I can’t tell you how happy I am now that Christmas is OVER! My living room is still a mess, there’s still piles of wrapping paper and piles of gifts laying around. I told my kids I want all their gifts put up by tonight, I just don’t want to look at any of it any more. My husband got me the perfect gifts, nice and practical. I got a pair of warm boots, 3 pairs of sneakers and a new robe. Not exactly glamorous gifts but absolutely perfect for me! I plan on packing up our Christmas tree tonight so I don’t have to look at it any more. I’m bad!!!
My husband went back to work on the 22nd and won’t be home until after New Years. He helped me get the Christmas shopping done but all the wrapping was on me. I don’t mind wrapping so much but with 4 kids it takes awhile to get it all done. I was up until almost 2 am on Christmas getting all the gifts wrapped. The kids had a great Christmas, and best of all, for the first time, probably in 15 years or so, I didn’t charge anything on credit cards this Christmas! I’m stilll going to dread getting my credit card statements in January but at least I won’t see any charges and my balance won’t be up. This is HUGE for me.
New Truck Fever
I want to start this off by saying that I love my husband dearly, he’s a wonderful man and a fabulous provider. Okay now it’s time to rant….
He’s gone from wanting to buy a used Toyota 4×4 to wanting to drop $50,000 on a new Toyota 4×4 Tundra! I’m livid! Here I am scrapping money here and there, trying to get vehicle loans and credit card companies paid off and he’s wanting to buy a 2009 truck so he can save his 2004 truck from getting warn out. Where is the logic here? I’ve flat out told him “I will not have another car payment EVER”, he’s told me that’s not how the world works. He’s made me go with him to new car dealers and talk to sales men. Once I’m t here, I’ve very standoffish and won’t even sit in the trucks. I think my husband is hoping I’ll come around and be seduced by the new car smell. At this point I don’t think any smell would be worth being shackled into another 60 month car payment. I honestly think my husband is to the point where he doesn’t care what brand he buys as long as he gets a new truck. I think he gets some kind of shopping high out of it???
For those of you that don’t know, he’s needing a truck for his job. He typically is working 6-8 hours away from home (at least 10 days at a time) and then another hour or two down dirt roads. He does need 4×4 there’s no doubt about that.
At first I agreed to him buying a used 4×4 truck or SUV so he wouldn’t ruin his big 2004 Ford. Then I found out how upside down we are on my Suburban. We owe over $27,000 on it and it’s worth about $20,000. This is our family car and it mostly just sits in the garage. The Suburban is 4×4. After finding out how upside down we are on the Suburban I told my husband he could just use this vehicle as his commute car.
We bought GAP insurance for the Suburban when we purchases it so if it’s totalled or stollen the insurance will pay the difference between what we owe and the current market value. It’s perfect for him and would fit all his gear. He started out wanting a used Tahoe so the Suburban isn’t far off of what he was wanting. He flat out refuses to drive it for work, he claims it’s my car.
I’m to the point now that I don’t even want him to buy a used truck since we are stuck with our Suburban and it’s nasty $700+/month payments. He’s refusing to budge and so am I. I’m not sure where this will lead, I’m sure we’ll get into an intense fight when he comes home. I need to stay strong. I’ve tried to make him feel selfish, I told him he can sell all the cars, I could careless as long as I have a dependable vehicle to take the kids to school in. That didn’t work at all. I think I’m losing my wifely power to make him feel guilty. ![]()
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