Price Is Right

You’ve just moved into your new student digs, you need a drying rack as you have no clothes line, where do you go? The Price is Right of course! This store is small but it has everything you ever needed for your house from padlocks to dustpans and brushes. The poky shop can feel a little claustrophobic at times especially at the beginning of term when most students take a look around. However it has essential nik naks for bargain prices. Also one major bonus is the fact it sells black wheelie bins that the council usually provides for houses. This is great as students have trouble keeping their bins and by the end of the year the loss of the bin is taken out of your deposit. So if you all put money in together you can buy a bin if your’s gets nicked and it works out cheaper! Major bonus.

These shops are not on peoples lists whenever they head out. But you do always manage to find yourself in them looking for some bargain. And in here, you’ll find one. I always call into here for all my cleaning products and toiletries. It is always without a doubt a lot cheaper than your local boots or other big chain store.
This place is organised chaos. I looked like, what I expect a post apocalyptic shop would look like. Bare walls and the shelves scattered with anything they could find. If you ever need an economy sized bottle of washing up liquid or a mop head… look no further.

You gotta love Brucie… what an absolute ledge! 88 and still going strong. Not too many can say that now, can they? I know he wasn’t the original presenter, but he definitely made ‘The Price is Right’ his own. I mean, he even stuck his name in front of it.
Well, if I was Brucie, I wouldn’t be associating myself with this dismal shop. Nope. I’d be pretty darn upset that I was even connected to the name, it’s that dire. The Price may be Right, but I’d say that’s about it.
And I like pound shops.
Despite having spent three years at Queens, and having walked past it on countless occasions, I had never actually been in The Price is Right. Now I know why. When curiosity did eventually get the better of me the other day, I dragged my sister in for a possible bargain hunt. Not only was there barely anything of interest (except a peculiarly large number of Tupperware), but the shop had such an horrendous smell that the both had to make a run for it before Mr Shop Keeper had a lovely mess to clear up.
I’ll stick to Poundland in the future methinks.

This place is great for all those household necessities. It’s stocked like a pound shop with lots of toilet rolls, furniture polish and clothes lines but unlike the pound shop items are not all a pound. It is cheaper then the regular supermarkets and shops about and is ideally situated in student land. I remember moving into our student house and shopping here everyday for about a month in order to get all the little essentials a house needs, like washing up liquid and grass skirts! Yes not only does it stock your run of the mill toiletries but there is also a collection of fancy dress outfits and other little random items and you would never think you would need in Belfast — I mean, who needs to rush out to buy a lilo? If you ever do though you can pick one up at The Price Is Right.

Some people would refer to this as a junk shop. Others as a shop of bargains. I would refer to this as a junk shop. I get the point of this shop is to get rid of junk. But who is going to buy rubbish movies on VHS for 50p. This shop is like a permanent car boot sale and I detest car boot sales. If this was an Oxfam or a Red Cross, I would consider buying something. It isn’t. It’s just a messy, pointless shop.
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