March 23, 2009
Preface:$100/5 Days/NYC/TouristDay 1Day 2Day 3Day 4 – GAME OVER! Since Obama officially announced this country’s Recession a few months back (they called it the “Bagel” on West Wing season 5; Recession is a bad, bad word), all we hear on the news any more is about jobs lost (unemployment at 8.1%!), tanking stocks (Nasdaq down […]
March 20, 2009
Preface:$100/5 Days/NYC/TouristDay 1Day 2Day 3Day 4 Takeout from Spice. Two lunch specials and an appetizer. $8 each after tax and tipping delivery guy. $100/5 Days GAME OVER!!!!!! Unless I don’t eat for the rest of the day??? Uhhh… Probably not. High-5 for making it to the fifth day!!! Will wrap this series up this weekend […]
Hotdog vendor walking his cart home in the middle of West Broadway. God, I love this city. Preface:$100/5 Days/NYC/TouristDay 1Day 2Day 3 Unless you’re an insider, it really is hard to know where to go for cheap food in NYC. When I first started this series I had hoped it would be all about finding […]
March 19, 2009
Preface:$100/5 Days/NYC/TouristDay 1Day 2 NYC is flaky. Trains never come when you need them to. Cabbies pull up, scoff, and zoom away as soon as you tell them you need to get to Brooklyn. It’s 20 degrees one day, 60 three days later. This is the reality of the city, and as a result, the […]
March 18, 2009
Preface:$100/5 Days/NYC/TouristDay 1 Ok it’s pretty official: I’m SO SCREWED. To make it through the next 3 days, I’m gonna have to somehow keep it to $12/day. But I’m sticking to it for as long as I can, damnit! Trying to balance play with budget is hard- especially when you don’t see your friends too […]
March 17, 2009
Preface: $100/5 Days/NYC/Tourist I woke up this morning with a feeling of doom- Judson commented yesterday on my Facebook, “$20 a day? Impossible. Why even try?” He is so right. Met up with two really good friends last night at a sorta fancy tapas/wine bar thinking I would just get a glass of wine and […]
March 15, 2009
Remember back in 2007 when I did $100/2 Weeks/NYC??? It actually was a really stressful, painful series full of suffering and no-holds-barred ranting. People seemed to enjoy it though (my suffering) and I often get emails asking me to do it again. But I just couldn’t do it again. Could you imagine living on $100 […]