Guy at the coffee shop showed me how to save $40 a month on parking

I was grumbling about paying $8 every morning at the lot near my office. Some random dude overheard me and said the church two blocks over rents spaces for $3 a day. I figured why not try it and now I walk an extra 5 minutes but pocket almost $100 a month. Has anyone else found a random parking hack from a stranger like that?

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the_christopher12d agoMost Upvoted

Hold up, let me play the other side here. You're saving $40 but you're walking an extra 10 minutes a day through a sketchy church lot that probably doesn't have cameras or security. That $40 a month is what, like $1.30 a day? Not worth getting your car broken into or walking in the rain. Plus, the church lot could get sold or change their policy any time and leave you stranded looking for parking last minute. The extra walking also adds up to like an hour a week of your TIME, which is worth more than $1.30. Honestly, $8 a day for guaranteed, secure, close parking sounds like a deal compared to all that hassle and risk.

noaht1512d ago

Hang on, that extra walk is like 5 minutes each way, not 10. I timed it. And the church lot actually has cameras, I checked before I started parking there. It's not some sketchy back alley, it's a well-lit lot behind the building. The rain thing is a fair point though, I just keep an umbrella in my car now.

casey68212d ago

And honestly if you've already got the umbrella game down, you're basically set for 90% of the bad weather days anyway. The cameras are a bigger deal than people think too because it's not like the paid lot attendants actually watch your car 24/7, they just sit in that little booth playing on their phones. Plus the extra walking is probably good for you, not gonna lie, I sit at a desk all day and those five minutes each way are the only steps I get sometimes. The church lot's been there for years and unless they suddenly decide to pave it over for condos, you're probably fine for the foreseeable future.