Wednesday, November 19, 2008

My (Very) Early Christmas Gift

So for a long time we've been talking about getting a second car, so that I can you know, go grocery shopping during the day and not on the weekend! We've had good luck with our two previous Hyundais, and when the 2007 Santa Fe came out, we both really liked it. But, it was a bit pricey (not as far as SUVs go, but just more than we paid for cars before) and I'd been trying to figure out if we could justify spending that much just for little old me. Then the gas prices shot up and I almost gave up the idea of getting one at all.

Last month or so, I was browsing Carmax and saw some great deals on fairly new Santa Fes, so I kept my eye out. Then last week I looked, and they were suddenly all gone! Just to make sure I checked again this past Sunday, and a 2008 Santa Fe with only 10K miles on it was listed for an extremely reasonable price, not much more really than what we'd paid for our other cars! And to top it off, it was silver, my favorite car color! So we talked it over and decided to go for it a bit early...

And here she is! :-)







It's really kind of hard to believe I can just walk out and go somewhere during the day, lol! Not that I really plan to all that often, but it's just nice having the option there. :-) I'll never have to wake up early to drop Camille off at work again if I need to go somewhere, woohoo!

5 comments:

CarMaxChris said...

Hi Stephanie! I am the social media PR guy at the CarMax home office in Richmond, VA. Google Alerts notified of your blog post mentioning CarMax. I am pleased to read of your great experience at one of our stores! I hope you are very happy with your Santa Fe. I also hope all your friends visit the store or carmax.com! Thanks for being a CarMax customer!

Stephanie said...

Wow, the wonders of the internet, lol. Thanks! :-)

~Joseph the Worker said...

Congrats Stephanie! I'm not sure if the Carmax thing is creepy or not though.....

Maiki said...

Lol at the Carmax thing! Impressive!

Kasia said...

Ha, my old boss used to do Google alerts for our university. It's a useful tool for PR. I also had a Home Depot PR person correct me on my blog about something...creepy, yes, a little, but that's the internet!

Merry (early) Christmas! :-)