What’s the best purchase you ever made and why?
As the song lyrics go “‘Cause we are living in a material world and I’m a material girl.”
But I try not to be that girl. There are so many things that I value that can’t be bought. You know the list-friendship, love, time. But I’m not living off the grid and out of contact with humanity, so I buy things on a regular basis.
So what is the best purchase I ever made?
Let’s bypass the obvious- my husband’s wedding ring. That was an excellent purchase. And we’ll also skip over the computer I use to create my stories- a good purchase, but not the best. And I’m tempted to tell you about buying the Greyhound bus ticket that took me to a little college in northwest Wyoming. But I think I’ll skip that one, too.
Instead I’m going to brag about our Jeep.
A few years ago, the reliable little truck I’d been driving for years started to become unreliable. Little things started to go wrong and we were having to put money into it to keep it running on a regular basis. So we decided it was time to replace it.
I knew I didn’t want a boring car. And I was okay with another pickup, a slightly larger one. But I really wanted a 4-wheel drive vehicle, one that could handle the local roads in winter and get me places in the mountains a standard vehicle couldn’t. A Jeep seemed to be the obvious answer.
We did our research-checked out models, options, colors, used vs new. We made several trips to the dealership to see if they had what we wanted. When we finally found it, it wasn’t a perfect fit but we decided it was good enough.
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| at about 14000 feet above sea level |
Why do I call it our best purchase? The Jeep has taken us places where we would never attempt to go in the old pickup. We’ve taken the back roads and discovered new-to-us places. We’ve driven it to the East Coast and to the West Coast. It’s been at 0 feet above sea level and at 14,114 feet above sea level.
But the best thing about the purchase? It’s the time together the Jeep has given us. It’s the freedom to take a side road and not worry about what we might run into. It’s the satisfaction and joy in pulling into the driveway after a long day exploring, with new memories of the beauty that this world has to offer.
And that’s why I’ll say the Jeep is the best purchase we’ve ever made. How about you?
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September 3, 2018.
What’s the best purchase you ever made and why?
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