Yesterday, we had a repeat visitor vying for Paul's Toyota pickup truck. Well, the offer was $8000 cash. We accepted, and are on our way to becoming debt free.
This is more than just a one-time reduction. You see, we will receive a refund of our personal property tax upon turning in the tag. In addition, it will reduce our insurance by about $50 per month. Also, it is one less vehicle to maintain! That is a pretty big deal, over all.
One down, one to go.
Paul will be fixing up the Subaru, which has a little problem. Then, he will be driving that again. We may need to carpool for a few days until that is done. Fortunately, we are on Spring Break in another week. We will have to drive together for Wednesday through Friday. No big deal!
Paul will be parking the van at the Plant Outlet next! Maybe we will have that sold soon, too! That would free up a fair chunk of change monthly, as well. We would also receive a refund of personal property tax, lower insurance, and NO CAR PAYMENT for the first time since 1993!
Can you hear the excitement!
3 comments:
That's good stuff, Jessie! I'm really glad to see you making progress on this. It is so liberating to live debt free. 'Course, we currently have a pesky van payment, which we could technically pay off, and which might actually make sense, considering some financial decisions we made last week... Gotta talk to Davey about that. Hm.
Anyway...happy Easter!
And the kid pics are very nice. They look so...well, old. :-)
Love,
Me
Yup, I talked to David yesterday, and he said to pay it off, as long as we keep making the car payment to ourselves. :-)
Go Jessie!
I have a list of little things that have been nagging at us and I've knocked two of them off the list by paying them off this past week. Pretty soon there will be a list full of crossed out items that we can stop thinking about. It sure does feel good.
I'm so glad you two are working hard at this. It's worth it.
Sandie
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