I had a great weekend for the plasectomy.

Let me just say, I hate trying to sell a vehicle via the private party process. I do not enjoy the whole listing, waiting, calling, waiting, test driving, and waiting some more dance routine. It does have a great payoff in the end though, money. Back when we were purchasing the new to us minivan the dealerships that we visited offered us between $700 and $1,300 for it and to this day I am flabbergasted by that offer. I know they are in business to make money, but come on, I papers with the trade in values in hand showing that the value was significantly more. I suppose that this will be one of those life lessons to never trade in a vehicle again and to actually spend the time trying to sell it on my own. Heck, even if I accepted a low ball offer of $2,000 on the SUV, which I was offered constantly, I would be making out far greater than any dealer would offer.

The SUV that we have being trying to sell for the past couple months finally has a potential buyer. He came on Saturday to take a look at, test drive, and haggle me with pricing. I originally starting asking $4,200 for it at the beginning of February with little to no interest. Over the past weeks I slowly dropped the price down to $3,500 which brought the attention of a few buyers and thankfully one of them has committed to purchase the vehicle. The windshield has a crack in it from a tree branch falling out of the tree in the driveway from a severe storm and after haggling we settled on $3,200 for the vehicle with the windshield fixed. He gave me a $500 deposit to hold the explorer and repair the windshield. This works for me as I was selling it with a damaged windshield that I fully disclosed in the ad. The windshield will be replaced tomorrow morning within a couple of hours and it should be good to go. Hopefully by the end of this week it will be gone.

As much as my emotions and intensity to rid our family of the credit card debt and sell everything we own, I am glad I was patient with this sale. This sale, once papers are signed and it drives away, will take a serious bite out of my plasectomy. Fingers crossed!