Dream car

Buying our dream car brings us joy and regret It was the month of December of the year 2013; I was stressed out, depressed and at times I even felt sick. December 21st was right around the corner and I was struggling to gather the money that would keep me from living in my car or worst-case scenario, in the street. Ever since I was in grade school, I hoped that by the time I was 22 years of age, I would own the latest model car of the SLK class Mercedes Benz. I always imagined of how great that day would be, but at the same time I was concerned about how expensive that car is. Today, I am 24 years old, and in the past two years I had owned a 2012 Mercedes Benz SLK350 roadster car. I really enjoyed owning this car, for the fact that it was sporty and luxurious looking, at the same time I come to realize that there is a price to be paid in order to own this car. Today, I realize how buying the car of my dreams has really impacted my life. About seven years ago, I got my first job and I started saving money so that I could buy myself my dream car, which has always been an SLK class Mercedes Benz. At that time I was living with my parents, therefore, I did not have to worry about paying any bills. The only things that I had to worry about paying were, my food, and that was only if I wanted to go out and socialize, my cloth, and gas. I was saving about $400 to $450 out of my paycheck every month then, after one year of savings, I had saved a total of $5,200. I thought I had a sufficient amount of money saved up for my dream car’s down payment. I found out that it was not enough, because I did not qualify for the fact that I was young and I had no credit. So for the next four years I kept on saving the same amount of money every month. After the four years of saving money, I finally collected the sufficient amount of $20,000 to use as a down payment for my dream car. I had actually saved a total of $25,000, but I kept $5,000 for myself, because now I wanted to