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Drawingaline

I sold an old Ford galaxy on ebay and got over £200 more than I was offered fo scrap. Worth a try with a reserve if you have a drive to keep it on.

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Drawingaline wrote: »

I sold an old Ford galaxy on ebay and got over £200 more than I was offered fo scrap. Worth a try with a reserve if you have a drive to keep it on.

We do indeed so happy to wait for a decent price as it's good to keep on the drive

FootyFanDan

Wow what a whirlwind few days! Life can give us so many good and bad days sometimes its better to try ride the waves haha. Boo to the car news, but it sounds like it as kinda worked out in the end so that can only be positive. Yay to shiny new car

Also well done on keeping chipping away at debt payments too

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Finance company have sent the money over no issues, so I will be waiting like a kid at Christmas tomorrow morning for the call to say I can go and get it (or tonight, if they get it all sorted today, then OH can give me a lift over before work tomorrow)

Insurance is scheduled to change over tomorrow morning, so just need to SORN my old car and tax the new one before I drive it away, so all good so far

enthusiasticsaver

Exciting news on the new car. Sounds like it wasn't worth spending more money on your old one and if you apply the same discipline to getting rid of the car finance as you have to your existing debts it will hopefully be gone next year and you have a more reliable car going into winter.

savingholmes

Enjoy your new to you car. Sounds exciting. Good progress made elsewhere on your budget.

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enthusiasticsaver wrote: »

Exciting news on the new car. Sounds like it wasn't worth spending more money on your old one and if you apply the same discipline to getting rid of the car finance as you have to your existing debts it will hopefully be gone next year and you have a more reliable car going into winter.

Definitely, it's just re-allocating the money I would have been saving so should be smooth sailing

savingholmes wrote: »

Enjoy your new to you car. Sounds exciting. Good progress made elsewhere on your budget.

Thank you

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I am awaiting the call to collect my car today, the MOT they did on Friday showed a couple of things needed doing so they are doing that today and I should (hopefully) be collecting later on. If it's at a decent time for my to take my lunch break, OH is going to collect me from work and take me over to collect the car, then I'll drive it back to work. If not, I'll get it after work. Although, I just had to phone them and give them a different contact number as I left my phone at home :rotfl: :rotfl:

Had 2 NSD's over the weekend, and got some good hours in with my other work, so pleased with that.

I was up at 5:30 am on Saturday with excitement about my car (then bitterly disappointed lol) and up at 2:30 am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep :eek: so I am rather tired :rotfl:

The weekend was pretty good, worked on getting our house a little more organized and tidy than it has been of late, although it was quite boring not being able to head out anywhere. We then did the food shopping on Sunday morning, then took OH's boy out for his birthday.

My old car is up on eBay, so fingers crossed that goes at some point in the week or I will end up having to scrap it, worked out on Friday I needed to insure it for a week as I couldn't SORN until the 1st December because I pay my tax by DD monthly at the moment (another reason not to do this next year!)

db2016

re the old car,



you could "break" it for more, if your inclined.

eg, lights, panels, even switch gear, such as buttons and knobs, all command a price!

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db2016 wrote: »

re the old car,



you could "break" it for more, if your inclined.

eg, lights, panels, even switch gear, such as buttons and knobs, all command a price!

Now that is a smart idea - I shall bear that in mind

I have my new car :j:j

Bit nerve-wracking driving a newer (and more expensive) car, but I'll get used to that! It's so pretty (well, it looks just like every other car, just much less battered than the ones I've had before :rotfl: )

I didn't get to try out any of the gizmos as I just had to rush back to work (technically took a much longer lunch break than usual but they were closing at six) so reading through the manual at my desk and will fiddle with bits when I get home tonight

It is a relief to know I've got something more reliable now!

Should get paid anytime between tomorrow and Thursday for my online stuff, and do some debt busting to get me into the £1k's (never thought I'd say that!!)