1. Feeding the Pigeons in your local park
2. Playing hide and seek in Home Depot
3. See who can get the fullest from the free chicken teriyaki samples at the mall food court
4. Watch a movie at Best Buy
5. Hang out in the parking lot of an outdoor concert.  Tailgating is FUN! (read the article on tailgating)
6. Finding the highest calorie item at the freezen section of your supermarket
7. Bird watching
8. See who can find the highest priced item at Wal-Mart
9. Go to the farmers market and collect cheese and fruit …

Hi there nifty thrifties, I’m Frugalina! Nice to meet you, my new frugal friends! I’m a single young professional chica in NYC. I have a tiny studio apartment, a day job that I like but hasn’t as yet given me the opportunity to roll around on piles of money on my bed and drink Cristal with rubies floating in the glass (in this economy, I’m grateful to have a job!), and a busy social calendar. I’m a girly girl, and I adore cosmetics. I won’t even leave my itty bitty …

Do you know what they charge for a ticket at the movies these days?  A small pop corn?  An ice filled two sip coke?  It costs a mint and not a junior one at that.  It’s so prohibitively expensive to have to subsidize Tom Cruise’s career that the Schnorrer has taken his gloves off and begun to fight back. This is his cinematic credo:
Not everyone can transform themselves into Iron Man.  But, with access to buy tickets online or at a an automatic kiosk at the theater, everybody has the …

Dear Schnorrer,
Just wanted to share this story to get some insights.  One of my good friend who lives out in San Diego came to NYC on a business trip. When he told me that he was coming here, he asked if we could meet up.  To which I thought……yes, a free dinner.  I know how business trips and expense accounts work; you get to use the company card.
My friend tells me he is in the mood for steak and tells me to meet him at Smith & Wollensky, a very …

Free Stuffin’s Guide to  GymNasty
I’m going to start by getting this out of the way.  I HATE New York Sports Club, or any other gyms or services that make you join for a year when they know you will only go for a month and lose interest.  First I’ll start with the tip. Always join any yearly membership type business during the last couple of days of the month.  The reason is because management is given new member quotas, and if they haven’t hit targets, they will most likely give …

By Ben
Never ever pay for extras when at a restaurant!  I happen to love peanut sauce with my pad tai, but so many places are just cheap.  They want to charge you extra for “extras”.  This includes peanut sauce, sauteed onions, extra salad dressing, tomato sauce, and many others.  Here is the way around it.
When you walk into the place and are ready to order, tell the staff that you want “the usual”.  At this point, they will look at you strangely, and rightfully so.  Who is this strange person …

A Schnorrer always tries his or her best to get something for free. When the option of free isn’t available, a Schnorrer always finds a way to get a price they are not entitled to. This holds true with software programs. I mean, who here wants to pay hundreds of dollars for a software program. College students are able to order highly discounted software programs through school affiliate programs. If you need MS word, photoshop or any other program, find a student, and ask them order it and pay them back.

The Schnorrer is a firm believer in the adage “It’s better to give than to receive”— especially when it comes to hand crafted gifts.  Nowadays, the internet has created a trap for the gift bearing Schnorrer.  The price of almost any popular item can be looked up.  However, this is not true in the wonderful word of handicrafts.  The Schnorrer loves  going to fairs and yard sales to ferret out those handcrafted gifts that look like they are worth $200 and buy them for only $20.  The recipient of the …

When The Schnorrer enters a restaurant, he invariable insists on being seated near a window.  He knows that by sitting at a table exposed to the public eye, he will be assured of being served bigger portions of everything he orders—more meat in his stew, more wontons in his soup.   How does he come to this awareness?  The Shnorrer knows that the owner of a restaurant wants to attract people who walk past his establishment and that they will be enticed by portions that are beyond the dreams of gluttony.
Who …