buying on time
anonymous
August 22 2013, 09:45:00 UTC
I remember how liberating it felt when I finally got out from under my mortgage payments. It was the equivalent of getting a 30% increase in pay. My house was the only thing I ever bought on credit -- I always paid cash for my cars.
Which meant I didn't do the usual American thing of getting a new car every 3 years. Instead, I drove the same thing until I had enough saved to be able to replace it. (I've got 100,000 miles on my six year old Toyota Prius now. It still runs fine and looks okay; I'll probably keep it awhile longer even though I've "paid myslef back" for it. All my previous cars were ready for the junkpile at 60,000 miles.)
And yeah, compulsory insurance sucks. But given the way some people drive... :/
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Which meant I didn't do the usual American thing of getting a new car every 3 years. Instead, I drove the same thing until I had enough saved to be able to replace it.
(I've got 100,000 miles on my six year old Toyota Prius now. It still runs fine and looks okay; I'll probably keep it awhile longer even though I've "paid myslef back" for it. All my previous cars were ready for the junkpile at 60,000 miles.)
And yeah, compulsory insurance sucks. But given the way some people drive... :/
-- wa1gsf
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