Advice

05 Jun 2014

Etiquette for Using Slurs in a Post-Trannyshack World

Trannyshack flyer from 2010, redaction added My everyday casual slur use was rocked with the recent name change of the drag club formerly known as Trannyshack. Wait, a word that so adorably rhymes with “granny” has negative associations and is considered part of the hate speech vernacular? It’s not okay

Joe Kukura- Millionaire in Training 0
27 May 2014

10 Places To Stay Cool and Get Fat This Summer

I was inspired to write my own “Top 10 Tips For Summer” after seeing so many in the grocery line that didn’t cover all the hottest new trends. Ladies, if you’re like me and tired from carrying around your beach body all winter, and are looking for tips on how

Alex Mak - Managing Editor 0
23 May 2014

Entertaining for the Poor as F*ck: Doing Memorial Day Cheap as F*ck!

Murica! Did you know that most people don’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day? Including your author? Memorial Day honors the men and women who died for our country. Veterans Day celebrates all service men and women, living and otherwise (dead, Marissa. Say “dead”). Got that straight?

Forever Renting Riss 0
21 May 2014

Entertaining for the Poor as F*ck: The Best $5 Red Wines

My second love is wine (second only to food). Oh, wine: you beautiful muse. I adore thee. A while back my parents decided to do a Sideways-inspired family vacation (I think that movie affected us all): we went all up and down wine country. A little pinot, a little syrah, the drunkest

Forever Renting Riss 0
09 May 2014

Entertaining for the Poor as F**K: Awesome Cheap Mother’s Day Gifts

I am the Elvis Presley of gift-giving. Once a friend told me a story about how her parents chucked her Addam’s Family board game because they feared it was a bad influence on her younger brother. You better believe I found the very same board game on eBay and gave

Forever Renting Riss 0
08 May 2014

BA of the Week: Charlie Jane Anders, Founder of Writers with Drinks

Every week we feature a different person from the community shedding a little light on their life of brokeitude. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn something about the human spirit — probably not.

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
07 May 2014

The Work From Home Checklist: Things to Do Before You Leave the House

More and more people these days are freelancing or working for themselves. This also means that more and more people are working from home, which in turn means more and more people are becoming unhygienic shut-ins with diminishing social skills. At first the idea of working form home seems awesome,

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0