darn these car payments!!

so i started making payments on my little '03 Alero this year. and guess what people...drum roll...by June or July, i'll have the whole thing paid off! which means this cute little piece of metal and unfathomable machinery, complete with its inexplicably appealing spoiler and aluminum rims, will be ALL mine, FOREVER. or at least until i trade it in towards an Audi or BMW. :D

i'm paying it off in triple payments (sometimes quadruple) so i can un-factor those payments from my life as soon as possible. plus, i might go back to school next year, so it's good to think about eliminating large expenses for that tenuous period of just-scraping-by. and, i'm saving nearly a thousand dollars in interest (!!!) by doing it this way. which makes me happy. but i still hate to make that ginooooormous transfer each month on a car which, notwithstanding its young age, has a great amount of road-experience, in the area of 85,000 miles.

but it's always kind of nice to let the triple-payments sit in my bank account for at least a little while before shuffling those precious digits off into the cold expanse of cyberspace.