video blogging and a broken car.

Dear Dave,

Well, this is embarrassing.

As excited as we were about our $575 Buick Skylark paid in cash, it is now well on its way to kicking the bucket. The radiator just cracked so Zach took the car to get inspected and well…it’s bad. The entire frame of the car is rusted, rotted and falling apart. There were whole chunks of metal missing. It’s just a tragedy of vehicle. Even though it SUCKS that we’re now having to buy a new car we’re very grateful for our red Hulga. Here’s the math : the entire amount of what we paid for Hugla equals one month of car expenses for our old (new) Chevy Equinox. The car payment, insurance payment and gas added up to about $600 a month. So if we only drove the Buick for ONE month, we’d have come out on top. But we got FOUR months, which means we were able to save just over $3,000. Although we were hoping to save up 5 or 6 thousand for our next car, we’re so grateful to have $2,000 to spend. That’s $1500 more than we had last time we needed a car. We are only slightly frustrated and mostly optimistic.

SO welcome to part 2 of our journey. We’re going to start vlogging (video blogging for all you noobs) some of our financial progresses, setbacks, and steps along the way. It’ll also be a somewhat entertaining way for you to get to know us a little better and see how our financially functioning relationship works. (and some days DOESN’T work) Today we went out to shop for cars. Something I (Kristen) do NOT like doing. Which you can kind of tell in this video. So, enjoy the video.

Kristen

http://www.youtube.com/user/letterstodave?feature=mhum

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