The Way We Get By.

Allow us to introduce ourselves: We are Meghan O'Neill and Jen Katz, The Budget Conscious New Yorkers (BCNY). We're two artsy-types who often find ourselves doing the strangest things to get by, financially and creatively.

Like most artsy-types, we're rarely in one zip code for very long. A typical day for us might include waking up at 6 am to sign up for an audition on the midtown west side, a temp job in SoHo, teaching an acting class on the midtown east side, a rehearsal for one gig in Chelsea, and possibly a performance of another back on the midtown west. A busy day for sure, but what about those random snatches of time in between all of these events?

Small, but common examples of time snatches:

*The mandatory lunch hour at a temp job in 10012

*The non-manditory 2-3 hours between interviews for two temp agencies in 10021

*The awkward 75 minutes between the sign-up time and actual audition time in 10036

*The overwhelming need to pee after an overpriced and bland latte in 10023

* A place to meet a friend to rant about an audition, a temp job, or to decompress in 11215 after a long day

The art of wallet-friendly time fillage for a New Yorker is one of the hardest things to get the hang of, and since we the are experts in that, please allow our bank-breaking trial and error be your easily-learned non-lesson.

So, if you know you're going to visit one of the strange and faraway lands that we've covered, print out our weekly list and take it with you. If you're out and about, ask someone what zip code you're in (we New Yorkers actually do love to help), open your smartphone and visit our site . If you know you're going to need to something to do on the train besides read the really lame SubTalk ads, download us. Follow this here link to iTunes, subscribe to us, and we will magically float into your ipod every week.

The BCNY can help. We're here. We're cheap. And if you buy us cocktails, we'll make you laugh.

This is the way we get by.

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