So I'm not very up on some views about dollar stores but I can't help but have this nagging little voice in the back of my mind telling me not to shop at them. But it's so hard. I needed cleaning stuff, what costs me $30 dollars at a grocery store, cost me $10 at the dollar store. As a college student whose income would make a homeless person laugh, $20 in savings is like a month's worth of groceries. Or two weeks of gas or help with the bills. 

I have a very hard time with seeing the downside to that. I'm sure that there is one, but it's not in plain sight and I'm not looking very hard for it either.

For now, I will keep my dollar store shopping to a minimum. But I won't do away with it all together. I just can't afford it.