Time does seem to pass quickly, and I do apologize, readers, for not posting.  Free things have come in and have started to pile up.  There was a massive flood in my apartment and various other events that took precedence over this blog, I will try to keep this thing more up to date.

I did end up getting a free subscription to Lucky Magazine, (through a promo through Wal-mart).

As you can see on the cover, FREE is in nice big blog letters, and I got excited!  Free stuff, from a free magazine, sign me up!

But, alas, it seems it’s not really as simple as filling out a form and signing up for free things.  No, it seems to all be contesting.  See for yourself here.

Now, maybe it’s just me, but when something says, giveaways, and free, I think you can just sign up for it and have free stuff.  But no, it seems their definition of free does truly involve being LUCKY.

The lack of updates. I was out of the country for a bit and it’s been taking me awhile to get back into the swing of things.
-Me

I do have a subscription to Time Out New York Magazine, mostly because of the hundreds of free events and other various listings.  Last week’s issue did have a special cheapskate feature, which of course perked my interest.

One listing that jumped right out at me, was the free intro to improv class at the Magnet Theater here in NYC.  Fully aware that they do offer this class to garner interest in their full 8 week paid course, I still figured Why the Hell Not and registered, and was excited to see an e-mail response from the registrar within one business day saying I was registered for the class.

Being a particularly nasty, hot day after the 4th of July, it was hard to pull myself out my nice air conditioning to attend the class, but somehow I managed to trek through the heat, sun, and holiday MTA schedule.

The instructor was Mark Grenier, and the class was capped at 16.  Now, I am not someone who has any real experience with performing in the least however,  I am a very outgoing, silly, person, and I figured this sort of thing would be easy and maybe even sort of fun.

The my fellow student did seem a lot more into everything than I initially expected, being a free intro class and all.  I was a bit intimidated by people who obviously had previous acting experience, however, I’m not one to stay intimidated for very long.

Mark was just the kind of instructor you want for a class like this.  He did teach the basic improv theory and made you actually DO things and participate and pointed out segments from what everyone did as examples for the rest of the class.

The class involved some beat making, ranting, yes anding, pretend party talk, and just a tiny amount of singing.  Not for someone just looking to sit back an observe.  Although, I do enjoy dancing around and making silly noises, it’s not something I generally do around strangers and did take a little getting used to.

If you are in NY, and ever thought about giving improv a try, or you just want to do something a little different, I would highly recommend trying this free 2 hour into class out.

Did it make me want to take the $299 8 week intro course?

Sort of, actually.  But that wouldn’t be free, now would it?

Offer From Walmart.com

Type: Free Sample

White Strippin

Not that I shop at Walmart, but apparently I will link back to them if they give me FREE STUFF.  And goodness knows, they offer a lot of free samples.

No stranger to those whitening strips in general, upon seeing an offer for a free sample of the fancy new 3D White Strips, I figured, Why the Hell Not, and signed up.

This came pretty fast, within 2 weeks or so (much less than the 3-4 weeks it said it could take!).

It came in a fancy Crest envelope, emblazoned with both Walmart and Crest Logos, along with some coupons.  Actually, a pretty good coupon good for $10 off a package of these things.

It came in Fancy, expensive packaging.

It’s hard not to feel like a fool with a whitening strip adhered to your teeth.  Generally, I am skeptical when a “new improved version” is introduced, and while I can’t claim any 3D whitening action, it stuck on better than the older ones I had used.

As to it’s actual whitening abilities, you can’t really tell from just one use, I know that, so that cannot be determined from this sample.

I guess the whole point of the sample was to have you experience that nasty foaming thing these strips do.  I’m not sure who would be sold on that, but I guess you never know.

My first free tangible thing came in today!
A free goat sticker from Backcountry.com.

The envelope it came in was bent, but the sticker is oh so shiny.

It will go well on a bike or something outdoorsy.

Go little goat, go!

I’m still signing up for free things, and waiting for them to come.  6-8 weeks seems the standard, so please forgive any lack up updates.

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I do try to post free offers that I find that seem worth signing up for!

This past Friday I attended my favorite local Tiki Bar a bit earlier than usual to check out their free comedy show “No Name and a Bag of Chips“.

Like most free open mic style comedy shows, it is a bit of a crapshoot how good the comedy overall would be.  Despite some duds, overall the one hour show was most definitely worth the cost of admission (sadly, drinks were not also free, but since this was a 7 pm show, it did fall smack into happy hour 2-4-1 well drinks).

Each comic is given 10 minutes, which does limit how much time one would have to sit through a not-so-established comic.

The line up on Friday was:

Liam McEneaney

Sandy Ehlers

Lee Alan Barrett

Dave Lester

and Nancy Lombardo.

I should note that the reason we did go to this particular show was that Lee Alan Barrett was performing.  A Comedy Magician as opposed to just stand up, he has shared the bill with my significant other on several occasions.

Upping up the free factor, they do give out “cheap” door prizes at the end of every show.  I won’t spoil the surprise, but you may be lucky enough to get more free out of this free.

The line up changes with each show, so I will assume some shows will be better than others.

They generally have this show twice a month.  Join their mailing list for updates.

If you know of any free events coming up in the NYC area, feel free to let me know!  Maybe you will even get a write up too.