by MacKenzie Geidt, Sunset assistant travel editor

What can $1.00 get you in LA?  Not much, right?  I can't always find my favorite gum for under a dollar!  But here's some sound financial advice for you: if you only have ONE LOUSY DOLLAR in your pocket, the best way to use it wisely is to make a b-line for DIDDY RIESE COOKIES.  LA is nuts for this place, and for darn Diddy good reason. 

Smack in the bustle of Westwood (hence the crowds of value-conscious UCLA students that don't take their Diddy for granted), $1 at Diddy Riese will get you 3 cookies!  3!  (if you're being moderate and you only want 1, you're crazy, but you only need .35 cents!)  Behold the divinity:

We're talking made from scratch, fresh and warm, baked all day.  Where the heck else in LA can your money go quite so far?? 

If you can scrounge up another .50 cents, you can increase your indulgence exponentially. 
Here's how:

You can be the architect of your own gluttony!  Build your own ice cream sandwich, with cookies and ice cream flavor of your choice.  For $1.50!!  It's too good to be true, but it's true!  Doesn't it just seem wrong to pay so little for something so good? 

If you have other suggestions for how to spend a dollar in LA, let us know!  Let's find the best single digit buys in the city....