I go through a lot of bleach – yeah, probably a suspicious amount, now that I think about it 🙂 but all dog toys, rugs, pee pads, etc., have bleach added to keep them healthy and vermin-free. Hmmm, house humans only get bleach on white towels. Something odd here.
I remember fondly those days after lockdown, when supplies started returning and Jewel was clearancing out non-inventory bleach for insanely low prices (10¢ a quart for Cloralen); naturally I bought it all. For some reason, bleach is one of the few products that not only hasn’t come back down to earth in terms of prices, but has actually increased! Last time Pete’s Fresh Market ran a $1.89 sale was in 2015 and there were coupons!
I’m down very low, so Pita and I head out last night. FirstBorn yells down the stairs “You’re going out!!? What time is it?” Five. “Oh, thought it was about 9.” Picked up the Saturday freebie at Jewel, grabbed two non-gallons of bleach (121 oz) for roughly $6 and $7 and decided to hit up Dollar Tree. Had only seen tiny quart bottles there for so long it kind of fell off my radar, but was I in for a surprise!
Picked up a 96 oz lavender scent bottle for $1.25 and tubes of little bleach tablets that you can either drop in the machine or do what I plan, fill up a used bottle with water and dump a bunch of tablets inside (each tube equals a half gallon). So I can either pay 1.3¢ per ounce for scented or 1.9¢ for an easily-stored item. Know which way I’m leaning, but we’ll see how it turns out. I do know I won’t be buying bleach at Jewel until their prices drop, but with the compensation packages paid their CEO, not bloody likely.
Pita and I volunteer at our local food pantry on Fridays, from 11 to 4 – they open at noon, but someone has to stock the shelves! Apparently the township is taking today off for Veteran’s Day, but since I didn’t know (heck, we got mail this morning!), I was up and dressed by 10 on our day off, something that will probably never happen again in this lifetime.
I picked up a couple of reusable bags a couple of months ago from Dollar Tree – okay quality, and certainly not in the same league as Stasher. Today Pita saw these on one of those hanging things, so I bought two and am very impressed! They are thick and very tightly sealed. Back says free from BPA, BPS, BPF, PVC and Phthalates. These were the only sizes available. Also picked up some very nice scented hand soap pump bottles that were nice and thick – hate the running stuff that shoots all over the sink.
Happened to ask Pita how much coffee we had left and she replied not enough for a pot tomorrow. Seriously???? You couldn’t have mentioned this earlier in the week? sigh. Well, I have a secret bag that only needed to be ground, but that meant heading out to stores, not my funnest fun. Was down to my last half gallon of half & half, so a trip to Amazon Fresh was in order. Pulling into the lot, I threw out to the universe that in a perfect world, they’d have clearance coffee. My prayers were answered, but I only took 9 bags of medium and dark roast.
Dollar Tree was just for those bags of sugar, but they had squat, so I picked up one from the Aldi across the street. Lots of clearance cheesecake slices, if this floats your boat. Dollar Tree did have quite a few boxes of Progresso chicken and vegetable broth, something that’s always good to have on hand.
Dollar Tree really has upped their game – just look at what was at the Naperville location (Ogden & Naper)!
And Jewel corporate is up to their usual tricks with plant-filled greenhouses … in mid-April and will be closed by June. In Chicago.
Picked up a few cans of nuts at the Steeple Run Walgreens – because let’s face it, we’re all getting tired of peanuts, right? Across the street is the new Dollar Tree and it’s finally going to open! Sign says 4/13, so we shall see. My life is so uneventful a new Dollar Tree gives me shivers.
Walgreens has Blue Diamond Almonds for 2/$5 less a $1/2 digital coupon, plus the Planters mixed nuts and cashews are $4.99 with a $2 coupon: subtotal $6.99 plus tax.