Since I have no mechanical knowledge and neither does he, I am scared to buy anything with too much mileage.
Shopping for a cheap car is hard. So many times it looks great on paper and then you look at it in person and find out that it's not so great. I've had a Ford Tempo and Honda Civic last to 200,000 miles and my current Ford Focus is at 250,000, but knowing how to fix some stuff on it does make it easier.
I'm kinda giddy about finding that Fit because aside from some scraps that I can probably fix easily there's nothing wrong with it. I fully expect something to be wrong with any car under $4,000. My daughter's Fit was kinda a lucky find too. Suddenly our family is three Hondas and a Ford.
I'm hoping to find him a Focus. We've done research on best cars you can get for $5000
2006-15 Mazda 5
2006 - Mazda 3
2009-13 Fit
2009 Malibu
2009 Elantra
2009 Ford Fusion
2002-06 Camry
2008-11 Focus
2006-10 Civic
2004-10 Corolla
Cindy - that was when I was buying my house and there was a slight setback (not on my part) and my title search lawyer told me there are two kinds of problems, the one that money will make go away, and the ones that no amount of money will solve, and the second kind are the worst.
Not that lack of money can't be a big pain in and of itself, but there's usually remedies that may take more or less time and effort depending. Health and interpersonal relationships, not nearly so much.
Timelies all!
Hugs(as gentle as need be) to all who need/want them.
Ugh, Sara, I'm sorry you're dealing that.
Recruiters tell me that number of pages isn't really a big deal anymore and generally more is better.
Recruiters might not care but hiring managers might. I know I don't want to see a list of all the tasks you ever did at every job you had for the last 20 years when I'm trying to figure out if you'll be a good fit for my team.
Much sympathies to Buffistas going through rough stuff, health-wise and otherwise.
Speaking of health, Rosemary is still recovering from heart valve replacement, though not as quickly as her doctors liked so they called her back in for more tests... and found that she had, seriously a
gallon
of fluid around her lungs. Happily, it's actually not a big deal to drain that, which is how they measured it to nearly a gallon!!!
She says that she's surprised to be feeling much better now.
I bet she feels better not having all that fluid in her.
I like my Honda Fit. Well except for the underpowered A/C.
At work we have to put in any time off requests 3 weeks in advance. Which I've done. Except my requests are sitting there not looked at so not approved. I've asked my supervisor and my assistant manager and ninth have assured me they will do it and no one has. It's annoying.
Especially because the bulk of it has to be used by Sept 29. Which seems like a long way away until you have to put in requests 3 weeks in advance and then it isn't.
