http://www.moneycrashers.com/pimpin-your-ride-is-not-a-wise-financial-decision/ Personal Finance Blog, Your Guide to Financial Fitness Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.moneycrashers.com/pimpin-your-ride-is-not-a-wise-financial-decision/#comment-11099 Mac Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:52:27 +0000 http://moneycrashers.com/?p=65#comment-11099 Easier said than done for a lot of teenagers out there. They want to impress their friends and the ladies with a pimped up car. Thankfully, I was never really into cars, as long as I had one and it looked decent. I'll be teaching my kid to put money in stocks so that he can tell his friends that he owns part of Apple or Google. That should get him a few dates! ;) Easier said than done for a lot of teenagers out there. They want to impress their friends and the ladies with a pimped up car. Thankfully, I was never really into cars, as long as I had one and it looked decent. I’ll be teaching my kid to put money in stocks so that he can tell his friends that he owns part of Apple or Google. That should get him a few dates! ;)

]]> http://www.moneycrashers.com/pimpin-your-ride-is-not-a-wise-financial-decision/#comment-1155 derrich Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:10:16 +0000 http://moneycrashers.com/?p=65#comment-1155 I will agree wholeheartedly with this...based on experience. I had a sound system good enough to compete in an IASCA soundoff, and I accumulated enough debt to make medical students cry doing this very thing...and then some. Be patient. Your time to "pimp" anything (car, wardrobe, apartment, etc) will come. Get a job at Abercrombie or Banana if you want cheap clothes...or Best Buy if you want sweet deals on electronics. Employee discounts pwN (I think I just endorsed spending again, didn't I?). I will agree wholeheartedly with this…based on experience. I had a sound system good enough to compete in an IASCA soundoff, and I accumulated enough debt to make medical students cry doing this very thing…and then some. Be patient. Your time to “pimp” anything (car, wardrobe, apartment, etc) will come. Get a job at Abercrombie or Banana if you want cheap clothes…or Best Buy if you want sweet deals on electronics. Employee discounts pwN (I think I just endorsed spending again, didn’t I?).

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