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Man, how great is being ghetto fabulous? Living in a home with three 42-inch flat panels, a ps3, an xBox 360, a sweet sound system; you read by the light of your iPhone and you're kept warm with layers of clothing, a bottle of Jack, and the heat from an open-oven. That's the life for me.

The gift of gab. Let's face it. Some people have it and some don't. I got it and much more. A sound-bite of mine that a friend references often was spouted on a hot Summer-day; to be exact it was the day of the Belmont Stakes. A few hungover friends had gathered early that morning to pre-game the sport of kings in what was dubbed the Belmont Brunch.

Frozen french toast sticks, waffles, hash browns, bacon- enough to feed 10 peole and enough to make a coronary patients mind and heart wander to the glory days that lead to their hospitalization.


The breakfast cost less than $6.00; it may not have been fine-dining but the low, low, cost allowed it to be washed down with bottles of champagne.


I turned to my friend and said, "Man, I'm eating a 10-cent breakfast in a $70.00 t-shirt."

He turned to me and quipped, "Dude, you are the definition of Ghetto Fabulous." The same friend remarked, "This is so cheap- look at all this food- we should just eat breakfast for every meal." Little did he know how literally I would take him.


This is the spirit that embodies this blog. Make no mistake about it- by no means do I aim to live humbly; I just choose not to pay for things I deem the world owes me by the default of them being necessities.

Through this blog I hope to spurn conversations that lead to complete mastery of "exuberance through frugality."