Thursday, February 10, 2011

Expensive Trip For Samples

So last Saturday, we decided to take a trip to Costco, buy some chips for the Super Bowl and get some great samples that they always have. We ended up buying a few things and then went driving around town. We ended up driving to car dealerships. We had thought about selling our truck and getting a car that gets better gas mileage. So, we thought we would just look and see what Pocatello had to offer. We drove through a few dealerships, Jake got out a one or two to look quickly at a car, but we were just looking. Then we went to a Toyota dealership and asked the salesman if he had anything with good gas mileage. He said he did and that we could get out of the car and look at some. He showed us a 2007 Toyota Prius. We thought it was out of our price range. He thought he should drive it. We had never driven a Prius before, so we thought, why not? What could it hurt? We really liked driving it. When we got back we told the salesman that we needed to sell our truck before we could buy a car. He said that we should go inside and see what he could do for us. He offered us some stuff, but it wasn't good enough. We didn't want to owe more on this car than we did on our truck. We talked him down on price some more. And then some more. Finally he agreed with a price that we agreed to as well. We went out for the day just to go to Costco, and we came home with a new car. It's going to save us about $200 a month between gas, insurance, and car payments. And after driving it around town for the past few days, we love it! And no, we are not green, we are cheap.

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