Blog: Shrinkage
Our budget for the wedding has been recently shrunk by my calculations. We have recently experienced a series of car issues that will probably dip considerably into our money plans. The first event was an old guy in a gold Cadillac pulling out in front of Matthew while he was going almost 40 down a busy four lane undivided highway. The result is the picture below. Not so good. But, thankfully Matt wasn't hurt past a bruise and some soreness in his back for a couple of days.
So the next day, with only my car to take to the Dells for a family gathering, we packed up and hoped that my "squirrel" would make it to the Dells. It didn't but thankfully we started having the engine problems in front of auto repair shop. We limped it the fifty feet to the shop and three hours and two hundred dollars later, it was fixed.
Or, so we thought.
This weekend, we had to cancel all of our weekend plans due to my car again having sympathetic pains to Matt's totaled car. Saturday it wasn't happy at sixty miles an hour down the highway, so we went back home before getting barely on the highway. Sunday I turned it on and it was making growling noises, so I didn't drive it at all. This morning it flat-out wouldn't start. I should mention that on two different occasions when Matt's car was in the repair shop, mine also broke down at the same time. One of the times, it actually left Matt stranded for hours before my family came to the rescue and towed it since I was at home an hour away without any car. Hence, my comment of sympathetic pains on the behalf of my car for Matt's car. I might be funny if it wasn't happening to us.
With one car that has to be replaced and another that probably won't make it another six months, the financial forecast looks to be a bit grim. Yes, we were spoiled with neither of us having car payments in the last year. Now, we are going to have a minimum of one car payment. And, I may have to find a junker to temporarily replace mine if it kicks the can. Such drama...