i dont think i am.

[booyhoo]

i am waiting to do my pre-reg course for CMing in oct. our car is on it's last legs and we are going to have to change it. so when discussing cars OH seemed quite surprised that i was looking at 6/7 seater cars. we have two dcs and i expect to be able to have 4 mindees. OH says if we are getting a 6/7 seater he will have to get himself another car because he wont "drive about in a bloody bus".

my objections to this are;

1. we are tring to save a deposit to buy a house (one of us trying a bit harder than teh other it seems)
2. he is forces and gets home about 1 weekend a month. any car he had would sit here for the rest of the month
3. the cost of him having a car would cancel out any income i make for the first 6 months or so of CMing. 4)he should stop being so bloody image obsessed- i put up with alot for his career, he should give a bit too.

his reasons are as stated above "they're like buses"

so AIBU?

sorry lunatic

Booyhoo, YANBU, he is! I'm not just saying that cuz you're a fellow NI girl whom I've met in RL.

For a man to say he won't drive it the 1 weekend a month he's home, he must be daft. Tell him to walk or get a bus.

My DH used to have more money than sense until DS was born and I blasted his ears about being responsible and saving etc. He took his fancy sports car up to the local 2nd hand car dealership and traded it for a very reliable Volvo estate

Sometimes I see him look longingly at sports cars, but he knows we have a car to suit our needs as a family.

A 7 seater type car will suit your needs if you become a CM, and maybe in the future he can get himself a fancy car.

the problem is that, if you're going to be carting extra children around regularly as part of your job, you will need a proper 7 seater and not a 5 + 2 like the SMax.

that is true soupdragon, although im not telling OH that yet

hi tlc, he is daft, but try telling him that

Hire car.

I worked out that the amount I drove it was cheaper for me to have a hire car whenever I wanted one than own my own car that would sit there doing nothing most of the time.

Plus, they're always fairly new, clean, and you can try a different one every time if you like.

Some places will even deliver them to your door.

See I'm feeling a bit like the bloke should be able to have a car he can enjoy. I'm not saying yabu at all! Just that the only time off he gets is one weekend a month, cars are what he enjoys. I'd be inclined to go with maybe him getting one later, once the income is up. And save less for the deposit for a while.

(But then I'm perhaps not as dedicated at saving as some).

we have every intention of him having his own car, it's just that at the minute buying a house is a bigger priority. he knows this, he knows his car will come, he is just stomping his feet because real life is getting in the way of what he wants right now. i have told him the best things are worth waiting for.

btw, he has history for changing his car as often as he changes his socks so i know that even if he did get one he wanted now he would want a different one in 6 months time.