I am the Queen of Free

Friday:

List of things I got free this morning at Bay State Bike Week's Bike Breakfast:

1. 2 bakery-fresh whole wheat rolls
2. 1 bakery-fresh everything bagel
3. 2 bakery-fresh corn muffins
4. 1 bottle of purple PowerAde
5. 2 huge oranges
6. some sample Clif bars that I will pass on to MDT since they're banana bread flavored. Yuck.
7. a bag of surprisingly good caramel corn
8. a vegetarian breakfast burrito
9. a yogurt and granola fruit parfait made with Bare Naked granola and Stonyfield Farms yogurt. Awesome.
10. randomly, 2 brand spanking new copies of FridayBeth Kobliner's new book (NY Times Bestseller) Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties--which I will selflessly pass on to our beloved readers--look out for a giveaway in the next day or two.
    
11. a new water bottle
12. 2 reflectors
13. 1 blinky safety light
14. 1 tire gauge
15. 1 mini-tire gauge on a keychain

I didn't make out too badly considering I missed the convoy from Allston because I was too hungover to wake up on time. See below for the explanation as to why I got drunk enough to have a hangover on a weeknight. Seriously, I can probably eat all weekend on this stuff. Normally, I wouldn't like if people threw food at me, but when they give me a bag to put it in and it's delicious...


Thursday:

So Thursday night, Jane and I had a fabulous time being fabulous lushes at StyleFixx Boston's Girls' Night Out. For obvious reasons (cough-we're broke-cough), we usually don't attend these sort of soirees, but we got a mad deal from Groupon--$10 for a ticket that includes 5 free drinks. Now that's about a third of what you'd normally spend for 5 drinks at a Boston bar (not including tips!), and even if we didn't get 5 drinks, we usually spend way more than $10 on a night out. Why not, right? Besides, we were looking for an excuse to get dolled up.

List of free schwag from StyleFixx:

1. Red vinyl tote bag from Lola.
2. sparkly pink lip gloss
3. purple liquid eyeliner
4. 4 cans of Bustelo Cool (delicious espresso beverage)
5. a bunch of Lindt chocolates
6. a huge can of salon moisturizing hairspray
7. a big tub of vitamin C hair and scalp mud mask
8. some high-heel scuff protectors
9. weird stick-on nightime wrinkle remover patches
10. various coffee, cake, and brownie samples from Finale (the highlight of the evening, as far as I'm concerned)
11. a dumb magazine and a bunch of coupons for high-end salons that are still too expensive for me to ever visit

Tada. Not bad for less than 24 hrs.

Take notes, kids.