Bargain Bastards

So I know some of you like to drink. Well I know I do, though I should stop doing it, but I was looking through some information and found out that the Iphone has a kinda wicked sounding app! The apps name is bartab, and it is a text based “coupon” redeemer. Let me kind of explain it, though I have not used it, I will give you the gist and get back to you after I have attempted it.

Ok so I live in Chicago somewhere, and if anyone reading this knows, its pretty expensive sometimes to drink. What this app asks you to do in the beginning is connect to facebook, which sadly I do not have, so I will have to use my girlfriends (i hate facebook). Then what you will be given is a map that shows the bars around you that have this feature enabled. I guess the bar has to participate in this and download some sort of program so you can redeem. So what you do is you send a text to a friend’s fb wall at the bar that’s participating. The recipient will then have to open his or her facebook page, of course, and redeem their drink within five minutes of receiving this text. Of course there is a small tiny catch, and if your friend is too cheap to pay or you’re too cheap to pay then this is not for you. The sender has to pay 1$ for this of course and the recipient also has to pay 1$ to receive it. Now really if that’s a “pain” then pay the full $5.50 or $7.00 on the drink if you want.

Over all this seems like a cool app, that’s if your city is included. They said that they will be adding more cities as the app gets polished. But really for 2$ overall it doesn’t seem like it takes rocket science to try it out. So go ahead and try it out. I will definitely put it to the test and get back and edit this after the jump. So go get your drink on!!!

You can find this app for FREE in the iTunes app store.

If you’re like me and you watch a ton of movies I would hope you have a Netflix account. If you don’t, let me break it down for you. I used to go to Best Buy every Tuesday and buy new movies. It didn’t matter what the movie was, if it sounded decent I would buy it even if I’d never seen or heard of it. I would easily drop $100+ a month on DVDs and Blu-Rays only to watch the movies once or twice… it was a waste. Netflix has literally saved me hundreds of dollars and now with the boom in the streaming video market I can watch a ton of movies whenever I want, I don’t even have to wait for them to come in the mail. And for the $16.99 I pay a month I get 2 movies via mail at a time (including Blu-Rays) and unlimited streaming to any of the devices I have that allow streaming. They even just released an iPhone app so I can now stream movies over 3G where ever I am, for free!

I know what you’re thinking though, everyone has complained that the streaming movies on Netflix are all old catalog items so what’s the point…. Well that was true, but not really anymore. Sure you’re not going to be able to stream a movie instantly on the day it’s released yet, but with the new deals in place Netflix is starting to get more and more newer movies available for streaming. As of September 1st movies like Iron Man, GI Joe and others have started to pop up on the streaming queue. So do yourself a favor, if you find yourself spending more than $15/mo on movies (which is basically one movie), sign up for Netflix and start saving yourself some money. Don’t get me wrong I still buy certain movies that I know I’ll watch more than once, but for all those other movies I no longer have to waste money buying them to check them out. And basically if you own any recent video game console (Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii) you can stream all the movies and TV shows right to your TV, not to mention the tons of Blu-Ray players and TVs that have streaming capabilities as well (not to mention all computers).

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