Beacon's Closet. Photo by Tokyo Hanna.
Each week (or thereabouts), our Dear Penny column investigates the answers to reader questions about saving money in Brooklyn. This week, Cody McBurnett asks how to get the most from her closet giveaways, and fellow Brokelyn reader Tina Robinson is our guest expert. Take it away, Tina…
The best way [...]
I’m from what you might call the Cesarean generation. Back when I was born, women were smoking while pregnant, drinking while pregnant, and getting all kinds of unnecessary Cesareans (indeed my mother was three for three); and it all happened in hospitals. According to Midwifery and Childbirth in America, by 1970, over 99.5% [...]
Each week, Dear Penny investigates the answers to reader questions about saving money in Brooklyn. Send your stumpers to DearPenny@Brokelyn.com.
Yes, it can be cheaper to brew your own beer—if you make enough of it. Let’s break down some numbers. According to the guys at Park Slope’s venerable Bierkraft, [...]
Important bulletin: Apparently, Brokelyn.com readers don’t care all that much about manners because we haven’t gotten any etiquette questions. But we’ve been overwhelmed with queries about whether making your own beer is cheaper than buying it, where to get the best hot dogs in Brooklyn, how to find a cheap, non-irritating dandruff shampoo (RiteAid?) and [...]
Each week, Brokelyn.com’s in-house etiquette expert, Dear Penny, tackles your recession-related stumpers. Send her questions at DearPenny@Brokelyn.com.
I’ve got three ideas for you. The first: CB I Hate Perfume in Williamsburg sells small sampler sizes of elegant custom-made fragrance. And their scents are inspired. Take “Mr. Hulot’s Holiday,” named for the Jacques Tati [...]
Each week, Brokelyn.com’s in-house etiquette expert, Dear Penny, tackles your recession-related stumpers.
Make the Roman dish “Cacio y Pepe,” a classic in la cucina povera (often defined as “simple food using few ingredients”)—in other words, rustic Italian food. I once had a drummer from Rome staying with me (long story), and he made this a few [...]
Each week, Brokelyn.com’s in-house etiquette expert, Dear Penny, tackles your recession-related stumpers.
I had an unemployed roommate once. Good god was it awkward. Never mind he was from San Francisco and took every opportunity to blame his joblessness on everything and everyone aside from himself (I should say here he was an “artist,” and refused to [...]
Each week, Brokelyn.com’s in-house etiquette expert, Dear Penny, tackles your recession-related stumpers.
When I was little my mother went down to Tijuana a lot to buy cheap alcohol, tequila specifically, to give away as Xmas gifts. Occasionally, she would also buy medication from the over-the-counter pharmacies down there, then sneak it all back over the border [...]
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