The last week has been torture. Dealing with cars is so not fun. In fact, I hate it. I see more and more of my Mom coming out in me as I get older. The stress has been killing me, I am not sleeping well, and generally just exhausted so what better way to forget your worries and cure the symptoms but to just sleep, which is exactly what my mom would do!
DH's truck needs some pretty expensive repairs and we were faced with the decision to fix or sell and buy something else. And boy what an emotional ride that has been! Fixing a truck that could potentially have more future expensive repairs is frightening but the thought of another car payment after adjusting to just one was even more frightening in our tight budget.
After cruising through car lots, searching Craigslist, and getting some parental guidance and advice it has been determined that we are going to fix the truck. DH loves it, we can't afford another car payment comfortably, and all in all the risk of a possible future breakdown is less than the definite car payment monthly for many years to come.
Buy a "new" used car initially seemed so much easier in the perfect world but after the hard work of crunching numbers it is just not worth it at this point. So we will fix DH's truck and hope that this will be the only big repair for long time allowing us to continue to have no car payment and a few more years of saving.
So basically I have been an emotional basket case and to top it off it was one of my co-worker's last day of work and I was so sad to say good bye. I will truly miss working with him!
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