Brian and I have been in the market for a commuter car (aka a "beater" or a "bucket") for a couple of months. You see, he's been commuting to San Jose from San Francisco since June in his Dodge Ram. Yeah, you read correctly - 80 miles round trip almost every day in a big pick up truck. As you can imagine, our gas spending is ridiculous. So, we've been on the lookout for a good little commuter car. We don't want to sell his truck because he uses it for truck things so we wanted something cheap that would cost barely anything to insure. This weekend, we found the perfect car! A friend of my mom's has been looking to sell her 1998 Toyota Corolla (only 121,000 miles!), but didn't want to list it on Craigslist so we went up to take a look and it's in great condition! For $2200, we walked...err, drove away with our new commuter car. As you can see in the picture, the paint is faded here and there, and inside the upholstery is a bit stained/worn here and there, and the model of the car is bare bones (no automatic anything, nothing fancy). But, it runs great and gets fabulous gas mileages!
In other weekend news, we ran errands, Brian painted furniture, I did laundry and cleaned house, and we took Riley on a great hike and he got to swim a bunch (thankful for the sunny weekend!). We also went for another inspection on the (potential) new digs. Looks like our hopeful new house is going to need some work, but it's worth it. Besides, it will make for some good blog posts!
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