Mooch's Corner: Whats your roomates is yours

I'm going to start a segment on HS about mooching. Mooching is that tried and true tactic of using what other people have to your advantage, all without spending a buck. If your a fairly social being here at Skidmore chances are you've gotten to know your roommate pretty well. Besides appreciating and valuing your roommate you should also use them to get free shit. For example my lovely roommate has laundry service, which means by the mooching law so do I , because anything that goes into that little green bag gets washed no matter who it belongs to. Likewise whenever he gets a care package so do I, because odds are hes going to share those homemade cookies. Obviously the mooch laws work poorly on people who don't like you so if your at odds with your roommate this may not work for you, and obviously you will be expected to reciprocate the mooch with any care packages and perks you may receive.

The Chocolate Milk Hustle

Recently Skidmore gave me a whole lot of Skidcard money because they failed to de-triple me for the second semester. While I appreciate the school giving me a whole bunch of candy on the house, I would rather they just gave me cash so I can buy meaningful things like my Scarface poster or that Nerf gun I bought after being inspired by my Scarface poster. Of course they would never do this, and money on the Skidcard is basically money lost. Not content to let good money rot on my card I was thrilled to find out about the Chocolate milk Hustle. Basically the idea is that you buy a glass container of Chocolate milk for 3.50 at the Spa, and then sell the bottle for 1.50 to the Atrium as part of their recycling program. The key difference is that the 3.50 you pay (assuming you us your Skidcard) is monopoly money from my Skidcard and the 1.50 comes out in bills. So next time your debating which drink to get at 2:00 am in Spa get some chocolate milk and view it as an investment. I have one friend who drank one with every meal and at the end of the semester rolled up to Atrium with a collection which would put some hobos to shame.

Big Flats Brew

whether our professors like it or not (Roxy) college students will always spend money getting trashed. That is why I feel like its my duty to help kids get drunk as cheaply as possible so they can save money for textbooks pencils and all that good stuff for school. Recently Walgreens introduced a four dollar six pack called Big Flats Brew. For a little perspective four dollars can also get you 1.7 rides on an NYC subway, four cans of coke, and one of those over priced salads at spa. The beer comes in nice little cans which say "its the water that makes it!" which is funny to me because that's pretty much what it tastes like, water. At a mere 77 cents a can you shouldn't really even be concerned about the taste of this brew because any description will include the word "urine" in it.

Some honorable mentions for cheap sixers

Simpler Times Lager (available only at Trader Joes): packs a little more punch for the same price

Mountain Brew Ice Beer (available only at Stuarts): An upstate classic, a little bit more expensive, but at 6 percent alcohol it actually has something resembling flavor to it.

Yuenling Lager: Best in terms of taste, and still cheap even though its the most expensive of this group.

Now go buy some books with all that money you saved

Steal this blog

My grandmother used to say our family had champagne tastes with beer income. I can't think of a better way to describe my current situation. I like to be comfortable, its a weakness of mine, I'm also a broke college student. Growing up in the most expensive city in America I've found myself figuring out ways to survive and live large without breaking the bank. Those of you who follow my food blog ODR will be familiar with my popular "Rules of Bumming" posts on how to obtain free food around NYC. In the spirit of these posts I've decided to create this blog, I hope you enjoy it and get get some freebies off this knowledge.