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Peer 2 peer car sharing in the Economist

Following up from an earlier blog post about RelayRides, there is an interesting article in the Economist today about peer to peer car sharing.  As well as RelayRides in the US, there is another operator WhipCar operating a similar peer to peer car rental service.  I’ll have to try it out.  And I had to [...]

Daily Mail - How you can live like a millionaire... without spending a fortune!

There was a great piece in Saturday’s Daily Mail about fractional living with a good mention of various sharing arrangements.  Two yours2share members were interviewed and it explained how private syndicates work and the benefits.  I couldn’t have written it better if I’d tried.

Many thanks to the two members, Graham Price and Bill Hosie: to [...]

Reduce the cost of running a boat

Anyone who has ever owned a boat will tell you that the ongoing mooring and maintenance costs can be considerable.  One of the major advantages of sharing a boat is sharing these costs.

So I read this article in the Wall Street Journal today with a little amusement.  Sunk costs details the running costs of superyachts.  [...]

Why share?

We all have some fairly expensive assets that we rarely use: second, third or fourth cars that sit unused outside our house for all but an hour a week, swimming pools that are used twice a week, second homes we try to visit once a month, boats we make ourselves sail six [...]