Comments on: Dude, I Totaled My Car

By: 3 Plutus Award Nominations, 2 Jobs Quit, 1 New Career | My Next Buck

3 Plutus Award Nominations, 2 Jobs Quit, 1 New Career | My Next Buck — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:22:55 +0000

[...] past weekend, I quit a job for the first time (delivering pizzas doesn’t count… my car got totaled). Effective Monday, I am no longer a concierge at the apartment building. Its kind of a shame, [...]

By: Shame « The Hometown Tourist

Shame « The Hometown Tourist — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:30:44 +0000

[...] been reinforced as I’ve watched my friend Brian from Building Wealth Together trying to deal with the total loss of his own [...]

By: Outstanding Items: My New Car (sort of), 401(K), and My New Headphones | Building Wealth Together

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:36:26 +0000

[...] a vehicle. I have updated the status of my search for its replacement once, shortly after my initial post about my accident and my carless situation. At this point I have foolishly put all my eggs into two vastly different baskets, and I am [...]

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:01:05 +0000

@CouponNinja – I am still going through the process. I am anxious to see what i will end up doing, let alone anxious to have a car again. I found a great car for $2400 and then the guy flaked on me . I may go for something used and cheap and see how long it lasts. If i have a bad experience using Craigslist to buy a vehicle, i may just simply say “lesson learned – let me go finance myself a car”.

By: Coupon Ninja

Coupon Ninja — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:18:58 +0000

My husband and I were in a wreck of such earlier in the year. It totaled our Jeep out because of a broken rear axle. Fortunately we live in a state of salvage and rebuilt titles so we took the 3K the insurance company gave us and turned around and used 1K to fix her. She’s got 180K miles on her, we can squeeze a few more out of it I think. I am such a miser… 3K would not have bought a good enough car for us and we can’t afford a car payment.

I’d say spring for a fairly decent used car, or better yet, ride out these deals of all these car dealerships that are liquidating their assets and find a good bargain. Pay some, finance some if you need to.

By: MLR

MLR — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:18:38 +0000

Craig –

*SOME* girls don’t care about cars (at least the ones worth dating)

And I would say buying a girl a shot at the bar is the WORST investment possible, haha.

By: Angie

Angie — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:44:50 +0000

I haven’t read much of your blog, but if it was me I would be basing the new cars expected life with my debt repayment plan. For example, if your current plans have you paying off your debt in 2 years I would get a car with a 3+ years life left so it wouldn’t die in the middle of the repayment schedule. If you have no debt, or will be finished paying off in a year, I would likely go for a new or 1-year old vehicle.

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:23:37 +0000

Man, I feel your pain. I have a Ford Escape with 117K+ miles on it, and I just got notice that I will be laid off from my current job (last day Nov 30). I know there are things that need fixing on the Escape immediately so I’m torn between spending the $ to fix it or putting that cash towards a new/used car. I think I’ll be out looking over the July 4th weekend too…

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:30:53 +0000

Just get something decent and pimp it around anyways. Girls could care less about cars, not sure if you are a car person or not. Agree with J. take the money and buy some girls shots at the bars.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:47:17 +0000

I know J, but there is something that “The Man” said that has me conflicted. http://tinyurl.com/l8ftm7

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