You’ve just written a concise piece— with added links to even more info on how to overcome this addiction to stuff, so everyone on Kinja just saved choke dinero!

I have 8 years sober. Believe me I'm scared of how boring drunks are and how can I excuse myself from their presence. You'll get there. Trust.

I’m gonna jump in here as a girl who grew up lurking around my gearhead Dad’s garage time. How come everytime something went wrong with a car as a kid I swear it was always, “A cracked manifold”.

Or like a STOP sign I saw in Hawaii that read “dont STOP believin’”

Would that be hammer time? Oh, now the white hammer from FLA...now it’s stuck in my head.

NICE! My old Passat had the check engine light on since about the time I bought it in 2000 to the time I sold it in 2012.

I don’t know if this counts as a sound but the feeling the car has skipped a beat or tripped up a sec and surges a bit. Busted. Also when I had a 4-motion Passat I knew the brakes were shot when it made a weird grinding noise and it was metal on metal.

I’ve always wondered who buys coupes besides single guys or rich people who have the coup to run errands with? I can’t stand being a back seat passenger in a coupe.

Is it because they do so well in the pre-owned sales? I’ve never bought a Honda from a dealer or a new model , so I’m being serious.

Plus like I replied to the other poster, I’ve never felt any weird vibrations or weird creaky noises in any Honda I’ve ever bought. They are solid. I drove a rented Focus once and it was creaky and the road noise was the worst.

I’ll take a boring car with a high resale value over a creaky Korean Kadillac any day. Honda’s just sound tight and there is never any weird noise you have to figure out from shoddy factory work

I need a car again and I am just commited to Hondas. I’ve owned a Civic an Accord a Fit and now I need an AWD w/ low mileage that will get me through New England’s new normal crazy winters.

Oops I put this comment on the ios 8 story, repeating it here:

Hahah. Good one.

Wait, I can’t get past the hugest annoyance of all: Failing to update. WhadIdowrong? I updated everything else deleted a bunch of crap apps and got rid of alot of pics and vids.

This! having been a renter in the Hawaiian Islands and then Boston, I can say that most landlords aren’t getting good return on their investments with shady property management companies.

GOOD MANAGEMENT co. beint the key word. Being both a homeowner and a “tenenant that will come and go” over burdened property management companies make your tenants life hell while you are sawing logs at night.

My husband had a not-that-long-ago passive income of putting dell computers with internet access in hotels and resorts on the Hawaiian Islands. Who knew that wouldn’t be the gravy train with biscuit wheels that it was for after about 5 years of easy income.(early aughts-to the last machine on a low-key Kauai resort in…

They all make me feel like I am afflicted with the St. Vitus Dance.

Mary Mitchell? I’m surprised and frankly, a little sad. I’m from Chgo (was a Trib reader, not Sun-Times) but I knew her byline and seen her talk on plenty of media shows, clips. Boo. Mary.