Freekend: Lollapalooza
If having parents in town is the best way to save money during the weekend, a friend visit might be the worst.
There’s the pressure to show them a good time and eat at fun restaurants and have frosty beers at funky bars. Plus, they’re living the vacation splurge while you’re living business as usual. Plus, [...]
Lollapalooza (part uno)
I don’t blame you if you decided not to plunk down serious cash on Lollapalooza this summer. I’m not a huge fan of music festivals, but this year’s hullabaloo turned out to be a fantastic convergence of a whole bunch of bands I want to see, a friend visiting from out of town for the [...]
Selling out
Hard up for cash while you’re waiting for that Google AdSence check to come? No luck getting into a medical study for topical ringworm medication?
There might be more alternatives than you think.
Wisebread has a list of Six Weird Things People Sell for Cash and weird is right.
Unfortunately, the scarcity principle comes into play here [...]
Cream and Sugar
Where I grew up, coffee was something your mom made in the kitchen and your dad schlepped to the office in one of those green Stanley thermoses. Coffee shops were places people went if they lived in other states.
Coffee used to be utilitarian. Like buffalo plaid and canned beer, it was more demonstrative of people [...]
Free-kend: July 3
My first “free-kend” was a huge victory. I think I only spent $2 from Friday to Monday, thanks to the semi-annual occurrence that some experts call “the parental visit.”
Ordinarily, I would’ve blown a bunch of money celebrating Independence Day, but my parents were kind enough to pick up the tab for a whole slew of [...]
