Every new classroom is a blank canvas. When a teacher first sets foot in their new room, all they can see are possibilities. But with time, and effort, that blank canvas can become a full-blown piece of art, complete with color, style, nuance, and, most importantly, elements that promote a learning community. Setting up a…
If there’s one thing I’ve learned shopping at Dollar Tree, it’s that I never quite know what the extreme discounter is going to stock next. Sure, there are certain things I know it won’t carry — no lawn mowers, no swimming pools, no full-sized Christmas trees — but I’ve been surprised at the things DT…
Many retailers carry their own brands of milk, especially grocers. Walmart does. So does Kroger. And Aldi. And Trader Joe’s. Dollar General also carries its own private label milk under the Clover Valley house brand that is used in many other DG items. Clover Valley, it should be noted, is not a company but a…
In 1971, former Vice President and then-Senator Hubert H. Humphrey sponsored a piece of legislation known as Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). Originally launched as a limited two-year pilot program, it has since expanded to a large, nationwide operation, known today as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. There are several…
Dollar Tree is a fascinating store to walk through. I mean, everything is a dollar $1.25. Sure, at that price you know things aren’t going to be of the highest quality, but there’s still a part of you that goes, “wow, they really tried to make something and sell it at that cheap price!” It’s…
This post contains affiliate links. One of the great shocks of my childhood was going to see Transformers: The Movie in theaters in the summer of 1986. Like many kids from the era, I’d grown up watching Transformers on television, which means I’d also grown up acquiring a lot of them, Autobots and Decepticons alike,…
On April 14, 2022, Dollar Tree issued a recall for over 1 million hot glue guns due to fire and burn hazards. The Crafter’s Square Glue Gun were sold in the United States and Canada. Both Dollar Tree and its subsidiary Family Dollar sold the glue guns at different times between 2020 and 2022. This…
Dollar Stores are … well, everywhere. They’re in small towns. Big cities. In the suburbs. In the exurbs. Even sometimes in the middle of nowhere. Because they’re small, the dollar store companies can build a lot more of them. Walmart, one of the biggest retailers in the world, has less than 5,000 stores in the…
This post contains affiliate links. I go back and forth between bar soap and body wash. On one hand, there’s a part of me that likes bar soap. It’s compact, significantly cheaper, and is undoubtedly better for the environment since there’s less plastic package waste. Pulling a fresh bar of soap out of the paper…
Each week we highlight a few of the more interesting items in the upcoming Dollar General weekly ad. The Dollar General ads take effect on Sundays and expire at the end of the day the following Saturday. You can find coupons through the DG coupon site or through the DG iPhone app or Android app. This…