Name: Living in New York with no money for 24 hours
Uploaded: 2024-11-18T15:31:11.000Z
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This is New York, a stunning city but a place at the same time which has a lot of crime.

Past simple

The other day I spontaneously booked tickets from my quiet little village to this big city.

For the most part it was just a normal holiday.

I was shooting guns, eating the most unhealthy food in the world, generally just having a great time.

But for 24 hours of this trip, that was not the case.

You see I wanted to set myself a challenge, no money, no internet access and nowhere to stay for the night.

Could I survive in this big foreign to me city without these luxuries?

It's just hit 1pm, from this moment on I have no money, nowhere to stay tonight, let's see what happens.

Okay so the first plan of action, I needed to make some money.

You see New York is the most expensive city in the world and without this I'm pretty screwed.

But the big problem is, how the hell do I make money here?

Busking, now this is massive in New York, every step you take in this city there will be someone trying to make money off you.

So I needed a way to stand out from the rest.

Magic, now I've been doing this since I was about 12 years old.

So the plan is, go up to anyone I see in Times Square, ask to show them a trick and if I fool them, they give me a tip.

Alright let's go make some money, let's go make some money, do you guys want to see a magic trick?

If I trick you at the end there's tips but, I'm good bro, you have a good one anyway.

Alright this was going to be harder than I thought.

After an absolute ton of fails, eventually some people said yes.

So we've got the two of spades, look, I want you to sign this card to make it completely unique.

So you guys have got the two of spades, right?

So here's what I'm going to do with your two of spades, I'm going to fold it up into four like that, right?

And I want you to take your mouth, it sounds weird, I want you to bite on the card, keep it there, keep it there.

I'm going to take the card of the eight of spades.

So I'm going to take the eight of spades, right, and I'm going to fold my card up into four pieces like that.

Now, in my mouth, we have your sign to a spade.

Now, in my mouth, we have your sign card.

Mate, you're an absolute legend, thank you so much.

And just like that, after a couple of tricks, I started raking in some money.

It's about 4pm, so I've been at this for about three hours.

After exchanging the euros, I had earned myself a total of $27.11, which seems like a fair amount of money.

But for New York, that gets you absolutely jack ****.

Now, at this point, I was absolutely starving.

So I needed to find the cheapest, but most calorie-dense food I could find.

Is there any chance I could just get some tap water?

After absolutely devouring that pizza, I wanted to challenge myself even more.

I'm in the mood to work out now, so I want to try and sneak into a gym.

The key to this is simply just walk in with confidence, pretend you're meant to be there, and no one will ask questions.

Okay, maybe my genius levels weren't as good as I thought they were.

But nevertheless, I kept trying and kept failing, so I changed up my plan.

We're going to find a hotel, see if it has a spa.

If it does, I'll try and waffle my way into there in the hopes I can get a workout in for free tonight.

Obviously, I don't have a room key, so what I did was I followed someone into the lift who did have one, and boom, just like that, I'm on the fifth floor.

You need a key card to actually get into the gym.

So not only do you need one for the lift, you need one for the gym as well.

I'm going to go ask those cleaners if they can let us into the fitness centre.

Our mates are in the fitness centre part of the Hilton thing.

We don't have the key to the fitness part.

Is there any way you can get us into the centre there?

I don't know if my key can open the door.

That's how you get into the gym properly.

After the workout, I was starving again, so I got a $5 meal from Wendy's.

I don't know if that's just bloody amazing, or it's just the fact that I'm starving.

I've been chilling out for the past couple of hours.

It's getting really cold outside, and the last thing I want to do tonight is sleep on the streets.

The lowest priced hostel in New York is about $60.

I've got 19 to my name, so I'm going to go out and try and busk a bit more.

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Living in New York with no money for 24 hours

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