Broke-Ass Stuart: Smell good, google good and eat good for less.

Broke-ass Stuart

Hi I’m Broke-Ass Stuart. The fine folks of the Unemploymentality asked me to share some tips every once in awhile to help you enjoy your life without spending all your loot. So that’s what I’m gonna do. Why do I qualify to do this? I’m glad you asked. I’ve been writing shit to help broke-asses for five years now and in just the past couple years I’ve had two books come out, Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in San Francisco and New York To get a better idea of what I do, check out brokeassstuart.com. But enough about me, let’s get to saving you money.  Here we go:

Free Smell Goods: I’m a cologne junkie, I just love the stuff. I’m not sure if people know this or not, but you can get perfume/cologne for free.  Just go to a department store, pretend like you might want to buy some fragrances, and then ask them if they have some samples.  They always do, and they will give you tiny take home bottles for free.  So please STOP smelling bad.  This is the 21st century for fuck’s sake.  You know who you are.
 
Google on Any Phone:  If you don’t have a fancy pants phone (Blackberry, iphone etc.) this will be the coolest thing you read all day  Let’s say you’re out for the night and heading to meet up with some friends at The Levee in Williamsburg, but you don’t remember where it is.  Just whip out your telephono and begin sending a text message. Where it asks for the number type in googl (466-45) and in the body of the text, enter the name of the establishment you’re looking for like this: The Levee Brooklyn NY.  Then press send.  Within seconds, google will text you back with the address and phone number.  And the best part is, it costs the same as a regular text.  Sweet huh?

Food Court Discount: If you’re in a food court, tell the cashier that you work in the mall.  If they ask where just make some shit up.  There is almost always a discount for people who work in the shopping center.  This is true for most of the food courts I’ve ever been in.   

Food from Vendors at Street Festivals: After a street fair or festival ends, go up to some of the food booths and find out what they’re doing with all the food they didn’t sell. Sometimes you can score some free food, while other times they’ll sell it to you for super cheap.  During Bay to Breakers in SF one year, we stumbled across the finish line party, and since the venders were packing up, they sold us $8 sausages for $1 each.  At the time I thought that maybe they were angels sent from heaven to help us with our drunken journey  But in retrospect I think they were just trying to get a few final dollars.