I should preface this entry by saying that I actually enjoy bargain shopping and that lots of fun can be had in dollar stores and their international equivalents. One of my fondest college memories is buying toy jewelry at the local dollar shop for my “pirate who has been on a very successful looting mission” Halloween costume. And H and I went into a 99 Pence store here after well over 30 hours of traveling from Perth. We touched everything in the shop and ended up buying soap.*
So today, while walking through the city, I remembered that we needed trash bags and popped into Pound Land to pick some up. Biggest mistake ever. The ‘Home’ aisle was full of crazy people. One woman was spraying all of the cleaning products in the air and then smelling them. She may have been trying to find a nice scent or doing something else but those things will stain your clothes. One under 18 couple had a cart full of cleaning products and a large baby bump; I guess they were setting up house together? And then there was the senior citizen brigade who could not stop jostling at the check-out queue, complaining about how the store ‘wasn’t doing the queue right,’ and other general grumpiness. This was before one guy broke out into song; possibly to make it harder to hear his very loud, very grumpy wife? I am definitely going to have to find a new place to bargain shop.
*Possibly not as weird as it sounds given that every drug store and grocery store that we’ve gone into in the UK has 1-3 bar soap options and the nicest one we found was actually at the 99 Pence store. We had also spent about 26 of the previous 32 hours on airplanes and soap = clean = luxury.
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