Jay's New Toy
Oct. 20th, 2006 02:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaelieAs some of you know, Matt and I want to have children in the near-ish future. However, our vehicles are not child friendly, as they are both two-door tiny subcompacts. Well, the Hyundai Accent is a subcompact. Matt's Civic may be just a compact. We've been keeping our eye out, more or less casually, for a good deal on a more family oriented vehicle, from minivans to SUVs. I couldn't get excited about a minivan, but I thought that if I was going to get a family car it would have to be something with an automatic transmission, so it may as well be a minivan.
I got a new toy last night and I am so excited! It's a four cylinder, front wheel drive, manual transmission Saturn VUE. It's a 2003 and has 57,000 miles on it. All that sounds unappealing to most, but it was exactly what I wanted (although, of course, less miles would have been better, but with a manual transmission it's not quite as bad as it would have been). And some more on the plus side, it is fully loaded, with leather interior, heated seats, six disc CD player, moon (sun?) roof, and more stuff. The blue book value for a VUE in this condition is around $14K. But even more on the plus side, it is all mine for just under $10,000! Whee!!!
Bye-bye, my little Hyundai! You served me well.
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Date: 2006-10-20 02:47 pm (UTC)That's very nice! Bet I know what you drive up here next visit! ^_~
Guess what Tim wants me to get?
A conversion van!
heh!
Can you say road trips?
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Date: 2006-10-20 03:05 pm (UTC)Oh, and so funny.
I was SO excited when I got home, although I thought I had calmed down some. Boy, was I wrong. My hound could tell that I was excited and so he got all excited, too. Of course, he thought I was excited because it was walk time (it wasn't, but of course the hound thought it was. Why else would we be excited?), so he started up all his pre-walk antics and cracked me up.
I gave in and took him on the walk anyway.
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Date: 2006-10-20 05:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-20 05:32 pm (UTC)*Nothing* like getting a new car. That's awesome, sweety. Congradulations!
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Date: 2006-10-20 07:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-10-23 03:13 pm (UTC)FUN!!!
Date: 2006-10-26 11:13 am (UTC)Re: FUN!!!
Date: 2006-10-26 02:20 pm (UTC)And now you need to get a LiveJournal account. It's free! Do it! You know you want to!