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Showerthought: the $7 Tuesday museum night nobody in my city talks about
My girlfriend and I were burning $60 every weekend on dinner and a movie and it was wrecking my budget. Last month I got curious and checked the website for our local art museum here in Cleveland, and turns out they do pay what you want admission every Tuesday from 5 to 9pm. We dropped $5 each in the box and spent two hours wandering the galleries, then grabbed tacos from a truck outside for $11 total. That is a full Tuesday night for under $25 and honestly it beat every crowded restaurant we tried in March. The weird part is none of our friends knew about it, they all assumed museums cost $25 a head. Does your city have one of these hidden cheap nights that nobody bothers to check?
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baker.simon1h ago
That line about your friends all assuming museums cost $25 a head really hit me, cause we had the exact same thing happen here. My wife and I walked past our science museum for years thinking it was a rich people thing, then found out they do free entry the first Sunday of every month. We felt kind of dumb for all the money we burned on fancy dinners when we could have been doing that the whole time. It stings a little too, knowing there's cheap stuff right under your nose and nobody tells you, not even your own friends. Good on you for actually checking the website instead of just guessing like the rest of us did for way too long.
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andrew_sanchez941h ago
Man, I don't know about feeling dumb over it. You found free museum Sundays eventually, that's a win. But acting like you missed out on some big secret? Most museums don't even advertise that stuff well, so how were you supposed to know? Your friends not telling you is a bummer, but people are busy and probably assumed you already knew. It's not like there's some hidden guide to cheap stuff in every city. You just chalk it up and start going now, right?
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