i really think you'll be happy with a small loan pay it off in the 3 years you estimated and it's the same!

 

Thats what im doing. i took out a loan for 11K to pay for my S and im throwing double payments at it. Thats what i did with my Kia. Loan was for 5 years but paid it off in 3.5 with double payments.

As for wives, im happily divorced and if i was still married there is no way i would own an S. In fact, its cheaper to live on my own and pay child support then it is to deal with a nagging wife. But thats just how i see things..

 

I wish you the best of luck... but kids and cars don't mix when they are that young... it can be done though.
If the kid even gets close to going to daycare, preschool, or whatever, she needs to be working on those days and not lounging around talking about what you should be spending money on. Sounds like you do a bit of sacrificing, and thats cool, but what has she sacrificed for the purchase of the home and a kid? Not saying that stay at home moms don't put work in cause they do. But its awful easy to make decisions with money when somebody else is hustling it up.
Disneyland/World is a waste of money at just about any age, but most definitely a waste for a 2/3 year old. And if its such a big deal for HER parents, they can think about some of the costs.
I've done the kid thing, and let me tell you. The things that you think bring a kid joy and make memories aren't the ones that cost the most money or are the longest trips. The memories come from the things you can't plan, or make up.
The best advice I can give you is this. There has to be something in it for you... other than her being happy or not bitching about something, cause in the end you'll just be miserable.

 

I'll just leave this here...

https://www.s2ki.com/s2000/topic/890...#entry20967321

 

ha ^^ good call

 

News to me. I've never had a balance on a credit card in the 25+ years I've had one. Any purchase over $10 goes on my card. I have an excellent credit score.

 

Your daughter isn't even 2 and you are planning a $4k Disney trip?!

She's not even gonna remember it. Not worth taking her before she is at least 6.

 

The logic I'm being confronted with is that kids under 3 years old get into the park for free.
So we take her around this time next year and then again when she is like 8 or something.

BTW my plan to save up for my s2k is meeting resistance. Not about the money being put aside for a car but instead about what car I'm getting.
I'm getting grief about it being such a huge purchase on something thats "just for me".
She would rather me get a four seater convertable like a '99 Celica or old Eclipse.

While the idea of riding across the countryside in the spring or fall with my wife beside me and kiddo in the back is appealing to me, I know that if it's cooler then 75F or hotter then 85F I'd be getting crap to put the top up and turn on the heat/AC.

I also know that while I like the design of the sixth gen Celica 100 WHP FF car is not the sporty car I had in mind and every time I would drive it without the fam I'd be wishing I was in a S2000 and I know I can't have both.

 

Sound advice here. Why take advantage of a child theme park when the only (in my eyes here) advantage is 3 and under free but you're looking at nearly 4 grand to do so?
It does not sound like you focus on yourself and what you want much, esp. when the decision is considered selfish. You work, you are the supportive entity in this scenario. I would not take your wife, child or wife's care to your child for granted, but 2 years old and in a school??? Sounds to me the investments on what the wife wants that you (without a flinch) get inevitably are being neglected as a form of your care. Im not sure of your family inter workings nor is my business to find out, alter, and try to break things down.

My opinion, can you do something that makes the both of you happy?
And when i ask this, i am asking if you will be happy because it is something you want, or will you be happy because it is what your wife wanted and you can get it for her?
How many more things will go unappreciated as your goal slips further away and becomes more of a selfish decision in the eyes of a significant other?


Im 23, i live on my own, I own an s2000 that i just paid off last month. I have had a cbr600 and now a 1000RR.
One serious relationship in this 4 and half year time frame. I saw my money dwindle the longer this relationship went on.
I sold my 600RR due to a pregnancy scare. I started to live pay check to paycheck.
I saw that my focus was more on her then on myself. My efforts in the long run were not really appreciated as affection and sex should not be reward.
I became bitter and depressed. what has made me happy and provided me to what i thought was purpose, well...


Needless to say this relationship no longer is in effect.
I purchased another bike (loan+cash) and enjoy the fk out of it

in both worlds.. one will provide happiness and purpose, but provides many variables
the other provides happiness and pleasure... eventually both worlds will lose their glamor.


Now, find your balance. You have one, so why not both? Why not you this time around?

 

your wife is my toy.