Photo: Is this the world's most depressing strip mall?
There's no doubt, times are hard all over. However I was driving through New Jersey yesterday and took this snap -- how bad does your life have to get to have 99 cent dreams?
And the fact that it's conveniently located next to a liquor store is telling. Maybe if you drink enough, you fantasize about getting toilet paper for just under a buck and knockoff Tupperware is what you think about when you grasp a lottery ticket.
I'm not making fun of people not being able to afford stuff. Honey I've been there with long-term unemployment and trips to check out Harry's House of Discount Day Care. However, dreams are free. Even when life sucks, why not aim high, for like, a 1987 Toyota Carolla or something?
Forget Teresa Giudice, if you want to see some real-er real housewives of NJ, there's no doubt this would be the place to scope.
Related: Our Seven Dumbest Things That Ever Happened in New Jersey photo gallery
UPDATE: Motivational speaker and ex-con Sandra O'Day not only provides evidence of another 99 cent dream store (pictured with sassy neon in NYC), she's got some good advice on how to plump up your pathetic cut-rate dreams along with it.
