I never thought this item would be crossed off my 101 Goals in 1001 Days quite this soon, but God bless my husband's one-track mind! He's been on a rampage researching minivans for the last week or two and on Tuesday, we actually brought one home.
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We didn't want to purchase from a dealership (to avoid the sales tax, dock fees, etc) but Mike got them to reduce the price to include all of that PLUS when we left to "think about it" overnight, they called us about 2 minutes later and offered to drop the price further if we turned around and bought it that night. I didn't even realize it was the 31st of the month...they wanted to get one more number on the books before the new month!
The kids love it, too. They want to just sit in the garage and watch movies. Ryan is going to break the motor on the automatic side doors...he loves that he can turn the handle and the doors open and close by themselves. He makes everyone who comes over close their eyes and he leads them to the garage for a "surprise." I think he likes this vehicle more than the rest of us!
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It is in beautiful condition, has leather interior (no sippy cup spill stains for us) and a DVD player for long car trips, just like I wanted. The previous owners were in their 60s, so it was kept up really well. I LOVE this thing!
When the dealership called the past owners to ask about the spare key, they also brought us a remote and 2 pair of headphones for the DVD player, along with the instruction manual and all of the van's original paperwork from 2002. (so I'm NOT the only type-A out there???)
We put my Accord on Craigs List yesterday and have already had a bunch of calls on it. Hopefully we can sell it soon and be done with this car business for the next several years!
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yay! how exciting. i miss driving a van.
Hello Katie, I found your blog via Money Saving Mom where you wrote a guest post. I would love to read your blog in the future, and wondered if you would be so kind as to change your rss feed to full post instead of only the first few rows? Thank you so much!
Very exciting. Congrats!
Yeah! I had an Odyssey 2003-2007 and really liked it...we kept in in mint condition (I did not want the van but Chuck did), so I could get money out of the deal! It was a fantastic van and Chuck was sad it went away!
I have one just like it! You will LOVE it!!!!!
Awesome! I would love a minivan with a DVD player! Have fun on your trips! :)
Welcome to the Minivan club!! It's a great place to be and you'll wonder what took so long to get here. And when the twins come, there will still be plenty of room. ;)
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