Agreed. A travel-sized toothpaste tube is $0.50-$1.00. I'm all for being thrifty, but wasting time refilling toothpaste tubes is just nuts. If you REALLY want to be cheap about it, squirt a few blobs onto wax paper, freeze it, put that inside a sandwich baggy and take it with you.

You had me until you said "Steam". I see no point in downloading and installing software in order to download and install other software. One less hassle I can do without.

I miss the newness of tinkering with the stuff. I still remember how intimidated I was opening my first PC case for the first time to install a 1200 baud modem. I like learning the nuances of RLL vs. MFM, and why upgrading to IDE was such a big deal! From installing MS DOS 6.22 to networking on local BBSes with the…

Sorry to hear you're having it so rough with this employer. My experience comes from two friends, in two separate cases in Indiana. I would have expected California to be more vigorous in making companies pay up. Still, don't give up hope. If anything, drop by his house with a pound of sugar for the gas tank of his…

Actually, yes, if you are paid full minimum wage, or higher, your employer can claim any tips, gifts or other items that you receive if it is not explicitly declared part of your compensation package.

If you have a legal judgment against a corporation, and they're not making good on a judgment, then you can take them back into court again and file liens against their property and bank accounts. Would you be interested in becoming the new owner of a bunch of restaurants? Like Dayne Putnam also mentioned, there are…

3V-6V? No. Some idiot reading an article on the Internet and wiring up their baby swing to 120V because they don't want to spend $6 at WalMart on an 4-pack of D cells? Yes.

First installment of the new Lifehacker "Weekend Suicide Projects" series.

I've had that happen on both my 1993 and 1994 Grand Caravans. $30 replacement from any parts yard plus a half hour of your time to replace it. I may not necessarily need the speedometer, but I find a working odometer, fuel and temp gauges to be helpful (even if the trip nav computer does keep track of my fuel…

Here's how I learned, from Art of Manliness:

Waze = Google Maps + Google Hangouts. Per Google's assimilation policies, Waze will be dead within two years. Honestly, though, never cared for the interface.

Looking at the past offers they've had, there's a lot of food here that I can't eat, and looking at the portion sizes the pricing is no different than going to any upscale food market. While this might be convenient, it's not very thrifty at all.

On my 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan, I have a HUGE instrument cluster with HUGE radial dials that I don't actually need. That space is now occupied by my cell phone and my GPS, in suction cup holders. The cluster is deep enough that my electronics won't bump into the steering well. The GPS displays my speed, and I really…

No, thank you!

To think, I was considering opening a Tumblr blog for my company. I don't think I will now. Unfortunately, Yahoo has this nasty habit of mismanaging properties it buys and then hacking them when they're not profitable enough. I don't think I want to invest the time in developing a site just to see it wiped away

Former owner of a 1993 Dodge Grand Caravan LE w/ fake wood grain trim, 260k miles on it until a small t-bone crash totaled it (not my fault, driver turned in front of me).

While there may be a risk of "conflict of interest", I think Lifehacker does a good job of promoting useful tools. They're not going promote a tool that is crappy but makes them a few cents over a tool that is clearly superior.

It may not have worked for you, but there are many people who have done so, and even without much hassle. Listen to some episodes of the Clark Howard Show, it's a tactic that he preaches pretty often.

Yep, there are some that just won't do it. And that's their risk in the game, they're confident enough that their prices are going to keep customers there. Obviously they were, since you decided that they had the product you wanted for a reasonable price. If you didn't think it was reasonable, you would have balked…

Hey, Lifehacker has to pay bills too, why not do reviews on products that can sell vial affiliate links? So long as it keeps with Lifehacker's theme, I can't fault 'em.