Gathering of Hunters? Or the Hunted, Gather?

How many of us proudly awake early like hunters and gatherers of yore, to hunt and gather “bargains” like $8 mixers (that will likely break in 6 months) on the morning after our feasting holiday?  We thrust ourselves forward in the battle for supremacy, then come back to our modern caves with our “game” (doubly, triply, ironic, eh?) and our “gatherings,” like it was some accomplishment worthy of our homestead and our humanhoods.