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Jul 8, 2019    |       31 comments

A Decision Made

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As you all know, I have been living without a car since the first week of April when my car was totaled in a wreck on our way home from Spring Break in Texas. And really, it hasn’t been too bad.

It has saved me money on gas, insurance and just general get up and go spending. Now anything I want to do that requires a car must be planned. Both of the twins have cars and my grandmother has a car which I can use at times. I have not felt deprived at all.

My original plan at the beginning of the summer was to save up and buy a car when we returned from Texas in mid-July. As I was considering cars and long term needs, I finally settled on a type of car and was prepared to purchase a decent used car this month.

But the more I have thought about it, the less I want to buy a car. So I have decided…I will not buy a car. At least not for the foreseeable future.

Day to Day Car

My plan is to use Sea Cadet’s car when he leaves (end of July.) And since he was planning to sell it, I am going to “rent” it from him. I figure if I pay for standard maintenance while I’m using it and put $100 a month into a savings account for his next car, that will compensate for the additional miles I will put on it.

If I reach the amount that he is wanting to sell it for, we will transfer it to me. If not, we will sell it when I am ready to buy another car and that money will also go into his savings account.  I think this is fair for both him and I, thoughts?

In the meantime, we will keep getting by as we have all summer. Planning and borrowing as needed. I truly do not mind being carless and I LOVE not having a car payment or extra insurance costs!

 

Jul 3, 2019    |       7 comments

Win, win, win…with just a little delay!

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When Princess and I arrived at the airport on Saturday to begin our trek to Texas, we were immediately told that our flight was delayed. And we already had a pretty tight layover in Dallas on our way to Austin. But if you travel much, you know that’s kind of par for the course so we just figured we would deal with it when ?we had too.

Then as we were waiting for boarding, they started announcing that our flight was overbooked and asking for volunteers to give up their seats…they needed three. They were offering $125 future travel voucher. We continued to wait for boarding.

As time went on, they kept asking for volunteers and finally they needed two volunteers and were offering $650 travel vouchers…can you guess what Princess and I did?

Yup! After I checked with her, explained it would entail us hanging out here at the Atlanta Airport a bit longer…I walked right up and gave away our seats. We got $1,300 for our two seats. I paid $22 for these tickets (used points.)

Hanging out at the airport waiting on our flight and holding tight to our two $650 vouchers!

Now I realize that American Airlines tickets are pretty pricey compared to Southwest, which we typically fly. But for $1,300, it was definitely worth a few more hours of sitting there. And I worked the whole time, so it was a win, win!

Instead of getting to Austin at 4pm CST, we got here at 8pm CST…and have $1,300 towards future travel for absolutely free. I can’t see any downside!

Here’s looking to future travel! I love having something like this to look forward too! Have you ever had a similar travel story? Where you walked away with vouchers or upgrades that excited you?

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