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jglass

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Is anyone else a fan of those stores?
I love to get the little serving trays they have there for the different holidays.
Only a dollar and they are great for when I take trays of cookies to people for the holidays. We always go there and get some candy before we go to the movies. You get the same boxes there for $1 that the they charge you $3 for at the movies. I have gotten some cute Disney and coke glasses there. It is also a great place to get wrapping papper and the like for Christmas. The people who work at the one here in town are very sweet which makes this one a pleasure to shop at. Im going to pick up some more trays soon to put the fudge I am making for nieces fall festival on.
 
I shopped at one just last week janie- and found all sorts of gourmet mustards, olives, jams & jellies and such all marked TWO for a DOLLAR! You can bet I loaded up on'em all!
 
I don't know where we have a dollar store around me but i do go to odd lots now and then. You can find all sorts of things there. I'll have to pass on the holiday dishes though. I already have tons of dishes. If I start collecting them for the differnt holidays DH is not going to be happy.
 
I dont keep the holiday dishes I get there.
At $1 each you can afford to give them away with the food.
 
I have to use tons of tupperware type dishes for the Christmas dinner. I use the $1 trays for desserts and cheese plates and the like to save trying to keep up with one more dish. My FIL got confused one year after the dinner and ended up taking part of my tupperware to his other daughter in law thinking it was hers. Now I label all of mine with my name. The deli at the grocery store here in town can be a big help with that. They now sell the things they put their deli items in to you cheap. I picked up five of the tall plastic soup cups with lids last night and it only cost me .75 for all of them. My MIL is planning a birthday dinner in a week and I am to bring the three bean salad and honey roasted sweet potatoes. This way I wont have to use my tupperware.
 
I love Dollar Tree.....but have to drive a long distance to one. I always hit one when I go shopping for Christmas. They have some great stocking stuffers.And I also get the dishes...platters and such to put candy and cookies in .
 
I got a couple of really cute Christmas hard plastic serving trays and a cute little platter with 4 sections at the Dollar Tree today.
 
Dollar Store!

:) That's good, they have such cute things. I buy a lot of holiday stuff there to. I have bought dishes, candles, Holiday mugs, ornaments, stocking stuffers, wrapping paper, Holiday Bags, bows, cards ect.... It's Fun! Cookie :)
 
We went to Sams Club today and Big Lots. I picked up a good size bag of raw shrimp at Sams. I really dont like the precooked shrimp at all. I got a big jug of Bertolli olive oil and I love that baby spring mix salad they sell there. You pay $4 for a big container of it there and it cost that much at WalMart for enough of it for two small salads. I got some tomatoes and restocked my garlic and sweet onions. They had some of the big stuffed olives 2 big jars for $8. My FIL and I both love olives. They had out all of their lovely Christmas candies. Jon got me a box of Belgian truffles dusted with cocoa powder. I got into those on the way home lol.
I went to the Kroger's over in the next county and they had put in an olive bar. They had wonderful marinated artichoke hearts and several differnt kinds of olives. It was $7.99 a pound so it wasnt that bad at all. I needed one 8oz can of whole oysters for my holiday dressing and I found it at Krogers.
WalMart was having a good sale on chocolate chips. I got three pounds here in town a few days ago for $1.70 each. WalMart had them 2 pounds for $3. Around the holidays you cannot have enough chocolate chips.
Our two Mom and Pop grocery stores leave alot to be desired when looking for ingredients :rolleyes:
 
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I used to go to Sam's club, I'm not a member any more. They do have good stuff there. It's fun to look around. I go to Walmart instead. I just don't buy that much in quantity, so for me Walmart works well. I like Big-Lots to!

I Love olives to, they are so good the black and green with pimentos. I have had the ones with blue-cheese in them they are good to.

Your right about chocolate chips you can never have enough. Your Truffles sounded Delicious. lol Cookie :)
 
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We go to Sam's once a month. It's a good place to buy things like paper towels and tissues. We also get their lunch meat and lite jarlsburg slices. DH loves a sandwich for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks in between. I also get some vegetables there spring salad mix, bags of avocadoes and the three packs of cucumbers. They do have some good buys.
 
The truffles are delish but rich. They are dark chocolate. I had two yesterday and two today after supper lol. Im pretty sure if I fed those to my sisters kids they would be up for days lol.
 
I don't currently have a Sam's Club membership, but the thing I miss MOST from there is the big bags of frozen, fully-cooked, mesquite-grilled Tyson chicken breasts. Man- I used to eat them plain, on hot & cold sandwiches, in salads, fajitas, stir-fries, in pastas, omelets, etc. SO PLUMP AND SO YUMMY!
 
I teach small classes of violin students and I like to play lots of games with them and especially like giving prizes to the winners. I try to avoid giving them candy and so I get packs of little toys at the dollar store. Funny pens, bookmarks, erasers, pencils, stickers, keychains, they love it.
 
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