In my 11 years of living, I haven’t thought much about the way others live, I’ve known there are underserved communities, homeless, and unprivileged kids. However, I never knew that someone would think that something that means nothing to me, means an enormous change to someone elses life.

Since I had a lot of my old clothes and an excessive amount of old gadgets and toys, my mom and I gathered all of it and put them in boxes. We rented a truck and took all of it to the swap meet. Before we used to pack the things and take them to goodwill, Salvation Army, or the jewish closet, but this time we took it to the swap meet. My observations at the swap meet were amazing because I saw people buying old, wrinkled, and used clothes, and kids were looking at the toys for half an hour while their parents shopped. And let me tell you, there was a man that didn’t even know what sunscreen was and what it did. One man bought 3 old used phones for $3. Eleven and twelve year old girls were buying toys like barbies and stuffed animals. People were buying an iphone 5s for around $15. We can now understand how different communities value different things. Although I didn’t like it much because it was to hot and stuffy, and after a while it got a little boring, my experience was an eye opener. I got to see the way different communities shop and buy stuff and what they need. Parents need to save money for themselves and their family, and I thought no one would buy the toys, however all the toys were vanished. We made $634.00, out of an all purpose bad quality store on the streets of a swap meet. I think we had on of the busiest stores in our line because the stores next to us were even buying from us and didn’t try to compete with us. I think I learned much from this experience, seeing the way people live, shop, and value. I think kids my age should go see this because they will see that some people aren’t as privileged as we are and we should learn not to be so spoiled about clothing and accessories because some people don’t even have half the stuff we have. In conclusion I think we should think twice about these communities and look at what they have and experience.