Let My Husband Finance a $90,000 Truck?
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🗓️ 21 February 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by the Every Dollar app. Start budgeting for free today. All right, this one is from |
| 0:07.4 | Jenny in South Carolina. My husband and I are on Baby Step 2. We have an SUV that is paid off, |
| 0:13.3 | and my husband wants to finance a second vehicle. It's kind of the opposite of Babysept 2 there. |
| 0:18.2 | He has $12,000 to put towards the purchase i thought he was looking in the |
| 0:22.2 | range of 35 to 45,000 but he now wants one that costs 90,000 dollars he only wants to use the truck |
| 0:28.8 | for eight months and then take advantage of the buyback program from the dealership and get a cheaper |
| 0:32.5 | vehicle then we can't afford an $800 car payment for the next eight months, and I don't trust the buyback |
| 0:38.9 | program. How do I make him see that the numbers just don't work to finance a vehicle right now? |
| 0:44.4 | I have asked him to find a vehicle that we can afford with the $12,000, or he can use RSUV, |
| 0:49.9 | and I will drive an older vehicle. This argument has been going on for six months, and I don't know how much more our marriage can take. |
| 0:57.7 | This dress has gotten the worse, and I'm currently between jobs and my income is very low right now. |
| 1:03.2 | Oh, goodness. |
| 1:04.6 | Sounds like a lot, Jenny. |
| 1:05.9 | It sounds like he is coping with a marriage on the rocks. |
| 1:10.0 | She's unemployed. |
| 1:11.2 | They're between incomes. |
| 1:12.1 | And he's like, I'm going to go get a giant truck to make me feel better about all of this. |
| 1:15.7 | I just want some kind of comfort in my life right now because everything else seems to be chaotic. |
| 1:19.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:20.2 | This man is reverting to a child. |
| 1:21.9 | He's like Benjamin buttoning, Rachel, real time with his finances. |
| 1:25.0 | Right. |
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