Miller and I (well, mainly just me) were stressing over the wedding. We’re broke and we can’t afford anything for the wedding! Then… we sold one of our cars! Let me explain why this is such a sigh of relief. Miller and I made a terrible mistake when we first started dating. We bought a car that was only good for an 18-year-old who wants to race around the streets. The car was a specialty car and rare…all the kids wanted it. I initially had a problem obtaining the loan and that was a huge headache. Then the never-ending problems with the car kept coming.
Miller would get pulled over left and right for the sake of the cops being nosy. Miller was also young and wanted to spend an exorbitant amount of money to “sup it up”. Somewhere along the lines, his amateur mechanic skills caused some problems to the car and we weren’t able to afford to repair it. Between the fix-it tickets and the mechanical problems…we had to retire the car. It was not practical for him to drive that car around. I named it the “Black Omen”.
We owed more money on it than what it was worth at its broken condition. So, we weren’t able to sell it and we had to make payments on it every month while it sat in our garage. This went on for about 3 or 4 years. Then…something happened! Miller sparked up a conversation with a co-worker of his. We did not have any intentions to sell the car. However, as I have said earlier, this is a specialty car. The co-worker immediately wanted to buy it from us and at this point, we did not owe that much on it anymore…so we were financially able to sell it.
However, I was stressing about selling the car because it was not registered operational and we did not have insurance on it. His co-worker’s loan would not finalize it unless it was properly registered. I was stressing about how much insurance would cost and the registration and having to go to the miserable DMV office. Well, it all went smooth. I added the insurance to my current policy and due to the multi-car discount and the age of the car; my policy literally went up by $1.00 for two cars. Then, because I have kick-ass insurance, I was able to do the DMV paperwork at their local office and did not have to go to the DMV office. From the day that Miller told me his co-worker wanted to buy it…to the date that we transferred the title, it literally took just one week and we made a little extra after paying it off.
The little extra money we made was this huge sigh of relief. Not only did we get rid of the Black Omen…we also had some extra cushion for the expenses that were looming for the week of the wedding. I know this may sound something like something small…but this car has given us nothing but grief.
I shall be blogging about the wedding in a separate post!
-Emma
