I Need a Shiny New Car

OK, I have been driving my busted-arse Holden Astra for 15 years. I am turning 50 soon and my boyfriend is going to buy me a new car, so l am looking at a luxury Audi TT convertible. We both work really hard, have no kids, own our home, and have three investment properties. So l think, why can’t l have it? But the ‘fun police’ said to me today, “How much should we spend on a car?” Being female, l don’t care -- l just want a shiny new car. Scott, my boyfriend loves you, so can you get him to give me an answer?

Caroline

Caroline,

you are the reason that people stop me in the street and say “Those questions, they’re not real are they?” Seriously, I couldn’t make this stuff up.

Okay, so your boyfriend can obviously afford it -- but that doesn’t mean he wants to spend it.

From a Barefoot point of view, I’m with him. You’re asking him to spend $100,000 on a car, and your sole justification is that you just want a ‘shiny’ car?

If I were him, the question I’d be asking is: what could I spend the money on that would make us happiest over the long-term?

For that money he could buy you a nearly new second hand car, plus a once-in-a-lifetime overseas holiday, plus fund twelve dirty long weekends away, plus radically change the entire life of someone somewhere in the world.

But hey, if you like the Audi TT convertible -- I’m all for women’s lib -- buy your own bloody car!

Scott