I WIN!

[juldea]

$4,639.50

I was expecting a little over $2,500...

Comments

[shadowhawke.livejournal.com]

Holy Crap!! That's being covered by your insurance tho, correct? No word on if they'll buy you another car?

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. You misunderstand... check out the title: "I Win!"

That's how much the insurance company is giving me for the car. :)

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[shadowhawke.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kickass!!!

[guvnor.livejournal.com]

Wow!
You can get a brand new used car for that, no problem.
Did they give you an itemized total for the damages or anything? I wonder what they had to add up to get a total accurate to the $0.50 mark.

[zenandtheart.livejournal.com]

Holy dooley... kick ass!

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

But I won't be getting another car. :)

The money instead will go to completely removing me from debt, opening a money market account for savings, paying this year's taxes, making a trip to the dentist, and then of course the obligatory crazy purchase that I have to allow myself to make. What that will be, I don't yet know, as I don't know what some of the other more important things on the list are going to cost.

The car's market value was $5280. Tax on that is $330, and they also gave me some type of license fee payment of $29.50. Subtract my $1000 deductible and voila, the new number.

Seriously, the second before she announced it I was thinking it'd be a miracle if I got $3000...

[guvnor.livejournal.com]

Debt free is even better than a car.

No student loans, no insurance, no outstanding credit card payments-- you'd be amazed how easy it is to balance your finances when all of your incoming cash goes directly into your wallet rather than somebody else's.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

It's something I've been trying to do for a couple of years now, but unfortunately I only wised up after digging myself into a deep, deep hole. As it is over half of that car reimbursement will be for credit card bills.

This benefits you as well, because I had not been allowing myself to spend money on travel while I had such deep debt (part of the reason I got into debt in the first place was charging plane tickets, gas, etc - always fully meaning to pay them off later in the month, but something always came up). Now, it just may be that I have the time and finances available to make a jaunt to my friendly neighborhood converted Victorian flat... *cross fingers*

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[guvnor.livejournal.com]

Well, we should have some space available... once all the cardboard boxes are gone.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Wasn't there a dead-body-sized crawlspace I was going to occupy?

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[guvnor.livejournal.com]

Sorry, already got a dead body in it.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

"Luckily, this chap allowed me to bunk with him."

I -think- that was Giles' line in "Never Kill a Boy on the First Date"... after emerging from one of those dead-body-locker things...