Thrift stores are expensive...I doubt it

Thrift stores have become trendy. I don't like it. With the advent of a lack of economic prosperity, all the hip rich kids who wish to show that they are one with the lower class have ventured to the places of thrift.

Now this has been happening for ages. Kids who have wished to look like crap realized that crap costs a lot less in thrift stores. After they get their allowance pulled from $100 to only $50, how else are they going to keep getting high and drunk on the weekends. I mean, torn jeans cost an arm and a leg these days.

The original owners of these jeans were killed by a bear. Oh well, I look GOOD

Now with a rush of the frugal rich, some people are challenging that thrift stores are getting more expensive because of the increase in demand.

Now I ain't no economics professor, but...

"Economics is something that I've never really understood"

I do believe that markets as a whole do not change simply because of one variable, that being new thrifters. I've been going to thrift stores for years. Maybe not for decades, I only have two under my belt, but it seems to me that thrift stores are still cheap as hell. I don't understand how they could be so much more expensive. Maybe the whole inflation thing is catching up to thrift stores and people have started to notice it after years of being oblivious to economic progress. Whatever the reason, I still can buy a ridiculous wooden picture of cheetah for a only dollar and that's fine by me.

He's currently residing on my living room wall.

For everyone else who has money to go to places that aren't thrift stores, go to those places and leave me alone. Go buy your torn jeans. Or I could sell mine to you for only $100.

And for those who are too old and have a cheap and non-loving heart towards the poor old thrift store, go live with your cats. I've got better things to do than to listen about the good ole-days and how Reagan was a good-looking young fellow.

(pics from gonomad.com, insidesocial.com, and thesinsider.com)