1. Dollar store toilet paper. At 33 cents per roll, it's even cheaper than the next runners-up (Costco's Kirkland Brand and Target's generic brand, Up & Up), which are 49 cents per roll. However, cheap doesn't often translate to "baseline amount of quality required to accomplish the job". Last night I caught Zoey itching her bottom for the third time in a week--the first time I immediately assumed she had worms or some other hideous intestinal parasite, which would be costly to treat and require a quarantine from daycare...and juuuust as I rounded the insanity-corner to thinking I would lose my paycheck as I stayed at home to de-bug my child, she informed me she had some tissue stuck in her bottom, and could I please help? 33 cents per roll is not worth retrieving shreds of toilet paper from your child's rear end, people. Trust me on this one.
2. Dollar store Kleenex. Unless you're in to exfoliating the skin around your nose with something that feels like sandpaper. And if you are, send me your address, and I'll mail you a "present".
3. Dollar store dish soap. I am pausing every few seconds to wipe the blood from my keyboard that's oozing from the cracks in my skin after washing a few loads of dishes. Okay, maybe not really, but you get the point.
So my budget-friendly trip to the Dollar Store last week essentially led to a not-so-budget-friendly trip to Target to replace the items I had already bought, as well as extra money spent on first-aid items to ease the pain of sandpaper-nose and the molting skin on my hands.
Consider yourself warned.
2 comments:
Good thing you didn't buy those paper products before you all had the flu, right? That could have been horrible...
Eh, live and learn, right?
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