Guilt-Free Shopping
Hallelujah I have found it!!! The mecca of shopping, the GRAND OPENING of the DOLLAR TREE! Em says my eyes light up when I mention this store. Honestly, how could they not! It is amazing EVERYTHING in the entire store is under a DOLLAR. Even the foil and cleaning supplies!!! and yes!! the exclamation! points! are necessary!!
We met Lisa's new, very cute apprentice and her brother at Mozarts for some coffee, poor Lisa's eye is swollen with conjunctivitus but she had the presence of mind to point out her infection to everyone including the barista lol, anyway so over coffee we learned that the full-timers had taken the mexican apprentices to some sort of closing out warehouse called. hm... BigDeal or something that I had never heard of and still can't remember. Evidentially everything that the grocery stores can't sell they send to these close-out stores and sell it off for really cheap. I thought that the extra stuff was donated, but no, more money can be made on it. So as Austin and I were fighting traffic on the way home right off of Parmer we see this sign for BigDeal in the distance. We glanced at each other and then I backed up out of my lane and zipped over 4 lanes in time for the light to change while informing Austin never to do the same. Highly illegal, very unsafe. :) Lead by example? I think not. We ran in through the rain and a very helpful, scary, red-bearded bike rider gave us his cart and we were ready to go.
okay, for those of you who don't know, BigDeal really does have everything. Absolutely everything. It was grungy and a little dim inside however the restrooms were very clean, something I noted right away, and the porcelain man with a longhorn head on the toilet added a touch of homey charm to the experience. I IMMEDIATELY wanted to find myself some sort of mascot watch over the bathroom from the backside of my toilet. Right. So they have knives and silverware cheap, beds, desks, furniture (austin was ready to buy himself a leather arm chair) however the real gem in BigDeal is the food section. Nothing is fresh, and there is a sense of immediacy with your purchase since everything expires in Aug or early Sept but where else can you find jars of nacho style pickled jalepaneos, 46 cent spices!, gatorade for 30 cents, couscous, and some strange orange/cranberry fizzy drink from france that JM drank for me last night. so sweet of him. Basically we spent $12 and came out of the store with 5 bags of random treasures. If my shopping had ended with BigDeal I would have been perfectly happy, however we noticed that 2 stores down a Dollar Tree had just had their grand opening and decided to pop in. Y'all everything cost ONE DOLLAR and some things you could get more than one thing for a dollar. Example: potted meat was 3/$1. We stood in the left corner of the store and just took it in for a few minutes before we noticed the shampoo section and went to make sure that we had gotten a better deal at BigDeal. We had saved 34 cents per bottle at BD. HA! The store was HUGE and clean and new and not gross at all. I always refused to go in the $1 stores because I thought that they were like the nasty discount used clothing stores in Anaslime but no, so nice. Foil, cleaning supplies, baskets, cooking stuff, suction hooks, decorations, TOYS all for a dollar. Wow. Austin and I spent 45 minutes and another $8 which brought us to $20 in all and we went back to the car with 2 more bags.
That's 7 bags of important, necessary (dare I say VITAL) items for $20. !!!!. I'm definitely sold on the dollar store but I'm only shopping in the clean one on palmer. I may start weekly tours so those that are interested can contact me for further details. hehe.. It really was fun!
So far today we had a surprise fire alarm which they told us about 45 minutes ahead of time so I took the opportunity to run across the street and get my latte. I think the coffee lady has decided that we can be friends now and she made my drink correctly the first time and even smiled at me. I must have been forgiven. Wonders never cease. Smiling.
We met Lisa's new, very cute apprentice and her brother at Mozarts for some coffee, poor Lisa's eye is swollen with conjunctivitus but she had the presence of mind to point out her infection to everyone including the barista lol, anyway so over coffee we learned that the full-timers had taken the mexican apprentices to some sort of closing out warehouse called. hm... BigDeal or something that I had never heard of and still can't remember. Evidentially everything that the grocery stores can't sell they send to these close-out stores and sell it off for really cheap. I thought that the extra stuff was donated, but no, more money can be made on it. So as Austin and I were fighting traffic on the way home right off of Parmer we see this sign for BigDeal in the distance. We glanced at each other and then I backed up out of my lane and zipped over 4 lanes in time for the light to change while informing Austin never to do the same. Highly illegal, very unsafe. :) Lead by example? I think not. We ran in through the rain and a very helpful, scary, red-bearded bike rider gave us his cart and we were ready to go.
okay, for those of you who don't know, BigDeal really does have everything. Absolutely everything. It was grungy and a little dim inside however the restrooms were very clean, something I noted right away, and the porcelain man with a longhorn head on the toilet added a touch of homey charm to the experience. I IMMEDIATELY wanted to find myself some sort of mascot watch over the bathroom from the backside of my toilet. Right. So they have knives and silverware cheap, beds, desks, furniture (austin was ready to buy himself a leather arm chair) however the real gem in BigDeal is the food section. Nothing is fresh, and there is a sense of immediacy with your purchase since everything expires in Aug or early Sept but where else can you find jars of nacho style pickled jalepaneos, 46 cent spices!, gatorade for 30 cents, couscous, and some strange orange/cranberry fizzy drink from france that JM drank for me last night. so sweet of him. Basically we spent $12 and came out of the store with 5 bags of random treasures. If my shopping had ended with BigDeal I would have been perfectly happy, however we noticed that 2 stores down a Dollar Tree had just had their grand opening and decided to pop in. Y'all everything cost ONE DOLLAR and some things you could get more than one thing for a dollar. Example: potted meat was 3/$1. We stood in the left corner of the store and just took it in for a few minutes before we noticed the shampoo section and went to make sure that we had gotten a better deal at BigDeal. We had saved 34 cents per bottle at BD. HA! The store was HUGE and clean and new and not gross at all. I always refused to go in the $1 stores because I thought that they were like the nasty discount used clothing stores in Anaslime but no, so nice. Foil, cleaning supplies, baskets, cooking stuff, suction hooks, decorations, TOYS all for a dollar. Wow. Austin and I spent 45 minutes and another $8 which brought us to $20 in all and we went back to the car with 2 more bags.
That's 7 bags of important, necessary (dare I say VITAL) items for $20. !!!!. I'm definitely sold on the dollar store but I'm only shopping in the clean one on palmer. I may start weekly tours so those that are interested can contact me for further details. hehe.. It really was fun!
So far today we had a surprise fire alarm which they told us about 45 minutes ahead of time so I took the opportunity to run across the street and get my latte. I think the coffee lady has decided that we can be friends now and she made my drink correctly the first time and even smiled at me. I must have been forgiven. Wonders never cease. Smiling.
posted by Grace S at 8:52 AM
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I stand corrected; the store's name is BigLots. It has a Shrimp Scampi complex.
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