  Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger Post Number: 378 Registered: 03-2005 |
How about some tips on how to live cheap in Detroit. Cheap or free health care, housing, entertainment, clothes, fuel. . . etc. When responding to this start out your post with the subject listed in capital letters. Then we can scan the list quickly to find what we need. | ||
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise Post Number: 1327 Registered: 09-2007 |
Ok, Where Should I Start: -FUEL: Ain't Cheap Nowhere -HEALTH CARE: The Free Clinic -HOUSING: A $10,000 Home -ENTERTAINMENT: Bars, Liquor Stores, You Name it on every corner -CLOTHES: Value World on Woodward | ||
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger Post Number: 379 Registered: 03-2005 |
HEALTH CARE: I used to get my kid vaccinated for free at Herman Kiefer on Hamilton & Taylor near Henry Ford Hospital. Free clinics visit: http://www.associatedcontent.c om/article/505591/free_healthc are_clinics_in_detroit | ||
Mortgageking Member Username: Mortgageking Post Number: 14 Registered: 12-2006 |
DRINK CHEAP BEER TAKE BACK CANS REPEAT (edited to put in capital letters) (Message edited by mortgageking on January 06, 2008) | ||
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger Post Number: 380 Registered: 03-2005 |
Specifics please. The cheapest PLACE to get beer. The cheapest COMMUNITIES to live in. Great entertainment > WHEN & WHERE & HOW MUCH. Get specific folks so we can capitalize on what we know collectively. | ||
Detroitpetanque Member Username: Detroitpetanque Post Number: 38 Registered: 09-2006 |
Cheap Food: Detroit Eastern Market - right about closing time for the venders on Saturdays is when they unload what they didn't sell during the prime time of the day. Cheap Entertainment: 1) Campus Martius Park (Movie nights, Concerts, Petanque) 2) Detroit Riverwalk - sights of the river, exercise, concerts | ||
Mortgageking Member Username: Mortgageking Post Number: 15 Registered: 12-2006 |
CHEAP LIQUOR CAN BE FOUND AT: Ammex Detroit Duty Free Stores 100 E Jefferson Ave, Detroit, MI - (313) 567-0555 Cadillac Food Plaza 111 Cadillac Sq, Detroit, MI - (313) 962-1340 Broadway Stab & Shoot 1338 Broadway St, Detroit, MI - (313) 965-9676 Leland Commissary Market 1707 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI - (313) 962-9231 Happy Four Party Store 1444 W Fort St, Detroit, MI - (313) 965-5328 Stadium Liquor 2450 Cass Ave, Detroit, MI - (313) 961-7342 Grocer Farm 3435 2nd Ave, Detroit, MI - (313) 832-4144 Joe's Liquor - Write a review 2933 Russell St, Detroit, MI - (313) 393-3125 Publix Market 3181 3rd St, Detroit, MI - (313) 831-4570 Chene Liquor 650 Chene St, Detroit, MI - (313) 259-7482 CHEAPEST PLACE TO LIVE: This category has just gotten a lot more competitive now that the Dequindire cut is being developed. I'd recommend the Harbor Light Center on Park Street. | ||
Upinottawa Member Username: Upinottawa Post Number: 1044 Registered: 09-2005 |
The cheap liquor at the Ammex gets a little more expensive as it must be exported. The bridge toll and the potential tax at the Canadian and US border points does not help as well. | ||
Kgrimmwsu Member Username: Kgrimmwsu Post Number: 102 Registered: 06-2004 |
"DRINK CHEAP BEER TAKE BACK CANS REPEAT" Sounds like my 4 years at Western Michigan University. | ||
Mortgageking Member Username: Mortgageking Post Number: 16 Registered: 12-2006 |
"Sounds like my 4 years at Western Michigan University." Only four years? Looks like somebody didn't spend enough time at Waldo's. | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 759 Registered: 08-2006 |
Everything is cheaper in the D. The isles of most convenience stores are lined with endless cheap snacks not often found in the suburbs. | ||
Urbanoutdoors Member Username: Urbanoutdoors Post Number: 684 Registered: 11-2005 |
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION: Bike or walk LIVE: find a family member who has a house that they have owned for along time but needs work = cheap rent and prime location. If thats not possible live with a roommate or two and that will make things much cheaper. Or there is the cardboard box, shelter option ENTERTAINMENT: Explore, walk through the now wide open globe trading company, the many rail lines. Also look for who is speaking at different Universities in the area its interesting and free. Summertime and the riverwalk, Campus Martius, Belle Isle, or chasing fires. OH almost forgot SANDLOT BASEBALL ON WEDNESDAYS!••••• INCOME: learn how to play an instrument play in greektown or wash windows off I-75. DRINK: 5 O'clock Vodka CLOTHES:Can't beat Salvation Army or Goodwill, normal retail clearance rack at nat'l dry goods. FOOD:Gregs pizza on Livernois and 6 mile and their 88 cent slices. (Message edited by urbanoutdoors on January 06, 2008) | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 859 Registered: 07-2007 |
Mortgageking Nice post! Kgrimmwsu I heat u there, back at U. WMU 1985 out. I could send a coed home on a bus for .25 back then. | ||
Living_in_the_d Member Username: Living_in_the_d Post Number: 2 Registered: 01-2008 |
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION- D.D.O.T. | ||
Tayshaun22 Member Username: Tayshaun22 Post Number: 397 Registered: 02-2005 |
CHEAPER TRANSPORTATION-Bike | ||
Hamtragedy Member Username: Hamtragedy Post Number: 44 Registered: 10-2007 |
Hamtramck. $10 in your pocket can have you stumbling home every nite. No shortage of $1-1.50 beer, $2 shots, usually one to two on the house (if the owner's not present), and someone will always buy a round, (someone, somewhere just got paid). Until the Norwalk closed, the Norwalk Combo was two pitchers of High-Life (champipple) and a pack of Marlboro's for ten bucks. | ||
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger Post Number: 382 Registered: 03-2005 |
ENTERTAINMENT: Old Movie Houses Redford Theater regular tickets = $5 Big screen + original pipe organ (hold the jokes) http://redfordtheatre.com/movi e/ Farmington Civic Theater regular tickets = $3.50 Bring your drink & candy (hidden in the jacket) DIA Theater great foreign films > tickets have gone up. $8 Adults, $4 Youth, $6 Seniors....so say you are under 17 or over 55. Let those ticket sellers question you. | ||
Defendbrooklyn Member Username: Defendbrooklyn Post Number: 602 Registered: 11-2005 |
DRINK = Mountain Creek $2.99 for 6 | ||
Swimmaven Member Username: Swimmaven Post Number: 14 Registered: 05-2007 |
DON'T MOVE TO CALIFORNIA | ||
Urbanpioneer Member Username: Urbanpioneer Post Number: 15 Registered: 10-2007 |
Cheap liquor at the duty free is not that cheap. I thought it was so when I was getting ready for my 40th birthday bash, I hit up the store for six or so bottles of hard booze. Customs asks me if I have anything to declare _ I said I bought six bottles of booze and there are two people in the car. They put a yellow slip on my car and ask me to pull over. After they're done assessing me about $100, they explain to me that the booze is sold duty free, but there is still a duty owed and that it's up to the discretion of the custom's officer to collect it or not. It was very confusing but I do think it's true. Just be careful. | ||
Lukabottle Member Username: Lukabottle Post Number: 145 Registered: 12-2004 |
Temple Bar 2906 Cass Ave Detroit, MI 48201 (313) 832-2822 $.75 draft Milwaukee's Best over a game of pool with some of my neighbors. Cheap Food-Trader's Joes dumpster Cheap Food: A. K. Groceries 51 West Hancock ,Wayne State University Detroit, MI-48201-Samosas $.65 Cheap Bike Repair-Back Alley Bikes HEALTH Insurance: Young Adults Program, Wayne County $85.00 a month (Healthchoice) | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1766 Registered: 07-2004 |
I made $4 fighting hobos at Cass and Temple. | ||
Belleislerunner Member Username: Belleislerunner Post Number: 397 Registered: 12-2003 |
Get stuff for free on craigslist list and sell it on ebay. Buyer pays shipping. Most CVS stores have granola bars for 25 cents. I've found when I'm hungry milling around - that's more than enough to hold me over. Dollar+ menus at Burger King, Wendy's and McDonalds. Why pay $4.29 for a value meal when you can get two double chesseburgers and a water for $2.00. Most of the fun things are free. Wandering around downtown. Running on Belle Isle. Visiting Eastern Market. Noel night. Dally in the Alley. Fourth Street Fair. Paying for entertainment is for the lazy. Apartments surrounding WSU can be found in the $300 range. Of course these aren't Park Shelton quality, but if you're pinching pennies - look at those four story brick walkups. call the company on the door (maintenance/building manager) | ||
Kgrimmwsu Member Username: Kgrimmwsu Post Number: 103 Registered: 06-2004 |
One bedroom, 600 sq. ft. - $300 The Chesterfield 3566 Cass Avenue UCCA http://detroitmidtown.com/05/m idtown.php?offset=10&type=R&li d=183 | ||
Dhugger Member Username: Dhugger Post Number: 383 Registered: 03-2005 |
DNerd: no more fighting the hobos. Buy a permit for one of the expressway corners and make your self a sign. | ||
Mwilbert Member Username: Mwilbert Post Number: 58 Registered: 11-2007 |
I think it has been mentioned in other threads, but the movie theatre at the Universal Mall is very cheap, 50 cents on Mondays I think, $1.50 most days. I know some people think it is too icky, but I haven't had that bad an experience there. Maybe it depends on the film. | ||
Jjaba Member Username: Jjaba Post Number: 5937 Registered: 11-2003 |
Two on one at The Lafayette, lite onions, mustard, water, no Coke, chips, no fries. Complete meal on the cheap, with a free kibbitz from the countermen in Yemini. jjaba. | ||
1953 Member Username: 1953 Post Number: 1519 Registered: 12-2004 |
How to live cheapLY... | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 4254 Registered: 12-2005 |
"Cheap" is a cheapened version of the adverb "cheaply." You get 29% off. So what's the beef?  |
