Let's travel back in time shall we? Way back to when Kevin and I just met. We were happy, in early dating bliss. At this stage there is no financial talk or joint decisions made as a couple- you're still on your own in that department. Well during this blissful budding romance Kevin decided his current truck wasn't worth fixing so he bought a shiny new truck. Unfortunately he was $5000 in the hole with the old truck so add that to the cost of the shiny new truck and we get a shiny (giant) payment. Though I am told the average car payment now-a-days is actually larger than said car payment it was still too much for me. Fast forward a couple years and I decide my car had too many miles (ha!) and I needed a shiny new car with a shiny (moderately sized) payment. There you have it- we were paying more in shiny car payments and full coverage car insurance than we were paying for our house. Not good. Something had to be done.
So since I was not upside down in my car payment we sold my car and bought said junker.
A 1996 Jeep Cherokee with 220,000 miles. At the time the driver's seat was tied down with a rope and the car needed a ton of help. We initially made it drive able and safe and Kevin has been fixing other things as we go, but for $1100 it has been a pretty fabulous little car. But after selling our house in Denver we were able to do some serious changes with our finances including (finally) paying off that shiny (giant) car payment. So what had to be done? Well mama needed a new car! So this is what we got (with cash mind you).
Oh yes, pretty isn't it? It's a 2000 Land Rover Discovery II. It has dual sunroofs, it has massive tires, it has shocks, it has CUP HOLDERS, this baby is loaded. Oh the things you miss when driving a junker. Mama's happy and that means everyone's happy.
The story isn't quite over yet though. We have a little more work to do on the jeep which we will sell in the next few weeks then we will buy another car and sell the truck. Exactly what we're going to do is up in the air. Stay posted...
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