Food prices are skyrocketing these days for normal Americans.   And for arugula-organic-free-range slaves like me, sticker shock is becoming a cardiac arrest.  So I’ve found a few creative ways to cut food costs at the supermarket.  And if done right, they won’t get you banned for life from your favorite store.
1)    Look for mold in the produce aisle.  While others look to make sure a box of strawberries is mold-free, I go for the ones with mold.  Then, after I’ve eaten all the good ones that day, I return the …

Video games have influenced many things in our culture. Music, movies, fashion, other video games, everything (aside from all the stuff that isn’t covered). If your age falls anywhere between the classification of small male child and large old male child, you probably have an extensive video game collection and a super specific memory of moving pixels. Sadly, video games are expensive, and a good one can run you about 60 dollars or more. Thankfully, you can buy used games, but even those are expensive.
Game stop, because they often do …

Dear Schnorrer:
I recently returned a half empty, half full bottle of wine to my liquor store.  It wasn’t half bad and it wasn’t half good.  The clerk  refused to take it back and give me a store credit.  He argued that I must have had my way with it since it was half empty.  Most unsporting, I thought.  How do you suggest I handle such an episode, and I do plan on having many such episodes, in the future.
Cheers,
Louis De Palma
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Dear Louis:
Don’t I know you from some place? 
The way I …

A great schnorrer must rely on their resourcefulness and their uncanny ability to be comfortably weird. When the stomach starts to rumble, what better way to answer the call then to seek out the least likely delicatessen… A car dealership. 
Is your Audi due in for maintenance? Do you even own a car? The good news is, it doesn’t matter. Dealership waiting rooms are like an oasis in the midst of a fast-paced work environment. In fact, I’ve spent hours soaking up their hospitality without a single inquiry from the secretary, …

Whole Foods is the big league of sampling. Sure you can knock off your local grocery store for a free cookie, or duck into a Costco for a bite-sized lunch, but Whole Foods is the Crème-de-la-crème. They’ve got sliced blood-oranges, peared papaya, buttered flax bread, gouda boullions and cubed pepperoni awaiting your eager fingertips.
 But wait! It’s a trap!
 The first time I went into my local WF I felt like Gretel’s brother, Hanzel, when he starts eating the hag’s cake-cottage. I overzealously paraded through the store in circles: Cookie, cheese, pepperoni, …

So yesterday I was at my local Verizon store looking for a new phone (the free upgrades), and I found something that I didn’t know existed.  Most of the “test” phones are live, meaning you can make and receive calls from them.  It makes perfect sense as they want people to “try” the phones. 
Next time it’s the end of the month, and you are running low on your minutes, or texts, you got a phone to use.  Also be sure to call your deadbeat friend who you lent $5′s to …

By Matt Campbell
In many ways, it is coffee, and not money(not sure if I believe my statement), that makes the world go around. A morning without it is often a premonition to a stark, stark day, and in many days isn’t a day worth living. This reasoning can be attested to the popularity of the global mega conglomerate Starbucks. They’re everywhere and I don’t need to mention any more about that because the fact has been beaten to death (there are 2 across from each other on third avenue, just …

By Matt Campbell
The last few years have brought about unparalleled technological changes.   We have navigation system that can talk to you, hybrid cars (that sadly can’t talk to you) that are both fun to laugh at and drive, books that can be read on a two centimeter wide surface, and we have an interconnecting force that unifies all life in the internet (still not sure if it’s a fad or not, I’ll wait and see).
The internet has changed our lives, that’s not debatable (unless you’re a jerk). It’s helped us …

The upper west side’s Berrywild is giving out free mini cups today from 3pm to close.  Print out the coupon on the link below to get one.
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