Alright I did it. It was a long time coming and something I turned my nose up for years. I even ventured over to the dark side for a month in the summer of 2008 – tried to live like I liked it – and hated every minute of it. I took a hit. We bought a minivan back then, hated it after a month, and traded it back in to the dealership (no they would not honor any type of ‘return’, talk about a very unfrugal thing we had to do…ouch). For the past 2 years we have had a cute Equinox SUV. Yesterday we said goodbye.
That’s right. We bought a van. I needed a van. With baby #3 on the way this spring our Equinox just could not hold 3 car seats, nevermind the pile-of-baby-gear that comes with that 7 pound bundle. As much as my husband and I researched hot (steamy?) SUVs, I couldn’t find one that had the features of the mother-of-all-vans Dodge Caravan.
So this week we took the plunge. We asked each other to make sure we were still both sane. “We’re doing this right?”, “We’re making the right decision right…we totally do need this.” And so, we are the owners of a brand new Dodge Caravan….and I kinda like it.
Maybe I didn’t need heated leather seats (but my bum likes it…) and maybe the kids could do without dual DVD screens (but for my sanity I can’t) and maybe I could open the backdoors myself but why should I when the push of a button can do that for me?
Yeah, that’s right….I have a hot sexy minivan loaded with every pretty toy I need to feel like I haven’t lost my sexy. It’s my Swagger Wagon (yes I know that was a Toyota marketing ad but it rocked for all minivan owners, see post here). I read a great article tonight, titled Minivans: as sexy as we make them, that cracked me up.
Stay-at-home mothers will convince their trophy husbands to buy them a $50,000 SUV just to avoid what they really need, which is a $30,000 minivan, because the American female sees the minivan as the death of sexiness. Never mind that expanding sweatpants are much more of an erection killer than what kind of a vehicle she slides her buns into. She just hates the van.
It’s true. An SUV is surely hotter than a minivan. But what about the mommy driving it? Ditch those sweatpants (yoga pants are so much cuter anyway), play your favorite cd, roll down the windows and show ’em how sexy you are, mama.
SUV, minivan, truck or family sedan – you can’t hide the sexy inside.
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