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 [...]
Freekend: The Wire
I’ve gotten hooked on The Wire, the HBO socio-political police procedural, set in Baltimore. Various critics have called it the best show on television and my friends have called “Please hurry up and watch The Wire so you’ll know what we’re talking about.”
It was slow starting, but the last few episodes of Season One were [...]
Oh Thank Heaven
In commemoration of its 82nd birthday, 7-11 is giving away free 7.11 oz Slurpees today, July 11… 7/11, get it? Cute.
The convenience store expects to give out about 5 million free Slurpees today, according to a press release. The Slurpee cups also have codes that can be entered to win freebies, including concert tickets, from [...]
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 [...]
