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Originally Posted by Poink88
This is hypothetical.
Your credit cards are all paid off, have a car & mortgage loan. If you have extra $1,000 (monthly, after you bought your "toys"), how would you use it?
EDIT IN: Assume interest for both car loan and home mortgage is 5%. Also lump savings and ROTH/IRA with investment for simplicity.
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"After toys" bothers me. As long as you have debt toys are off limits. Avoid the toys and pay all extra money on that car. Paying interest on a car is bad, it's like anti-investing. You're paying in extra money and in return you're getting screwed, only not by a hooker.
You buy a new car and agree to pay 32k for it, but you have to finance it at 5% for 7 years. That's what....$450/month? That equals 37.8K you pay for a 32K car that at the end of 7 years will be worth maybe $12k so you just threw away over 25k.