Question: Some years ago, particularly before the 1990s, there way a saying in Europe that (paraphrased) you can sell your blue jeans in every part of Eastern Europe and literally live like a king for a week.

Naturally things have changed since then. But is it still possible to do so in any part of Europe?

Answer: 
Let's take this one step at a time.

1. First you must own jeans. Here's your problem - you'll want them to be worth a bit. You can buy jeans for anything from $5 to a few hundred dollars if you really want to in western clothing stores. Let's say an expensive pair - US$200, and I assure you I've never spent that much on a pair of jeans.
2. Now let's assume you could even sell them for the original purchase price - anywhere. ([Take a look at "Global Poverty and the Cost of a Pair of Jeans](http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/03/how_much_does_a_pair_of_jeans.html)). So you've sold your jeans and have the local equivalent of US$200 in cash.
3. Your first problem is the Euro. Even what used to be cheapish countries (Estonia) have seen increases in prices since the arrival of the Euro.
4. Secondly is finding accommodation 'fit for a king'. I'm not terribly experienced in this, tending to use hostels, but let's say we take my best bargain, which was in Rzeszow, Poland, where for the equivalent of £20 ($30) we had the 2 bedroom suite on the top floor of a hotel for a night, on the main square of the town. To this day I have no idea how this happened, and it included breakfast.
5. So now you've got accommodation, although at $30 \* 7, you've just barely got your accommodation if they give you a slight discount for a weekly rate. But hey, that's pretty good. And you've got breakfast, even if it was toast and fruit :)

So in a way, you can still do pretty well sometimes - not spending much doesn't mean you have to stay in hostels all the time. And with travel deals available on [travelzoo](https://www.travelzoo.com/) or other sites, you can sometimes land a stunning resort spot on the beach for a week in Turkey for a similar price. It just requires looking around, and of course, a lot of luck.
**Probably not.**

I saw blue jeans for sale in streetside markets in Niš, Serbia for €5.

I'm now so far east in Eastern Europe that I'm technically in Asia and there doesn't seem to be any shortage of jeans.

Then again my jeans are about the cheapest I could find in a Chinese import store in Greece, which are probably not what people would stop me in the street for to offer me wads of Georgian Lari.