<prompt> Human: Some background, about to graduate college with a computer science degree. Currently have no debt but also no real savings, about 1k. I will be commissioning as an Air Force officer and heading to flight school. My starting salary will be 3k a month. Ill be living on base so no rent or utilities to worry about. Im not sure about DFAC food cost. My monthly bills are below Phone: 50Entertainment Netflix, Spotify, etc: 30Car insurance: 98...old carSo I was thinking about finally getting a nice used car. I wanted to spend about 20k on it. Is this just a bad idea or is it truly terrible? What would be a better use of my money? EDIT: my current car has died so I need to get something. From the responses it appears I should cut ma budget in half lol.  <response>: Youve got 1k in savings?Yes, now would be a bad time to get a 20k car. Especially if you end up TDY in a year in some barren hellhole like China Lake or Edwards that can literally melt bits of your car.Get through flight school first, then sweat the car. 