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Post by Hasha on Feb 1, 2005 17:49:38 GMT -5
He stayed up this morning and took the car in for a 4 wheel alignment because one of the front tires was wearing out way faster than the other one. I get up and he's asleep on the couch. He wakes up and I ask him how much it cost. Weeeeellllllllllllll, he says he had to get some kind of kit installed along with the alignment and 4 new tires. I asked how much did it cost? (my first mistake!) He replies "$500!" Yikes!  I've been trying not to spend any extra money out of our checking acount for months because we need a new roof and he spends $500 on the car!  |
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Post by Chrisnstar on Feb 1, 2005 17:52:49 GMT -5
Hasha, you're so lucky to get 4 tires and a wheel alignment for ONLY $500. Tires are very expensive. My truck tires were more than $200 apiece....
chris
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Post by KarenN on Feb 1, 2005 19:20:46 GMT -5
Yeah, what Chris said - $500 is cheap for all that, and you do not want to scrimp where the safety of you in your car is concerned!
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Post by Hasha on Feb 1, 2005 19:38:58 GMT -5
I usually only pay about $65 a tire at this place and I buy 2 at a time, rotate the front to the back and put the new ones on the front. My car is front wheel drive, so I knew the alignment was going to be higher, but that was only $65, it was the other parts that they put on that ran the cost up. I don't doubt that it needed them, it was just a shock to find out that he spent $500, when I was expecting half that.  We need a new roof and the contractor is supposed to start in a few weeks and I have to figure out how to come up with $9,000 when the job is done.  |
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Post by Chrisnstar on Feb 1, 2005 21:52:00 GMT -5
Well, wait for a storm... we had serious hail damage in 2003 and got a new roof!
chris
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Post by Hasha on Feb 2, 2005 0:28:43 GMT -5
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Post by Marci on Feb 2, 2005 1:44:10 GMT -5
Be careful-you get what you pay for.  |
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Post by Hasha on Feb 2, 2005 2:28:55 GMT -5
Don't worry, I've used this guy several times before. My only problem with him is it takes months to get him to start a job and he never returns phone calls. But once you get him started he's good and he's fast. He built both of my barns, the last one is 30 X 35 and has two big doors, 5 stalls which he built for me and double dutch doors on the outside of each stall. He also pored the concrete for the tack room and it only cost me around $7,500. He's worth waiting for!  |
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Post by Mary Ann on Feb 2, 2005 7:14:27 GMT -5
First of all, Hasha, you should know better than to let a man have the checkbook. I never let my hubby have the checkbook. He's given an allowance. The funny part is, at the office the budget for his project is close to two million dollars. But that doesn't mean he gets the checkbook. He makes me crazy because I ask him how much cash he'll need to get from one payday to the next, and every freaking time he says "I don't know." How can he not know?!  Checkbooks go in purses, a place where most men tremble to tread. |
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Post by noblesseoblige on Feb 2, 2005 12:32:57 GMT -5
ROFL!!!! I hope he will cook dinner for you now!
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Post by Sheryl as guest on Feb 2, 2005 12:35:27 GMT -5
Actually, in this case it sounds like your husband spent the money wisely.
I used to work with a lady with the funnniest "husband" spending stories. They day he came home with an elaborate train set (no, it was not a hobby he had built over the years, just one day decided he needed to spend a boatload on some huge setup). Her personal favorite was when he came home with "his and hers" sanders for redoing the deck - like mostpeople need 2 power sanders! Fortunately he made a lot of money and didn't spend it on drinking and chasing around so she could grimace and overlook the more home oriented excesses.
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Post by Mary Ann on Feb 2, 2005 12:51:38 GMT -5
There was an old man I knew in our area that passed away a few years ago, and he loved to go to auctions. At the horse ones, he'd be the one that'd buy the box of crap the auctioneer kept throwing stuff into that nobody wanted. Once I mentioned that I needed new wiper blades on my car. He asked me what size, he has some. Well I didn't know what size they were, but I asked him why did he think he'd have any wiper blades that would fit my car? Apparently he went to an auction when a local service station closed out, and bought hundreds of pairs of wiper blades! Not surprisingly, he didn't get along with his wife all that well. |
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