We are a three-car family, even though we only own two... and even that isn't real, we own the van... we lease Brandon's. I never thought I'd ever lease a car, but we're on our second leased vehicle and it seems like it's been a good choice for us. We had our blue Camry, that we returned with less mileage than the lease was for... increased the equity we owned in it, and made for a larger down payment on our current leased car.
We leave the van at home every day. Since I work 12 hour shifts and have to be to work by 6:30 a.m., Brandon drives the kids to daycare at 7. He takes them there in the van, brings it home, drops it off and goes to work in his work car. He has to be to work by 8, so after he's dropped the kids off, he drops the van off at home and still is able to get to work on time. That leaves me driving our leased car to and from work every day. When I get home I drop it off, pick up the van, and go get the kids. It works well for us.
So the third car that comes into play is part of Brandon's job, he is test driving used vehicles nightly, that are traded in, to make sure they are in good working order... that the options / features in the cars are all in working order. I'm sure by now our neighbors are used to seeing a new car in our driveway every night, but initially, I wonder what they thought... :)
The car we rented is a reddish/orangeish Rav4. Four wheel drive, which was my only request when he selected our next car. He brought it home, I drove it said it was fine with me. We signed the papers, it was ours. So about a week after driving it, he asked me again what I thought of it, and I said there were only a few things I would change if I could... and he said, like what? Well, let me preface this with my van is LOADED. I have EVERY feature that was available to the van, when it was new. Granted, newer vans have more features, but it's not staring me in the face, in my van, like that big dash area that really looks weird, that's where (if you had it) the GPS system would go. I have it, in the van. That space below the shifter, that's where your seat heater controls would be... if you had them. I have it, in the van. So I said the one thing I really miss are seat heaters... yeah. Lame. I know. But you get spoiled. Seat heaters. He said, "Suck it up." *GASP, what did you say to me?!?!? Suck it up????? Really??!! He watched and let me react... and I'm pretty sure he enjoyed it all. Then he said, "Your seat heaters are getting installed on January 4th." He spoils me. :)
So our after-market seat heaters were installed. And let me tell you something about after-market seat heaters... holy burn your ass hot, on the high setting.... I swear, it's impossible to sit the entire trip (20 mins) from my house to work, with the seat heater on high. Brandon said they are warm, "they work fast and the high position is just used to warm up the chair initially, you're supposed to turn the setting to low." Oh. Didn't know that. Because in my van, I have it on high setting all the time... and it's the perfect temp... unless you're on a long trip (over an hour) -- then it gets you a little warm -- all over though, not just on the bum....
All this said, don't get me wrong... I'm NOT complaining... I've learned how to use these new seat heaters and they're fabulous.
The only other thing I wanted was leather seats. They haven't gotten installed yet. I'm pretty sure, they're not coming. But I do have them in my van. ;)
So, I have a four wheel drive vehicle, with no snow in Minnesota. Well, we have a dusting, but nothing major. It was 20 degrees when I came into work this morning... chilly, but not a typical Minnesota January morning. I'm waiting for it to snow... we have some fun ideas to make some colorful snow creations that I read about in my new Disney Family Fun magazine... if and when we get some snow, and we're able to play... I'll post the pictures.
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