u/Bichon0608

I love my Charlie girl. Bichons are the best.

Puffball to curly lambchop by tomorrow. It kills me when she gets curly so quickly, but she loves her walks no matter the weather.

Perfume $17.48, large gift sets $9.74, mini gifts $4.99.

These will make great gifts. Perfumes tend to give me headaches (I’m a shower gel/body cream collector) but I couldn’t pass these up for gifting.

Spent this weekend decluttering and organizing

Charlie’s way of helping me fold laundry.

(I should clarify Charlie’s full name is Charlotte. AKC registered as ‘Princess Charlotte of Autumn Court’. We confuse most people who think because her name is Charlie she’s a boy.)

Sometimes you just need to lay in the grass when you are 1/2 a mile from home😂🤦‍♀️

8 hours over 2 days. My husband and I double-washed/decontaminated his SQ5, my 2 week old X-line SXP HEV and our 17 year old’s Taos. I coated their cars yesterday morning and tried to beat the heat coating mine today.

The coating took 3 hours for the Telluride (it’s a beast). I did the other 2 cars yesterday in the same amount of time.

I found one tiny defect in the paint of the hood but overall the paint was in great condition.

It was a lot of work and I’m happy to be done.

I’m roasting outside but Charlie is loving sunbathing.

From curly to puffball. Charlie (Princess Charlotte of Autumn Court) got groomed today.

After much debate, I picked up our new Black Jade Green X-line SX Prestige Hybrid.

I originally wanted a Wolf Grey SXP executive with the blackberry interior.

When the VIN was decommissioned, I switched to a non-X line Wolf Grey SXP with an all black interior . I got a call Thursday that the delivery was pushed back 10 days. I had planned on getting a car this weekend (main factor was my previous vehicle’s warranty expiring).

Originally, I wanted to avoid the 21” wheels and liked the look of lighter color non-X line vehicles. However, I really didn’t want an all black interior. The dealer had just gotten in this vehicle with the Black/Millstone interior. It felt like this was the color combination I should have picked from the beginning. I love it.

I got a great deal but the pickup at the dealership was less than ideal. I had emailed a few times after I placed my deposit last month asking if I could talk to finance ahead of time to streamline the process. Of course I didn’t get a response. When I talked to the salesperson to schedule the pick up for today, I reminded him that it was a four hour round trip and we’d like to be there as short a time as possible.

When we arrived, he walked us around our car, had us sign the initial purchase agreement and set up Kia Connect. We then sat for 90 minutes 😡 waiting for finance to be told every 15 minutes or so that “he’d be out soon”. The salesperson left us sitting there for 90 minutes while he sold a used Cadillac sedan.

Once we got into finance, we were shown paperwork with a 7.99% finance rate, not the advertised 3.99%. We hadn’t even wanted to finance it the first place - we were offered a significant discount (hence the 2 hour drive each way) if we financed and paid it off after 3 months. My husband said we aren’t financing at 8% and asked for my Audi keys back. He was ready to walk. The guy then changed his tune, “since you have perfect credit, we’ll accept a personal check even though you are out of state”. We wrote the check, signed the paperwork and left.

The salesperson didn’t show us anything at all about the vehicle (which would have been an appropriate use of the 90 minutes we spent basically waiting to write a check).

I love the vehicle so far but as others warned me the dealership experience was awful.

I got a text (addressed to my last name only) from the salesperson congratulating me on my purchase and asking to give him a “10 and great feedback” when I received my satisfaction survey. My standards must be too high 🤷‍♀️. I will just ignore the survey. I know they’ll get penalized for surveys that aren’t 10s but there’s no way that sitting there for nothing is a 10/10 experience.

Rant over 😂.

Discount - 10/10 ($2k off MSRP, no add ons)

Dealership experience 5/10 - they were upfront about pricing, no dealer installed add ons and we did most correspondence over text/e-mail. I spent less than 10 minutes on the phone in 3 separate calls. Their pricing was way more competitive than closer dealerships. It fell apart at the end with the surprise finance rate and zero respect for our time. (The texts/calls were all with the sales manager - the sales person only interacted with us today).