CAA Resolution

After weeks of chasing around with J.A. Towing, I finally got back in touch with CAA. In speaking to the rep I learned that the tow truck driver had quit one week after damaging my van. Huhhh...

So all the time J.A. Towing was telling me that they had to speak to the driver, they already knew that the driver had quit. Colour me less than impressed.

The CAA rep asked what I was looking for. I wasn't interested in repairing the body damage, Wayne, my mechanic, has said that the van won't last out the year, and I see no reason to repair the body work if the van will be junked within the year.

I asked for tangible proof that CAA accepted responsibility for the damage that their agent had caused. When pressed for a hard figure I asked for my mimbership account to be credited for $250. I probably could of fought for more, but I didn't think it would be worth my time and effort. As it is, the credit pays for my and my wifes membership for the next two years at a time when I was very displeased with the company and thinking of dropping my membership.

The cost to CAA is minimal. The rep admitted that $250 was the amount she was allowed for an out of hand settlement and giving that as a credit means it would cost the company even less.

However, it was worth it to me for the peace of mind and being able to move forward and lead this incident behind me.

Does anyone have any recommendations about Mazda 6 station wagons? I'm shopping for a new car...

Where have I been?

At my father's Father's Day party on Sunday, my brother-in-law asked if I was still keeping this blog going and I said yes. The lack of posts where due to a strange combination of frustration over the CAA thing and not feeling that I was making as real progress as some of the other PF bloggers.

I'm going to talk about the CAA resolution in another post, but I wanted to talk a bit about my feeling that my progress wasn't as "good" as other peoples. I know that we are progressing, I can see in on my No Credit Needed Network badge. Currently, we have paid off 18.89 % of our debt. We are closing in on having paid off a quarter of our debt. We have over $8,000.00 in cash. $5,000 in Emergancy and Operational Savings Funds and $3000 in our growing Car Purchase Fund.

I think that the problem is that once I got the biweekly budget figured out, everything is so automatic that it almost doesn't feel real. Other blogger post on how they keep pushing themselves to save more and snowball more, but I don't really want to keep pushing and cutting the budget tighter and tighter. Oh, I work all the extra OT I can at work to make my snowballs as big as I can get them, but I haven't gotten going on any other income streams. I still haven't put my first item up on Ebay.

Part of it, I think, is that I don't want to push my wife too far. Part of it is that I'm mostly a lazy, procrastinating bastard, and I'm pretty comfortable how things are going. This all leads to me feeling like I'm not as "serious" or "dedicated" as others, and that leads me to not posting.

Now I know that our path to getting out of debt is not like anyone else's and I need to stop comparing our progress to anyone else.

So, that's my whine. It's done and over. Next post.