[Allan Gibbs]

Get 1/2 way through college.
Start a job and then a promotion.
Lease another car for two years and have two cars for 5 more months.

You know, this assumes you'd actually get the Elise in 19 months!

 

[Ground Loop]

If I had invested that $2500 deposit in Insteel Industries (Nasdaq: IIIN) back in January, I would now have $39,668 in value.

That would just about cover Symbolic's market value premium.

 

[Gromit]

Re: Re: Things you could do while you wait.

Get 1/2 way through college.
Start a job and then a promotion.
Lease another car for two years and have two cars for 5 more months.

You know, this assumes you'd actually get the Elise in 19 months!

lol

I've been waiting about the same time as Sown (I've fried too many brain cells since placing the deposit so I'll have to double check), and I'm not expecting a car till '06.

I'm wondering if I should just get off the list and get first in line for the new model. Probably be a lot quicker

Anyways, what could you do in the same amount of time ? By the end of this year, I will have worked on every continent for at least one month

 

[hogfan]

things i have done in the time my car has been over due (was supposed to get in june) i have completely cleaned out my half of a 4 car garage at least 3 times (nesting) (2) completely pulled up dining room floor and layed slate tile (3) completely broke up tile floor in bathroom and replaced with black and white checkered tile 2in squares. i have painted 3 entire rooms of my house. mowed entire 2 acre lawn approx 30 times. oct 6 they told me i should have car in 5 weeks. its now 4 weeks later and i still know nothing. zippo notathing. aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[tala269]

Here's something that I should have done. I could have bought a pre-construction townhome, in South Jersey, for somewhere in the 190's. That was the pre construction price up to around a month ago. Now the builder is selling them in the 240's... Could have almost paid for the Elise.....

 

[zvezdah1]

Here's something that I should have done. I could have bought a pre-construction townhome, in South Jersey, for somewhere in the 190's. That was the pre construction price up to around a month ago. Now the builder is selling them in the 240's... Could have almost paid for the Elise.....

Thread hijack, can we say housing bubble? Impending meltdown? Wages haven't even come close to keeping pace with housing prices, so what happens/
Chris

 

[babak]

Thread hijack, can we say housing bubble? Impending meltdown? Wages haven't even come close to keeping pace with housing prices, so what happens/
Chris

The frustrating part is that when the bubble does burst and the inflated prices go down the taxation part will lag for quite some time. Ergo, we'll still end up paying higher property tax after the madness is over.