Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I know this is a much more complicated question than this, but am I better off buying a decent used car or a cheapcheapcheap new car?
My first few vehicles were cheap used cars. They lasted about as long as the loan. My current vehicle is a used great car, and the loan is paid off, and it's still going strong (knocks wood). I would say go for a low mile used car. Take it to a dealership for that make, and have a mechanic go over it with a fine tooth comb and get a list of what's wrong. If it's a small list, use it to haggle the price down. If it's a long list, use it to walk away.
Alright. Whom care's about english any way?
Weeze aint Anglish anyhow. I is American!
:: runs & hides since my grammar skills suck even when not joking ::
I e-mailed her and asked her not to send me any more political e-mails.
I think this is the perfect middle path. You're cutting off the thing that makes you unhappy but not being combative. If she takes it as a challenge, that's her problem. You shouldn't have to suffer these things just to -- what? Is she under the illusion that you agree with her, or has she just not thought about it?
What about Carmax? Do we trust them?
What about Carmax? Do we trust them?
I had a great experience at Carmax when I bought my Protege there in 2001. It was a '99 and had 9,000 miles on it so practically brand new. It's still pretty much (stupid check engine light and hoopty falling apart steering wheel cover) going strong! knock wood!
I loved that I didn't have to haggle AT ALL.
We had fantastic experiences with Carmax, Emily. I won't buy a used car from anyone else after how smoothly it went. Drew bought his current car and one of his work trucks from them, and Sean recently bought his new car there. No haggling over the price (which may mean you pay a little more, but it so worth the lower stress), and the whole process goes very quickly.
PC, my mom has an Altima, and it has been the bane of her existence.
Ha, that's the first bad thing I've heard about it.
People do seem to love the Civic, but I test drove an '08 Civic, and it didn't do a lot for me. It sounded like a golf cart.
No-haggling = gold standard for Emily. And they seem to have some decent things near me, so okay. I just hate the idea of car payments, honestly. They go on for so long...* and then taking care of insurance!
I know this is everyday stuff, I just haven't had to do it in so long that it seems onerous.
(*though it occurs to me I might be able to family-finance it, if you will, which would at least cut down on the interest!)
Hopefully not.
"Hopefully" is one of my grammatical bad habits that I keep trying to break, but I keep going back to it. Hopefully I'll be able to break it one day.
(See what I did there?)
Guys, I'm so excited! Planning is continuing apace for our trip to SF/NoCA in October! We have plane tickets, and hotel reservations in San Francisco and in Mendocino. We want to stay in Calistoga in between, but I am overwhelmed by the choices there (not to mention that beautiful eco-place in Napa that -t linked to yesterday.)
I also had to chart out on a spreadsheet where we (by which I mean *I*) want to eat while in SF. Sadly, the fun of spontaneous eating will not be part of this trip. The SF proper part, anyway.
So excited- it sucks that it's still 8 months away!
in Mendocino.
Oooh, where? The hardest part about staying in Mendocino was picking a hotel, because they all seemed awesome.
