Advice

17 Oct 2011

Avoiding Preposterous Bank Fees

I went into the bank the other day to open a new personal checking account. As I am sitting with the banker, we are having a casual conversation about bank fees. When I mentioned the new law that would require them to charge $15.00 per month for debit card transactions,

Brandi Jarath - Miss Parsimony 0
14 Oct 2011

Calling all Broke-Ass Moms

Anyone know where other Broke-Ass Moms hang out? Yeah, I can’t find them either. But I know you’re out there.  Maybe you’re lurking through the Goodwill bins for a Halloween costume, busy composting your coffee grounds, or reading the latest book you checked out of the library with your toddler

Jennifer White - Mommy No Bucks 0
12 Oct 2011

Avoiding a Broke Birthday

Everyone seems to have at least one month where it’s birthdays galore! For me, that is this month- October. Aside from my own birthday (on the 8th! whoop whoop!), I currently know of at least twenty people with birthdays this month! Damn…(Maybe it was all that excitement between New Year’s

Paulette Greenhouse - The Penny Pincher 0
12 Oct 2011

What I Learned About Dating from the Chinatown YMCA

If you want me to like you, you don’t have to take me out to dinner or buy me things. You don’t have to have a fancy job, or live in a trendy neighborhood. You don’t even have to dress well. Besides finding someone who can feed me, there’s just

Carrie Laven - Pretty Penniless 0
10 Oct 2011

Broke-Ass Halloween: Group Costume Ideas

Some of you are fine with slapping on some cat ears and using your eyeliner to draw on whiskers as a Halloween costume. And then, some of us have standards for our Halloween costumes. We have to be the one that people are talking about. The ones that get comments

Robin Hardwick - Cost-Conscious Connoisseur 0
10 Oct 2011

A Broke-Ass Guide to London

As the London riots showed this summer, people can get pretty sick of being broke in one of the world’s most expensive cities (London’s 18th on the global list and more costly than anywhere in the US).

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
10 Oct 2011

Should You Own the Place Where You Rest Your Dome?

This is a tough question, particularly for city-dwellers. We have all heard the lessons our parents have taught us about the importance of home ownership, but let’s be real, we live in a very different time. The “American Dream” of owning a home, having 2.5 children, a dog and a

Brandi Jarath - Miss Parsimony 0