I bought the right car and still regretted it.

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Here are your host, Jen and Jill.

Welcome, Frugal Friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill.

And I bought the responsible car, the right car, and there were still things about that purchase that I regret.

And so I wanted to share that story with you in hopes that the next time you make a car purchase,

you can be better prepared and hopefully not have the regrets that I have.

Yeah, car buying happens for most, for many of us every, you know, maybe five to 10 years.

So it's happening fairly regularly or you've got friends or family looking for a car.

So this is going to be a helpful one. Yeah. So in December of 2023, I was pregnant with my second

child and I was driving a car that I had been driving for only like four years, I think,

which was not, I wanted to keep my car much longer,

but I did not do enough research when I bought that car, and it ended up being an absolute

lemon. Like I was driving, I was trying to make a left turn across a four-lane road,

and I had my three-year-old son in the car, or two,

he was two or three at the time. And I, the car let me push on the gas and get out into the

middle of the highway, like not in the median, but like in oncoming traffic. And it stopped. Like the car

stopped. And I had to like literally think God nobody was coming. I had to turn the car off and

start it again to be able to finish turning. Unreal. And the car dealership wouldn't do anything

about it. And so I had, it was just like,

and if there was something else I should have done, put it in the comments because I'm sure

I'm not the only one. Like there's somebody else driving that car now, which sucks. So like,

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