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$50 (and under) everything
![]() | The wardrobe upgrades: Find the affordable shirt, shoes or suspenders that will supercharge your look. |
![]() | The out-of-town-guest tour: Entertain visitors all weekend without having to reach for the plastic once. |
![]() | The boozy weekend: Cheap beer, cheap shots and cheap hookups (the latter not guaranteed). |
![]() | The dinner for six: Provide friends or family with a delicious feast that only tastes like you spent a fortune on it. |
![]() | The bedroom makeover: Transform drab walls and ho-hum furnishings with these affordable home design upgrades. |
More cheap living
![]() | Man can live by bread (and eggs) alone: With just $30 for 30 days, a TONY staffer takes frugality to its carb-heavy limits. |
![]() | Extracurricular activities: For these NYC educators, teaching gigs bring in enough bank to let their freak come out at night. |
![]() | Stock exchanged: Think you’d notice bargain-basement toilet paper? We secretly swapped out our roommates’ brand-name items with generics to see if they’d get bowled over. |
![]() | Yeah-you’re-cheap quiz: Miser. Scrooge. Cheapskate doofus. Are these the names your friends (and mother) call you behind your back? Take our probing quiz to find out. |
![]() | Video: What would you do for $5?: Watch New Yorkers pull stunts for a little money. |
![]() | Quiz: Inflation: You think reading about $4 gas is scary? Try guessing how much everyday groceries have shot up since last year. We’ll let you decide if it means Armageddon. |