Cheap!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 8:39PM Happy New Year New York ladies!
First, I hope all of your holidays were great and you've all settled back into your routines. I've been hitting the gym hard to work off those holiday goodies and to look fabulous in a wedding dress (I got a special diamond ring for Christmas!). Anybody else have an exciting holiday story to share?
Now that I'm budgeting for a wedding and maybe a new condo (I couldn't resist linking to two of my favorite sites!), I'm really trying to save my pennies! I have to say Leslie's post about Smarty Pig was so helpful. That website is AMAZING. All of us are hoping to save up for something big, but what about our daily entertainment costs? I just wanted to share two of my favorite websites EVER that specialize in free and low cost (and most importantly incredibly interesting/enlightening/FUN) events.
The first is Gothamist. Truthfully, I never read the Gothamist site, but I subscribe to the GothamList - their daily email highlighting 3-4 awesome events happening in the city that day/weekend. Unfortunately because of an existing commitment I had to miss one of tonight's free events: a DJ and live musicians covering music from Sesame Street. OMG. You can also find Gothamist on Twitter.
The second is The Skint. Same thing here - I subscribe to The Skint's daily email, although their list comes out mid-afternoon. I usually get the Gothamist email un-Godly early so I can plan for events later in the day a little bit better. I feel like The Skint is geared a little more towards free events and more shopping events. Again, they post on Twitter.
Hopefully you find these sites as interesting and helpful as I do! Anybody have any other good cheap-o/freebie event websites?
Reader Comments (1)
thank you for the shout out! we try to keep everything we list to under $15, but make exceptions for events that have a lot to offer. (lucky for us that there are so many fun things going on that are free as well!)
we launched in february of last year, and there are only 2 of us running the entire site. believe us- it's a lot of work. we often get emails from readers with events that are going on that same day, so that's why we send out the email in the mid-afternoon.
we're going to re-launch the site in about a month, so we hope that the changes we have planned will allow our readers (who are awesome) to get the information earlier in the day.
thanks for finding us!