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[missy1]

I am not sure there is much saving as one thinks. Many of the name brand products are smaller in size. A good deal there is on cards and gift bags. I referring to the 99 cent store, as well.

[Group 5 minus 1]

Missy: We calculate prices per item. Sme items are not a good price and some are. 

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@ncascade wrote:

Catkat: What do find so amusing?

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I'd like to know also. Catkat, please elaborate.

[DottieBlue]

I also enjoy shopping at the Dollar Tree, mainly for greeting cards, gift bags and tissue, and that is where I buy my wall calendars and Monthly Planner calendar.

To each her own!

[alicedee]

Things I buy at Dollar Tree....boxes of aluminum foil sheets, Efferdent tablets for my orthodontic retainers, acetometophine PM (basically Tylenol PM); Comet cleanser, degreaser, greeting cards and gift bags, tape, small plastic storage bins to organize shelves and drawers, cotton swabs, toothpaste.  

I dont buy buy food there.  And some things the quality isn’t there, like toilet paper.  But the things I do purchase are good deals for me.  

[Carmie]

I love to shop in the dollar store, especially for paper and disposable items, greeting cards, waste baskets, kitchen gadgets, books, small craft items and holiday decor.

i have seen articles where toothpaste, shampoo and other beauty and health items come  from China and have unsafe ingredients in them.  They are knock offs of the real thing.

I would never buy pet food there.  But, my dogs do not eat grocery store pet food either. Pet food from China has killed pets in the past, more than once.

It’s a great place to buy some things, but not everything.

[Ms Tink]

I bought 160 items but it was for our church people that donated money cause they are lazy.  We did the Shoe Box for Samaritan Purse. I got a lot of reg sized brand name soaps and other stuff that I know they wil enjoy. Planning to start collecting the first of the year from there so we can send more box's next year. These gifts to a 3rd world child is like our children opening a tablet. 

[Toppers3]

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@Katcat1 wrote:

I find it amusing when someone goes to the Dollar store and spends over a $100.  I am sure you walk out with a trunk load full.

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Me too! Just about everything in that store comes directly from China. I surely wouldn't buy any food (pet food). I go there for cards and wrapping paper and thats about it. I just couldn't ever spend $150 in that store. 

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I haven't seen this at the dollar stores that we go to, where just about everything in the store comes from China.

That's not what I literally see.

Many of the items are items that you see regularly in the supermarkets here, that don't come from China.

We get Canadian products in our dollar stores, too. 

[Group 5 minus 1]

To all who worry about where products come from: Ask your Pharmacist where your Rx's are manufactured.