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  • #16
    Ashley - I think the advice to sell the car will only be useful to you if you are truly committed to financial freedom. Otherwise, you may simply just wind up trading and losing money and then getting another car that costs too much. You really need to commit to driving something less than stellar but safe for you and the kids for many years until you can be debt free and are in a good position before you would purchase another car.
    Just a word of encouragement. I know when you are young and starting out it seems impossible that anyone could be out of debt, not have a car payment, have their home paid off, etc. But, if you start in the right direction now and are really committed to a live of freedom over "stuff" you will achieve these goals and more and have peace of mind in these tough times.

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    • #17
      advice - get another job, start your own business. the car is not the problem, your lack of money is. get more money.

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      • #18
        start your own business.

        Yes, just hang out an "open for business" shingle and money will flow in. You can never lose money on going into business.

        Hmmm.....?

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        • #19
          Give it away...

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          • #20
            Tough call. It's a lot to borrow from the bank like maat suggested. Good tip, but it's $10k to get out of the car and still borrow more to get a car to use.

            But do you think you can be a one car family?

            I think if you post a full budget and not just the car people might be able to help.
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            • #21
              whatever the solution, it should not involve decreasing more time from the kids....all this worry about the car, and getting more work or income, but no body comments on the kids, whose parents did poor planning...I guess they're commodities :-(

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              • #22
                Could you or your husband find work on the weekend, and have the other one watch the kids?

                You could post an ad on Craig's list, offering drop-in babysitting in your home.

                Look on Craig's list for things you could do without childcare -- perhaps running errands or making meals for an eldery person.

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                • #23
                  Why would you say no one is thinking about the kids? Obviously our poster has had a job where she could take her kids to work with her. Even if she is also responsible for other children there, she would have a lot more time with her children than most full time working parents have. She has looked for more jobs in which she could continue to do the same. Respondents her have tried to think of ways for her to continue to do that.

                  (Lovcom, I think you need to write an autobiography so that you can get all your family relationship peeves off your chest and lay out for the world just how wise you think you are. You are often putting down other people's ways of arranging their relationships. It seems that you mean to say that you are wiser than 'most everybody else. To me, you seem to be ready to judge on very little evidence and using strictly bifurcated criteria. Black:White. Right:Wrong. Strong:Weak. Smart:Stupid. )
                  "There is some ontological doubt as to whether it may even be possible in principle to nail down these things in the universe we're given to study." --text msg from my kid

                  "It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." --Frederick Douglass

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Joan.of.the.Arch View Post
                    Why would you say no one is thinking about the kids? Obviously our poster has had a job where she could take her kids to work with her. Even if she is also responsible for other children there, she would have a lot more time with her children than most full time working parents have. She has looked for more jobs in which she could continue to do the same. Respondents her have tried to think of ways for her to continue to do that.

                    (Lovcom, I think you need to write an autobiography so that you can get all your family relationship peeves off your chest and lay out for the world just how wise you think you are. You are often putting down other people's ways of arranging their relationships. It seems that you mean to say that you are wiser than 'most everybody else. To me, you seem to be ready to judge on very little evidence and using strictly bifurcated criteria. Black:White. Right:Wrong. Strong:Weak. Smart:Stupid. )
                    No, no a million shades of gray come through my eyes...I guess I have this habit of worrying about the kiddies...having two myself I know how it is. Too many two bread winner families, leaveing the kids to their own devices or to be managed by strangers.

                    I'd love to share my life but it would be contra to the disclosure contract I have with the screen writers, and producers....so I regret you'll have to wait for the movie ;-)

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                    • #25
                      Not all two income families leave kids to their own devices or strangers. It's not all bad.
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