Shopping, Style and Beauty

16 Apr 2013

Hey Broke-Asses: Win a $100 Gift Card to Levi’s!

I’ve been wearing Levi’s for as long as I can remember. Not only do they make my butt look good but they last for-fucking-ever. Like seriously, there’s a good chance that one year, I wore the same pair everyday…I swear I washed them a few times. Anyways, considering that me

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11 Apr 2013

The Broke-Ass Alternative to Boutique Shopping

You can only pretend to enjoy boutique shopping on Atlantic Avenue (or Franklin Street or Bedford Avenue or god forbid somewhere that’s actually in Manhattan) for so long. When you’re with friends who drop $200 on a pair of “vintage” shoes (don’t they know how fast soles – not to

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05 Apr 2013

Win a Young, Broke & Beautiful Tote Bag

  I actually wanted to call this, “Broke-Ass got a Brand New Bag” but I feel like I have enough problems with James Brown’s estate lawyers as it is. Regardless, look at this magnificent and luminous tote bag above. Do you wanna win one? I thought so. Enter below for

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20 Mar 2013

How to Avoid the Broke-Ass Look

Just because you’re a broke-ass doesn’t mean everyone has to know. ~If you’re like me, you really do not see the necessity in purchasing socks and view it as a mere inconvenience as well as a waste of money, so you would rather just steal them from your boyfriend’s or

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19 Mar 2013

Treat Your Feet in Chinatown, NYC

Despite the calendar that indicates that spring is arriving this week, New York is clutching on to winter as tight as Times Square tourist holds on to his wallet. All this recent slushy snow and ass-whooping wind that bounces off the city’s concrete and creeps through my layers of goose

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07 Mar 2013

Win a Copy of Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply

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. But since I’ve now found the rad new giveaway platform PromoSimple I figured it

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05 Mar 2013

Chasing the Perfect Hairstylist in New York

One of my most vivid childhood memories is of me standing in front of a mirror in my dining room, alternately laughing hysterically and then bursting into tears. I was confused and unable to reel in my emotions, and the image of myself sobbing in the mirror only made me

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22 Feb 2013

Stop ‘N’ Swap at the Salvation Army Harlem Temple TOMORROW

  It may be a little early for actual Spring cleaning, but one of the many lessons learned from being in a shoebox sized apartment is that you need to consistently reduce clutter. Whether your closet is overflowing with clothing you don’t wear, or you were randomly given coffee table

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