A week ago I woke up one day and said, “I NEED A HAIRCUT!” I thought about calling one of the last two people who cut my hair, and I thought, “I don’t want to spend the money,” “I am going to be traveling and pulling my hair back, why should I pay to get a nice haircut,” “They won’t be available this afternoon which is when I need the haircut,” etc.

FREE Bag Making at Sweatshop Social Grunt at your computer if you have a cupboard that’s been completely overtaken with plastic grocery sacks from the bodega. If you grunted, you should switch to reusable cloth grocery bags. Every grocery store in the NYC area sells them for 99 cents, or

I discovered Apples to Apples like we all do – at a dinner party, post dinner, with the wine a-flowin freely!  Initially Apples to Apples sounded more like a 4th-grade grammar lesson than a game to me, but judge not lest ye be left out on your too-cool-for-school ass! Laura

Potato print holiday cards. Sending a holiday card is a really nice way to let someone know you’re thinking of them without spending a lot of money. I recommend sending a holiday postcard – as postage for postcards is a lot cheaper than sending a card in an envelope.

Do you know where your money is going?

Before you start to think about creating a spending plan, debt payment plan, and/or savings plan it is critical to know where your money is currently going. It is hard to look at it sometimes, and most people are surprised to see how much they spend in certain areas.

A few years ago, “crafting” was probably more widely associated with crazy women hand-painting wooden signs to say “Spoiled Rotten Akita Lives Here” or cross-stitching pillows with pictures of birds hugging crying kittens. But with the rise of DIY culture, crafting has turned into something hipper, with people making cross-stitches

The reaction to Polaroid’s discontinuation of its instant camera line was swift and charged.  (Polaroid has since modified its decision.)  People clamored and cried for the nostalgia of instant analog images of old, and the Impossible Project (with the help of Urban Outfitters) has started inventing a new film compatible

I had a really great idea for a post the other day and was really looking forward to writing it.  “I’m gonna hunker down and really bang this out,” I thought to myself, packing the second bowl of the evening.  “Later. Not now, but later, that’s just what I’m gonna