Except that there is a 31% discount at all Baskin Robbins outlets. Although Baskin Robbins does not really qualify as a "budget food," it is nice to have some quality desert once a month. Once again mark your calenders on the 31st of every month if you're into good ice cream at a CHEAPER ( although not exactly cheap) price.
Caution: DO not waste time going to the Baskin Robbins outlets in Pavillion KL, The Gardens mall and Midvalley Megamall as these places do not offer the 31st, 31% discount.
Have you ever gone to a shopping mall, waiting for someone, waiting for a movie to start, or just waiting to kill time?
What is it you do?
Well for me and some people i know, we usually sit. That's right. Places like Starbucks and other free WI-FI zones are perfect for sitting down and killing time. Only one little problem: Its expensive to order a coffee or ice blended from Starbucks.
SO whats the solution?
Find a free place to sit and relax ( besides the benches provided by the mall in the middle of nowhere.)
Find a free place to sit with a Wi-Fi zone.
At current, 1utama is doing quite a good job of providing comfortable chairs and sofas within the mall for relaxing - so long as you do not sleep.
One of my favorite places to sit is at the MPH BookCross@1u. This is a rather new development, and will only be there till December this year. IN as short a sentence as possible it is:
" An area with nice comfortable chairs where anyone can sit and read books." These books are dust collectors in other people's homes. So MPH has created this lil designated spot where people can register to bring their old books and place them there, thus creating the word BookCross. make sense? Well, just check teh link above if you're not.
As far as I'm concerned, I can go there and sit. I mean I don't even like reading!
Location: Ground floor, new wing, High street, Near ZARA and PARKSON.
Free WI-Fi zone. This really isn't a problem nowadays since every retailer has some form of wireles network hanging around. However, if you're looking at a spot to sit, place you laptop and enjoy free wireless do make your way to the Maybank2u internet banking lounge. Great place.
Those little seats in the picture above are free seating. You can bring your laptop and just sit for hours :)
So, this is now my second post. Yesterday my tip of the day was to mark your calenders for the hottest offer available at 1901 outlets. Well, this post ( as the title suggests is going to be about how to eat at MCd's.
Mcdonalds is one of my favorite and most visited fast food restaurants. Compared to other fast food outlets like KFC, A&W, Pizza hut, Wendy's, and the whole lot of them. MCdonalds has one of the best marketing strategies for their food...Their Promotions.
As a consumer i think their promotions are becoming more and more alluring over the past couple of years. Last year they had the Big Mac challenge. And i will not mention how many times I claimed my free burger. Thank goodness the promo is over, else I'd be in the hospital by now. Unfortunately, McD's is not the healthiest option. But anyway, back to my topic.
Current promotions include their lunch hour promo. RM 5.95 a meal from 12pm to 3pm everyday. So whats the great tip? Everybody knows about it. Why am I advertising this?
Answer: simple. I'm first proving my point that MCd's is a great place. But it gets better.
Essentially this is my Tip number 1 : Never order a large meal when eating at MCD's.
Why?: Because the only difference between a large meal and a regular one is the size of the drink and fries.
Now to me, a couple extra fries does not compare to the price I'm paying. As for the drinks... They're refillable! Now since we're here in Malaysia we have this privilege of refilling drinks. ( MCD's in Singapore allow no such thing.. Kiasu)
Tip number 2: Now this dirty trick Ive learnt from a certain someone else. Keep your cup. Now I dunnno how many of you are that cheap. But I do know someone who keeps a MCD's cup everywhere he goes. This way you can save some money by ordering alarcarte and refilling a drink!
Tip 3: Now this is for real cheapos who wasn't to indirectly ride on others, - order alarcarte and borrow your friends cup. Guilt would not lie on you for being stingy if you're going with a whole lot of friends who agree to all order alarcarte and chip a few cents in for one drink to share and refill :)
And finally Tip number 4: Apply tip number 1 - 3 to any fast food outlet that allows for free refills such as: Burger king, Carl's Jr and etc.
Just a little word of advice. When you're going out ( maybe to the mall or something), do try, to the best of your ability to go after lunch. Reason being, you can save money on lunch by eating at home. I mean, why do you wanna go out and spend a minimum of RM10 at a mall for lunch when you can dig something up at home. That's what I do at least. Worst case scenario, i just have my lunch somewhere at a mamak store or a coffeeshop before going. Of course this doesn't work so well if you going out with you girlfriend. :S
Anyway, I dint publish this post to tell you about this common sense advice. Im here to bring an awareness of good deals around so today we're looking at 1901!
This has to be the best common people hotdog outlet in Malaysia. UNfortunately, this common people food is not so commonly affordable for students like us eh? SO what do we do.
Problem: 1901 is good, but a lil expensive for those nt so rich.
Answer: Mark your calenders for the 19th of every month! Its a once a month chance to get super hotdogs at RM 1.99 :) which is pretty much RM2, just another dumb marketing scheme to make it seem cheaper than it is.
For anybody who knows anything about 1901, their hotdogs are about RM5 at minimum on a normal day. Well i dont really know coz i NVR go there on any other date besides the 19th. But you can pretty much get 2 hotdogs at a price you'd normally pay for 1. You can also get a drink for RM1! what i usually do is just bring my own water. and buy 4 hotdogs.
Problem 2: Lotsa people already know about this promo, so theres tons of people always lining up. I once had to take a number to get my meal!! kinda like the immigration, yeuch!
Solution: If you can, get down to the 1901 outlet in Midvalley. From my experience you don't have to wait too long, so long as you order chicago beef. New york chicken always seems to run out there.
Damn, Blogging is a lot like talking to yourself eh?
As every new lecturer always says when he or she enters the room..
"Before I start the class, let break the ice"
My brief introduction is this: I don't like reading too much, so I'm gonna make my posts as short as possible while making my point clear because I know how frustrating looking at so many words on the computer is.
This blog is about the journeys of a few cheapskates I know (myself included) and how we somehow manage to find the cheapest ways to get around town.
