This originally appeared in my book Young, Broke & Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply Below are a few tips for getting your drink on cheaply.  Feel free to give your own advice in the comments section: Buybacks: A buyback is when, after you buy a few rounds, the

Ordering Chinese takeout isn’t the best way to save pennies, but you know what it’s like to be so broke that you can’t even afford to care. When I have days like that, I stay home and eat my feelings. Like Cheapskate Commentator Christy, Big Lantern will always be my

Say hello to the official start of summer with FREE yoga in Central Park Tuesday, June 22nd at 6 pm. It is fixing to be the most well attended yoga event (ever?) ‘“ 10,000 people plus from all skill levels and experience.  The only difference is instead of being crammed

I had a membership to Planet Fitness for a solid two months of this year. It was convenient, and it was cheap: $10/month and since I signed up during the post-New Year’s-resolution-abandoning membership slump in February, they waived the registration fee. Positively Broke-Ass approved. But I quit. Working out in

Pirates are kind of a mid-00’s joke, but when there’s FREE admission and the option to drink mead and eat giant turkey legs or dodo bird meat or whatever it is that Pirates ate (eat?) there’s really no excuse to not get excited about the opportunity to mingle with drunk

When you open a biergarten during the summer, you simply can’t go wrong.  Especially in Brooklyn.  However, I did happen to stop by Loreley Williamsburg during the USA vs England World Cup game, during which it was pretty packed and the humidity level was totally insane.  So I will say

The internet is out at my house (because for some reason AT&T insists on turning it off, so they can turn it back on again. Why? Who bloody knows?), which means I’ve been spending a lot of time getting things done. Actual things in my actual life, like reading and

If you’re tired of spending your Sundays in Dolores Park, acting like you’re actually enjoying whatever crap is spewing out of your neighbor’s boombox/ukulele/accordian while you try to make it through your hangover and someone’s hula hoop is smacking you in the face, then you will probably be interested in