As the title suggests, I added up all of the money that I have been spending on my truck and tools during the last month and a half (pretty much the time period that I have been a member of this forum). Let's just say that wife isn't happy with the $1,700 total... Holy crap...

For the most part, my wife isn't very happy because she doesn't see why I had to do things like upgrading the exhaust and intake, etc...

A lot of that amount is tools and supplies (mostly for "unnecessary" things as defined by my wife), most of which I still have and will continue to have. The only project I have left to complete is the taurus efan, but everything is already purchased for that. I am just waiting for the wiring to arrive from dccontrol.com.

I have made a LOT of progress with the truck and I am happy, but even still... I didn't realize that I spent so much. It was mostly just a bunch of tiny amounts that added up.

Let this be a warning to the rest of you lol

On the bright side, there isn't much more left for me to do other than the future v8 swap. Now I pretty much have all of the supplies and tools that I need and it will just cost me some of my time for now on.

 

just do the dishes for a week and it will make up for it.

 

I'm afraid it'll take a bit more than just doing the dishes. I'm going to have to step up my game considerably to get her back into mode

On the bright side still, I enjoy my truck. I just need to get better at budgeting time for me to tinker with it. Because she pointed out how much time I was spending with it, I have made an effort not to put it before her. Unfortunately, now it is taking me longer to get the simplest of tasks completed. I now can work on it after she has gone to bed, but it gets annoying always having to do things in the dark! We both make compromises... it's apart of being in a serious relationship lol

 

i need to find a girl thats as obsessed with cars as i am. she will understand that spending money on my truck is worth it......im sure that atleast 50% of my paycheck ends up in the dakota.

 

My wife drives a prius. As far as she is concerned, a vehicle should go and stop and do it efficiently. Nothing less, nothing more. She does not approve of my ways

 

thoes prius' must be pretty ball less in terms of power

 

Actually they do pretty well at not getting ran over when merging into traffic. Going the maximum speed, wide open throttle, of like 110 mph it still gets better gas mileage than our trucks lol She wasn't thrilled, but I had to test it lol

They certainly aren't powerful, but they are amusing trying to see how good you can get the mpg by coasting as much as possible and running just on electricity by lightly pressing on the gas pedal. They ride very smoothly and the turn radius is to die for, of course. There is plenty of room inside as well. If the intentions are just to drive around and be super comfortable and economical, the prius is golden. We use it for all of our trips and errands that we do together. However, when I'm alone, I prefer my truck

 

but... it's a Prius...

My wife tried to convince me we should get a Prius once. She was unsuccessful.

 

It was her dream car. I figured since I had a retarded version of mine (since it's the v6 and not 4wd lol), she should get to have hers as well. We use the prius for any simple driving, but we use my truck for any functional purposes. It's a happy balance. She loves to make fun of the prius too, but the prius jokes just make her like it more such as Jeff Dunham who we have tickets to go see in the near future:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP-tyvBGla4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3UWq_T7vtM&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf81dE4DS20

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQcSOP2AzXU

 

I solve the money problem by only keeping a max of 50.00 on me rest goes into the bank Then I tell myself im poor and cant buy anything lol. This is how I manged to save 4,000 in 7 months. I've been living off 200.00 for 3 weeks now and I still have a 100 left. Little different when you live with you parents and helps I dont have a g/f anymore either thats saving me about 100.00 a week damn women!!! As far as tools I have most of what I need but I also get half off snap on stuff!!!