Everybody is looking for a bargain! I believe no matter with how much wealth we are blessed and we could buy the best of the best, we still fancy that good deal.
My friend and I are aficionados of the cheap deal. We have probably shopped all of the discounted and reduced stores in a hundred-mile area or more. We have even traveled to New York City and hit the Chinese District for cheap silver jewelry, knock off purses, fake Rolexes and counterfeit perfumes. 
We are genuinely into the frugal spending to travel that many miles to walk the streets of New York City. We have been to a well-known consignment shop in one close city and found name brand shoes, clothes, purses, jewelry and all the items that make our hearts palpitate.
One of our favorite places to peruse is a store that my friends call “The DC Boutique.” Those of us who have the patience and fortitude to dig amongst the enormous jumble, never stocked in any kind of uniformity or order of any category, might just find the treasure we have been searching for. I really do not know where some of the plunders here originated.
There are trademarks of which I have never heard. I saw a man one day buying a five-foot bust of a combatant/wrestler attached to a two-foot tall platform. I cannot even guess where it came from or what it would be used for and who in the world would want it. Some of the food items are out of date or so close that we would need to eat them on the way home.
We examined and inspected the entire jumble pushed into the shelves and falling into the floor for over two hours and I walked away with only 20 dollars worth of treasures while my friend had a buggy full. She is a much better bargain hunter of treasures than I will ever be.
I am totally different when I do my weekly grocery shopping or replenishing my needs from the local drug store. I am so set in my ways that I want, in my thinking, the very best.
I am the person the commercials yearn for when they advertise their products. Just tell me that this headache and joint pill is the best on the market, I will buy it. Tell me that this particular piece of meat can be “copy cat” cooked to taste just like something you would order from Outback, and I will buy it.
I do love a good bargain, but I also would probably spend my last dollar to buy a name brand that would be ingested by my family.
Weekly Recipe
Rice Jumble Cookies - 1 ¼ cups flour, ½ cup melted butter, ½ cup sugar, ½ brown sugar, 1 egg, 1 t. vanilla, 2 cups rice krispies, 1 cup chocolate chips Mix butter and sugars until fluffy and add egg and vanilla, mixing well. Add flour and rice cereal and chocolate chips. Drop by teaspoons full onto greased cookie sheet and bake 10 – 12 minutes at 350*. These are really good and really certainly different.
