Category: CHANGE

0% Car Financing vs High Interest Loans

Is it a secret prince or a big slimy trick?!
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Car dealerships seem to be almost everywhere, trying to sell you the latest, shiniest, freshest smelling new vehicle! Once in a while, they’ll try to entice you with the “Buy now with 0% APR” deals. Since I’ve never bought a new car myself, a part of me was thinking, Hmmm, 0% sounds pretty good… How bad could a decision of this caliber really be? After all, 0% is mathematically a much better rate than one of those super high-interest quick loans of 30% or 40%. So it should win by default, doesn’t it? And no one in their right mind would finance a new car with a high-interest loan…Because that would be crazy, right???

Thankfully, car dealerships are here to save the day by offering 0% APR because they’re on “our” (their) side and looking out for “our” (their) best interests…

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Do You Have a Pocket Full of Change?

For many of us, we don’t question why we do things we do. We just do them and then complain about the consequences of our actions. We tend to be blinded by our own ignorance and, ultimately, we don’t know what we don’t know until we know it. But the change from ignorance to knowledge (enlightenment and awareness) requires an open mind, a bit of luck, and a desire to discover what else might be out there.

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