Dollar Tree

Not a fan at all. It’s October and everything up front is Christmas. They had a small section of Halloween stuff and no fall things. We actually came here to get glowsticks for some halloween decorations we are making and they had some really weird ones but no regular glowsticks.
We took a look around the rest of the store and it was not nice. The floor is all stained and dirty, the area with drinks and canned food was so full you couldn’t even look around (not that I trust food from a store like this anyways) and it was just too small for how much they had crammed in that little building.

It makes me happy to buy 2 40 count boxes of ibuprofen, 2 five count Hefty ziplock bags, two very cool travel mugs, a pair of sunglasses, 2 very nice spatulas and 5 30 gallon trash bags for a total of $ 10. This stuff would have been close to $ 40 at Walmart. How could I complain about that?

This is my neighborhood dollar tree/​store. There are some bigger/​better ones, but it’s pretty good for some basics. I’ve bought: various wattage of light bulbs, these really good maple cream cookies that are 3 or $ 4 elsewhere, a bunch of the little drink mixes that you mix into the 17 oz bottles of water, greeting cards.
I’m not really into the figurines, crafts, ‘decorative’ things, but to each his own.

The Dollar Tree is the shameful place that «everyone» goes to but «no one» admits to.
I have the best luck here with things that otherwise cost three or four times as much, even at Target. I do best with things such as greeting cards (.50/​each), wine bags (in sets of two), baby shampoo (great for our 80-​lb. Lab’s weekly baths), cleaning products, and other odds and ends that catch my fancy (such as the «Davey and Goliath» DVD). Quality of greeting cards has improved since I started buying here; for me as a giver, cards are usually little more than «money holders» for which it is silly to spend five bucks as Hallmark or Target would have me do.
Beware of quantities of «generic» products you are not already familiar with. Try something once and buy more if it works out. And I have no use for the knick-​knacks and otherwise useless tschotskies. Yet Dollar Tree is the least «junky» dollar store and is a valuable addition to my neighborhood.