While I prefer to make homemade chili, there are times when I appreciate the convenience of chili in a can. Canned chili is good for camping trips or for keeping in an emergency food stash. It also works well if I want to make chili cheese dogs and need a smaller amount of chili rather…
Coca-Cola is my favorite soft drink. I’ve always been a fan of the taste, and while I don’t drink it often, it’s fabulous to have on special occasions. I like it best out of the fountain, but I’ll take bottles and cans, too. I also don’t mind taking other colas as a substitute. Pepsi is…
I work in education, and even in the technology age, students still need pencils. Some standardized tests are — at least at the time of this post — still pencil and paper, and I still give assignments that require them to use something other than a Chromebook, phone, or tablet. (Those assignments are a nice…
This post contains affiliate links. If you go to the toy aisle in any store, chances are you’ll find dolls of some sort. From Barbie dolls to 18’’ dolls, they seem to be everywhere now, including Dollar Tree. Dollar Tree has its own line of dolls, simply called “fashion dolls.” I’ve seen them for a…
Chicken soup is an old soup, maybe as old as since humans learned how to boil water. As a practical matter, cooking meat in water can stretch out the use of that meat, from a pound of poultry that might feed a few people to a vat of soup that might feed a dozen. The…
This post contains affiliate links. Hot chocolate bombs have become a thing over the last couple of years. A hot chocolate bomb is a hollow chocolate shell filled with chocolate and mini marshmallows. You drop the bomb into a mug, pour warm milk over it, and watch it “explode” and melt, and with a little…
Soup is often referred to as a comfort food. When winter sets in, going outdoors becomes less common, and people like to seek out things to make being inside more inviting. Hot foods, which are less common in the hot summer months, suddenly have their moment. Canned soups have been around for a while, and…
Today Dollar Tree issued a press release discussing its finances for the third quarter of the 2021 fiscal year (July through September). The company discussed several things, but the biggest news among them was the announcement of a new $1.25 price point on the “majority” of Dollar Tree’s products. The company says that this will…
This post contains affiliate links. Any time I’m in any store, I inevitably make it over to the electronics section if there is one. Obviously a local craft store (probably) doesn’t have an electronics section, but I’m surprised at what stores do. Pharmacies usually carry a few pieces of tech. Some convenience stores, do. Even…
As part of our efforts to cover dollar store products, we now have a page on YouTube. We’ll be sharing occasional videos on dollar store products, complementing what we write about on our site. You can find our YouTube page right here.