I have to laugh when I think back to my younger
years and the ambitions I had. Growing up I had a very strong sense of what I
wanted from life and there wasn't any way of steering me away from it. I knew I
would be a manager in a large, quality hotel after I completed university and I
would work my way up to being the General Manager so I had ultimate control and
was earning a good amount of money.
As a teenager I remember having the ambition of
earning forty thousand pounds a year. If I earned this I thought I would be set
for life, of course that was thirty years ago and it seemed a mega amount of
money. Nowadays it wouldn't be buying me so much with a large family.
A four bedroom detached house with a U-shaped
gravel drive was next on my must-have list. I never really had any vision of
what the inside of the house would look like but I knew it would have the drive
for parking my Mercedes on. I had my heart set on a sports model, a SL500 convertible
in red. Mercedes-Benz has always been the premium brand that I'd love to own,
even now I'd happily have one if I could find the money.
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| Image: Thanks to The Sandown Group |
A lack of money doesn't stop me from dreaming
though, I've recently been perusing the Sandown Group website to see what
Mercedes-Benz I might one day own. Of course if I was to buy one now Id need
something big to be able to comfortably seat all five of my family. Since
having the twins ten years ago we’ve opted for a seven seater car and we could
do that again and get a V class. It certainly looks awesome in comparison to
our much smaller car. Oh what a joy it would be to have enough boot space for
all our luggage and to take the three kids without them arguing about who is
nudging who and how that bag is in their area! Also with a seven seater we can
continue to share the school lifts and take our neighbours kids too, which means I get some days school journey free.