Lots of change in our lives lately. The biggest one right now is that we did end up selling our car. In fact, we sold it in under 24 hours for just under our asking price. He’s coming to get it today. It’s going to be so weird having no car for a while, but at the same time we use it so infrequently that it makes sense. Though now that we’ve sold it, I keep thinking of all the little things we use it for that make it so useful.
We’ve looked at some other cars. We could wait until Kris gets his bonus and buy a nice, not-too-old car, probably an American one because they’re cheap. We’ve looked at a couple of really cheap cars we could buy now though. We went and saw a Mercury Sable last night. It’s older, but has relatively low mileage for the year and it was actually in really good condition. We weren’t able to test drive it though, because it isn’t insured and the roads have been so bad here. But we turned it on and had a look at everything. I think he’s going to arrange insurance so we can go back and see it maybe this weekend. We just want something that will be safe and run reliably for 3 or 4 years until we’re out of debt and can save up to buy something really nice outright. Like maybe a couple year old Accord or Camry. Or maybe a minivan. 
We’re actually going to look at a Grand Caravan today too. It’s a 2005 but has a 170,000 km. It was used as a work vehicle for a salesperson. He says it’s been extremely well maintained and it’s pretty cheap. I’ve read that minivans are wonderful even with just one kid. Easy to diaper change and get in and out of. Great for trips. But I’m not sure I’m ready for a minivan yet. Plus, I think people would read too much into it. :p But we’ll look. You never know, maybe we’ll fall in love. There are other Grand Caravans that are cheaper and older but less km. I’m not sure if it’s better to go for newer and higher mileage or older and less mileage. Kris is thinking the newer and higher is better as long as it’s been well maintained. It will probably suck gas too. We’ll go look anyway. We thought at first it was missing a 1 from in front of the price because all the other ones from that year are $8-$10,000 more, but then we noticed the mileage.
One of the things we decided when selling our car was that if we bought an older car and weren’t comfortable using it for trips, we could always rent and still pay less than our monthly payments on our current car. So even if we end up with a smaller car we could always rent a minivan for longer drives.
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Wow, you already sold it?! I knew you were thinking about it…well that’s probably for the best anyway
A minivan though – really?! haha you know my opinion on those beasts. Then again, I don’t have a baby. I feel like I haven’t talked to you in forever
I’ve been so busy!
Hope you end up finding a great cheap reliable car!
Oh, and you think your roads are bad?! It snowed so much here the other day that the buses practically shut down and it took my 2 hours to get to my house from downtown. Which normally takes SEVEN minutes. The high for tomorrow is MINUS 27
xoxox
I can’t believe how fast it all happened! Have you considered a Japanese import from up island here? They can be pretty cheap for low km. All (?) run diesel. Lots of different kinds- land cruisers, skylines, prado, vans… Right hand drive though.
Probably not a minivan. We looked, but I don’t think either of us are ready for it yet ha. It snowed enough to shut down Calgary? That’s funny, and must have been a lot of snow. We still have snow here, it’s crazy. I miss you too! We need to talk more.
Annie, we hadn’t looked, but I did check some out after you posted. I don’t know about right-hand drive though. That could be confusing. I think we might hold off on a car for now. I’ll write another post about it later if I get a chance. (Which I don’t much lately but we’ll see!)