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My roommate has discovered the local dollar store

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allisolm said:
The most amazing thing is that Dollar Tree, the $1 store, where everything is $1, (just in case that wasn't clear), has advertising flyers that come in our local newspaper. They have big sales during which everything in the flyer is, you guessed it, $1!
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Admittedly, I think I recall using dollar tree for our wedding haha.

Just general things like... Small vases for flowers at every table... Small framed card holders that we put to display food contents.... Napkin rings I think...

Definetly wasn't bad. We don't shop there in general but if we generally need a simple item in mass it can definetly be useful
 
lxskllr said:
Dollar store has some pretty good stuff. You have to be selective, but you can get good quality stuff at a good price. Got some latex coated gloves from them over the weekend. 90¢ cheaper than harborfreight, and $3 cheaper than Atlas.
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My all time favorite gloves are the Harbor Freight "Hardy" branded work gloves they sell for about $5, sometimes cheaper. Black, machine washable, velcro closure, they fit me perfect (X-Large), I have around 10 pairs! I bicycle, roller skate, do garden work and etc., have a pair in my car for those colder driving days. So comfortable. And I don't have to adapt them, they're perfect as is.
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Best thing I ever got from a dollar store I have in my kitchen and I use it several times a week: A perfectly fine and rather well featured and functional personal calculator. The calculator I have at my elbow now I bought about 1980, and it's tiny. It was only a handful of years since the first ones came out, which were much bigger. This one I bought at the university student store. I asked the clerk how long the battery would last and he said 2 years. I've never changed the battery! I think the LCD display is a little dim but it's still working.

Another thing I got at a dollar store that works fine... several finger nail clippers.

I haven't been in a dollar store for a few years. I'll go if I think they'll have something I want at a price I like, doesn't happen much. I get the impression that people go there for two concomitant reasons:

1. They haven't got much money.
2. They feel compelled to be a part of the consumer culture.

A GF of mine called it "retail therapy." Not specifically dollar stores, just the positive feelings you can have when you shop.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
Repackage those as covid-19 tests and then sell them. 😛
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Saw a story on the news last night about a 40ish woman who's a homeopathic practitioner. They just busted her for selling fake covid-19 remedies, oral gels, I think. She told people that the vaccines were toxic and that her remedy would give them life long immunity.
 
Muse said:
My all time favorite gloves are the Harbor Freight "Hardy" branded work gloves they sell for about $5, sometimes cheaper. Black, machine washable, velcro closure, they fit me perfect (X-Large), I have around 10 pairs! I bicycle, roller skate, do garden work and etc., have a pair in my car for those colder driving days. So comfortable. And I don't have to adapt them, they're perfect as is.
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Best thing I ever got from a dollar store I have in my kitchen and I use it several times a week: A perfectly fine and rather well featured and functional personal calculator. The calculator I have at my elbow now I bought about 1980, and it's tiny. It was only a handful of years since the first ones came out, which were much bigger. This one I bought at the university student store. I asked the clerk how long the battery would last and he said 2 years. I've never changed the battery! I think the LCD display is a little dim but it's still working.

Another thing I got at a dollar store that works fine... several finger nail clippers.

I haven't been in a dollar store for a few years. I'll go if I think they'll have something I want at a price I like, doesn't happen much. I get the impression that people go there for two concomitant reasons:

1. They haven't got much money.
2. They feel compelled to be a part of the consumer culture.

A GF of mine called it "retail therapy." Not specifically dollar stores, just the positive feelings you can have when you shop.
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I shopped in Family Dollar (not REALLY a $1 store more like a poor mans Walmart) a bunch of times during the lockdown purely because it allowed me to avoid grocery stores almost completely.

It also allowed me to avoid PEOPLE! Seriously that place was a ghost-town 99% of the times I went in (as opposed to a packed Stop & Shop) which pre-vaccine was about perfect... and isn't bad anytime!

Now that things are at least somewhat better, I have not set foot in a dollar store of any kind for awhile.
 
Was this a "Dollar" discount store like Family Dollar or Dollar General, or a "Everything under a dollar" store?

If It's the latter, I want to see a picture of that "security camera". I can only imagine kind of quality electronics you can get for 99 cents Canadian.
 
Tea candles are a godsend during extended power outages. You can light them all over the house as a source of light and heat, and the cat will eventually swat one on the couch and next thing you know you have fire trucks and paramedics all over the place and it turns a boring night into something quite exciting.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Tea candles are a godsend during extended power outages. You can light them all over the house as a source of light and heat, and the cat will eventually swat one on the couch and next thing you know you have fire trucks and paramedics all over the place and it turns a boring night into something quite exciting.
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I have a staggering supply of flashlights and batteries, and I always have an EDC in my pocket and I use it many times a day.
 
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