We Went Car Shopping

And I have lived to tell the story. Breanna is trying to buy herself a car and Dana and I decided it might be easier for use to do some of the leg work, since we both had the day off and she had class all day and had to work immediately after class. I HATE car shopping, but Dana loves it so we pressed on.

We began to look. At the first place we looked we found out that the banks are no longer loaning on cars unless you plan to finance more than $7,000. (and since our economy is melting down I am not surprised) Breanna has $2k to pay down and a $9,000+ car is not in her budget so we had to change our course of action just a little.

Her requirement at this time is just one thing.. she wants a blue car. SO we head out looking for a blue car that is under $9,000 at a car lot where she can maybe get financing. She has no credit, and as is customary in the good old USA no credit=bad credit.

Dana was a really good sport, he would go look at all of these cars and deal with the slimy, snake-like used car salesmen and I would sit in the car, under the AC. He even had one slimy, heavy pressured snake-like used car salesman call him... TWICE to try to get him to come back and look at some more of their cars. They were overpriced and we wouldnt buy from them anyway.

We think we may have found something that she might like. It is a 2002 Kia Rio, 4 door metallic blue REALLY cute little car. Dana test drove it, and tomorrow if it is still there, Breanna will go and look at it. If it isnt there, there are 3 more blue cars in the same price range that she can look at. This dealer does in-house financing so maybe that will work out.

I dont feel like the blood has been sucked from my veins like I usually do after car shopping, so all in all I think the day was a success!! Wish us luck tomorrow!