I am a real grown up now. I have a car payment. I cried like a little girl right there at the dealership when I realized that I would never see "my" car again (I left "my" car that i've had seven years as a trade-in). :cry: Oh I'm crying a little right now just thinking about it. I'm going to go for a drive next week (February vacation) to really run it ragged before my 30 day/1000 mile "warrantee" is up. Know of any good book sales in the New England area?

*weeping at being a real grown-up* :cry: :cry: :rolleyes:

Congrats on the new car!

Congrats on the new car, lizzi! And it's normal to be emotional over the old car... its the end of an era, so to speak.

When my dad traded his old pickup in, until it was sold he used to regularly drive by the dealership, checking on his old baby. :lol:

Congrats Liz! On the car and on being a grownup. ;)
I wanna see pics! :P

Congrats! I can't wait til October so we don't have our payment no more! Woooohoooo!

Congratulations! :lol:

I was the same way about my first car too. I even took a slight "loss" (as if it were worth anything anyway :rolleyes: ) by selling it to a young couple expecting their first baby instead of to the dealership for scrap. The husband was an auto tech student and wanted the car for the heavy old metal frame -- he thought it would be safer for his wife to drive with the baby, and was basically going to rebuild the engine from scratch!

So every now and again I'd see my car parked in town with a babyseat in the back. I always got excited to see it. :lol:

There's Got Books which is in North Reading, MA, next town over from me. If you feel like coming down to visit this way... of course, we could do all manner of naughty things to cause trouble :shedevil:, and I'd put ya up for the night too.

ETA - Congrats too! :bananadance:

Congrats lizzi :D

Congrats Lizzie and welcome to the world of debt. lol

I am sure that you will come to love this car as much as the old one, but the old one will always have a place in your heart. I can still remember my first car. It was a piece of junk, but it was mine. :lol:

a car ? You are such a grown-up Lizzie :D Congrats on the new car!

Congrats on your new car!!! I could probably find a book sale in MO and you could really break it in and come visit too. :P

I too have often felt fondness for my old cars.

What kind of car is the new one?

Congrats!!!

We've been happy with my daughter's Malibu. It's a great size - big enough
for four, but small enough to zip around in and to park easily. What's more,
it has proven to be a good car for the unexpected - don't try this at home -
like crossing the median to safety when she turned into oncoming traffic :unsure: and taking the grass shoulder at 70 mph when a trucker ran her off the
interstate. :blink: In both cases, both she and the car came home undamaged,
although I've taken to calling it "the lawnmower" because of all the grass
sticking out from the undercarriage after the last incident. I hope you won't have to put your new car up to any test that extreme, and that it will prove to be
as good a car as ours has been. Congrats! :D

Thanks everyone for the congrats :)

I'm doing better today, not missing my car too badly at the moment. I've got to write a letter to my grandmother and include a picture of me with the car (her Christmas money was my downpayment), and I know I'll cry when I do. My grandfather bought me my first car when I was in college--we went to the dealer together and he listened to what I wanted and helped me get it (my grandfather was a very practical person, but when I said I didn't think I could drive a purple car, he just smiled and said ok, no purple cars, and that was that!). I haven't thought of grampy lately (he passed away five years ago) and now all of a sudden I'm missing him terribly. :cry: That's part of what was so hard giving up my old car.

Well we're supposed to have a big snowstorm here tomorrow, so if I'm off school then maybe I'll get a chance to run outside and take a picture of me with my car so I can post it.

Also, I am going to take a long drive this weekend with my Dad--we're going to go visit his mother in Rhode Island (I'm going to try to stop by that Charity Book Sale that Cherie mentioned), spend a night or two, then swing up to New Hampshire and visit my sister. So i'll put most of my warrantee miles on the car pretty darn quick!!!

:o and holy moly rannie--i hope i never have to test whether all Malibus are that durable! :lol: :lol: glad your daughter is ok, and glad to hear that the car was sturdy through it all, that's the type of thing I want to hear now that I've gone and bought it!

The book sale is only open Friday and Saturday, though maybe Sunday now too, I've come across conflicting info myself and have only been there once. A lot of the stuff that they just received in that week isn't even categorized so they'll be rows upon rows of hardcovers with no apparent order to them whatsoever! :blink:

But when I was there, I was able to find some stuff I was looking for, and even some newer releases, like a couple of later LKH hardcovers, some 2006 chick lit, etc. And everything's just a buck apiece, no matter when it was published! (There's DVDs and VHS tapes too, though the DVDs are $5 apiece.)

But their website should have everything you need to know too. Maybe lemme know when you're going to be passing through and I'll try to get over and meet you there to say hi! I was thinking of getting back there soon anyway. :rolleyes:


ETA - w00t w00t! :bounce: I just reached 750 with this post so I earned my 5th pip! (Not that I'll ever hope to catch up with Sand and Cheesy...)

Congratulations!

You'll want to be rid of that car payment soon... so enjoy the feeling while it lasts!

Well I'm off for the weekend for a drive in my car :) Gonna head to RI to visit my grandmother and then swing up to NH to visit my sister; should be back on Monday. Wrote down all the info about that Booksale in Mass, Cherie, but can't fix my schedule so I'd rather not make plans to meet without being sure I'm even gonna have time to get there. But thanks for the info, I really hope I get a chance to get over there! See ya all on Monday, hopefully with the news that my car performed FABULOUSLY :kiss: