[disneysteve]

Another BIG one is our cars. We keep all with all routine maintenance: oil changes, filters, tires, fluids, etc. so that we get years of relatively trouble-free driving and years without car payments. We also tend to ignore repairs that aren't critical to safety or function. For example, there is a sensor light flashing on my wife's dash. We've had it checked out and the problem is a bad sensor, nothing else. Replacing the sensor (it's the one that says your seat belt isn't fastened - we always wear ours) would be $400. No thanks. We'll just deal with the light flashing.