Sundays we go to the local flea market. We've all done that somewhere. You remember where you went and bought someone else's junk. That thing you would of never bought if you had to pay full price for it.

Actually, I find flea markets a great place to buy those things that you normally won't buy. Like the "As Seen on TV" stuff only $19.95 plus Shipping and Handling. But wait there's more type stuff. Or the stuff in the back of the TV guide or local Sunday newspaper. Those colorful pull outs always have some crazy Black Forest Clock or something. One of those it would cost you thousands of dollars if you bought the same clock at Tiffany's but through our amazing direct buy approach you can have this old world charm for just 3 payments of $37.99 plus S&H.

You know its to embarrassing to let my neighbors know I fell for those deals. Plus the tons of junk mail that you get afterwards. The boxes never fit in your mail box so the delivery person leaves them sitting out in plain site like a big banner for all your neighbors to see. "Look John, Dave just gave Fingerhut another $19.95 plus S&H".

My grandmother loved Fingerhut. And honestly we use to enjoy thumbing through the catalog. The other day one arrived in our mail box. My wife tossed it before I got to open it. She is smarter than me.

Anyways flea market Sunday. I bought an item clearly marked $29.97 from Walmart for $4.00. The seller wanted $15 but I only had $4. So he took my $4 grumbling that I surely had more stashed somewhere even as I insisted I really only had $4 dollars. Guy obviously has no clue what it is like living on a fixed income. Its 12 days to payday again. I really did give him my last $4 dollars!!!

Just as I was turning to leave I spotted a little knife on the table. I said "Rats, I wanted that over the other item". He said "$2 dollars". I said "No more money". Than he surprised me and said "Take it". Wow, next month I'll need to spend my last $4 at his table again.

Several rolls later I came across this Brass analog clock with phases of the moon. It was pretty, all shinny and everything. The lady selling it said it was made in Germany and $3 and it is yours. Well way back when my sister was stationed in Germany I wanted one of those Black Forest Clocks but she never got me one. And this pretty brass thing sure would look nice somewhere in our cluttered house. All I needed to do was convince my wife the holder of the purse to give me $3 dollars. Now you may think that should not be that hard of a task. After all, it's only $3 bucks. But the day before while cleaning out the garage I had tossed a filthy dirty plastic bag covered in some insect or rodent feces in the trash box. In the bag were 4-5 rusty screws. Probably a pennies worth and most likely removed from some other treasure being thrown away years ago. That's when I heard "Now we buy screws just so we can throw them away"? Well there was a small discussion over the screws but they did end up in the trash after all. But I was fully expecting to hear, "If you would of sold those screws instead of throwing them away you probably would of had $3 to buy the clock with". Or something like that. Instead she agreed the clock was pretty and now sits on the kitchen table till we find another empty flat spot.

Time seems to be a thing with me lately. I bought Ian and I matching train watches a couple weeks ago. Than while rummaging thru a parts box I came across Dad's watches. Saturday I found 2 of my old watches while cleaning the garage. Than Sunday the clock. Wonder if its the oxegen tube hanging off my nose reminding me that my own personal clock is winding down or just coincidence?

I bought a Seiko digital watch long ago just like my grandfathers. It cost me $400 way back than. One day while living in Colorado I volunteered to transport a little boy and his mother across the mountain to the hospital. I stopped and filled my tank when I realized I had no cash in my wallet. I left the watch as collateral. After safely delivering the boy and his mother I picked up cash and went back to the gas station. Of course no one including the A-hole who took my watch knew anything about it. Never saw it again.

Just for your info: If you took 700 billion single dollar bills and stacked them up on top of each other the tower of bills would be approximately 47,600 miles high!

Now you know just how deep the crap this country has gotten into.............