It's Sunday

I take the day off on Sunday, but that doesn't mean I don't write anything. I do this because I enjoy it. Trust me. The money isn't great. Ask my two other jobs. So click those ads people! Help a fellow N.A. out. Sometimes I'll write something I enjoy here, but mostly I'll just give you a preview.

Monday: A brand new weekly called "Reminders from Mom Monday" is coming up. I neglected to learn a lot of basic skills growing up since our parents are do everything baby-boomers. This is probably the shortest weekly, and it will feature some basic household and money management tips. Get ready, remembering to change your air-filter will be a blast!

Tuesday: I don't have a good name for Tuesday yet, but I'll be reviewing media in some fashion. This week a friend of mine's blog.
Wacky Deals Wednesday: Learn how to use a credit card to do more than build credit. I can show you how to make money on those suckers. It's awesome. You can rake in around 2,000 dollars a year if you do it correctly.

Home Cookin' Thursday: Make the best burgers you've every had with out a grill. Ready to best the old man? Impress a young lady with you ability to make burgers that will shatter her memory of family cook-outs? This is the burger for you. Just takes a frying pan and a little bad-assery. Oh, and some vegetables.

Fun Times Friday: This week I am going to explore a fun way to see a movie and eat dinner...at the same time! Beer included! I'll let you in on several chains that make it happen and review one location near me. Some of you can even find one I am sure.

Smack Down Saturday: Join us for the epic battle of Chic-fil-a vs Zaxby's. A up and comer against the giant who's going to win?!

Recommendation of the Day: For those who thought Fight Club was too mainstream.

Pygmy

Smackdown Saturday!

It's like professional wrestling for major retail chains...

Smackdown Saturday is easy to understand...for most people. I am going to compare two very similar businesses. How similar you ask? Yankees and Patriots similar. Richard Pyror and Mitch Hedberg similar. See what I'm saying? Well, like I said "most people". Like all of the weeklies there are some simple rules. One, I have to have been to both places at least three times and sampled a variety of their products. Secondly, I will tell you some strong and weak points of each. Last but not least, they have to be almost lawsuit worthy similar. I'll let you know which one is worth your time and New Adult budget. Want to hear my qualifications? Well, I can cook, eat, and go places. Also I am a jackass which is basically like having a PhD. in everything. Some of the chains won't be everywhere, so I will make liberal comparisons with national brands.

This week on Smackdown Saturday:



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Find Fun Friday!

Welcome to the very first ever in the history of time, blogs, and even the Internet, Find Fun Friday on The New Adult Life! It's also the first time I'll be adding the pick of the day to a weekly! That means a good book, album, or other piece of crap dubbed by yours truly to have some value. I don't put anything up I haven't read, and I promise they're good. Book reviews will still be a weekly!

Here's the break down for a Find Fun Friday! I go on a little adventure and share it with you. I have a couple of rules. It has to have good dollar to time value. That is I won't do anything that cost more per hour than an entry level hourly job pays. So if you make $6.00 and hour then the activity should cost $6.00 or less per hour. It's a good practice. That way work equals fun. I have a little liberty with what that is since I make $12.00 an hour, but I live in a major metro and understand a lot of you are at $7.25 until your ship comes in. Keeping that resume up to date? Good. Secondly, it all has to be for folks our age. Maybe not just our age, but I am not going to send you to Chuck E. Cheese's. Even though I do love tokens. Mmm...Tokens.

This week's Friday Adventure: The World of Coca-Cola Atlanta, Georgia

Blast from the Past! HO!

So if you grew up when I grew up, which you did if you're in anyway a member of the target market for this site then you probably remember a show called He-Man or one of the hundreds of it's knock-offs. Well I had a favorite He-man knock off and that ish was called Thunder Cats. Guess what? The good folks at Turner Broadcasting are bringing it back. Tomorrow night at 8:00pm (That's August 12th) a remake of Thunder Cats premeires on Cartoon Network. Yep, that piece of crap you had to sit through to watch Dragon Ball Z is back. SNARF!!
The remake is done by the same guys that did Ben-Ten and Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which were both okay... To spice it up the guy behind Avatar: The Last Airbender may help step it up. Modern animation does mean the Thunderians have picked up a brand  attempt at retro of a new look. Check it out:

Home Cookin Thursday!

It's where Spring Break meets the Kitchen!

Welcome to Home Cookin' Thursday! We've all settled into our first homes, why not start saving some cash buy home cooking! You are a fool with a frying pan? A knave with the knifes? Well, don't worry. We can fix that, and in fact it is the whole point of this segement of the New Adult Life! We make it easy, tasty, and sometimes we care enough to make it cheap. Every week we'll give you a recipe straight from bachelor's oven. Sometimes Semi-homemade, and others a little more difficult. After all your Adults now right? This week though we're going to focus on building your Kitchen Confidence TM. A fancy easy recipe to impress the opposite gender. Guys get ready to wow the chicks. Ladies prepare to convince your boyfriend you can actually cook, and cook well even.

This weeks Semi-Homemade recipe:

Wacky Deals Wednesday!

How to save Beer Money aka:

Welcome to the very first instalment of Wacky Deals Wednesday! (Sorry that deals doesn't alliterate) Here is the basic idea: You read on Wednesday and you'll find out about a cool deal! This won't ever feature obvious stuff like Ramen, Weed, or Groupon, but it will feature one or two cool methods that I notice get you some cool cheapness going on. Different store every week, and we'll try to keep it practical people. No half off of horseback bungee jumping lessons. No wacky coats for your cats. Just small practical (sometimes almost scam like) ways to save money as an adult branching out on your own. First an easy three step "scam" and then a more, lets say honest way to save a buck!

This weeks store: Kroger! It's like Publix for normal people.

 

Numero Uno: If you don't have a value card, then you sir or madam are an idiot. Sorry, no way around it. If gets you great deals and has some pretty cool features to boot. Like the fact that after you spend enough you get a discount on gas at Shell, or that you can load coupons onto the card for use at the store from http://www.kroger.com/ Just pick up a card in store and then make an account no silly paper to fool with. Save trees and money! Oh, I almost forgot the fact that it makes Kroger's goods a little better than evil seven-horned Wal-mart's prices. Check out their prices online by clicking their handy weekly ad link. I'll give you an example of some super awesome deals later on.


Numero Two (What's two in Spanish? Oh yeah! Dos!): Get some coupons. I know there are whole shows about how to get coupons and it needs more than one paragraph, but I'll write a blog later promise. Okay? Good. There are lots of online coupon websites. They almost all require an account and a download, but http://www.coupons.com/ is safe and offers almost all the deals the other ones do. Look for coupons for further reductions on things your value card already brought down!


Phase Three: Profit. How do I profit you ask? You thought we were saving? Ha. This is the "scam" phase baby. Here's the thing, the value card is actually tracking some information about you and that has a cash value just like the coupons. Sounds like Big Brother? We'll sort of, if Big Broski only cared about your grocery shopping habits. Even the most hardcore anarchist can't have too much of a problem with that, eh? Okay now that we have settled our inner Orwelles we can move on. Here is why all of that makes you money and not just them, ready for the first cool part of this blog...are you sure? Alright, I guess.


When you return an item they give you the full retail price. For example: buy a General Electric CFL light bulb and you'll pay $2.99, but that energy saving bad boy is worth $4.50 retail! Just because Kroger couldn't rub your back enough just buying the CFL also spits out a coupon good for $1.00 off that same CFL. So return it and you'll get 4.50 back. Then if you actually want the thing (and you should) use the coupon to buy the same thing again for $1.99. That's $1.99 minus the $1.50 they paid you to return it. So, my savvy friend you just paid $0.49 for a CFL light bulb. That sucker will save you about $45 dollars in electric bills.

Good move Shopper.

Too "scam" like?

Legit deal of the Week!

Okay keep step one the same and head out to Kroger. We almost all drink soda. Oh you don't? Health freak. Kroger has an awesome deal on Coca cola products right now. I don't really care if you like Pepsi, I am from Atlanta. Alright, so 12 packs of cans are usually around $4.50. With a value card at Kroger you can get those bad boys 4 for $12 bucks. That's the good ole day's price of $0.25 a can, but wait there's more. On those same 12 packs there is a coupon to get a free 1.25 liter of any coke product for free! So rip that sucker off and head to check out. You just paid less for soda than your grandfather. For twelve bucks you've got enough to finally have some friends over for cold ones. Beer? Never heard of it. 27 Diet Cokes a day for me. Thanks.

Join me tomorrow for Home Cookin' Thursday!