Looking back, perhaps I should have bought a smaller truck.
Posted on 03/23/2024 6:49:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Unfortunately they don’t teach in school how to manage you money and what not to do, or proper history and the results are obvious.
Their insurance paid me out $4800 for that car.
64 years old, never spent more than $24K for a vehicle. Bought my last new one in 2000. Last year found a cherry Toyota Tacoma that should last until it’s confiscated by the green police.
I have found from experience that you stand a chance of getting a car that has never been driven, if you buy within two years, and you get a good discount as well.
At $15 per hour why the h311 is she buying a car with a $646 monthly payment?! Oh, yes, her “military man” was picking up the slack. Her grief is that he’s not going to pay with them being divorced. Sell the car! (Or find a new sugar daddy.)
Our son just bought a 2012 Mini Cooper for $3,500. The seller is letting him make $500 payments every two weeks with no interest! Not his ideal car, but it’s getting him around.
His 2014 Ford Escape went BLOOEY at 250,000 k and is sitting in the garage, dead.
>she’ll be headed back to college
On student loans no doubt.
Unfortunately they don’t teach in school how to manage you money and what not to do, or proper history and the results are obvious. I never bought a car I could’t pay cash for and for a good portion of my life I never had a high paying job.
At 23 I paid cash for my cars.
Same here. I didn’t own a new car until my 50’s. It lasted until 10 years after I retired. I lease my new car for 380/month for three years with option to buy at the end of that time when I will be 73.
At 23 I had a 73 Pinto.
Box of rocks...this brain dead female votes I bet ya.
I do not buy any vehicle I cannot pay cash for. Most are not very pretty. I still have to pay out for them but repairs which are not often have to be paid for but repair payments are on MY schedule, not a bank’s. If I can’t afford it right away the car can stay in the yard for a couple of weeks and I will get to work another way. I never have any worry that my ride is going to get repossessed.
Can you help me move?
She chose poorly.
I was her age,married, working summers, going to college when I walked onto a new car dealer used car lot and asked to see the cheapest car available. I left with a 73 Levi’s Hornet, 98000 miles and rusted for $300. Replaced it with a Malibu wagon for $500 two years later.
How much will an EV version of your truck put you back? ;-)
Video at the source.
Spoiler alert: She ain't.
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