Living cheap
Cut your costs and keep the fun with the low-dough guide to eating, drinking and living in South Florida
Metromix/City LinkJune 24, 2008
Despite our using it as the theme of this feature, the term living cheap these days is something of an oxymoron. After all, how "cheap" can you actually live when the average price of a gallon of gas is $4.08, a pint of orange juice costs nearly as much as a pint of liquor, salaries are being frozen, pay increases are but a dream and your life feels a chapter away from turning into a John Steinbeck novel? As it turns out, you can be frugal and still enjoy a semblance of a life. In the following stories, you'll find deals on everything from nightclub parties to dental work and haircuts. We've even rounded up a few choice ideas for stay-at-home vacations, compiled a list of inexpensive meals and discovered the best happy-hour deal at possibly the filthiest bar in South Florida. Some places, it seems, still take the idea of living cheap literally.
Let them eat cheese steak
Living on the hot, new poverty diet? Here are eight eateries that will keep your belly full when your wallet isn't
Every night's a party
Leave your purse or wallet at home and never pay a cover charge again (Well, almost never)
Thrift away
These stores will leave you looking sharp and living large for very little
Beauty is skin-cheap
How to get your teeth capped or your eyebrows waxed without getting strapped
Staycation's all I ever wanted
If you can't afford to leave town this summer—and who can?—take a stay-at-home vacation at one of these hotels
Drink at your own risk
One of South Florida's best happy hours is also one of the dirtiest
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