Big Ticket Purchasing.

I am currently in the process of trying to find a car for the year that I am on exchange at MSU.  I am becoming more and more aware of my 'buying habbits'.  It makes me laugh that my frustration in not being able to find a vehicle with the specifications I want leads me to re-think the specifications I want, and why I want them.  It is probably a good thing that I have a friend helping me with the search, because right now, I am probably a car salesman's dream...  They could quite possibly sway me to buying something totally not what I want, and I would go along with it to have this experience behind me.