(Note To reader: I make these stories very personal and based on past experience so that you can see where I’m coming from so I can inevitably help you.)
Internet- I find my often than not internet spots around town are popping up more and more. I don’t have a personal computer, I’m writing this book on in a community college library, but I believe in sharing my secrets with you that I would have found another place to store all this information. Internet, email, twitter, facebook and MySpace are becoming words similar to verbs in the English language although we all know that several of the words can serve as both a noun and a verb. This is just to say that the sources not only in the English language but also in practical life are more of a tool today. Not to say that they haven’t been before, but more and more people Yahoo or Google more times than they read the local paper, and if they read the local paper its solely online.
I believe when I was making the transition to a solely digital person I was at the age of fourteen, I was fourteen and I just found out about webcrawler.com a very established yet older search engine. Nowadays these youngsters have bing, which is a search engine used by Msn, which if you are familiar with it has completely taken away from the Human process of thinking. Really? I mean Bing does the guess work for you, in my experience it has been pretty wrong, but yes the age of machines taken over is pretty close to happening. The Rise of the Super Computer has begun. Back to my story internet for me was like how the American Past time was for people in the sixties, no one watches baseball now, but your parents did, the prime sixties year olds. If you are a Baseball fan, I apologize but it’s very relevant because the sport is no longer a big deal as it in earlier decades. But how our parents or you or anyone that enjoys sports the sport was ingrained in them early, and the memories are still there that’s how the internet still are. I remember my first internet story was we had all gotten in trouble because in eight grade a student understood the coding on Dos, the black screen that came up on most old PC’s. He created a program to take people’s passwords at school, by just changing the wording on a program. Needless to say we all got into trouble about it. But ever since that moment I understood that it was a resourceful tool that could help me or get me into a lot of trouble.
Right we understand this concept because for the most part we are all guilty of it. But one man’s guilt is another man’s pleasure. So this list is going to be ten ways that someone can effectively save money with or without a personal computer.
1) Make sure to use the available resources, if you live in a rural or urban city libraries are a fact of life. So in most of the libraries in the greater United States
Going out and Still Looking Fly
You see before I rock this, I want to let you that the days of the Gucci shades, the throwbacks and the in season gear is behind me. I tell let kids and people there is nothing cool about me, and I couldn’t do the stanky leg if my life depended on it, I could do the stanky toe and that’s only because I’m double jointed in my toe. Right. I don’t own any fly gear none, I don’t know what’s fly anymore nor can afford if I wanted to be. It’s just a little poser if I did at this point, because really you look at it, why not start a trend rather than be smack dab in the middle of it. That’s why I’m bringing back the basketball head band, throw back to will Ferrell’s movie that was so funny where he was the tropics, I only caught a little bit of it. I know I’m going to see a bunch of kids with the hair band, the funniest person I know that where’s one is the kat what’s name from my mom’s work. He looks like an old woody harleson out of that movie where he was on the tropics right. But let me get out of my style, because I would rock the white tee’s, wife beaters and light colored button down if I could afford it and because I’m easy like Sunday morning. I would rock a suit, with a bright big pink tie, to support breast cancer and also because I like pink and purple that shits dope right, but let me stop before I get on a wild rampage. I was sooooo proud of my pink tie, it was a Steve Harvey tie but it could have been made from plastic I didn’t care I loved that tie. But if I ever did have a job again or was working I’d still look at my pocket book.
1)If you’re like me and don’t like to spend money go to cheap drink nights, man are you kidding me I did not know a multimillion dollar bar. They have dollar Monday’s and Tuesday’s what, and you like smart dropping a dollar tip, because its double the asking price from the bartender. So you don’t look cheap, and you get drinks. You get torn up for under 20 bucks and that’s even pushing it.
2)Find the local drinks- In Boston they have this drink that’s called the Brewbaker, if you’re from there dopest drink under a dollar at the store. At the bar for example, Our House two fifty. Do you know how drunk I was my first couple of summers I was spending more on my food and I was shopping as cheap as I am now crazy. Like there is an At&t girl that I walk by and I’m like dude you must have a cousin because that girl could drink and drink Brewbakers. I always have to take a second look.
3)Get cool with the Bartenders- God that’s the understatement millennium. Duh, god you see a lot of bars in Houston have camera’s but if you’re an older city like Boston or Hartford or even Cali- parts that I went to, there aren’t any camera’s. And if you tell the bartender to remember you when your making money, don’t say it like that, but be like hey you’re a cool bartender remember me, they will and they’ll hook you up. You’ll buy a coke and rum get a shot of Patron and walk out of there spending 5 bucks and that’s just on tip. That was and has been my experience. You know? It’s always been like that for me. And trust me if you met me, you’d be like how did this old man get away with this for so long, and I’m only 26, but I act 60. Unless she’s really hot, they probably won’t forget you because the tip is the most important factor. You drop a twenty on a ten dollar tab, that’s twenty dollars not pesos, and come in there one day, they will probably get you the first round. Human nature, you take care of those who take care of you.
4) Don’t go to spot with dress codes- Are you kidding me? Hats and a polo okay you can understand, but dress codes with button downs, come on kid your just looking for pocketbook trouble.
5)Throw House parties- The beauty of a house party is that you buy two kegs of crap, you get drunk and you make your money back on it. Charge for the cups. Duh. My boy Kuba was the king of House Parties, I’d just show up and it would be going down every night. And trust me if your sketchy like me, you can just show up to house parties and be like hey you guys were making nose, so we just showed up. That’s how I re-met Kuba in the first place, me and my boy mike were partying at the crib and I was like man I’m not going to be able to sleep, unless I go next door and tell them to stop. Ten Minutes later, I’m doing keg stand, that’s the truth. If your not the life of the party like I’m not, but can’t blend in either right? You’ve got to be doing something right, if you were able to afford rent, save cash in hand and couldn’t remember a couple of years out of your life. The craziest thing, I used to tell my boy Ray Anco about it, we worked at Crunch Fitness together, I’d be like these crazy people won’t let me shut the store down or be in here manning the desk but they’ll let me go to there House Parties. That was the craziest thing, because that’s your stuff not the bosses stuff, right. So yeah that’s the truth. The other thing about Boston Based, Hartford based and Cali-based house parties that I went to, right, the craziest thing was that you’d party with people that you’d never know would meet? The craziest person I partied with was Al tall lanky Al, he worked in the kitchen at Trinity, he was cooler than the other side of the pillow. I’ve got a story about a house party, tells you about Human nature, my boy Jay, went with me to a house party right, I was with some random female on the top of the fourth floor, he’ll tell the same story, I was there for 2 hours right, it was about negative ten degrees and we were near the roof. I come back down stairs he looks at me the party is poppin, right? He was like I was going to leave you here, in a mumbling voice. I looked at him bluntly and I was like no you weren’t stop lying. Your true boys won’t leave you at a house party, cause they know what you’re up to, duh, right? They won’t leave you there, the walk was close but man was it cold. That’s the thing about human nature, you can deny it, but you know they are going to be there. I don’t run with any kids from Boston anymore because I’m not in Boston.
6) Know who you are partying with. A group of graduate students from M. I. T. are not going to party hard all weekend, like a group of undergrads from Boston University. You’ve got to know, and don’t let the collegiate status lie, Harvard Business Grads can throw down for one night, like another people. You just got to the company and context. If they are from money or value having a good time more importantly than saving money, they will usually comp your drinks. That was retarded how much that happened to me because of the company I was in or what I did for them. Plus a girl from Ireland that’s not working, only there to drink and have a great time is probably going to have a fun time longer than some kids that are going to school up there, and she’ll probably pay for it.
7) Know who not to bring to certain parties. Most kids and people such as myself growing up were pretty mellowed out, when it came to House parties, I wasn’t the one in the middle yelling, nah, I was the kid with a cup in the back. Try to make eye contact with a female to talk to. Hey that was just me. But I wouldn’t have brought my roommates Jeff and Rodney to a teen party, because they were crazy. It wasn’t there age, those guys would beat up their own boys for no reason. Man, so when we threw house parties with the neighbors we didn’t say shit to them, because they were my roommates, I had to let them come. No, but I wasn’t like let’s go party at some random BU party. Because I would have to cut for them and if they broke someone’s nose I’d have to cut for them. You might understand the lingo, but cut for someone is to vouch for them.
8)Go to cheap specialized bars, in Houston its different they aren’t any real Irish people here. Maybe one or two. They might live it, but they don’t bleed it. Irish bars are the best way to get drunk on real beer for under whatever your trying to spend. And drink the beers that are specialized to the bar, for example I went to a bar off of Bissonett, behind the Burger King. I was coerced to go right, because that’s worse than gun’s point really, but I had Jamaican beer. Would I go back, I liked the dancehall and reggae but, but nothing if I were working I’d probably go back. But I ended up spending less than buying Bud Light.
9) Be the bartender at a party, you won’t make any money, but you probably don’t have to pay any money to drink.
10) You see the loud music, and banging music, has left me. Right, but when spots do local band nights, and who was a local band that was famous in Boston, Drop Kick Murphy’s, they used to shows for free and the owner to show love would drop the drinks ridiculously low.
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Saving Money at the Grocery Store-
I have come up with several tools that can cut your bill in half with the same amount of product.
1) Its okay to buy the mystery meat, the mystery meat, is usually the meat that comes with a red lining that you have to remove. But to be plain and simple, the mystery meat may still be meat or not, but it’s on the isle for a reason. To satisfy the end customer’s needs. God I look at the isle recently and the mystery meat is 89 cents; this is the store brand mystery meat. It’s a bologna concoction, with a mix of all the goodies your diet lacks. Keep in my mind 89 cents
2) Shop the store brand products- or shop a dollar value minded store. You cannot taste the difference in Store brand cereal. There on the shelf for a reason because they feel they can not only compete with kellogs but they can offer to you for a product similar. Sometimes there are surprises like the chocolate pieces, I had some last week, but if your kids are obsessed with name brand products. Download a screen saver and or desktop page and let them watch it while eating. Plus the toys in the box, the toys in the box are pretty simple right? Buy them at the dollar store. Cereal-99 cents Including store bought bread 78 cents. Store bought milk- 1.50 Right, these prices are true. You’ve got a week’s worth of meals, both breakfast and lunch for under 5 dollars.
3) Buy and shop for causes- the cool thing that companies like Proctor and Gamble and also the breast cancer society are doing are they offering products for cheap to support a good cause. I lifted up a bottle of Dawn and I was like hmm, it was cheaper in store and they are doing a great thing for a great cause, neat. The breast Cancer society this month is doing the same thing, so to add variety for dinner let’s say you buy Pizza Rolls, Some microwavable dinners and meals in a box. For a week for two people you shouldn’t spend over 12 dollars. So I just cut your spending money from 30 dollars of groceries for two people. To less than 20. Make sure to get your veggie’s in the meals, but bam in under ten minutes of me writing this blog, I just cut your spending from 3000 a year. To under twelve hundred dollars a year. But now you can afford to spoil yourself, because in a month you should have forty and a lot of these companies or restaurants you can dine for under 15 dollars for two with a drink. So you can choice to spoil or save, that’s the beauty of it.
4) This is a resourceful tool if you don’t want to buy the mystery meat, the meat that has the read label, that has a priced slashed is because consumers are buying it…it’s because the meat man cut too many cows up and has to get rid of it before it spoils. So if you don’t have a deep freeze refrigerator like I don’t, you have to consume the product pretty quick. But it is still a good product. They call it the best use date for a reason you can still use the product you just have to use it quick. For example, let’s say the typical meat may last in the refrigerator to de-thaw three days; you have a steak dinner for the price of a ninety nine cent menu for the same price as ninety nine cent menu. And don’t let me people lie to you a steak is a steak, I’m from texas I know after you’ve eaten as many steaks as I’ve eaten, it’s a steak. Just depends on the chef. My mom is my chef, yes I said and that woman knows how to cook if her life depended on it. So a steak from mom’s cooking is a steak all the same.
5) If your cheap and on a diet buy soups and Ramen- Let’s be real America, how many of us have eaten Ramen and been a day later, and not remembered what we ate but we know we ate well. They are 250-300 calories, from 33 cents to a dollar and a full meal. I’m fat, I like my Ramen with Salsa de tomate and a steak, duh, but I can’t afford it. Soups are great way to get veggie’s and meat. A lot are high in sodium, but you got to give up something to get something right?
6) Eat the samples- Don’t eat a lot of them duh, don’t do that right? But they are free samples for a reason, I love donuts, I really do love donuts, so I eat off the donut isle sometimes. Ask anyone that knows me I eat and have a complete Homer Simpson moment and he’s a fictional character on television. Free cookies, when they open up a box they don’t say just take one, take a couple save them for your kids or people in the house. You take seven cookies, when they got fifty, put them in a napkin and give them to your kid everyday of the week, boom you’ve got desert for a week.
7) Eat the prepared Chickens that they have especially if they have a clock on them. The clock means that they hey eater beware because it’s not fresh. That’s why you will see products marked down to a dollar, etc, etc. But they taste the safe going down as a regular chicken. You have to sacrifice some quality, and this is psychological quality because it may taste different, but you know you won’t remember it a month from now, your broke you have to worry about other things.
8) I’m being real too, if you can’t afford it, there are a lot of organizations including the one I want to start that caters to people that can’t afford groceries. Soup kitchens, Churches, non-profits such as myself in the future.
9) If all else fails marry someone that can cook on the cheap or live with mom’s my mom’s can cook, I saw a commercial with Donovan McNabb and his mom for Campbell’s soup and I was like I can relate to the advertisers because my mom’s can cook. You know how good she cooks, when I was making money, I sent her money back home for groceries not for her groceries but groceries so she could send me food up there in dry ice. That’s how good all moms can cook, now there are some anomalies duh not all mom’s can cook and not all women can cook, I’m not being sexist, but find someone a roommate, or someone that can cook on the cheap.
10) And just be honest with your pocket book, because I know medicine, other goods are needed and if you can’t afford it don’t buy it. Because its food, and I’ve had to sallow my pride to get things from a church. I wanted to say do you know who I was, but people don’t care and you shouldn’t either because if you need the help it’s there, and a lot of these churches, non profits do it with open arms. Like if I ever make it, right, to where I’m super duper rich, I’d lose money to keep a soup kitchen or my non profit open, because I know the volunteers, clients and people get it for free and it should be shared with everyone. You get it right?
The Next Blog is going to be about how to save money on eating out, after that will be on drinking cheap and other resourceful tools you need.
A quick bio on Myself- I am newly disabled latino facing the fear that the disability check maybe the only income that I may receive in my income. One option was to do work under the table and make a living doing that and dealing with my disability. Although this is a practical option, finding a labor company to work for, I wanted to hopefully create a blogger buzz and make something happen with this. This is real, this is not a lie, in an older blog that is discontinued I called myself the Truth and how it may set you free. But this is the truth, I have run all other options amuck and facing the economic downturn that 10 percent of the American’s, such as myself have faced the fear of being forever jobless, I had to do something about it. This is a practical blog that is going to cover politics, the economy, my economic situation and also ways to combat these issues. And oh are they issues, I have never faced an enemy greater than reality, and that sadly is the truth. I think reality is a more destructive life than fantasy, because in a fantasy world, I’d be a multi-Millionare live my life on the Greek Islands surrounded by goddesses and be myself. That’s not going to happen, so why not help other people out in my situation. I think the fat lovable crazy insane loser only makes watchable, high ratings, yet bad television and not in real life. You see I have lost motivation for everything else, because I don’t see a point in losing weight, I don’t see a point to better myself through getting a C.P.A, because its pretty depressing finding out that a disability easily treatable may never be stopped. So I’m doing this a blog about a view that a lot of American’s View Point’s that they may share, because we are all in this struggle together. Next, I will talk about easy things that can be done at the grocery store, and meat markets to save money.
