For the creators of ThriftyDrunk.com, the website has gone from being a good initial idea, to a frustrating misadventure of trying to learn how it is that people build newfangled websites (we had assumed for years that magic made the pictures pop up on our computer screens, we now know it is long hours of profanity and neglected interpersonal relationships).  But today for all the frustration and hard work we've finally completed the site that will hopefully be the future of drinking on the cheap.

So where does that leave us?  With a working site but only a dedicated few Thrifty Drunks to view it.  This is where the real challenge begins.  Many a product and service have been technically superior in the past, but not well known to the masses. 

From this day forward begins our quest to grow, both in number of bars listed and Thrifty Drunks to join our movement!  We know the Thrifty Drunks are out there, everyone has met, toasted with, shouted at, slapped, pounded shots with, ran away from, laid sexual advances upon, and otherwise grown to know them well during our collective time spent drinking together at various happy hours across the country. 

This great big family of people who comes together after work to celebrate life and the fact that drinks aren't as preposterously expensive as they will be a few hours later, are the Thrifty Drunks, the happy hour going American public, and we're damned proud of who we are!

So now its time to get those like us to join us, because knowledge is power, and that's what the site provides -- a means to help one another find a better way to conduct the business of partying at a happy hour.

Today, as the site stands we have a decent showing in DC and Iowa City.  These are two vastly different yet equally wonderful places to drink.  We've got eight bars in Iowa City (one of the wildest college campuses in the Midwest), three random bars in New York City (pretty sure that city has more than three bars), and 59 in DC, the happy hour capital of the free world. 

Its a slow beginning, but it is, after all, only the beginning.  Before you know it we, the Thrifty Drunks, will be using the site to make the best choices about where spend our hard-earned cash while publicly embarrassing ourselves (some of us, anyways) in cities after work across the country.

...and the "Flight of the Drunkard" series will help you follow us as we together travel down this path.

Cheers!
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