Friday, 19 December 2008

Sold My Car - I’m Now Car Free

It had been my intention to sell or donate my car before the end of the year.  I finally got around to putting my car on Craigslist today.  Within an hour of listing it I had five calls from people interested in purchasing it.  Maybe I underpriced it?  It seemed like a reasonable price based on other listings.  I’m not going to worry about whether I could have sold it for more. The first guy to look at it bought it and paid for it with cash.  He had a Toyota dealership mechanic with him so the

Re: How do you save?

Buy a fuel efficient, reliable car that you plan on driving for many, many years. Keep it once you have paid it off and you will save a lot of money every month on car payments, taxes and insurance. My husband and I both drive japanese imports that are over ten years old and get 30 miles to the gallon or more. Our insurance is less than $60 a month, no car payments, and taxes are less than $200 a year. I read somewhere recently that you can save $30,000 just by driving the same car for 15 years

Do Your Research To Find Low Cost Car Insurance

Topics: insurance, cars, car, auto insurance, car insurance Everyone must have car insurance as the law states, and it’s necessary in case you ever have an accident. Auto insurance can prevent the need to pay loads of money to get your car fixed should you ever have an accident. Nobody wants to get into an accident, but it’s best to be prepared in case the unthinkable happens. However, just because you need car insurance doesn’t mean that you must pay a lot of money for it. That’s why you shou

SURVIVING THE ECONOMY: PART I

The other day on the way to drop off an express mail package I saw the craziest thing. As I turned the corner I saw a cute little squirrel in the middle of the street. I thought to myself, “I should slow down so the squirrel can navigate his way across the road in front of me.” As I approached, he stood his ground and when I was almost even with the squirrel he started chasing my car. YES! The squirrel started running along-side my car like you see dogs doing from time-to-time. Laughing hyste