We Bought a New/Used Car!

I wish we could say that this purchase was made the Dave Ramsey way, but we have been focusing a lot of paying down our existing debt that we weren't able to pay for our vehicle in cash.

Of course, we could have purchased a less expensive car...but since we are hoping to become a family of three later next year we knew we needed something more reliable than the vehicle we already own.

I am a huge, HUGE fan of Toyota's because they are very reliable, run forever, and quiet. I have driven them all my life thanks to the generosity of my parents...so of course it was only natural that I would want the first car I purchased myself to also be a Toyota. The problem is, they are very expensive so Jared really urged me to consider other vehicles.

Even though I told Jared I would consider other vehicles, I secretly told myself I would only buy a Toyota. But after consulting consumer reports and car soup, I realized if I wanted to be the most for my money I needed to consider other vehicles.

When we finally made the decision to purchase a vehicle, we actually ended up only looking at two cars...and we actually only looked at the first car because the second car (the one we ended up purchasing) wasn't available to view until the next day, so we stopped by a dealership to view and test drive a similar vehicle to make sure it was really what we wanted.

What did we buy? A 2007 Subaru Forester.

And my two favorite features…

Heated seats…and my massive sun roof!!!

(Jared loves that the car has a trailer hitch)

It’s actually really hard to find used Subaru’s so when we found one that only had 72,000 miles on it, in such great condition, and with all the extra features that we wanted we had to jump…and so far we are both very pleased with the purchase, and we are hoping to have it paid off between December and February. Which we think is a very realistic goal since we just paid off another student loan!!!!