Dollar stores are good for those little on-off random kitchen chotchki, some tin foil, greeting cards, toilet drop ins, basically things that dont need to be 'buy for life' but there is no need to spend regular grocery store prices for that thing you will use rarely - and such.
Never for food.
Oh and now that im older and I need lots of reading glasses - its GREAT for 1$ reading glasses - so now they are scattered all over the place so I am pretty much always within an arms reach of them.
If I break them, its fine - but thats a great use of these stores.
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@margalabargala : True - but sometimes I only need a little bit. I dont use very much tinfoil... aside for my Hat Collection... but thats not what we're talking about. Can see some ID?
Aluminum foil at the dollar store is about half the price of the supermarket, but you get about a tenth as much.
It's fine if you truly know you'll never need more, but it's not like aluminum foil ever goes bad. Most of the time you're better off spending the extra dollar for 10x as much.
Never for food.
Oh and now that im older and I need lots of reading glasses - its GREAT for 1$ reading glasses - so now they are scattered all over the place so I am pretty much always within an arms reach of them.
If I break them, its fine - but thats a great use of these stores.
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@margalabargala : True - but sometimes I only need a little bit. I dont use very much tinfoil... aside for my Hat Collection... but thats not what we're talking about. Can see some ID?