Poor kids pretending to be rich kids pretending to be poor

 

ShaReRe's Second Annual Hipster Bash

Back by popular demand, the hipster party is on the way! Most likely we’ll be doing it in June. I thought I’d post a teaser pic for wardrobe inspiration. I heart the crappy photoshop work.

Brown baggin’ beauties

 

Some of us learn about tall boys before others

Did you know that you can shoot the freak while drinking out of a paper bag? Some of our favorite places to brown bag it (other than bars, where we order soda) are:

• Coney Island: Siren Music Festival
• Central Park: Pre-game for Summer Stage
• The line at McCarren Park Pool (see new location in previous post)
• St. Marks, cause it induces crazy-ass drunk purchases
• Bryant Park: Monday night movies
• My terrace: Why? Because we can.

Get poked in public… or private

 

Check out this frisky b*tch.

Hey kids, check out this $20 acupuncture event in BK.  Kelly is moving into a new space and is doing a huge open house event on Tuesday, May 19th. It’s all day long and she’s offering to give a group poke for $2o or a private poke for $50. Here is the official event information from Kelly’s Facebook page.

Ok, seriously,

It’s time we had a talk. I’ve been meaning to tell you this: 

You really need acupuncture. Enough excuses. I’m making it easy.

Next Tuesday, May 19th I am holding an open house to celebrate my new treatment space.
All day (and evening, for you 9-5ers) I will be offering 
$20 community-style acupuncture treatments and $50 private sessions!!
(I feel like I should be doing some kind of zany infomercial about it; you can’t find more affordable acupuncture in these parts.)
If you’ve never had acupuncture, this is a great, low-financial-committment way to experience it.

Community-style acupuncture is done in a large room with 4 or 5 very comfy recliner chairs. You lounge and drift off in a communal
setting, which can feel extremely healing, or you can even chat with your neighbor and make a new friend.
Both community-style and private treatments last about an hour, so come on your lunch/study/dinner break.

Bring a friend, and I’ll treat both of you for less than it would cost to take them out for dinner and drinks! 
Come for a private session and still have money in your pocket to buy groceries for the week!
There will also be a raffle for a free private session from me.

Give me a call to book your time, and please forward this to any and all you think would be interested.
If I get a decent response, I’d love to turn this into a monthly event!

Be well,
xk

– 
Kelly E. Smith, M.S., L.Ac.

Sencha Wellness Center
147 Front St. Suite 406
Brooklyn, NY 11201

Fun and Fancy Free!

I’m guessing it might only be my family that thinks educational tours are fabulous!

But for those of you who might share our interest check out these free tours!

Gargoyles-Libraries-The Ritz… sounds like a party to me!

xoxo

Holly Spendlightly

Spring Cleaning Resolution

The first step is to admit that I have a problem… I have a clothing addiction! And the wardrobe to prove it.

I am my mothers daughter: I can sniff out a sale like nobody’s business, probably why I write this blog, and am able to rationalize any purchase if its discounted enough. Like many of you I constantly find myself rooting around my closet in a slip shouting to anyone that will listen that “I have nothing to wear.” But, today was a wake up call.  After doing my seasonal clean, closet purge, and wardrobe inventory… I was SHOCKED to discover that I have:

1. 8 items with the tags still on
2. A Luca Luca dress that I got as a gift A YEAR AGO and still haven’t had altered
3. 20 items with missing buttons
4. A bag of clothes waiting to be taken to the tailor
5. And an even bigger bag waiting to be dry cleaned

My New Years Spring Cleaning Resolution:

Make my closet completely RTW!

Now is the time to shop your wardrobe, stretch every piece to its full potential. And for me that means making sure that every article of clothing in my wardrobe is RTW – ready to wear… literally. Every New York woman is looking for a good tailor, bag/shoe repair, jewelry cleaner… etc. Whatever might be of use to a fellow shopaholic who needs to rehabilitate their existing wardrobe.

***I invite you all to leave a comment below and share your go-to repair. Mine; Ardian – the best tailor in New York. You need to call and make an appointment before vising his store in the village. 5 Horatio, 347.733.6651

xoxo

Holly Spendlightly

This week on Craig’s List: Better than Sports Center

Pimp your feet

 

Here are this week’s highlights from Craig’s List.

1. Hair Model Casting in Manhattan 
   
2. Men with Sensitive Teeth/Focus Group
   
3. MARKET RESEARCH – ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES 
4. *Very Private Service hiring UPSCALE beautiful Ladies/ Companions
   
5. SEXY BIKINI WRESTLERS….MAKE $100+ AN HOUR WHILE HAVING FUN!! 
   
6. Paid Focus Group for Flushing resident Asians
   
7. Pretty Girls With Pretty Feet Wanted FRIDAY! ($200 – $500 Per Night)
   
8. Would You Like to Help Understand the Causes of OCD? 
   
9. Plus size footwear fit models
   
10. JEWISH EGG DONOR NEEDED by LOVING JEWISH COUPLE $20,000+ not an agency

Minty fresh money management website

If you run on plastic like the rest of us do, take 5 minutes to plug in your bank and credit card information at Mint.com and they will do the rest. Let’s face it, it’s not easy to keep up with bills when they are spread across multiple websites. Not to mention, you’re less likely to monitor your spending and make slip-ups when you let online banking do all the work for you. Trust me, that one can really burn you.

Mint consolidates all of your personal financial information and reflects your current transactions, credit limits and even gives you notices when your balances are low.  You can track spending (great at tax time) as well as your financial “health.”  Note, it does not track cash, so you will have to enter this manually. Try to get in the habit of saving receipts, because you’ll want to itemize as much as possible, especially now that most of us barely make an income. 

Make this the year to face your finances and break old spending habits.

Pizza rewards for drinking. Ah, how sweet it is.

You know you would drink those calories anyway...

As most of you know, there are bars around the city that give you free pizza with the purchase of a drink. I’d like to thank these bars for rewarding my lifestyle and give them a shout out. (Don’t get your hopes up for anything fancy.)

1. Crocodile Lounge: Free pizza with EVERY drink. Other perks include, but are not limited to: Boys under 25, buckhunter and skee ball. OK, they have a small outdoor area too. 325 E. 14th St., New York, NY 10003  nr. First Ave. 
2. Alligator Lounge: Free pizza with each drink from 4pm to 4am. 600 Metropolitan Ave (between Leonard St & Lorimer St) Brooklyn, NY 
   
3. Alligator II: See previous.  113 Franklin St. (Greenpoint Ave.)
4. South Brooklyn Pizza: Every Monday is gay night and they have drink specials and complementary, brick oven pizza. Um, did I mention a go-go boy too? 451 Court St (between 3rd Pl & 4th Pl) Brooklyn, NY 11231
5. The Charleston: 174 Bedford Ave (Cross Street: Between N 7th Street and N 8th Street) Brooklyn, NY 
   

And if you don’t like pizza, you can always score free tots at Trash; 256 Grand Street, Brooklyn  or free BBQ at Hanks 46 3rd Ave, Brooklyn(only on Sunday/Monday nights).

And on the seventh day, He attended a free show at McCarren Park Pool

McCarren Park Pool

OK, so there may have been a time when we pre-gamed too hard (and almost passed out) while waiting in the 3 hour line to see the free show, but we have learned our lesson. Bring a mini cooler and scope out the best hiding spots to take a leak outside without losing your spot in line. We heart the free shows at McCarren Park Pool and are glad to hear that the show will go on this summer in a new location along the East River. It’s probably better that way—no pool house to hide dead bodies. Let the count down to Summer-Sunday-Fundays begin!

Before any on-line purchaces visit this site!

One of my favorite Voguettes, Justin Shu, introduced me to this website about six months ago… and it has changed my virtual shopping life!

You simply type in the name of the website you’re shopping on, and Retail Me Not will tell you all of the available discount codes.

The name says it all – Enjoy!

xoxo Holly Spendlightly