and cover the components?

There is a weird option...

After eight weeks of waiting for my new job to start, in theory I could start seeing before the week is over. So far, I have clients up to sixty miles away, but I do not believe I will be able to deduct much of my driving. If I see four or five clients an hour away, I can only deduct the miles between clients, which may be negligible compared to the 120-mile commute round-trip.

The weird part is that if I rent an office space I can deduct all of the miles, presuming I always stop by my office before and after. I found a space for $360 a month, although I do not have any idea what additional charges there might be. If I can deduct rent it is technically $306 a month. I think that if I drive 3,700 miles a month I would about break even. I plan on working Saturdays if necessary. If I work 26 days a month and average 142 miles daily I might break even, but...

If I move my stuff from my storage room into my office and deduct $49 it would be easier to break even, but I am not redoing the math.

The other thing is that my brother with autism is in a day program that we do not like. Mom calls it glorified daycare. His support coordinator is supposed to send me the information to provide what they call habilitation. I could work with him four days a week, he would progress, and I should be able to pay bills without driving all over.

Taking him to the office would seem ideal to me, but Mom does not seem to like the idea very much.

I was going to CPR training when my car started overheating. I did it last time on-line, but I wanted to do it in-person. I might have even made a friend or something! $25 in the next town did not sound bad. Curiously, they held two classes a week, last week, and today, so that seemed to work out, except for my car overheating, when I could have taken the training on-line through the American Heart Association for $15.

Oh goodie.

I re-read an article on Popular Mechanics (and rehosted elsewhere) about two guys that bought a junked 1992 Lexus for the suspension, kept some other parts, sold off 1,724 pounds of components, and netted $1,400 for a car that cost them $1,000. They calculated it took at least 110 hours to research, purchase, dismantle, research, and sell, which works out to less than $4 an hour, but the suspension and other parts would have been expensive.

So they made $10 an hour?

In some forum posts the general consensus is that it is difficult to make money parting out cars because of how much time it takes to dismantle and sell. Many indicated that it made the most sense if you wanted something off of a car. If I found a worn-out Civic HX with good parts that mine lacks for $500 then I could Voltron them (Frankenstein's Monster?) into something worthwhile.

I only found eight HXes in the entire country, but what is curious is that I found more simply searching among the ten largest cities in the U.S. Then I tried Google's utility and found additional cars, but not as many.

There is one okay HX with 165,000 miles somewhere in Oregon for $750. That would be very complicated, but I have not seen my family in Oregon in months.

My last trip there cost me more without the souvenir HX.

To the best of my knowledge, this message makes sense. Goodnight!