Shopping, Style and Beauty

FREE Materials and Classroom Supplies for Bay Area Teachers
No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, we can all agree that the people who are educating future generations of Americans don’t get paid enough money. On top of that, many of the schools they work for don’t have the money to furnish educators with all the supplies

Clothes, Beer and Water at Sav Noir’s Pop-Up Shop
On Saturday August 3rd local clothing brand Sav Noir is launching its first pop-up shop in the TRUE Annex on Haight St. The pop-up will be running until the end of the month and will be showing off their new collection called “1980’s”. But most importantly the event is being

The Unpakt Network Finally Makes Moving to a New Place Funny!
This post was sponsored by the good people at Unpakt.com. Are you interested in advertising with us or sponsoring a post? If so drop us a line at Info@BrokeAssStuart.com. Remember Unpakt? They’re that rad price comparison site I wrote about that helps ease the pain of finding a trustworthy (and affordable) company to lift, pack,

Broke-Ass Octophiles: Cheap and in Love with the ’80s
What exactly is the correlation between being broke and being obsessed with/nostalgic for/stuck in the ’80s? I know it’s not just me. Go to any hipster neighborhood (Williamsburg, etc.), try to picture everyone without their iPhones, and voila, you could very well be in 1984. Is it because hipsters are

Robots are Messing with My Money on The Golden Gate Bridge
Perhaps you’ve already experienced the new Fastrak-only agenda while crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Perhaps you haven’t. Either way, I feel it’s important to discuss the ramifications of this new non-option when crossing the bridge, even if it’s for no other reason than to warn you that it’s a huge

NYC Trends That Are No Longer Cool
What can I say about New York City that hasn’t been said before? That she’s the city that never sleeps? Been there. That if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere? Done that. There are so many cliches about NYC because this city attracts the most ambitious

FREE Booze, A DJ, and more at the Storenvy Pop-Up Shop Shop Party
Storenvy, a cool new start up that allows you to shop directly from creative merchants, is having a party to celebrate its newest pop-up shop. Each month, they have five new stores set-up inside their space at the Crocker Galleria thus bringing the online shopping experience offline…kinda. I’m not sure if

What’s In My Bag?: Broke-Ass Edition
For many reasons I am unable to relate to mainstream fashion magazines, notably because they pimp $400 t-shirts as a feasible item to purchase. At that point (which is usually within the first 10 pages), I slam the magazine down on my coffee table and leave in a fit of