Use Newsletters Strategically to Get a Free Bar Scan on Your Birthday
No one should buy their own drinks on their birthday. And aside from free gifts from your helpful friends, plenty of bars will offer you a free drink for a birthday or two if you sign up for their newsletter. If you plan ahead, you can turn this free drink into a free bar.
If you live in London, just sign up to all of Young’s local pubs , like comedy writer Tom Phipps did . Otherwise, enter Yelp for “free birthday drinks” ( here are the results for New York ), or Google “birthday drink” and your city to find a list on your local blog or newspaper.
Of course, you are now subscribed to a whole bunch of newsletters. Just put them all in a folder, and when the time is right, find “birthday” in that folder, or create a filter to remove all newsletters that do not contain “birthday”.
The same goes for free birthday food, of course, although most of us can only get by with two or three free meals a day. Aside from food, there is a wide range of free or discounted exercise classes, massage, beauty treatments, and more that will pop up on your birthday if you sign up for the correct newsletters.
You can set half of the newsletters as a fake date to do so twice a year. But once you start pretending to be birthday parties, become that asshole who bought 365 Starbucks cards in exchange for a free daily “birthday drink”. Plus you can get caught if you get caught.