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Wellness Wednesday for February 19, 2025

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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The best option is to order a plain jane version of the model you want through a dealership. It will be significantly cheaper than the fancier ones the dealer has in stock. Your second best option is to do significant research on finding a used car deal and purchase it. Get preapproved through a bank at the lowest rate possible so you have a backup option to whatever financing the dealership offers.

Hybrids are definitely worth looking at because the cost difference keeps shrinking.

Are pluggable hybrids still a reasonable thing, or did they get squeezed out of the market by full EVs?

I used to think they'd be the best of both worlds, with electricity for the bulk of our driving on short commutes/errands but with gas range/refueling-speed for road trips.