How many of you make a purchase like buying a brand new vehicle

[one-tai]

and make the monthly payment of 1K/month in my case just to only drive your beater around?  I do! I'm hoping to get more than I paid for it in the next couple of months.

[Hung_Low]

and make the monthly payment of 1K/month in my case just to only drive your beater around?  I do! I'm hoping to get more than I paid for it in the next couple of months.

I never buy brand new vehicle... the minute you drive off the lot, you're 9-11% in the hole. Meaning, if you bought a car @ $35G, you already lost $3.5G in the value of your brand new vehicle as soon as you drive off the lot.

[DuMa]

You are not the only hmong.  My best hmong bud and his father buys tundras like you.  His father has 2 thundras, one was a gift for his retirement and his kids all pitched in and bought him that.  He also has a 4 runner, Honda accord.  Now if you have 4 vehicles, one or all 3 will get neglected.  It doesn't get much air time so it is just sitting there while you pay the tag and insurance and mortgage on it. 

Now his son is the same chit.  He got a beater that he commutes to work and a brand new TRD pro sitting in his garage.  You want to know how many time I have sat in his TRD pro?  maybe 3 times and that is about how much times he takes it out on a fishing trip with me. 

I don't get attach to materialistic things.  I have learned the value at a younger age.  I go by the rule "either use it or lose it" and it is true for me.  Like when I was younger, in college, my vehicle has AC.  I never use it on myself or the homies but with driving a female, yes i will use it.  It too doesn't get much air time because dating women was hard to come by for me so eventually, the air compressor dies out and there goes my AC. 

Lesson here is to use it and enjoy it while it is still there.  Everything gets old so there is no need to babysit it like it is still brand new.  By next year, the new model comes out and your baby is now a has been.  I'd be pissed, paying for a vehicle and not driving it.  You buy it to drive, not park and look at it.  Makes no cot dayam sense to me. 

[DuMa]

I never buy brand new vehicle... the minute you drive off the lot, you're 9-11% in the hole. Meaning, if you bought a car @ $35G, you already lost $3.5G in the value of your brand new vehicle as soon as you drive off the lot.

Life is more than not buying or trying.

We live in decades.  I would like to see that I drive a brand new vehicle every 10 years.  So according to my science, I have 3 more vehicles to drive before I retire.  I'm not going to waste it on a used vehicle and call it a life.  If I can't afford it then sure I get it but if I can, I'm going to do it and those 3 next one will all be brand new and call it a good life.   

You can just die tomorrow and call it a life.  The older you get, the closer to your expiration date and if you know this, you will realize it.  Enjoy yourself before you die is the message.   

[one-tai]

You are not the only hmong.  My best hmong bud and his father buys tundras like you.  His father has 2 thundras, one was a gift for his retirement and his kids all pitched in and bought him that.  He also has a 4 runner, Honda accord.  Now if you have 4 vehicles, one or all 3 will get neglected.  It doesn't get much air time so it is just sitting there while you pay the tag and insurance and mortgage on it. 

Now his son is the same chit.  He got a beater that he commutes to work and a brand new TRD pro sitting in his garage.  You want to know how many time I have sat in his TRD pro?  maybe 3 times and that is about how much times he takes it out on a fishing trip with me. 

I don't get attach to materialistic things.  I have learned the value at a younger age.  I go by the rule "either use it or lose it" and it is true for me.  Like when I was younger, in college, my vehicle has AC.  I never use it on myself or the homies but with driving a female, yes i will use it.  It too doesn't get much air time because dating women was hard to come by for me so eventually, the air compressor dies out and there goes my AC. 

Lesson here is to use it and enjoy it while it is still there.  Everything gets old so there is no need to babysit it like it is still brand new.  By next year, the new model comes out and your baby is now a has been.  I'd be pissed, paying for a vehicle and not driving it.  You buy it to drive, not park and look at it.  Makes no cot dayam sense to me.

Valid points. I'm not attached to materialistic things either. This coming weekend I want to see how much CarMax will give me for it.

[one-tai]

Life is more than not buying or trying.

We live in decades.  I would like to see that I drive a brand new vehicle every 10 years.  So according to my science, I have 3 more vehicles to drive before I retire.  I'm not going to waste it on a used vehicle and call it a life.  If I can't afford it then sure I get it but if I can, I'm going to do it and those 3 next one will all be brand new and call it a good life.   

You can just die tomorrow and call it a life.  The older you get, the closer to your expiration date and if you know this, you will realize it.  Enjoy yourself before you die is the message.   

Agreed. I want the nicest things my money will allow me to get. I might get the 400z next!

[DuMa]

Agreed. I want the nicest things my money will allow me to get. I might get the 400z next!

When we younger, we think differently.  I get the whole idea of going cheap to save a penny or two and be frugal for retirement but all that is a school of thought that I have no idea where I gotten it from.

Then when you get older, you look around you.  You see people dying and you look at your age and you know that you are getting closer to death.  That whole frugal mentality is and should be slowly fades away.  The new model is to live your life and don't cut yourself short out of it. The old me would even look at the gf or wife funny, had she not get an item at the very best deal or if she gotten a bad deal.  The new me is very much alive and if you like it, buy it.  It is that simple.  We can talk about buyer's remorse but that is just all talk for fun only but once you buy something, don't even look around to compare prices or even think about the notion of whether you got the best deal or not.  It is done, it is over and enjoy what you got.  Make more money to buy more stuff.  Do this until you die and die knowing that you spoiled yourself.   

[one-tai]

When we younger, we think differently.  I get the whole idea of going cheap to save a penny or two and be frugal for retirement but all that is a school of thought that I have no idea where I gotten it from.

Then when you get older, you look around you.  You see people dying and you look at your age and you know that you are getting closer to death.  That whole frugal mentality is and should be slowly fades away.  The new model is to live your life and don't cut yourself short out of it. The old me would even look at the gf or wife funny, had she not get an item at the very best deal or if she gotten a bad deal.  The new me is very much alive and if you like it, buy it.  It is that simple.  We can talk about buyer's remorse but that is just all talk for fun only but once you buy something, don't even look around to compare prices or even think about the notion of whether you got the best deal or not.  It is done, it is over and enjoy what you got.  Make more money to buy more stuff.  Do this until you die and die knowing that you spoiled yourself.   

That's why I said I don't feel like I got scammed. Hopefully that young salesman got a good commission off of my overpayment. I make too much to not worry about money. Shit, I'm your typical Hmong and I don't know how many Stellas reels I have collecting dust. Boat and travel trailer over 100k combined that I've only used once or twice since purchased.

[one-tai]

Not to mention kayaks, belly boats, and motorcycles that won't allow me to park my vehicles in the garage anymore. Firearms galore. I only own Benelli shotguns and a trailer load of duck and geese decoys that is parked at a brother in law's driveway.

[hmgROCK]

Not to mention kayaks, belly boats, and motorcycles that won't allow me to park my vehicles in the garage anymore. Firearms galore. I only own Benelli shotguns and a trailer load of duck and geese decoys that is parked at a brother in law's driveway.

Damn ONETAI

you started to sound like them fake PH millionaire 
Big ass house
Sports car
Ton of money
Hot supermodel girlfriend
Lots of overseas trip