Putt putt
My most expensive weekend was when I dropped $10K in cash on my car.
When the ex husband and I broke up, all I wanted was my car payments making as I couldn't afford them with all my new monthly expenses that I was having to pay alone (apartment, bills etc).
He agreed to this, but then when he found out I was dating again he was a little miffed and demanded the car back by the end of the month.

2 weeks later, on a Friday, I got my inheritance money through that mum had left me......first thing I did was go straight to the bank and write a check for the $10k that was still owing on it and transferred title into my name.

Even though I got no help financially from the ex husband and ended up paying the car myself (and he wanted the break up, not me), I walked away from that marriage with my head held high and my dignity intact.

That car has seen me through some great times over the last couple of years, road trips to Arizona, Vegas and the mountains, and it's one of the "safe" places I can go when I'm having a panic attack in public. It's like a little cocoon. I love my little putt putt.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 14 May 2010, 19:52, 7 replies)

$10,000 ????
For a little putt putt?! Tell me your nickname is to make it sound cutesy as it's a girls car!

ps. My cars nickname is Will - no reason, he just seems like a Will.
( Mister B is eating an icanhazcheezburger with lmaonaise, Fri 14 May 2010, 20:23, closed)

It was a brand new model
Scion XA. It's a tardis inside and I get 31mpg city and 37mpg freeway. And she's lully, and yes, I am female
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Fri 14 May 2010, 21:17, closed)

Dignity and grace - what I wish my ex-wife had left me when she decided to leg it with my kids and about £30k. Brilliant. Glad to see you fared better than I!
(Forward Air Controller last dropped live ordnance on, Sun 16 May 2010, 22:04, closed)

I still
don't understand.

Why should he pay for a car that you want?
(dchurch bah, Mon 17 May 2010, 11:57, closed)

It was the only thing I wanted him to pay for
out of the divorce. I could have taken half his business as well as alimony.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Mon 17 May 2010, 20:16, closed)

So
you have children with this man?
(dchurch bah, Tue 18 May 2010, 12:02, closed)

No.
In the US, alimony "ex wife support" as opposed to child support.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Wed 19 May 2010, 19:14, closed)