the love for 99-cent stores is RIGHT HERE

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aka "how did i know this was gonna be a jbr thread?"

seven dollars bought me all of this:

two scarves - one very '60s euromod and ikea-looking, one with a kind of 1957 rich-connecticut-housewife pastel-flowers-on-black motif

a small yellow trash receptacle (lidded) with a "have a nice day" smiley face. i can't find i picture, but here's the accompanying dustpan:

http://www.26cb.com/store/item_images/medium/ma808.jpg

a storage container with a smiling ear of corn (as seen here):

http://www.26cb.com/store/item_images/medium/sz218.jpg

a 20-pack of small paper plates with a tiki motif (yeah, i know) (as seen here):

a set of loteria (mexican bingo) cards (because mexikitsch is the new tiki, and anyway i've always thought the loteria style was very cool)

and a box of twin dragon chinese almond cookies. (i'm pretty sure the store was asian-owned, because there was a lot of chinese and japanese stuff, including the ubiquitous hello kitty merchandise.)

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:51 (twenty-one years ago)

argh. hopefully the picture of the plates will work this time:

http://www.favors.com/images/products/ProductImageFull_329_1909.jpg

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i assume these are the same thing as EVERYTHING IS £1 !!!111 shops

my girlfriend LOVES them. any type - Poundworld, Poundland, whatever. she can't walk past without picking up some tat.
personally, they scare the shit out of me, but that's probably because they're usually crammed full with sweaty, screeching chavs and their offspring.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

personally, they scare the shit out of me

they scare the shit out of me because of the creepy religious bric-a-brac.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I love cheap shops too, and I like the weird people who inhabit them. Most of them look like characters rejected from the Muppet Show.

Over here we have Poundland, and - even better - I have discovered that there's a 99p shop in Reading. Sometimes I'll buy packs of hardback notebooks from there, then re-cover them with wadding and beautiful handmade paper which I decorate with beading and stitching - they make fabulous personalised presents for people while indulging my creative side for hardly any money.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it's so great that there's a store called "poundland." i must see this for myself.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:03 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.successrecruit.co.uk/poundland/Poundl2.jpg

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

:-)

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

my favorite stores are the ones with names like "99 cent dreams." how... aspirational.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

There's one in the Concourse (Conny) in Skelmersdale (Skem) called and I shit thee not "You'll Easy Save" (say this is in scouser than scouse accent)

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

this can also be a thread about your favorite local thrift stores, although i'm sure such threads already exist.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Poundlands have this eerie chirpy-voiced recording that plays constantly throughout the shop: something like "Yes! Everything in here is really ONE POUND! Why don't you see for yourself?" After you've been in there for 10 minutes it gets hypnotising. I do love them though, most of my art supplies have traditionally come from there (magnifying glasses, dolls, baking trays, clocks, you name it). Also Greek imports of well-known shampoo brands.

Not so fond of the £1+ shops - they lure you in with the promise of poundular tat, and then you find that they actually charge £2.99 for some stuff. Rip-off! Poundstretcher my arse.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

iPal, it's a pound!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been thrifting like mad lately. at the goodwill, for 50 cents, i found a serving tray that i'd place somewhere from 1968 to 1971, based on the heavy usage of microgramma font. the tray is a shiny gold and has a gold map of florida dotted with major cities and tourist attractions. the face of the tray (outside of the map outline) is multi-colored and has painted pictures of the state bird, the state flower, oranges, waterskiers, a golfer, a rocketship, a horse-drawn carriage with the notation "st. augustine - founded in 1565 by the spanish" underneath. it's quite something. i took a picture with my cameraphone but it doesn't do it justice.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 08:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've spent ten dollars and now I own ten Dollar Tree stores.

― Ian Riese-Moraine betta run and grab your clock! (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to check out our new Dollar Tree. I tused to be Amazing Savings, but that went under. I got an awesome threeside Purim bag there.

I got some socks, a Oops a Daisy notebook, a YM pencil case, a Sagittarius mug, some twine and some scissors the last time I went to Just a Buck.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 11:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone ever buy the condoms they have at the dollar store? I think you would also be needing to buy the pregnancy tests they stock there, too.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Would they be a bit like the preganancy tests in the simpsons baby baby pirate?

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Usually the glassware is kind of chintzy, but I have four beer pints that I got for a buck each at a dollar store. These are awesome, solid and heavy — empty, they weigh two pounds each. I wish I'd gotten eight instead of four.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Half of my champagne flutes are from a $1 store on the way to my grandmother's house. Since we tend to break them so easily, I figured why not?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought lots of plain glass tumblers from Poundland last year (six for £1, I seem to remember) and decorated them with glass paint pictures of spiders and witchy hats and pumpkins for the kids' Halloween party. Much better than those silly paper cups which tip over and spill everywhere.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i want c j to be my mom.

― The Pinup Girls of YANK (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 June 2005 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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