We here at CBSF.com really think that health care needs to be free across the board. The government needs to pay for it and get those insurance companies out of the business. (Yes, higher taxes, but lower health care costs all around, therefore its cheaper in the end, yay!)

A free movie? In San Francisco? With the price of tickets on the upward march, that's worth taking advantage of in this town, fellow Cheap Bastards! And, as a bonus, you get to support one of the City's remaining independent theatres.

Now, this is only on your birthday, but the savvy cheapskate knows that opportunism works: wait patiently and grab the freebie when you can!

I began to realize that even though the site promises information on cheap haircuts in San Francisco, there actually is no posting on the subject here on cheapbastardsf.com. For that, you have to but the book, but, this being a site dedicated to all things cheap, a lot of you aren't going to shell out the $15 for that!

So here are few real cheap options taken from the book. I'll add more ideas in the future. In the meantime, feel free to add your own tips!

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San Francisco Barber College
64 Sixth Street
(415) 621-6802

Rob Harris will be painting LIVE! at Element Lounge, Thursday April 3, 1028 Geary Boulevard (@Polk) 9 PM. Rob says: "Art opens pathways from inspiring emotions to watering the seed of evolution, it cannot be kept contained its roots are too far planted into the sediments of humanity."

That is DOPE! Come watch Rob him in action.

Showcasedg@yahoo.com

My current job has taken me into the belly of San Francisco's Corporate Beast (so to speak), and I now find myself, during my 30-minute lunch breaks, wondering, "Where can a Cheap Bastard like myself find a good place to eat?"

Trash Mash-Up will be featured at the Hamilton Rec Connect's Healthy Kids Event at the Margaret S. Hayward Playground on Saturday, April 12, 2008 at 12:30pm. The Healthy Kids Event, presented by the YMCA and Hamilton Rec Connect takes place in the Hayward Playground at Laguna and McAllister. It is a family fun day with lots of activities. The Margaret S. Hayward Playground is located at 1016 Laguna Street at Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, California. For more information, go to http://trashmashup.googlepages.com/

Triple Shot Productions is pleased to announce its first production, "Riches," by the award-winning playwright Lee Blessing. "Riches" will open on April 4, 2008 at the Phoenix Theatre in San Francisco's famous Union Square theatre district, and run through April 27, 2008. "Riches" portrays an "everything is right" marriage in which the everything goes horribly wrong.

Looking at art is the cheapskate's pearl necklace on a pig: You stand there looking suave, biding your time until you can request your fourth glass of Yellow Tail and a seventeenth Trader Joe's cheese cube without rousing suspicion. Because, after all, this is ART, dammit, in a super slick GALLERY, and everyone is a sophisticate.

For no-frills old-school coupon clipping and big chain steals and deals, turn to an old-school medium. The local ABC channel 7 news station has a guy (Michael Finney) who has MY job - pointing out free crap available to everyone. Switch the remote from Three's Company just long enough to hear about free groceries, cheap tickets to Disney on Ice (ick), and other Bay Area-wide giveaways. Check it here at the KGO website.

A therapist just isn't the status symbol that it used to be in old Woody Allen movies. At least, not when it's a bargain like this. The SF Center for Psychoanalysis offers a low fee clinic for those who feel they may benefit from Freud's talking cure. One pal of ours goes twice a week for a mere fifty bucks - a total steal for private mental health services. Help resolve your mommy issues here:

http://www.sf-cp.org/Comm_Edu/clinic_services.htm