2006 DVC Member Cruise - SSMC06 - October 22, 2006 Part 4

[Stitch#1]

Tom said the same thing to me about it being a muscle spasm! I haven't been too bad with coughing during the day but once I lay down at night (even with the two meds to control the cough) I can't stop ad it wakes me out of a sound sleep. Tom also said he has the cure - a DVC cruise and vacation! I'm glad I have a refillable prescription (at least until 2042 for BCV and 2054 for SSR) .

Have you tried sleeping propped up with some pillows?
I don't know if that will help of not. When my dad had pnemonia he slept in the recliner cause it seemed to help lessen the coughing at night. Just a thought

 

[rsschneck]

Roxann - don't be surprised if you get some phone calls from the different dealerships you went to. They need to make their quota for the month of August and they have until September 4 to do so. If they don't get a lot of people in the showroom between today and tomorrow they will be calling people back so that they make their numbers.

I fully expect that. DH said if they call back our $2000 trade in just went to $3000 We don't like buying new cars as you can tell!

 

[rsschneck]

Curt O' Curt where art thou?


I have a deal for you! DH said we would GIVE you the 6 points needed to make your ressie if you join the "party" bus, wear your uniform ::cop: and deliver about 10 dozen Krispy Kreme's to the busers. Is that a deal or what?

I'll let you think about it and you can get back to me!

 

[cgcw]

Tom said the same thing to me about it being a muscle spasm! I haven't been too bad with coughing during the day but once I lay down at night (even with the two meds to control the cough) I can't stop ad it wakes me out of a sound sleep. Tom also said he has the cure - a DVC cruise and vacation! I'm glad I have a refillable prescription (at least until 2042 for BCV and 2054 for SSR) .

Ann Marie, I'm sorry to hear your still not feeling well. I hope this weekend brings lots of improvement

 

[cgcw]

I fully expect that. DH said if they call back our $2000 trade in just went to $3000 We don't like buying new cars as you can tell!

When we bought our van, we took our old one to Carmax for a quote. We then went into Chevy to "look" and they started pressuring us. We didn't expect to walk out of there that night with the new van, but 12 passenger vans are not all that easy to find on a lot and I didn't want a white one. So, we sat there and they asked if they could appraise our van. They came back about $500 less than CarMax.

I said thanks for your time, we'll just go trade it in and we'll be back. Then they asked how much less their offer was and I told them $1000 more than Carmax actually offered. It was the end of the month, maybe that did have something to do with it, now that I think about it. So, they scratched their heads, nodded over the papers and said their first offer was their best. So, we got up to leave. Low and behold, they stopped us, offered us what they thought CarMax offered us. So, they truly saved us a trip to sell it to CarMax and I brought the new van home that night.

I hope it works out for you, Roxann. I hate buying cars. I always feel like the salespeople are laughing as we drive away. It's such a big expense and to think that you lose money on as soon as you drive away.

 

[bcvprincesses]

It is only 60 here and raining. I just want to go back to bed. We planned on working outside and closing the pool today but I guess that will have to wait. I really hate looking at the pool tarp all winter.

Roxann if Curt will do that I will put in the money for the KK. That would be too funny.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

 

[ohiominnie]

I hope it works out for you, Roxann. I hate buying cars. I always feel like the salespeople are laughing as we drive away. It's such a big expense and to think that you lose money on as soon as you drive away.

Another "hate buying new car" person here. Mike has it all down to a science though. He scours the internet, knows what the dealer paid for each car we're looking at and knows what our trade in is worth. This last time we went to trade in our Chevy Venture for the Camry and we knew our van was worth (something like) $7500. We took the paperwork with us in case they tried to give us less for it, we'd show them what it was WORTH! Well, they went and looked it over and came back and said "we'll give you $9000 for the van." UH>.....HIDE THE PAPERWORK!!!!!! We'll TAKE it!

Of course, we KNEW we were in the market for a new car so I had completely detailed the inside and outside of the van. The ONLY thing we had to remove when we traded it in was the garage door opener. I think that really helped. It LOOKED like it was in really good shape. I had even scrubbed the carpets!!! A few hours of hard elbow grease really paid off!!!

 

[ohiominnie]

It is only 60 here and raining. I just want to go back to bed. We planned on working outside and closing the pool today but I guess that will have to wait. I really hate looking at the pool tarp all winter.

We moved into a house with a pool, but I don't think I'd ever put one in. At least not in Ohio. We opened ours in mid-June (late for us b/c we were at WDW) and it was green for a couple of weeks. It's going to be closed on 9/11. The kids haven't been in it in weeks....it's too COLD!!! So it was used for about 6 weeks!! Hardly worth it!!

If I cracked up all the concrete pool decking and filled in the pool, how soon do you think anyone would notice???

 

[okwdreamin]

We moved into a house with a pool, but I don't think I'd ever put one in. At least not in Ohio. We opened ours in mid-June (late for us b/c we were at WDW) and it was green for a couple of weeks. It's going to be closed on 9/11. The kids haven't been in it in weeks....it's too COLD!!! So it was used for about 6 weeks!! Hardly worth it!!

We live in Kansas, and put in a pool a few years ago. This year ours was cloudy part of June because we switched to a salt generator. And now it is too cold to swim in. It's just a waste of a perfectly wonderful pool about 10 months of the year! The highlight of my summer was when we had a heat wave with temps over 110 and our pool water got up to 100 degrees! Everyone thought it felt like a hot tub, but it was wonderful. I won't get in unless the water is at least 90 because I hate to be cold. What a wimp, I know!

 

[BCVOwner2002]

Another "hate buying new car" person here. Mike has it all down to a science though. He scours the internet, knows what the dealer paid for each car we're looking at and knows what our trade in is worth. This last time we went to trade in our Chevy Venture for the Camry and we knew our van was worth (something like) $7500. We took the paperwork with us in case they tried to give us less for it, we'd show them what it was WORTH! Well, they went and looked it over and came back and said "we'll give you $9000 for the van." UH>.....HIDE THE PAPERWORK!!!!!! We'll TAKE it!

Of course, we KNEW we were in the market for a new car so I had completely detailed the inside and outside of the van. The ONLY thing we had to remove when we traded it in was the garage door opener. I think that really helped. It LOOKED like it was in really good shape. I had even scrubbed the carpets!!! A few hours of hard elbow grease really paid off!!!

I guess I'm in the minority. I actually like shopping for a new car. I do all of my research online - trade value, invoice price, options I can't live without, etc. and then I'll go back online to find the exact car I want. I'll check multiple dealerships and play them off of each other.

Believe it or not, the last two cars we purchased were purchased at a dealership 100 miles from my home. There were dealerships closer to where I live but none of them offered me the deal that I felt was acceptable. When we traded in our 1997 wagon with 130K miles, we received a rental car free of charge for three days.

When I bought our new car last month, I got $500 more on the trade in than any other dealership offered, the final price was $1,000 below invoice and 0% financing. They even credited the deposit (I gave to them over the phone) back to my credit card so that I could include that amount into the 0% financing.

I have even had friends and co-workers ask me to go car shopping with them because they don't like dealing with car dealerships and I don't mind haggling.

 

[alikat99]

Ok, so I have a "dumb" question to ask. How exactly do you "close" a pool? We don't have anything that we do to our pool each winter, but I'm sure that's because I don't have to worry about things like snow. We just turn the pool heater off and we only chlorine shock the pool every other week instead of every week. Other than that, we just stop swimming in it from about November - March.

 

[rsschneck]

Of course, we KNEW we were in the market for a new car so I had completely detailed the inside and outside of the van. The ONLY thing we had to remove when we traded it in was the garage door opener. I think that really helped. It LOOKED like it was in really good shape. I had even scrubbed the carpets!!! A few hours of hard elbow grease really paid off!!!

Did that! Spent the morning detailing the truck! DH says even if he did not get the new car he likes how the old truck looks!

 

[Diana Lyn]

Ok, so I have a "dumb" question to ask. How exactly do you "close" a pool? We don't have anything that we do to our pool each winter, but I'm sure that's because I don't have to worry about things like snow. We just turn the pool heater off and we only chlorine shock the pool every other week instead of every week. Other than that, we just stop swimming in it from about November - March.

Just one more reason for me to move to FL.

Add me to the list of hating looking out the window at the the covered pool. It just makes the yard look crappy. I'll have to take before/after pics for you guys. As for your question---we have an inground pool. It came with the house, as we'd never spend the $20-30 grand it takes to put one in. First we drain the pool about halfway....making sure the water line in below the skimmer and thingys that push the water back into the pool. Then we blow out the lines with an air compressor making sure there's no water left in them, because water in the lines in upstate NY means frozen lines, which means broken lines come spring. Then we cover it up with the big giant tarp, put water bags along the edges and wait til June again to uncover it. It's a big giant waste if you ask me. Then once spring comes we have a ceremonial scooping of all the critters that found the pool in the winter and didn't find their way out.

Oh and Karen--I had a friends whose parents called to just have their pool filled in because their liner ripped and they didn't us the pool or want to spend the cash to replace it. It turns out, it's more expensive to fill in an inground pool than it is to replace the liner and run it for years.

 

[Diana Lyn]

Curt O' Curt where art thou?


I have a deal for you! DH said we would GIVE you the 6 points needed to make your ressie if you join the "party" bus, wear your uniform ::cop: and deliver about 10 dozen Krispy Kreme's to the busers. Is that a deal or what?

I'll let you think about it and you can get back to me!

If that's the case, I'd pay EXTRA to ride the party bus !!

 

[rsschneck]

If that's the case, I'd pay EXTRA to ride the party bus !!

Actually, you already did! We have money to blow!!!! Just looking for a cute delivery man!::cop: (dangling the 6 points)

 

[unixadm]

Well, no new explorer for us! Trade in on our truck was not what we wanted. We even went fair to poor from the kelly blue book and the dealer was still under by at least $1000. We are pretty cut and dry people so we walked. No big deal! When the right thing comes along we will get it. I would think the car dealers are hungrier to get their 2006 SUV's sold than we are to buy one.

Try a few other dealerships.....some are much better than others and are more willing to give a good trade.

One dealer I talked to wanted to give me $9100 for my '05 Taurus. My dealer gave me $11,000! I paid $12,600 for it so I got a great trade in.

Do you have a sticker for the Explorer you were looking at? (you should be able to print one from the dealer's website). You can take that, go to a different dealer, find a very simliar SUV, tell them what the other dealer was going to give it to you for, and work the deal.....then work on your trade.

It's good that you are willing to walk....if they really want to make the sale, they will either not let you walk, or will call you back.

Other thing is that you could get the Explorer without the trade, and sell the old car on your own....you will definitely do better that way. Of course, that is only easy if you have the title in hand.

 

[MaryJ]

Actually, you already did! We have money to blow!!!! Just looking for a cute delivery man!::cop: (dangling the 6 points)

If Curt takes you up on your offer, someone needs to take a picture for those of us not on the bus! It would almost be worth it to see you guys of. We could stand beside the bus and . Maybe even get the giant Mickey hands....

 

[rsschneck]

Try a few other dealerships.....some are much better than others and are more willing to give a good trade.

One dealer I talked to wanted to give me $9100 for my '05 Taurus. My dealer gave me $11,000! I paid $12,600 for it so I got a great trade in.

Do you have a sticker for the Explorer you were looking at? (you should be able to print one from the dealer's website). You can take that, go to a different dealer, find a very simliar SUV, tell them what the other dealer was going to give it to you for, and work the deal.....then work on your trade.

It's good that you are willing to walk....if they really want to make the sale, they will either not let you walk, or will call you back.

Other thing is that you could get the Explorer without the trade, and sell the old car on your own....you will definitely do better that way. Of course, that is only easy if you have the title in hand.

Wow! Lots of help and advice from my DIS friends on the car buying business. We are not willing to do a lot of work because we do not NEED a new vehical. Just thought it was time to update. Since ours is running great we will just keep it a bit longer. We have not had a car payment in 6-7 years and the thought of $400+ per month was not that appealing.

This day and age I would not sell my car myself unless it was to someone I knew. We live in a big city and there are a lot of wierdos around I would not want having my phone number or address.

We feel $31,000 richer!

Your DH is one lucky guy with his new Mustang! DH LOVED driving the Mustang GT V8!

 

[BCVOwner2002]

Wow! Lots of help and advice from my DIS friends on the car buying business. We are not willing to do a lot of work because we do not NEED a new vehical. Just thought it was time to update. Since ours is running great we will just keep it a bit longer. We have not had a car payment in 6-7 years and the thought of $400+ per month was not that appealing.

This day and age I would not sell my car myself unless it was to someone I knew. We live in a big city and there are a lot of wierdos around I would not want having my phone number or address.

We feel $31,000 richer!

Your DH is one lucky guy with his new Mustang! DH LOVED driving the Mustang GT V8!

Roxann - that's what Tom wants too! He said the Montego is comfortable but it's practical and he'd rather something sporty like the 2007 Shelby GT Ford Mustang. I think he even has the colors already picked out too! I told him if I win the lottery I'll buy him one. So he wants to know what the odds are? I don't have the heart to tell him slim to none that I'd win!

 

[rsschneck]

If Curt takes you up on your offer, someone needs to take a picture for those of us not on the bus! It would almost be worth it to see you guys of. We could stand beside the bus and . Maybe even get the giant Mickey hands....

Oh, like a bus Bon Voyage party! I love it! A pre-cruise, cruise send off!