One of the biggest accomplishments of the past few years of debt slaying has been paying off our cars. We have had two paid off cars for the last 18 months, and let me tell you it is AMAZING. In fact I never want to go back to car payments again! Thankfully, both our cars […]
Car Maintenance: Know When To Replace Your Tires
Do you include car maintenance in your budget? Back in my less frugal days I would ignore the expense until I was hit with a large repair bill. Ouch. While it’s no surprise that cars require maintenance-it just tends to sneak up on us if we don’t plan ahead. Now, of course, I include a […]
car #2: how to buy a new car
Well we did it. I hemmed and hawed about it, but we really do need a second car. We may not need 2 cars every day, but our schedules are only getting busier, and the inconvenience, time, and money spent driving out of my way every day over the winter was just too much. My […]
1 car experiment: FAIL
Today I posted at Consumerism Commentary about buying a 2nd car. The 1 car experiment has failed. We have been surviving with 1 car for the past 6 months. It hasn’t always been easy, but there were some benefits to having 1 car for awhile. The main issue has become the weather combined with my […]
One Car Family: How To Survive
3 months ago we made the decision to become a 1 car family. In August, we took my husband’s car in for a checkup since it was making a weird sound. The car needed about $3,000 in repairs and we felt it wasn’t worth the cost of repairing it. We sold the car to our […]
