New Ride

Before the year ended, we found out that our good ol' Honda Accord needed to be repaired.  Uncertain as to how extensive the repairs would be, we tossed around the idea of trading our car in for a newer more reliable one.  So, we took our car into the dealership and I believe they came back with about $1,500 in repairs.  Well we had about 100,000 miles on that thing and we figured we could use it for a down payment on a gently used new car......New to us that is. 

We ended up shopping just a little bit and found that Honda was running their annual end of year sales to make room for the new years fleet of cars.  The dealership already shared with us that they were knocking 4K off the price of their newer vehicles.  I really didn't care as long as we stayed at or close to our current car payment. 

So after about 2 hours I was ready to go and so was Gumz (By the way, I really need to change his name.  This kid has had a full set of teeth for almost a year now)  So they did haggle with us a few times, but we didn't have what they were asking for. We weren't even playing the game, and plus I'm not that much of a bargain dealer either.    So after about 6 hours (does it really have to take that long..I mean, really?)  we walked out with a new car...(New to anybody actually) for only 20 more dollars a month than we were paying before. 

Needless to say, we all slept a bit better that night.  Us, because we won't have to worry about car repairs anytime in the near future and our kiddos because they were pooped at the end of the day.