Category: Car

Oh, isn’t this nice? I got an email from Walmart to confirm shipment of my tires and suddenly they have me down as ordering eight of them. WTF would I need eight tires for? I don’t own a monster truck! Luckily, they don’t charge you until you pick them up. I have the email confirmations showing I only purchased four tires, so if they think I’m paying for the other four when I go in, they can think again.

In other news, I closed my savings account and opened a money market account instead. There are a lot of nice features to this, including a much higher interest rate. I can also transfer money from my checking account directly into the money market account online instead of withdrawing the money from the ATM and going to a teller. I’m all for laziness.

Speaking of … I think I’ll have Joe make me something for dinner. ;)

We took this Friday off in the hopes I’d get new tires for my car. We were all set to go to Sears and have it done until we got the estimate – $600 for four new tires, an alignment, balancing, and various other outrageous fees. You have GOT to be kidding me. I don’t think so.

Then we found out that Walmart has a tire and lube center. Well … some Walmarts do. What doesn’t this store have? The total cost is about $150 less than Sears if you factor in the cost of the alignment which has to be done elsewhere since they don’t do it. But get this – we called this morning to see if they had the tires I wanted in stock and they did. But they refused to hold them for us. We were told we’d have to call an hour before stopping in to make sure they were still there. And guess what? They weren’t. Mere hours later they had been sold, and my car doesn’t take the average sized tires either.

If they weren’t so much cheaper, I’d just go with Sears after all. What kind of place expects you to “schedule” a tire installation on a whim and when they just so happen to have the tires in stock? What I did instead was order the tires online, which they deliver to the local store for free. They will supposedly call me when they come in, and then I can have them installed. Sweet. Now if THOSE tires get sold to someone else, somebody is getting their butt kicked.

Oh and now this means we have Friday completely free to do whatever our hearts desire. I’m sure sleeping in will be the first thing on the list.