Inflation: A Concept I Wish I Understood Much Earlier | I've Paid For This Twice Already... http://www.paidtwice.com/2008/02/08/inflation-a-concept-i-wish-i-understood-much-earlier/#comment-15586 paidtwice Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:14:17 +0000 http://www.paidtwice.com/2008/02/08/inflation-a-concept-i-wish-i-understood-much-earlier/#comment-15586 @Deamiter - I actually bought a new car. My dad is the inventory manager at a new car dealership. My parents financed the other $5000 of it for me (they didn't pay for it, they just got the loan) and I paid the rest of it over the next two years. Oh, I wasn't really talking about the "cash" part as much as the "rolled up money that used to be in socks" part. lol I started driving at the height of the gulf "war", and gas was (for then) astronomically expensive. The price of gas in the first few months I sarted driving actually went down by about 50% and stayed down - in fact, only in the past 2 years did it get back to what i paid my first few weeks driving ($2 a gallonish). Maybe that is part of why I was so clueless. Heh. What i wouldn;t do for $2 a gallon gas now... heh. Boomie - I'm not sure my brain takes that into account even now, my brain is very sheltered. But that is an excellent point. @Deamiter - I actually bought a new car. My dad is the inventory manager at a new car dealership. My parents financed the other $5000 of it for me (they didn’t pay for it, they just got the loan) and I paid the rest of it over the next two years.

Oh, I wasn’t really talking about the “cash” part as much as the “rolled up money that used to be in socks” part. lol

I started driving at the height of the gulf “war”, and gas was (for then) astronomically expensive. The price of gas in the first few months I sarted driving actually went down by about 50% and stayed down - in fact, only in the past 2 years did it get back to what i paid my first few weeks driving ($2 a gallonish). Maybe that is part of why I was so clueless. Heh.

What i wouldn;t do for $2 a gallon gas now… heh.

Boomie - I’m not sure my brain takes that into account even now, my brain is very sheltered. But that is an excellent point.

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