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.