I broke the cardinal rule.. added up my race car expenses

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07-08-2011, 09:22 AM

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Never, ever add up the car expenses

More honest words have never been spoken.

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07-08-2011, 10:08 AM

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school boy error, I did the same this year and was unpleasently surprised by the total....l oh well worth every cent!

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07-08-2011, 10:08 AM

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You guys are such wusses. My wife has a obsession with keeping track of our annual expenditure that includes every penny I spend on the car. She has not said much since she has started doing DEs and had to add a line item for her expenses.

BTW, having a FEWC, I can only keep track of my expenses by weighing the receipts.

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07-08-2011, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Steve113

You could have dumped it all into another house then lost 50% on the money and hated every moment. At least you can have fun with this bad investment.

This is absolutely true. Money in and of itself is worthless and useless. If what you do with it does not put a smile on your face or help you sleep easier at night, you are using it wrong.

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07-08-2011, 10:36 AM

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I'm gonna go get my car out of engine service later today and I'm not looking forward to this unexpected invoice.....

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07-08-2011, 10:39 AM

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Let your wife add up reciepts. It will make her feel like she is trusted. Just don't give her all the reciepts.

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07-08-2011, 10:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Larry Herman

You guys got it all wrong. I added up all of my college tuition payments and I could have bought a brand new cup car, a new dually and a really cool trailer.

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Originally Posted by RickBetterley

And some of you tell me I should take up racing; right...
Just finished son # 1's college payments - that was $210k. 2nd (and last) son is coming in around $175k. Both are worth it, though.
Oh, and we have the house in Maine, too.
I'm darned lucky to be able to do what I do.

HA! You guys have it all wrong. I paid my own way through undergrad and grad school and am well ahead of (most of) peers for the effort and lessons learned.

Stop pampering your kids and go enjoy life.

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07-08-2011, 11:00 AM

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Great thread!!! (Especially as my car sits for 3 weeks in the shop with a CEL issue that we can't seem to fix)

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07-08-2011, 11:39 AM

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Gary, how do you put a price on fun!?

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Originally Posted by JackOlsen

Our former accountant once gave my wife a monthly figure.

Do I need to direct attention to the word 'former?'

At least it wasn't "former wife"...

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07-08-2011, 11:49 AM

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HA! You guys have it all wrong. I paid my own way through undergrad and grad school and am well ahead of peers for the effort and lessons learned.

Stop pampering your kids and go enjoy life.

I'm so there! I worked my way through my undergrad degree and then got stipends, free tuition, and health care as a teaching assistant for my masters and phd.

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07-08-2011, 11:52 AM

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I did screw up royally in front of the wifey a few weeks ago. Our fridge died and she went out and bought a new one. When she told me the price I said, "what, there goes 6 new hoosiers!". Needless to say I have just booked a beach house for a family vacation on Cape San Blas to erase that thought from her head

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07-08-2011, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Nizer

HA! You guys have it all wrong. I paid my own way through undergrad and grad school and am well ahead of peers for the effort and lessons learned.

Stop pampering your kids and go enjoy life.

+1...... and I did it with english as my second language.......

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07-08-2011, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Gary R.

I can honestly say I have never even THOUGHT of looking at them until last week. To be honest, I don't really care but it's a HS moment when the number in the spreadsheet is a one month world cruise 1st class!

I get seasick so who cares..

my wife recently summed up our total annual expenses in ms money broken into categories as all credit cards and bank accounts now allow downloads, well, now she says she wants to separate her income from mine so she would have no restrictions how to spend on cofee as much as i spend on a car.

you can try to avoid the truth but it sticks out anyway no matter how you hide it. i just say - if you got budget available, use it, what`s the heck? we only live once.