Car Shopping Is Not Fun

With the baby on the way, we've decided that the time has finally come for us to start looking for a new vehicle.  We spent all day Saturday looking here and in Enterprise.  I have to say, it wasn't a terribly pleasant experience.

Like most people who are car shopping, we're trying our best to stretch our money while at the same time trying to get something that's going to meet our needs.  Everybody wants to sell you on the flashy extras and we're not really interested in that.  We just want a small SUV/crossover that DeAnne can get a car seat in and out of without throwing her back out.  As long as it fits that criteria, is reliable and drives good, then we're pretty much set.  The problem is that the vehicles that meet those items are all priced and equipped so differently that it's hard to determine just what exactly is the best deal.

I just read that paragraph again and while I'm not going to rewrite it, it makes it sound worse than it really is.  It is frustrating, but it was our first day looking and we made some good progress considering we didn't really know what we wanted to look at when we started.  Like everything, it's going to be a process and it's going to take time.  It's still not fun.  Driving away in a new (to you at least) car will be fun considering we've been driving our Sentras for nearly 10 years now, but the process of finding that car is kind of painful.  Who knows, maybe this will be easier than baby furniture.

--Paul