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The thing with the $$$ stores is that you have to compare contents (weight) with what you are getting at Wally World etc. Sometimes the $$$ stores are no bargain. Mostly from what I see is that the clientele of the $$ stores are people living on the edge who can not afford Wally world.

That said I go in once in awhile for certain items.

Another avenue for the grocery budget minded are the Mexican Super markets. Their produce prices can not be beat. Brown Onions 7 lbs for a $. Iceberg lettuce 3 for a $. Pineapples 99 cents. Roma Tomatoes 3 lbs for a $. Tell me you like paying 89 cents lb for Brown Onions. I am seeing lots of older white folks frequenting those markets...It is called stretching you $$$$.

Then yeah I know, I know we come to the Thrift Stores...Let us try Oral B tooth brushes which are about $3 ea at Wally world...I buy unopened packages of 6 of them for 2$.. Or a set of new washing machine hoses for $6. 7lbs of home made bar laundry soap for $4. then there is cookware of every description...from German Chefs knives, to solid copper pans, Vita Mix blenders China you name it, you can find it. It is absolutely unreal what people are giving away.

If you really want to see how prodigal Americans are all you have to do is check out the mens shirt sections... every store has 1000's of practically new men's shirts on the racks...remember an item only stays in a store for 4 weeks before it is moved out...and replaced with new inventory. Shoes pants jackets...and women's cloths has an even larger section...the waste is staggering..both environmentally and as a dissipation of wealth.

The other day I over heard a couple of elderly black women talking about the increasing prices in the Thrifts and how much the cost of living in LV has gone up. They had come to LV decades ago for a lower cost of living but now they were saying prices were becoming more like LA. THEIR REFRAIN WAS THAT THE COST OF LIVING WAS GOING UP BUT THE WAGES WERE NOT GOING UP.

I was really tempted to to put my two cents in, but didn't feel good enough to do it. So there it is...Americans are under the gun financially as their standard of living is going down and as their financial where with all declines so goes demand which is needed to propel the global economy of scale. So you have a slowing growth momentum as debt increases which needs that global economic growth to keep up with debt service. It is as simple as all that.

This economic dynamic then puts increasing stresses on society and politics as situation becomes more dire. Simple equations really.

Now the powers that be keep putting lipstick on the pig and telling you how purty and fkable she is cause they don't want you to panic and go to the mattresses with your declining $$$ where with all. They must think that magic is gona happen to save them.