Lifestyle — How To Pull Off Crashing Somewhere Without Paying Rent (Video)
by Nick Borenstein

Take our basic needs of water, food, shelter and clothing. Water is free. Food is sometimes free. Clothing, per Miley Cyrus, is optional. But shelter is tricky, especially after an incident that may or may not have involved overflowing bath water, an episode of "Dawson's Creek" and the neighbors downstairs.

Sometimes you get by with a little help from your friend's exes. They always did have sick apartments, and you kinda sorta missed them?

So next time you're without shelter, why not strategically run into your best friend's ex at a party and convince him to let you two stay the night? After all, didn't he have 400 thread count sheets and a soda stream?

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