Bought a NEW car, and made it out shopping for interview outfit!!!
So, gonna be really lazy here and just copy an email I just sent to a friend....
"Yay – both made it to the car place AND up to the mall yesterday!!
So…
I’M GETTING A NEW CAR!!! SO excited, never had a brand new one before. We can only afford it because my dad has given me my old car, which is the new place will buy off us for £3,500, and offered to pay off the outstanding finance on it. My new one is SO cool, and we got an AMAZING deal – putting a salesman and a marketer together as a bad cop / good cop team seemed to work bloody well!! Right, details:
- Ford Fiesta Freedom http://www.ford.co.uk/ie/fiesta/-/fie_0508_intro/fie_0508_body_freedom/-/-/225876/
- 1.4 petrol engine, 5 door version. We took one for a test drive and it’s fantastic – so smooth and quiet, and with a slightly raised driving position, which I love
- It’s so cool! It has voice controlled audio, as well as remotes for the audio on the steering wheel, built in Bluetooth for your phone, ‘safe-home’ headlights, they stay on for long enough after you’ve turned the engine off to light you back into your house, and loads of other little cool touches – yay!! It doesn’t have leather seats, but I’m glad cause my current one does, and in summer they do my head in (my old car was a Ford Ka Luxury)
- Should’ve been £9,950, and is a much in-demand, new limited edition version of the Fiesta, yet we bargained them down to £9.500, AND got them to offer £3,500 for my old car – which is actually worth £3000
- AND we also got FREE metallic paint (panther black, hopefully), FREE a/c and heated front windscreen, plus we negotiated FREE privacy tinted dark glass, FREE additional safety pack with extra air bags, etc, FREE rear parking sensors (cause I hate reverse parking!) and half price 16” alloys and wheels, as the 15” ones looked a bit lost in the wheel arches. (nearly £2000 worth of free kit, plus £500 of the price of the car, and an extra £500 over the value of my old one!!)
- Cause it’s selling so well we won’t get it til last week in September / first week in October, but if all goes well and we get what we want I can live with that! – we find out Monday that there’s definitely a black one far enough back on the production line to be modified to add all our little extras. Fingers crossed! (Though knowing our luck I don’t hold out much hope…)
- We got a great finance deal, just 5.9% APR on the credit, with the option to upgrade the car in just 30 months for just £2000.
And…
I NEARLY, JUST ABOUT, ALMOST MANAGED TO BUY A WHOLE NEW OUTFIT FOR MY INTERVIEW!!
We struggled though – we spent far longer at the car place than intended, so only got to the mall at 5.40pm – it shuts at 7pm. And I can only buy trousers from 2 stores (the ones that do extra long length) and tops from 5, as I have a long body and arms too, and tops don’t’ always fit me. We ended up just buying everything that was a possibility, so we could eventually come up with an outfit, so I have some extras that I’ll need to take back.
Final outfit – light grey, straight leg, wide leg smart trousers, a black, ribbed, lightweight wool vest top that fits really nicely, and a black ribbed shirt – that I don’t feel that comfortable in, as it’s a bit too fitted, but I’m going to wear it open over the vest, and with the cuffs folded up to my elbow to make the whole thing look a bit more casual and less ‘typical interview outfit’, I didn’t want to go down the black suit and white shirt route either.
We ran out of time to get shoes, and my only existing ones are low-heel black pointed toe shoes – which were really lovely, but are a bit scuffed now, and would necessitate having the trousers taken up a bit as they’re made to wear with high heels, so about to hit the internet and see if Dorothy Perkins, the main ones who do next day delivery, have any nice high heel black shoes.
I have a lovely red leather Jasper Conran bag that I’ll use, to brighten up the outfit, which is dead smart as I save it for occasions just like this, and a red & silver bead bracelet on one hand and a delicate silver bracelet on the other, and a really long silver necklace with like a chunky dog-tag-shape silver nugget on the end. And probably just some tiny silver studs.
Can’t decide how to have hair – up or down, so waiting for inspiration on that one! Plus have a friend of Jamie’s mums, who’s a mobile hair dresser, coming to cut my fringe, split-ends and do some layers, as I don’t have time to make it to a hairdressers tum-wise. "
Despite having hardly any sleep for the past few days, I'm feeling pretty cool & positive today!!
"Yay – both made it to the car place AND up to the mall yesterday!!
So…
I’M GETTING A NEW CAR!!! SO excited, never had a brand new one before. We can only afford it because my dad has given me my old car, which is the new place will buy off us for £3,500, and offered to pay off the outstanding finance on it. My new one is SO cool, and we got an AMAZING deal – putting a salesman and a marketer together as a bad cop / good cop team seemed to work bloody well!! Right, details:
- Ford Fiesta Freedom http://www.ford.co.uk/ie/fiesta/-/fie_0508_intro/fie_0508_body_freedom/-/-/225876/
- 1.4 petrol engine, 5 door version. We took one for a test drive and it’s fantastic – so smooth and quiet, and with a slightly raised driving position, which I love
- It’s so cool! It has voice controlled audio, as well as remotes for the audio on the steering wheel, built in Bluetooth for your phone, ‘safe-home’ headlights, they stay on for long enough after you’ve turned the engine off to light you back into your house, and loads of other little cool touches – yay!! It doesn’t have leather seats, but I’m glad cause my current one does, and in summer they do my head in (my old car was a Ford Ka Luxury)
- Should’ve been £9,950, and is a much in-demand, new limited edition version of the Fiesta, yet we bargained them down to £9.500, AND got them to offer £3,500 for my old car – which is actually worth £3000
- AND we also got FREE metallic paint (panther black, hopefully), FREE a/c and heated front windscreen, plus we negotiated FREE privacy tinted dark glass, FREE additional safety pack with extra air bags, etc, FREE rear parking sensors (cause I hate reverse parking!) and half price 16” alloys and wheels, as the 15” ones looked a bit lost in the wheel arches. (nearly £2000 worth of free kit, plus £500 of the price of the car, and an extra £500 over the value of my old one!!)
- Cause it’s selling so well we won’t get it til last week in September / first week in October, but if all goes well and we get what we want I can live with that! – we find out Monday that there’s definitely a black one far enough back on the production line to be modified to add all our little extras. Fingers crossed! (Though knowing our luck I don’t hold out much hope…)
- We got a great finance deal, just 5.9% APR on the credit, with the option to upgrade the car in just 30 months for just £2000.
And…
I NEARLY, JUST ABOUT, ALMOST MANAGED TO BUY A WHOLE NEW OUTFIT FOR MY INTERVIEW!!
We struggled though – we spent far longer at the car place than intended, so only got to the mall at 5.40pm – it shuts at 7pm. And I can only buy trousers from 2 stores (the ones that do extra long length) and tops from 5, as I have a long body and arms too, and tops don’t’ always fit me. We ended up just buying everything that was a possibility, so we could eventually come up with an outfit, so I have some extras that I’ll need to take back.
Final outfit – light grey, straight leg, wide leg smart trousers, a black, ribbed, lightweight wool vest top that fits really nicely, and a black ribbed shirt – that I don’t feel that comfortable in, as it’s a bit too fitted, but I’m going to wear it open over the vest, and with the cuffs folded up to my elbow to make the whole thing look a bit more casual and less ‘typical interview outfit’, I didn’t want to go down the black suit and white shirt route either.
We ran out of time to get shoes, and my only existing ones are low-heel black pointed toe shoes – which were really lovely, but are a bit scuffed now, and would necessitate having the trousers taken up a bit as they’re made to wear with high heels, so about to hit the internet and see if Dorothy Perkins, the main ones who do next day delivery, have any nice high heel black shoes.
I have a lovely red leather Jasper Conran bag that I’ll use, to brighten up the outfit, which is dead smart as I save it for occasions just like this, and a red & silver bead bracelet on one hand and a delicate silver bracelet on the other, and a really long silver necklace with like a chunky dog-tag-shape silver nugget on the end. And probably just some tiny silver studs.
Can’t decide how to have hair – up or down, so waiting for inspiration on that one! Plus have a friend of Jamie’s mums, who’s a mobile hair dresser, coming to cut my fringe, split-ends and do some layers, as I don’t have time to make it to a hairdressers tum-wise. "
Despite having hardly any sleep for the past few days, I'm feeling pretty cool & positive today!!
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