Primarily commute to work via train. I watch shows loaded on my iPad.

My favorite lazy meal right here. If you're too lazy to make a spice rub, just pour half a bottle of barbecue sauce in the crock pot with a whole chicken and you're good to go.

I'm with you on not needing soap with every shower.

I love this idea and have preordered some Soylent.

I love this idea and have preordered some Soylent.

My current strategy for not exceeding my grocery budget was to decide any money under budget goes straight into a vacation fund.

I am an R&D Engineer who designs and develops new medical devices for a living, and my advice on kicking off any startup idea is to avoid the medical industry. There's a reason it's largely dominated by a few monstrous companies: getting FDA clearance is ridiculously expensive.

Of after-tax income, 30% goes to Roth 401(k) and Roth IRA. Then another 20% goes to a combination of savings and paying myself back after paying my wife's school loans.
That's the benefit of my wife and I sharing one '96 Civic and living in a small 2-bed apartment with no kids. I'd rather retire early.

I have a 2010 iMac and last year upgraded from 4GB to 8GB of RAM, and honestly I can almost never tell a difference. Photoshop, Logic Pro, Final Cut, can't tell any difference. I think I can load a dozen more tabs in Chrome before it slows down but it's really hard to tell. The RAM upgrade was barely worth the $20.

Find a program at a school that hires undergraduate Teaching Assistants. After acing a freshman level class and applying to TA that class my junior and senior years, I got a tuition waiver and monthly stipend those years. It's a great hourly wage compared to campus jobs and looks better on a résumé.

I upgraded from the iPad 3 to the Air, and aside from lightness what I've been most impressed with is speed of launching large apps. Real Racing 3 and Infinity Blade 3 each took a full 30 seconds to load on the iPad 3, now they take just over 10 seconds from a cold boot. Also, wifi transfer speeds when syncing are…

As a Hospira employee working at the headquarters, I can confirm that HQ is in Lake Forest, Illinois, and has not moved to Italy, as this story claims. We have manufacturing plants around the globe, including Italy.

If you know your expenses in advance, you can still use Mint to budget for them as goals. Set up a goal to save $1000 by next month, another for $750 the next. I don't know how to use Mint with variable income.

If you have Aldi stores near you, I'd recommend them. I just switched from Mariano's to Aldi for the majority of my groceries and have cut my monthly food budget by about 20% while eating better. Some items are sub-par but you'll never know the difference on most items.

I'm definitely a slow riser, but a shower makes me ready to be awake and productive instantly. My wife, however, is chipper in less than 2 minutes and ready to be annoyingly hyper. But she's cute so it's okay.

My wife is gluten intolerant, and we used to buy a lot of GF breads and pay out the wazoo, but recently she cut back and just eats less grains in general, and feels way healthier as a result. Not healthier like there were traces of gluten, just general less carbs healthier. And it's cheaper.

This is really cool. I wish the timer app did the same to allow you to set a timer for a number of seconds.

Bicycle to the train (Metra) to a shuttle bus which drops off a 5 minute walk from my office. Do I win for using most methods in ine day? I need to add a boat in there...
It's 90 minutes each way, but at least my wife is a 20 minute subway (El) ride from school where she works and takes night classes, making for a long…