Bargain Saver

Getting ready for a 90’s party (the OC YEE at Detroit Bar), I found myself in a really bad place… my ankle was pretty destroyed. You see, I had recently been injured pretty bad in a Mexican funeral, and let me tell you… these fools I was with do not know how to mourn!
I wanted to go to this event, but I couldn’t wear shoes (huge bandage around my foot/​ankle covering a wound that didn’t want me to even think about shoes for another month or so)…What am I going to do? I got it!, I’ll wear those corduroy liquor store shoes (you know those Doughboy slippers), I’ll be reasonably comfortable and look like I walked out of a 1994 Hawaiian Gardens fashion show… the rest of the costume put itself together from there: 40″+ slacks, a white t-​shirt, a pair of liquor store locs and it’s on!
I went «back home» to Hawaiian Gardens hunting for the slippers… I went to all the spots I used to see them and found countless liquor stores that sell everything from wife-​beaters to tube socks but no slippers… went to this ‘hood Dickies outlet… nothin’ there but 5 shirts for $ 10 :(
After hitting up about 6 – 7 places, I was ready to give up and there was Bargain Saver… The place wasn’t here when I was growing up, but something told me to make a U-​turn and check it out.
Bargain Saver is a Ghetto Mess! Picture that small, Asian owned $ 0.99 & up type store that you’ve been to… and then picture it run my Latinos, for Latinos! Yup!, no sun hats, sleeve-​length driving gloves or old public domain karaōke VCDs… rather is was like the jail canteen, where you can score all of your hygiene items on the cheap, flip-​flops, oh and yes!, My Corduroy Slippers for $ 3 available in a variety of sizes and colors…
This place has far more than footwear and razors… all at great prices!