A CAR!!!!!
It is a BMW X3, 2 years old with only 14,000 miles on it.
Now that Alison is doing gymnastics at a gym that is about 2 miles from our house (and a 40 minute bus ride one way), we decided it was time to get a car.
I am amazed that we have been non-car owners for nearly 4.5 years. It will definitely open up opportunities to go places that we have not been because they are hard to get to via public transport. But by no means are we going to start driving places that are close by and easy to get to. The kids would have it that way (one in particular....Lauren), but parking is a nightmare in a lot of places and I am not super confident about parking an SUV in the narrow places I have seen around.
I have already had my first incident (not surprising to anyone!). I was driving back from taking Alison to gymnastics and I hit the bus with the side view mirror. Oops. There is a bit of paint on the mirror and the mirror came off but it's ok now thankfully. Suffice to say, Brad was not very happy with me....
The process was quite easy. We went to cargiant, which is a big place for pre-owned cars about a 45 minute journey away. We found a few cars that we wanted to look at and then we got the keys and we were able to look at the cars without a salesman hassling us. They do not negotiate on price: we know because Brad tried!
Brad had to go back and collect it on Sunday because we got too close to closing time after we did the viewing and financing, etc. It was quite a journey home I think, but it's so weird to walk out of the house and see the car outside and know that it's ours!
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