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"Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell." (oppisitelock)
10/20/2015 at 12:35 • Filed to: None

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Buying and running my car is super expensive, but the job I’ve finally got requires one. No public transport goes within 2 miles of it. I need to wear nice clothing, but they pay me next to nothing (thankfully I got a suit as a gift). Life...

DISCUSSION (23)

Wacko > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 12:38

you got to spend money to make money.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Wacko
10/20/2015 at 12:41

You really do. I honestly don’t think I’d have found a job as soon as I did if I didn’t have the Twingo.

Mattbob > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 12:45

you just have to put way more work in to be poor sustain normal living. My student loans take over 70% of my take home pay and I still just manage to eat healthy, exercise, and just barely maintain two cars. It’s fucking hard, but possible. I buy almost nothing new, and fix a lot of things for people for side money.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 12:48

No shit. Everything that I read in that article is really spot on. Here’s an earlier version of the same sort of advice but with fart and weiner jokes.

Wacko > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 12:55

well then you have really tamed that Twingo,

we will start calling you the Twingo whisperer

and congrats on the new job. Hope the twingo keeps on helping you.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Mattbob
10/20/2015 at 12:58

I’m very similar to you, although I just finished education. Saved obsessively to buy a car (well two, the first blew up) alongside my student loans. I do everything from fixing cars to restoring furniture to make some money. Been unemployed for a couple months and finally got a minimum wage 20 hour a week job. Luckily I live with my parents though so I can live on next to nothing.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Wacko
10/20/2015 at 12:59

Ooo Twingo whisperer, I like that. Thanks man, I’m sure she will if I keep looking after her.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
10/20/2015 at 13:02

That article is also good.

Wacko > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 13:06

I am no way rich, I am canadian middle class, with 2.9 kids(baby boy due any day now) and my wife stays at home with the kids.

We still live live pay check to pay check, and less of my money goes to me now. We have our house, which we are in the process of renovating. It was a one story house. Was because, we lifted it up 15 feet in the air, built a new foundation and new story, lowered the old house on top of the new one...it was cheaper to do all this my self than move to a bigger house.

so all my money goes to the house and kids.

so all this to say the more you make, the more you spend, and the more you need.

911e46z06 > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 13:08

Being rich is too expensive too. So is being middle class.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > 911e46z06
10/20/2015 at 13:14

True but at least there’s more reward for the input in higher end stuff. I’m trying to get into engineering and while I need to lay down plenty of cash to get into work, the salaries are excellent.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Wacko
10/20/2015 at 13:16

We have very little space here (I don’t have enough cash to move out and I have two younger brothers) but we had to just solve it by installing bunk beds haha.

Wacko > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 13:26

that’s what I should of told my wife, when she asked my if it’s possible to add a story to our house. lesson learned. Don’t say everything is possible, cause you just might have to do it.

just in case you are interested.

you can thank kinja for the first upsidedown pic.

Kinja'd!!!

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Wacko
10/20/2015 at 13:43

Wow that’s quite the project, I wasn’t aware that sort of thing was possible haha.

Wacko > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 13:51

if your wife one day asks you if it is. Lie and say no!

I’m one year in with about 2 years left to finish. those pics where from last year here is one from about a month ago, behind my baby girl, behind the jeep.

Kinja'd!!!

BigBlock440 > Wacko
10/20/2015 at 14:18

Did you live in it up on stilts? It seems like you’re implying you did, and if so, wow.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Wacko
10/20/2015 at 14:44

Haha I know all too well what happens when you tell people you’re good at DIY, although mine only stretches to fitting kitchens not building a new floor of a house haha. Cute kid, I see you’re getting her started on cars early haha.

Wacko > BigBlock440
10/20/2015 at 14:57

yes and no, the month it was up in the air, there was no water coming in or out, so no, but once we sat the old house on the new one, we where going up in a ladder, till i made temporary stairs inside.

I paid for 3 things, paid to get it lifted, paid for someone to spread out and level the cement, and paid someone to do the joints in the drywall. The rest was basically all me. My baby girl was about 6 months old when we started, and I work full time. So my nights and weekends is a juggling act between family and working on the house. My plan was to at least have one room ready before my son is born. My son is due any day now, and I finished the first room just this weekend. We even moved our oldest in the room sunday in the evening.

I am planning to finish the inside (new story) by spring then replace the upstairs windows, do the vinyl siding and re do the roof next summer. Then attack the changes we planned to the older story. then finish my yard for the next summer.

1 year in of my 3 year project.

BigBlock440 > Wacko
10/20/2015 at 15:09

I’m in a similar boat, I bought a somewhat gutted house and have been fixing it up since. After a big push to get the upstairs done, it’s slowed down a lot. I’ve got a 6 month old now, which is the main cause of the slow down, and we take a 100 mile trip back to the grandparents mostly every weekend since she’s been born, so another big reason for the slow down, but I know what you’re up against. It’s tough to juggle time with kids, I was able to get so much more done when I was single.

My house came with 2 stories though, I would have never even tried to lift it. And if I was going too, I would have thought lifting the roof would have been easier.

Wacko > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/20/2015 at 15:35

the second we go outside she goes straight to the jeep.

she plays with toy cars too, and no i didn’t force her to. My mother always told me I made car noises before I started to talk. She is basically a mini me, but with girl parts.

You should see her the second I start my atv or my riding lawn mower, she runs towards me and makes sounds, sorta like she’s saying wait for me daddy, don’t leave without me.

Wacko > BigBlock440
10/20/2015 at 15:59

no that would be too easy(lifting the roof)

I wanted first to get rid of the crawl space( had about 6 inches of crawl space) and the house was starting to lean to one side.

Second I wanted a heated concrete slab.

3rd I made 6 inch walls to make sure to easily support the weight of the old house.

These days I work till 5, get home eat, then work on the house till about 8 then spend 15-20 minutes with the kids before bed, then relax with the wife, till she goes to bed, then I take out my work notebook, continue my data transfer project, while I listen to the hockey game that I DVR’d. then go to bed somewhere between 12 and 1 am.

Weekends is mix of family time and working on the house.

I was off work for 6 weeks about 2-3 months ago since I got an operation on my knee, so the first 3 weeks was just family time, then last 3 was finish drywall and do the ceramic floors over my cement slab.

So much too do so little time

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Wacko
10/21/2015 at 08:43

Haha I have an 8 year old little brother, so far I’ve taught him the Twingo is the best car in the family.

Wacko > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell.
10/21/2015 at 09:19

our 7 year old girl can’t stop talking about my pathfinder, since it’s got rear heated seats, and rear climate controls.