That's what I kind of figured, but I know my car loan would accrue additional interest every single day after the 1st until it was paid.

I've seen my parents financially crippled under houses and cars they bought and lost because of lay-offs and poor planning.

Leave your checkbook in the car.

sounds like a car salesman trying to add on to the deal.  

I've seen cars in Ohio with advertising magnets on them that are basically roving bandit signs.

, but in the long run when many of those people with massive labor paid mortgages and multiple labor paid car payments are working blindly forever to pay are looking at you saying "oh he must have gotten lucky somehow", youll know the real reason, that you sacrificed the shiny stuff and made your money work for you.  

In my opinion you always have to plan for worst case "what if the contractor get's in a car accident?".

Networth is just numbers on paper.... don't sweat it... take your highest interest rates and pay those off until you have no other debt other than mortgages.and maybe a car... that's it... paying interest on anything else is throwing money away

The wife got in my car and I showed her a few homes.

We have not done the background check and don't know what will it report, but he said that he was in a car with three other friends in North Dakota (very conservative state, according to him) and all got caught because they had marijuana pipes.