I've always been curious to know how much rain pants cost on a per-trip used. If for example the pants cost $100, but only get used 50 times before being discarded/lost/stolen, well that's $2 per use. Not a great deal. If, however, the pants cost $50 and get used 200 times, that's $0.25 per use, which is much more reasonable. I'm finding that even in the Pacific NW rain pants are not a necessity on most days. Oftentimes the rain comes and goes and thus on some "rainy" days, even days with a 100% chance of rain, it may not be raining during my commute. I doubt I'll be using my rain pants more than 40 times in a given year. Possibly as few as 20 times/year. So here are my questions:

1. How many years did you get out of your last pair of rain pants?

2. What caused you to replace them?