My current car cost 7,000 and so far we have gotten 150,000 miles from it with minor repairs most of which I did myself. Next time I won’t spend more than 5k. I don’t sweat cars and house and pretty much never have except for the sweat equity along the way which was large. I have the worst car and still a pretty simple house and I don’t waste time with curb appeal….so shoot me.

Tomorrow I am really going to really buck the system….the kids on my son’s soccer team are going to get an apple (from my neighbors tree) and a hardboiled egg from my chickens for their AYSO “mandatory snack”… usually it’s 3 or 4 items of pure kid pleasing commercial snack food garbage . That heroic act of defiance alone will create a psychic lift that will get me through at least a week in fine spirits. I hope my kids don’t get beat up at school for it. Maybe I’ll home school them.