Advice

08 Mar 2011

Jeff Bridges is Good at Websites

A while back I shared a few of my favorite ways to procrastinate.  In my never-ending quest to stall, daydream, and generally fuck around instead of focusing on the task at hand, I am always finding new and exciting distractions.  For instance, it took me nearly two hours to write

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03 Mar 2011

East Bay Unwrapped: What Does Your Garden Grow?

“Eat me!” Are you a true broke ass? Then you should know that growing your own food is a great way to supplement your monthly grocery expenses, especially in the spring and summer months.  It’s also incredibly rewarding to watch the product of your hard work thrive. And that, dear

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01 Mar 2011

Broke-Ass Etiquette: Job Search

He wants your job…or your soul. Got a question about how to be a polite Broke-Ass? Email Half-Price Headliner with your queries and get schooled on how to be proper-like. Q: I am looking for a job and was wondering if it’s rude to ask my friends to hook me

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26 Feb 2011

Save Some Money – Hire a Bunny

We will do anything for a couple of bucks and some carrots! Let’s face it, you’re busy. Between work, relationships, chores, grocery shopping, dinner parties and whatever else goes on in your day, it all boils down to this – there never seems to be enough time to get it

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24 Feb 2011

Yoga – Cheaper than Drugs

My first yoga teacher ever, Lars at SFSU, once said that Yoga could get him higher than any other drug he’d ever taken – which I assume was a lot because he wouldn’t really stress that fact if he didn’t know what he was talking about. I recently started getting

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22 Feb 2011

People I’d Like to Invite to a Party

You’re invited…. Maybe. After attending the 6th Annual Barworker’s Ball last night, I was thinking about how important the bar industry is in so many of our lives, not to mention how powerful they are. They aid in so many significant life-altering decisions, for the better and worse. And often

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22 Feb 2011

Cheap/Awesome Hostel at Point Reyes

While traveling during my semester abroad in college, I was totally amazed by and mildly obsessed with hostels.  The cheap, Broke-Ass friendly lodgings were always awesome in my experience, and even horror stories of drunk strangers urinating on a friend’s luggage didn’t phase me. Upon my return to the states,

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15 Feb 2011

Broke-Ass Etiquette: Awkward Questions

Got a question about how to be a polite Broke-Ass? Email Half-Price Headliner with your queries and get schooled on how to be proper-like. Q: Is it rude to ask someone in our peer group how much they pay for rent? A: Short answer: yes.  Longer answer: not if you

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