One of the things I suffer from as a male is car envy. About every 6 months I am looking for a new car to buy and lusting over the new features my cars don’t have. Recently I was starting to drool over some new cars and even started running the numbers as far as monthly payment. But then I realized, I could spend the equivalent of about 2 monthly payments and fix every problem with our current cars. So that’s what we did.
Now Michelle can finally go through the drive-thru to get a coffee with full confidence that her window will go back up. We don’t have to buckle 2 kids into one seat belt because our dog chewed up one of the middle belt over 5 years ago. And we don’t have a ghetto dashboard where one whole side is too dark to read at night (luckily it was the RPM’s side). To take it one step further, we spent over 2 hours cleaning the entire inside and out of her car, just like if she were to drive a new car home. So we did get a new car, it just cost me only the equivalent of 2 months of payments rather than 48 months of slavery to the debt.
Posted on September 6, 2011 by Ryan
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