"I Only Have $1,400 To My Name"
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4.5 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. |
| 0:06.5 | I recently filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, and in the process, my car was repossessed. |
| 0:14.0 | So right now I only have $1,400 to my name, and I'm trying to figure out if I should use this check to pay like the back |
| 0:24.8 | fees to get the vehicle back or if I should just try and buy a vehicle in cash or buy here, |
| 0:33.2 | pay here. Oh boy. I'm sorry that you're going through that. So when they took the vehicle, have |
| 0:38.4 | they already sold it? Is there already a deficit for it? Or what have they told you about it? |
| 0:44.4 | The vehicle right now is still on hold. So I'm still able to get it reinstated, but it would |
| 0:50.6 | eat up that entire cash amount that I have. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay. Is it just you? Do you have kids? Tell me more about your living situation. |
| 1:02.0 | Thankfully, I do not have kids, so I only have to worry about myself. My job is fairly flexible, |
| 1:10.0 | but I do rely on my vehicle for my job. |
| 1:13.7 | So it's hard for me to gauge how I should invest or what the budget should be. |
| 1:20.5 | Okay. |
| 1:21.0 | What do you make? |
| 1:21.8 | What is your monthly budget? |
| 1:24.2 | I make about $3,000 a month. |
| 1:26.4 | Okay. |
| 1:28.1 | Okay. Okay. |
| 1:28.6 | So you need the vehicle and it's going to cost, what's the exact amount that it's going |
| 1:32.1 | to cost to get it back? |
| 1:34.9 | Roughly $1,400. |
| 1:36.8 | So it's everything, yeah. |
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