Days of Discovery, Comedy, and Insanity!
Jan
15

No, not Sophie, she will come when she wants to come and be right on time.

My baby as in my new car!! I have been bitching about my ‘00 Ford Windstar for a LOOOOOOOONG time because it probably needed 2x its value in repairs that I was just not willing to pay for. It came down to a few choices… either suck it up and go into debt to fix my van and hope nothing else goes wrong for another 2 years. Suffer without heat, and all the other problems. Or my third and final choice was to trade it in and hope we get a good deal on another car. Well, that deal came along today when I learned that my bank, USAA, would take $3,000 off the purchase price of the van I wanted. They also valued my POS van at $2500 for trade in, which is about $2000-15000 more than what we expected.

Ideally, I would still have liked to wait until both cars were paid off and we had several thousand to put down, however I just cannot imagine putting my new little girl into a car that I cannot trust NOT to break down on me, and lacking heating/cooling.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE my new baby!! If you had to marry something that you loved this much, I would be a polygamist. I got a 2008 Honda Odyssey EX-L with the optional rear entertainment package. It has so many features I could write pages and pages about all the little things I love.

Here is the stock photo, since I just got it and have not taken pictures yet, and a link to all the features.

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2 Responses to “My baby came early”
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    Katie Bonner Says:
    3:09 pm

    I have an ‘01 Odyssey with 91K on it that I *love* and still purrs like a kitten. I’m planning on having it many more years yet. You’ll love yours - and Congratulations! :-)

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    Allison Says:
    11:57 am

    Ohhhh, *lust*!

    We were looking at those, and the EX-L/RES is exactly what we were considering! Instead, we found a used 2004 Sienna w/25k miles for about half what the new Honda would have cost us. I love our new Sienna, and it’s nice to only have 15k financed, but still…oh, you got a nice van!

    We found a house up in Los Alamos, NM, btw — my head is about to pop off and spin around getting things ready for the move.

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