What do you buy (or would not buy) at the Dollar Store?

are those the perforated bags?






(sheesh, respond to djjd and I want to type - are those the perverted bags)

Going to Dollarama tomorrow to pick up tortilla chips (made in Canada from domestic and imported ingredients -- imported ingredients from the USA according to the bag) and throat lozenges (USA made). I've picked up dishwashing gloves and grip liner. The College Guy bought cheap jewelry last year for the cubic zirconia when he was learning to set faceted stones. If something goes flying never to be seen again you don't want it to be a diamond (as has happened to one of his classmates).

He might be talking about the green bags. I got mine at a liquidation place -- didn't know the dollar stores had them.

I bought those bags for $10 elsewhere and felt they were a waste of money. They did not work to prolong the freshness of strawberries or bananas, at all, and they were no better than putting bagged salad into a regular zip-top bag to keep it fresh longer.

I'm glad you have better luck with them, and get them at a better price than I paid.

not perforated, they're called green bags, they seem to work well for bagged salad, cut peppers, i haven't tried them with fruit too much, but did keep some scrub apples my uncle brought from his cooler (he has a small orchard) a lot longer and fresher than i have before by using them

Depends on which dollar store.

If it was Droolarama (Dollarama), absolutely nothing, as the buggers didn't keep me on as regular staff when the store opened.

The store where I used to work at, gets whatever business they always had from me, as always.

I use the green bags for my bananas. Wally and I like them just a certain way, and it keeps them at that point.

Did you put a couple of paper towels in the bag, along with the produce?

Ya gotta put a couple of paper towels in there too.

No, I didn't put any paper towels in the bag with the fruit or salad, chai. I didn't know you needed to do that.

I think I may have 1 or 2 of the bags left and I'll try doing that.

Thanks for the tip.

Sigh, that was advice Noddy made to me, back when. I still find it useful, and I still involute my fridge bags once a day, my own behavior.

Magical refrigerator maneuvers..

lolz

If my wife tells me to go buy her SUPPLIES I got to the dollar store. But I will never buy peanut butter from there again. Killed every sandwich I made.