<prompt> Human: Does anyone have experience doing this? My parents gave me their 2002 Subaru Forester last year I have the title and Ive stupidly put about 4,000 in repairs into it over the past year. Its all sitting on a credit card with 10 intrest and I am working hard to pay it off now that I am working my first full time salaried job take home is about 2,400month and I pay 680 in rent. I am currently spending 40month to insure it and 170 to park it in a garage because I live in a city and I dont trust parking it on the street in my neighborhood. I rarely use it now and commute to work on public transportation. My live in boyfriend has a car and I am admittedly a little nervous about having to depend on him and his car to go anywhere but he is supportive of me getting rid of my car to help my finances out. Im not interested in trying to sell it on craigslist because the check engine light is on and the issue is not something that needs to get fixed for the car to run. Its very clean on the inside but the outside has some scratchesI got the car appraised at carmax lst night and they said 700, the KBB is 2,900. I am seriously considering donating it to NPR because its something Id like to support and I think I can get some sort of tax incentive out of doing that, Im just not sure how much. Also: I am planning on getting it appraised at the local Subaru dealership tonight to see what they have to say. Does anyone have any advice for my situation? How much can I claim the car is worth on my taxes? I really just want to get rid of it to save money and help myself out by paying my balance off. I live quite frugally and havent had a tradional fulltime job before recently with steady income. This is the first time I have ever had a credit card balance and it makes me sick. I put all that money into repairs because I needed the car where I was living at the time and I wasnt sure if I was going to need it to commute in the future so I stupidly listened to the mechanic and told him he could do the big repair. Lesson learned.  <response>: If you have credit card debt, sell it. You would probably get zero financial benefit from donating it, unless you already itemize deductions. 