(UPDATE: deal cancelled)
Well, I pulled the trigger today.
I've been getting pretty good miles on the truck as a DD, but one boy has a job, the other is actively looking, and both go back to school (two different ones) in the fall. Gotta have another ride.
Today I signed papers on a 2001 Prius. About $5400 out the door, not too bad. Only about 109,000 miles on the clock. I'll probably pick it up tomorrow.
This is the other kind of economizing: making the most of what uses the least. Since Sweetie and I ride to work together, to jobs not even a mile apart at the end of a 22.3 mile commute, it makes sense that we take the little sipper. Kids are looking at jobs close to home, and even the guzzling Forester could go three weeks on a tank if the kid's ride to work is only five miles each way.
(Does some math)
Actually, the kid could probably go about five weeks. Dang.
So anyhoo, I'll start doing some stuff, especially the things I saw Orange4boy doing with his comparable ride,
Chewie. If my math is right, this thing could actually save its purchase cost in avoided fuel costs in about six years.