Archives for April 7, 2007

We’ve been trying to find a used car to fill the gap after trading both of our vehicles in on the truck. That move to lower our monthly car payments. For the most part having one vehicle is working out very nicely – but we do need to have some sort of back up. Jeff’s been doing tons of online research and has found some fairly nice Volvo’s. We’ve been out and about looking at them and checking CarFax on the most of them. We found a nice one on Friday – but it had one problem, those low miles were because the Odometer wasn’t working. So much for that car.

So Jeff keeps looking and points out it’s too bad we didn’t have some place to stay in Atlanta because there are hundreds of used Volvo’s there. Oh well…..

I don’t know how to get it across to Megan, just because her father is paying her rent, paying for her car with insurance, paying her tuition and giving her a weekly “food” allowance doesn’t mean he has money to buy her curtains. She needs to understand he’s entitled to spend his money how ever he wants to, even if that means going on cruises and buying a travel trailer. She really needs to appreciate every little thing she has because it’s all been given to her.

Lord knows we never could have afforded any of this for her. For starters, we would have gotten her a used car and expected her to find a part time job to pay for the insurance.

I guess she will only learn to appreciate things when she has to work long hours at crappy jobs just to keep a roof over her head. But then there’s her father….