Car sale is proving to be difficult...
I had around 5-6 people come and look at my car this weekend. The result was a little upsetting. I had three offers on the day, two at $7k and one at $6.5k. I almost laughed at the guy that offered me the $6.5k, because that's a whopping $3,500 below blue book. The other offers that I had were at $7k, which, while it's not much better than the $6.5k, it's closer. I think if they had offered me $7.5k, I would have gone through with it.
This morning, on my flight out to work, I ran into one of the directors. He let me know that I was selected to work on a project in Charlotte after I get off of my current project. Turns out that Charlotte is only 240 miles from Atlanta, so looks like I'm going to be driving up there. As it stands, I should be driving the 540i....don't know how I feel about that. Gas isn't that bad on the highway, so it shouldn't be hurting me all that much, and I figure that for a month, this is how it will work out:
480 miles/wk = 1920 miles.
1920 miles / 22mpg = 87.27 gallons of fuel
87.27 gallons * $4.50 (pesimistic) = $392.71 in fuel
1920 miles * $0.585 (IRS Rate) = $1123.20 Pay from Company
Net "Income" = $730ish
So if I were to go about driving for the six weeks of the project, I should pull in around $1100ish that i could dump into my car. "Repairs" and depreciation won't hurt the car, as it's already got 108k miles on it.
I've been really digging into the forums this past week and have made myself a solid budget. I looked at June's spending and it was a little....okay....a lot sad. I spent clost to $1,000....on nothing. We're not talking food and stuff like that. I'm talking about tangible objects that i could have easily gone without. Oh well. This month will be better.