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[mikepugs]

Ah-I'm sure that is quite the dilemma.I won't have to deal with that for a while, but im sure i'll have pretty much no say in my childs name...i mean i might have a "say", but that just might be a myth just to make me FEEL like i have a say. lol.

Anyway good luck with that!

"My wife wanted a cat; I didn't want a cat. We compromised and got a cat."

 

[jotdess]

"My wife wanted a cat; I didn't want a cat. We compromised and got a cat."

Ahahaha!! That sounds about right LOL.

 

[Tanner31593]

"My wife wanted a cat; I didn't want a cat. We compromised and got a cat."

My uncle is a stay at home parent. He gets an "allowance" from my aunt,
to get X things like gas and food and stuff for Y amount of time, if he spends it all, he doesn't get more until Y time is over. It's kinda sad.
But to be fair, he had a credit card before this, that didn't go so well.....
He is on a tight leash,
but im not saying its wrong, she is the main breadwinner for the family, its her money and she needs to make it go a long way. She pays for all the bills.
If he does stupid things, it reflects in the amount of money he gets. (Example....3 weeks before christmas he got into some legal troubles........uh oh. He will be "grounded" for sure!)
But to be fair, im sure his days are easy. 8 and 3 year old, 8 year old goes to school, its just him and my 3 year old cousin all day. Dont get me wrong, it can be work, but he can sit there and watch TV all day. (The big screen tv has "Noggin" logo burned in one corner, "Playhouse disney" on the other.
ALthoug when i watch the kids they aren't allowed to watch TV...... because im evil

 

[Stretch]

Hope everyone's having a good start to the weekend. I went and looked a new car today. Its a 2000 F-150. Nice looking truck. They want $4995 for it, which isn't bad. It drives nice, and is a huge improvement over my cavalier. Its a v6 so its gets better gas milage. 4x4 and the best part its a 5spd. Now I just need to decide whether or not I want to go bargain with the dealer and take it, or just keep the cav until it kicks the bucket.

 

[cwa107]

Hope everyone's having a good start to the weekend. I went and looked a new car today. Its a 2000 F-150. Nice looking truck. They want $4995 for it, which isn't bad. It drives nice, and is a huge improvement over my cavalier. Its a v6 so its gets better gas milage. 4x4 and the best part its a 5spd. Now I just need to decide whether or not I want to go bargain with the dealer and take it, or just keep the cav until it kicks the bucket.

Not a bad price for a 4WD full-size pickup, IMO. I'd have a mechanic check it out to verify the condition first. Then, if it checks out, walk in with a cashier's check for $4500. That should get you out the door with tax and tags for less than $5000. I've yet to see a dealer pass up cash in hand, only $500 short of their asking price. The key is to use a cashier's check, so that it appears non-negotiable.

What kind of mileage does it have?

 

[Stretch]

Its got 120k on it.

 

[Netty4mac]

Whoa! It's a chilly 56 F here in SoCal.

 

[rman]

It is 58F where I am at.

 

[MacHeadCase]

Why do you torture us Northerners with all these temperature numbers?

 

[todd51]

That isn't a bad price for the truck, but I don't know much about bargaining, I've never bought a car by myself before, my parents have bought mine.

Well I made it safely to my friend's place here in Chicago, the roads were just wet, it had quit snowing. Hopefully I won't get snowed in, I'm leaving on New Year's Day.

It's about 35 degrees here near Chicago. When I was in Texas the other day it was about 65 and sunny. Well, back to cold temperatures.

 

[Stretch]

That isn't a bad price for the truck, but I don't know much about bargaining, I've never bought a car by myself before, my parents have bought mine.

I haven't either, my dad did all the bargaining last time.

 

[rman]

Dinner time, a little late this evening.

 

[Tanner31593]

Hope everyone's having a good start to the weekend. I went and looked a new car today. Its a 2000 F-150. Nice looking truck. They want $4995 for it, which isn't bad. It drives nice, and is a huge improvement over my cavalier. Its a v6 so its gets better gas milage. 4x4 and the best part its a 5spd. Now I just need to decide whether or not I want to go bargain with the dealer and take it, or just keep the cav until it kicks the bucket.

What year is your cavalier?
My dad has a 2 door black one from '92.
He is the type of person to drive a car until it completely drops dead, no matter how old, how many miles, how ugly, small, dirty, or rusted it is.
Here in my area, its hard to find a car in good outside condition.
Its quite sad really.
Cars are rusted before leaving the dealership.
My uncle has an 05 pontiac g6, and its rusting already!

Anyway,
If your cavilier is quite newer than '92 you may not notice this,
but cavaliers do NOT look good after 15 years.
The dash is like sagging, so the vent cover sort of popped out because the dash curved and sagged so much and it wont fit back in.
The cupholder above the glove box broke.
The seatbelts no longer retract on half of them.
One of the door handles snapped off after the door was frozen shut.
Its VERY rusty- not the cars fault though.

I dont go in his car anymore, its embarrassing. And it smells like cigs and he spills pop all over in it so its all sticky and the floormats are sticky so after you get out and you are walking on to an auditorium with 1,000+ people there your shoes are like (squeak squeak) from the sticky pop.
And it is SO SMALL!
MAybe this is just the 2 door model though.
Like we aren't short people,
luckily im not younger so he isnt driving me everywhere,
we are all about 6 feet tall and its like IMPOSSIBLE to get in that car without a lot of discomfort.

The manual transmission hasnt given us any problems though, which is expected. and great MPGs since he used to work about 200 miles away from our house (jobs are scarse around here).

My moms 97 dodge neon isnt great either, but its a 4 door and i like it a lot better. The headlights are VERY dim though, you have no idea where the road is!

But my family vows to never buy new/expensive cars. It would be nice,
but we live on a REALLY bumpy durt road which doesnt get maintained by ANY of the counties even though they are supposed to.
So in the spring/fall its like a mud pool (at least 3 days out of the year nobody can drive out of the neighborhood because there is so much watery mud that it forms streams that erode the dirt away from the road so there is GIANT holes all across the road, we measured 5 feet wide across the whole road, and about 2 feet deep.
We cant go anywhere when that happens.

And it really messes up your car-
we have to replace headlights/taillights/blinkers at least 2 times a year.
We have struts go out, rods damaged, i could go on and on.....

my late grandmother had a 1996 white chrysler sebring convertable and she left it to my dad. It's nice, a convertable isnt very practical in our area though, but at least its useable. It's a nice car, and bigger on the inside and in the back than it looks.

Anyway, my dad blew the transmission. Im no car expert but he says sebrings didnt have the best transmission in the first place, but he is used to a stick so he likes to shift from reverse to drive while the car is still going a considerable speed, which will obviously have much more of an affect on an automatic car....so that been sitting here for the past year.

But as luck would have it-
reading the paper one day i see an ad for a 97 chrysler sebring convertable with rear end damage. I didnt think my dad was looking to replace the transmission in that car-we have 5 cars around here, i thought he was planning to junk it. I noticed it was only $400. Wow. SUre thats cheap, but $400 is a lot. So i threw it away. The next day i noticed he was watching a sebring on ebay, and asked him if he was looking to replace the transmission-he said yes. Ugh. So i went back and took a paper out of someone elses mailbox (okay it was the 27th and the paper was from the 15th and it was all muddy-i doubt they wanted it) and found the ad again.
It was a 97 sebring converable with rear end damage. It "runs good", just not legal to drive whith the rear end damage,
has "new tires-less than 100 miles" and a "new battery." for $400.
Sounds too good to be true, the tires alone are almost worth $400!
We cant help but think the price is a misprint-
so we called them and amazingly, he STILL HAD THE CAR.
We are gonna look at it tomorrow at 2.
So looks like we are going to have another functional car here!

(One can only hope that maybe he's saving that car for when i am going to need it-which will be soon!Doubt it though. But it would be nice to have something to remember my grandmother by, after all this time-it still smells just like it did when she had it. I dont know how because she smoked like a mad woman, the seat is covered in burns.) And i think it would be cool to take a bucket seat out and mount it on something to make some sort of chair-sounds stupid, but interesting to me. A friend of mine did that and put speakers in it.
Its mad sweet.)

Anyway sorry about the LONG post.

Good luck with the truck purchase!!!!

 

[Stretch]

My cavalier is a 2001, 2dr, with the 2.2L engine and a 5spd. It runs well, and the tranny is good, but it still has a few problems. I need to replace the drivers side tie rod. The rear wheel cylinders blew again. I have had to replace the exhaust brackets every year since I bought the thing. Its starting to rust.
I hate that the doors are always freezing shut. The interior rattles and squeaks so much it sounds like its just gonna pop apart.

It was a great car at the time that I bought it, because I needed a cheap car that would get great gas milage since I was commuting to school. But now I'd like to get something a little bigger, I'm 6'8" and its like a clown car to me. Plus if I ever got in an accident with it, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be walking away from it.

The truck is affordable at the moment. Gas milage isn't too bad. It drives alot better than my cav, although it will take some getting used to the rwd in the snow. I'm going to go back on monday and talk to the dealer, see if I can get it down to around $4300 (there's a few little things that will help me with this) and trade in my cav, hopefully I can get around 1-1200, it books for about 1800 as trade-in. Then finance it, and I'll only be paying about $150-200/mnth which I can easily.

 

[mikepugs]

I come to you from the world of Mac OS X Leopard...

...take me to your leader..


..No but seriously just made the upgrade and so far am Loving it! My new OWC drive is working flawlessly as well!

Time to explore!

 

[TrishOB]

Congrats on the upgrade, Mike. I just ordered Leopard today from Amazon, hope to get it within a week.

Also ordered a spare power adapter for my MBP, as the one that came with it is threaded behind the computer desk I keep my MBP on when not in use, and it's too much trouble to pull it out if I want to use my MBP elsewhere and have it plugged in.

Happy New Year, everyone!

 

[mac0s9user]

Well,
My friend who I was going to spend new years eve with at the bars and having fun (though I don't drink I was going to be a DD), has obviously forgotten about me. Texted my other friend (as he have poor cell service) and they didn't even ask what I was doing for New Years when I asked them. So it looks like new years will be pretty lame on my end.

Hope everyones else's goes better

My resolution is to get rid of my these people in my life.

 

[mikepugs]

My resolution is to get rid of my these people in my life.

LOL nice.

Mine are to get back into prime shape and get a girl. Refocus basically

 

[rman]

Wow, it sure is windy today.

 

[mac0s9user]

You too huh? Windy clear and 25 F!