I swear I'll stop talking about the car search any day now. Like, if we ever find one. Yesterday we got the ultimate runaround. Well, probably the penultimate runaround. We went to a place with a $14,975 car, but with an Internet special of $11,988. Printout in hand, we schlepped over to Glendale, not a close spot, and test drove it. Tim was Continue Reading
Archives for February 2011
“What can I do to get you into a car today?”
Yep, someone actually used that line on us. If I hadn't been so tired, I would probably have burst out laughing. The guy was high pressure, no finesse. The basic fact is that car salesmen seem to have a special kind of math that I don't understand. Which is to say, I see through it. C'mon, you can only juggle the numbers around so much. And Continue Reading
Insult to injury
Just in case the whole "being in a car accident/losing our only means of transportation" thing wasn't enough, I seem to have developed a cold. A nasty one. I spent most of Saturday feeling sorry for myself and eating orange sherbet pops to cool off my throat. Blah. The adjuster came out on Wednesday and assured me that he'd have a valuation no Continue Reading
Sorry this post didn't get up sooner, but I've been a little busy the past day or two. Well, more busy than usual. In the grand tradition of God never opening a window without slamming a door shut, our newly relatively-stable financial selves now need to buy a car. Tim and I had just agreed to budget $300 to a car fund each month, and then, Continue Reading
Wherein I buy a digital book
Yep, I admit it. After all my skeptical notes about ebooks and how pointless it is to use them instead of a regular book... I bought an ebook. The book I wanted wasn't available in physical form. Plus, now that I have an iPad, I'd been meaning to at least see what all the fuss was about -- or so I rationalized. And, in my defense, I was using Continue Reading
The price of everything
According to Oscar Wilde, "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." A pithy quote, to be sure, and one I'm repeatedly reminded of in my current book. Yes, I succumbed to the lure of the clearance section (Damn you, Barnes & Noble online!) and picked up about a dozen books for about $55. It feels very Continue Reading