With the arrival of summer, NYC has begun to regain its spunk. People are outside!  Drinking margaritas!  Laughing, smiling and being half-naked!  As a California girl with a serious case of Seasonal Affective Disorder, this change-of-season has done everything to lift the Daria-esque melancholia that I suffered from all winter.

Shhhhh!!! You guys wanna know a secret??? My girlfriends are probably going to massacre me for telling you this (so, “sorry” for letting the cat out of the bag in advance!), but the way I see it is that you NEED to know about this place called Jeremys I discovered

Do you like sports? Did you enjoy watching the Miami Heat lose? Do you have no idea what I’m talking about but enjoy FREE food and drinks? Then San Francisco Professional Career Network‘s social tonight at the Potrero Hill Sports Basement is for you! Sports Basement is offering FREE beer,

Have you ever fantasized about checking out at the supermarket with four carts filled with free shit? Yes? Well, have you ever heard of Extreme Couponing? Extreme couponing is the practice of meticulously gathering excessive amounts of coupons in order to bring the balance of one’s grocery market purchases as

This originally appeared in my book Young, Broke and Beautiful: Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply. We all pay for sex somehow.  Some of us with our time, some of us with our money, and most of us with our dignity.  Since I know you’re severely lacking money and dignity,

Grocery Outlet is like the Robin Hood of supermarkets; it steals what the rich aren’t using and gives it back to the less fortunate at outrageously low prices (and it looks fabulous in tights).  What could possibly epitomize the lifestyle of a broke-ass better than shopping at Gross-Out?  With generic

It is officially my BIRTHDAY MONTH (yes, I get a month) and I’ve got birthday feva!! I was recently day dreaming about how great birthdays are, and if there was any way they could be better. The answer: getting stuff for FREE. Giving birthday gifts (aka FREE stuff) has been

Just when I thought I might be able to fit into my summer clothes, the food orgy that is Madison Square Eats arrives in our fair city once again. It coos to us, “Hey there, pretty pants. You look hungry, and also like you want to punch the person walking