Shopping, Style and Beauty

Win a Signed Copy of Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply and a Dirty Limerick!
I figure it’s been awhile since I did a giveaway for what a few drunk bums in the public library consider the best book of all time, Young, Broke & Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply. Plus if you win, I will sign it AND write a dirty limerick in it!

Holiday Presents: Think Outside the Gift-Wrapped Box
The holidays are upon us again and thus the panic of purchasing the perfect gifts for our loved ones has nestled its way into our being. Fear not I’ve got a few suggestions to take the weight off of both your minds and your wallets. Buying gifts can be daunting

The New Generation of Board Games Makes it Cool to be a Dork
Board games have undergone a renaissance in the last decade or so. These aren’t the haphazard games of chance you grew up with or that boring time warp you always got sucked into at Grandma’s house. The new generation of board games focuses on light strategy and a social experience.

Dispatches From The Road, México: DF Turkey Trot
In November 2005, after having lived in Mexico City for close to a year, I lost my appendix. By lost, I should rather say it violently decided to check out by causing me to wretch up my organs and writhe in pain ‘til a doctor cut it out of me

Win This Rad Alite Backpack AND Check Out Their Holiday Sale!
My friends over at Alite Designs do awesome stuff. They’ve basically taken the idea of creating gear for the outdoors and made it more simple and stylish. I mean just take a look at the Sexy Hotness Sleeping Bag. It’s been designed so that you can zip as many sleeping bags together as

Harajuku Heartbreak: Notes and Observations on Traveling Through Japan
This photos sums up Japan rather well My good friend Sato is a Japanese-American who now lives in Japan. A few years ago I had a dream that he was getting married. While he wasn’t at the time I decided that when he did get married I would attend the

DIY: Five Easy Bottle Cap Crafts
Rat Fink Bottle Cap Charm by VixenVendetta It makes sense that the DIY-ers and the Environmentalists get along, both are founded on a founding principle of reuse, recycle, renew. DIY is less about compost and sustainable food and more about finding a new uses for things, or repurposing items into

San Francisco Law Firm Offers Free Workshops on Evicting Tenants
This guest post is written by Melissa Bosworth. When I was 8 years old, my best friend was a poor businessman who let me start every Monopoly game with the entire stack of five-hundreds in my bank. The experience taught me a valuable lesson about success: It helps to start