have you ever gone in seven days in New
York without spending any money I'll be
impressed if you can pull that off okay
you chop that up and put it in your
salad and you're good we've
gotten free we've gotten free drinks
this is going to suck up a smile the way
I quit what they say is true living in
New York is super expensive now the
Internet is riddled with tips and life
hacks on how to keep a stringent and
smart budget but I want to push it to
the extreme I want to see if it's
possible to go full seven days in New
York without spending any money at all
here are the rules for this week
obviously I won't spend any money either
cash or credit I'm only going to focus
on my weekly day-to-day expenses
I'm not going to adjust my lifestyle I'm
going to live this week as I would any
other if I'm going to survive a week
with no money I'm going to need a lot of
food on hand after doing some research I
figured that dumpster diving from
restaurants and grocery stores was my
best bet to learn the ropes of the New
York dumpster diving scene I'm meeting
up with jetseal a comedian who makes
videos about train hopping getting
furniture from the trash and other
gnarly ways to live you can eat almost
primarily by finding food in the garbage
in New York you definitely can but
you know you think it's plausible that
we could find enough food tonight to
feed me for a week it's possible these
bags are good because they're cheaper so
you can kind of see us in there but
whether they're see-through or not you
do want to just like feel them so I'm
sorry just not to interrupt you but it
looks like like right here there's like
a whole thing of lettuces lettuce this
is your right how's it smell it smells
like a bag full of laughs yes that's
good look I'll eat this right now
good it's good it's perfectly fine so we
got turnips turnips cabbage spinach
this dude is this ginger ginger
look at that also it kind of looks like
a deer a dick
a carrot oh also looks like a dick leeks
leeks a whole walnut cake
cinnamon rugelach California roll I'm
gonna shut that in my mouth
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so we've been dumpster diving for like
an hour and a half yeah and we have
enough salads like three days worth of
salad yeah and then we have six
prepackaged items that are totally good
basically dessert it might not be the
most well-rounded meal yeah but it will
be food last question have you ever gone
in seven days in New York without
spending any money I don't know if I've
done that for seven days okay I'll be
impressed if you can pull that off okay
okay it's better than I expected from
food that I got out of the garbage to
get around I usually spend $32 on a
weekly unlimited MetroCard with that off
the table the easiest way to get around
is definitely with a bike I don't own
one but my friend said that there was an
abandoned bike at her house that I could
have problem is it's in a bike lock
looking for a solution I found examples
like this video where people have gotten
locks open by spraying the whole can of
computer duster upside down on the lock
then hitting the out of it grab me
a can of computer duster for my office I
decided to give it a go this will never
work
but you can have to get another bike I
settled for the next best thing
borrowing one my fellow producer willow
was nice enough to lend me his for the
week she told me that you know Oh
I don't want to spend this whole week
just being holed up in my house
eating food that I find from the actual
trash I figured out a way that you can
get a workout at this gym completely
free I can literally do every workout
that I do at the gym that I pay for
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Jesus Christ can't do that
also I don't need any of you people at
the YouTube comments
criticizing the way that I work
out just let me be it's Thursday night
and I'm looking for something to do I'm
biking into downtown Manhattan to see if
someone on the street asks me to be an
audience member for a free comedy show
hey is there a stand-up show yeah is it
free
oh well is it free no it's pretty close
to free though uh number two much closer
to zero hitting the town was a total
bust
I was pissed it seems so much easier in
that TV show crashing but after one
quick search on Eventbrite I was able to
find one uptown that was still pretty
good with no money I want to see if it's
possible to do a full night out in New
York with my fellow vice host Sally
burtnik first stop is the alligator
lounge a bar in Brooklyn that's famous
for having a free personal pizza with
every drink when you buy a drink you get
a ticket and then you exchange the
ticket for pizza but sometimes people
just want the drink and they leave the
pizza tickets just laying around the bar
we're going to see if we could sneak a
free pizza and not get called out I've
been coming here a lot pretty versatile
pizza while her trick did work Sally did
me a solid and dropped the tip for the
pizza guy from the both of us just got
free food let's get some free drinks on
weekend nights New York is home to many
art gallery openings while art is cool
and all these openings are famous
destinations for getting free booze
after finding one in line Sally and I
went to it to see how many free drinks
we could snag and if anyone would catch
on to our crib
why number one
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I like to look at let's say the planet
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so it's Saturday I'm hungry I'm going to
try some of the desserts that I got out
of the trash I'm really fun
I would actually dump your dive to get
this in my everyday life eating this it
does make me forget about my sad
meaningless existence there is the old
saying that if you go to a restaurant
and you can't pay for the food you'll
have to do the dishes so I'm gonna go
out of restaurants and see if I get a
free meal in exchange for doing the
dishes nice are you sorry I'm actually
from out of town and I was wondering if
you guys have that like an exchange
where people can get food we shoot
you're doing the dishes is that not a
thing okay thank you have a good day
that lady like looked at me like I was
from Mars one down let's keep looking
alright how are you I was wondering if I
could get amnion shame for doing the
dishes definitely that like isn't being
here or
the thing I don't know if it's big
there was that is there like a way that
I could like wash dishes in exchange for
food they said they let me do it I get
free food this is it sick he's robbed
yet there's my brother Matt what's up
dude hey will good are you and then Matt
will kind of go over everything that's
gonna come in the window where it goes
how it gets cleaned and like that yeah
and then he might even like have you
just punched some fries if we get
crushed and I really need you we're
gonna cut the camera you're gonna
jump in and let's get this done done
yeah how do I look fresh
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watch out alright two hours I'm done I
quit it's about nine o'clock at night I
just got finished doing my dishwashing
shift in exchange I got a really
kick-ass burger so even though it was
just washing for two hours I say that I
was completely worth it so it's the end
of me spending seven days in New York
City without spending any money and I
did it i dead ass did not spend a dollar
in seven days from the methods i used i
was able to save around two hundred and
forty dollars but when i factor in my
change of habits like mainly eating
dumpster-dive food rejecting the
occasional cab for a bike and not going
out on the weekend i figured i was able
to save around in total $400
I want to be clear here is that I didn't
learn what it's like to be a person with
no money but New York is notoriously
expensive and this is how I was able to
go this week without spending any money
all you need is just some work and the
willingness to try out some unusual
things
a pretty sure susan sarandon lives in
that building this wolf I think so I'm
not a hundred percent sure is it exactly
yeah she's no no she's not home
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