I have 4 dogs and 2 cats and I love them all, but I'm going to try to weigh the pros and cons. Just from my own personal experience.

Dogs:
Pros - Very fun, easy to train (usually), lifelong companionship
Cons - poop in the house sometimes, sometimes they won't listen to you

Cats:
Pros - relaxing company, they clean up…

I'm in the middle of cutting cable right now (literally, waiting for Guardian to update the home alarm to cellular today so I can drop the whole tv/phone/internet bundle). The biggest drawback, in my opinion, is the lack of a unified across-the-board hub for streaming services. Why do I have to manually keep track…

Macros and learning to play with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) coding is like speed for Excel. Don't be afraid to search for what you're trying to do most of the time you can find the answer on a forum and just paste in the VBA code into your workbook.

We picked up one of these - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00… - last year and it worked great as a baby video monitor. We watch the feed with a retired iPod Touch, but you could do the same thing with your smartphone.

Icbog, you raise a point well worth addressing. Finances are never just about money; emotional and political issues always tag along.

This isn't about me being an angel.

Been a single car family for 2 years now, can only think of a couple instances where it was moderately inconvenient. I bike almost everywhere and my wife has a 50cc scooter for when I'm using the car to do things. The savings are huge and most people can probably make it work if they really need to.

Eric, bravo!

This is really cool. Wife and I can leave the older son home alone with my phone. We can call to check in, but he won't be left with unlimited and unsupervised internet access...

Yeah that works really well. You can also lock out the portions of the screen that save and open new images so your child is really just locked into the drawing.

I will definitely be using this tonight so my 11 month old can draw in the Paper app without swiping out of it! Thanks lifehacker!