Spent at least an hour wandering the aisles at Dollar Tree. Normally I’m in and out, but that’s a mistake because they’ve really upped their game since the price increase. These reusable food storage bags come in small and variety packs; not microwavable, but for the price, I grabbed a couple. FirstBorn uses them for small electronics – disposable ones are too thin and stuff breaks through. The silicone bowl covers I’ve seen for tons more (as seen on tv, maybe?), so something to test.
Amazon Fresh for baguettes, dairy and eggs. The Swiss Miss assortment was down to a buck, so why not; they also had many boxes of peppermint sticks for a quarter, but I’m not a fan, although the quarter price almost reeled me in 🙂 Dropped off a return for FirstBorn and scored a couple of $10/$40 coupons good through March 31st!
Tired of all the ED and LOW TESTOSTERONE commercials on NewsRadio? Move over to CNN and you’re hit with those plus a side helping of IRS problems and Life Insurance for overweight people taking a buttload of meds.
I already know how lazy I am, but do you? Dollar Tree has Hamburger Helper twinpacks in potatoes Stroganoff. One box ($1.25), 2 pub burgers (what, 99¢?), free milk from a FB Buy Nothing group and Fage sour cream from a Saturday Sampler. As long as you give them enough soaking time, the potatoes will be good.
Have I any use for a giant can of dill relish? Nope, unless I suddenly start a commercial potato salad operation, but omg, how could you pass it up? I picked up the sugar I buy at Aldi (4 lb) for half the price, plus some great reading material – even cheaper than Goodwill. Bear naked oatmeal cups are a nice surprise as well. Need this fancy Colgate? No current coupons, but buy it at Walgreens with their $3 digital coupon and you’ll only pay $6 or $7; same size here for $1.25.
Tongue in cheek here, but when Pita and I stopped at Jewel for the AHA Saturday Sampler and a couple of watermelons, we found the Glen Ellyn store had no melons for me. Luckily the Dollar Tree in the mall was completely stocked with Thomas English muffins and bagels and sausage rolls. I take the cardboard out of the muffins bag and can fit 1½ packs in the one bag which then rests quietly in the freezer. I also picked up another 5 pk of ramen for a buck (they still maintain shelves of buck items).
