A New Addition to the family

We are excited (I guess) to announce that we have purchased another vehicle. I hope the title of the post had you going for a second.

This more practical purchase is brought to you by an actual adult decision-making process. (Our parents are still trying not to die of shock). Recent gas prices being what they are, I would not advocate driving a large pickup truck. The hundred dollar fill-up was the final straw. Alan often has to make unavoidable 60-120 mi round trip drives for work, and I didn't realize what a strain it was on our budget until Quicken showed me I was very wrong.

When all is said and done, it was hard to justify the extra car payment. That is, for about ten seconds until we did the math and realized we would save enough money to get my truck paid off in record time.

It should be noted that we have extended our typical large-item purchase time by days here. We started talking about this on Tuesday and didn't sign all the paperwork until Friday. Could that be considered progress?