Yikes

Three steps forward, two steps back...

Recently my car that we bought with part of our income tax return money started making a squeaky grinding sound.

I took it to our trusted mechanic and it was the front brakes. The driver side calipers were not set right and wore faster that the left side.

I called my husband and 286.00 later I am driving safely again...

Then the front suspension started to act up. Hard to turn, clunky ect.
I asked the mechanic about it. They put it up on the rack and gave me a written estimate of over $550.00.

I am not driving right now. My husband can barrow his mothers car to go to work and I can drive his for my part time jobs and getting our oldest child to her community college classes 40 miles away.

What really has me upset is the car repairs is/going to wipe out our emergency savings account.

I keep telling myself that is what the account was for...