The battery should last well past a 3 year lease, but it will be down to less than 70% capacity sometime between years 5 and 10, and replacements cost around $5500, currently. Once you factor that in, buying the Leaf isn't as attractive as leasing one. Something to watch for that when looking at off-lease units. …

That sucks. Why is it so much more? The exchange rate from Canadian to US dollars isn't anywhere near that bad.

My commute is 28 miles each way, so the Volt's electric range wouldn't have been enough to zero out the gas expenses and make the numbers work.

You are supposed to put down $2000 to get the deal, but I traded in my old '98 SUV that had a KBB of around $1200. I didn't have to put anything down other than the trade-in.

I normally would say the same thing, but buying a gasoline car means that after 3 years there's even more money down the drain in gas expenses. And I don't think the reliability and battery lifetime/costs are to the point where you want to buy an electric and expect it to last 10+ years like gasoline cars.

Yeah, I'm old enough that I don't care what it looks like. Its a total Dad car.

If you are a two car family and need a commuter car, then you can't beat leasing a Nissan Leaf. For $200 a month, and around $10 or $15 of electricity per month, I stopped paying around $250 to $300 per month for gasoline, so I'm making $$'s on the deal. For longer trips, we use my wife's car so range isn't problem.

At best, if they've got 3 activities out at once then after cleanup all the pieces end up jumbled together in the binder. Probably all stuffed into one pouch.

This assumes kids with the discipline to put things away when they are done, and only have one thing out at a time. If that's your kids, then this should be awesome.

One broken Belieber at a time.

We have multiple bank accounts split up by spending category. My paycheck direct deposit gets split so we deposit into the following accounts: Bills, My spending (gas, lunch at work, etc), Her spending (groceries, Costco, gas, etc) and Savings.

LOL...no.

Not fat, just offseason.

Padawan wrestling.

I used to root all my phones, but then updates on my Nexus 4 started breaking root and the whole backup/wipe/root/restore thing just got to be too much work. Especially after some game files got munged and all my progress was lost a couple times. Now I'm just too lazy.

I'm starting to get on the Mike Rowe bandwagon on this. Basically, for the 90% of the people that this doesn't line up exactly for, this is crap advice. The better way to find a career is to look at what jobs are in demand out there, either white or blue collar, and as long as you don't hate it, go for one of those.…

That's pretty much what I'm doing now. Using the wifi connection at work as a trigger for Tasker.

My thinking is that as long as the employer is a "potential" employer, you don't disclose anything. Once you are an employee and you can and should disclose whatever you feel comfortable with.

This sounds like most of the problem is in needing to smooth out the boom and bust cycles in between projects. In my field (elec engineering) this is done using contractors to get you over the hump at the end of a project and then letting them go. The perm employees are your core guys who stay and provide continuity…

How about a Plex server beefy enough to handle transcoding, but low power enough that you don't feel bad for leaving it on all the time? But still cheap...