Dollars

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I just came back from my favorite store, the Dollar Store.  Okay really my favorite store is probably Nordstrom's, but we don't need to tell the Dollar Store that.  And for whatever reason it got me thinking about how I am always trying to teach my kids to be more grateful for what they have.  Because children, I am almost sure, are born with some sort of enzyme that makes them supremely ungrateful for everything you do for them.  Something about the grass is always greener and all that nonsense. All I know is that I spend nineteen hours learning how to bake an apple pie from scratch and my son is like UGH NOT CHERRY?  Kill.

But I remember we were like that as children, so I try to be patient.  Disney World AGAIN?  When are we ever going to go to Disney Land?   Parents sharpen knives and glance at us.  So I was thinking in the old Dollar Tree how much I love that store but I will turn on it in a second.  So perhaps I am not as grateful as I should be, and that's why the chicklets are sometimes like that.  I walk through it and load up on cleaning supplies and medicine but then I see a roll of paper towels and I am like wait a second, Target sells that roll of paper towels for .97 cents.  And then I am pissed at the Dollar Store for trying to scam me.  But then the Dollar Store says, really?  I gave you all these awesome things for a dollar and you wanna ride my a$$ for a couple of paper towels.  (Because inanimate objects talk to me, and I need you to think I am crazier than you already do).  Touche, Dollar Store.  Well-played.

Oh also, the Dollar Store always makes me feel like I am in Taiwan.  Not that I have ever been there.  But it's nice to get out now and then.

You can get some pretty awesome things at the Dollar Store, although this is why I have a kitchen full of different sized spatulas I will never use.  They were only a dollar. The Dollar Tree is different from Dollar General which is a store that charges whatever it likes for it's goods and somehow calls itself Dollar General to trick you.  I guess because it sells things in dollar amounts?  As opposed to doubloons like all the other stores?  I dunno.

Anyway, I am just hanging out today wearing a new pair of one dollar sunglasses and staring at a whole bunch of spatulas.  Hugs, Blog!