Suburbia
I went out and bought a big ole’ gas guzzling Suburban today. Why you ask? Especially given that every other one of my posts is a complaint about not having enough money? Well, my down payment was next month’s would-be car payment (on my rapidly decaying mini-van) and I’m now paying about $200 dollars less a month. It’s six years old too, so it’s not like I spent a whole bunch. Just hear me out, I’ve been trying to justify to myself the idea of doing this for months. As for getting a Suburban, I’ve always liked them and I wanted something big. Yes, I know that gas prices are at an all time high. Somehow it seems though that I’ve always got 5 or more passengers with me. Nieces, nephews, cousins, friends of the kids, etc., we’ll probably fill all eight seats weekly. To top it all off, with some very creative re-arranging and shoving around of crap, I managed to fit the beast in my garage. I’ll need to back it out every time I do laundry though :)
That was sort of stressful. Buying cars has never been fun and I’m not good at that sort of thing. I think I made out pretty well for once thanks to the dealer totally forgetting about paying off my van after already quoting a payment. We were two signatures away from being done when they caught it. I’m glad they did, as I would have been making payments on a van I no longer had possession of. I ended up getting way more than my trade was worth and he dropped the interest rate 3%. Of course you could also construe this to mean that I was getting bent over before hand and just lucked out and got a fair deal. I like the optimistic explanation better…
That pretty much blew most of the day. Then it was show and tell at work and the kids just about blew a gasket. They really liked it. I also went by my sisters and we ended up staying for dinner. This relieves some pressure from my Jeep’s aversion to liquidity. I still need to sell it, now that I finally have a vehicle capable of towing it every place I’ve wanted to take it without actually driving it. Go figure.
Fej.
That was sort of stressful. Buying cars has never been fun and I’m not good at that sort of thing. I think I made out pretty well for once thanks to the dealer totally forgetting about paying off my van after already quoting a payment. We were two signatures away from being done when they caught it. I’m glad they did, as I would have been making payments on a van I no longer had possession of. I ended up getting way more than my trade was worth and he dropped the interest rate 3%. Of course you could also construe this to mean that I was getting bent over before hand and just lucked out and got a fair deal. I like the optimistic explanation better…
That pretty much blew most of the day. Then it was show and tell at work and the kids just about blew a gasket. They really liked it. I also went by my sisters and we ended up staying for dinner. This relieves some pressure from my Jeep’s aversion to liquidity. I still need to sell it, now that I finally have a vehicle capable of towing it every place I’ve wanted to take it without actually driving it. Go figure.
Fej.
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