10!

[judecorp]

I went to Dollar Tree to buy some of those mysterious $1 pregnancy tests I've heard so much about. They were all hanging there in the "Health & Beauty" section and I just started snatching them up. Hey, they're $1! So I settled on a nice, round number and bought 10.

When I put them on the conveyor belt thing, next to the garbage bags and the pizza cutter and the other miscellaneous crap, I could just /feel/ the cashier's eyes boring holes in my ridiculous amount of pregnancy tests. Especially since I was wearing a baseball cap and probably looked 14 years old.

I just wanted to yell, "They're for a science experiment, okay??!?!"

Comments

Yes, I'm naive about these things (hush)

[therewaslight.livejournal.com]

I've never been to a Dollar Tree, Dollar General, Fred's, or anything of that nature. Is it all really a dollar?

Re: Yes, I'm naive about these things (hush)

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

Is it all really a dollar?

Dollar Tree, yes.

Dollar General, no, but pretty much everything in there is <$10. Their actual dollar-store corporate sibling is Just 99c.

Re: Yes, I'm naive about these things (hush)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

The politics of dollar stores fascinates me. We have very few Dollar Trees here (yesterday was the first time I'd ever been in one). In Columbus, we had a bunch of Dollar Generals. There are a couple around here called Family Dollar.

Re: Yes, I'm naive about these things (hush)

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

I think it depends on the chain.

According to Hoovers, the country's top dollar store chain is Dollar General, with stores in 32 states, followed by Family Dollar, with stores in 44 states. FD is another 'most' items $1 or less retailer.

The store I referred to as "Just 99c" is 99¢ Only and have stores in just 4 states: California, Nevada, Arizona and Texas. They have the best-lit and cleanest stores of all the dollar stores I've been in. (I'm not sure how I made the connection between them and Dollar General; I'd like to claim late-night brain fart but it was really just some really weird imaginary connection in my head.)

Dollar Tree has stores in 48 states and has acquired two smaller dollar chains in the past, Deal$ and Greenbacks, in the past. My local dollar store in NC was a Dollar Tree and I decorated my first home in NC with balsa-wood models we bought there of insects, a human skeleton, a glider plane and a glow-in-the-dark Tyrannosaurus Rex. They looked pretty swank stained cherry. That's also where Laurel's frequent refrain of "I want my green hippo" came from -- it was in a set of squeaky toys we bought there and it's been lost since our NC-CO move in 2003.

Re: Yes, I'm naive about these things (hush)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Woah, make with the dollar store research! You go, girl!

Re: Yes, I'm naive about these things (hush)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I don't know about Family Dollar or Dollar General - I don't know if they have pregnancy tests. I actually didn't know about the Dollar Tree stuff until I started reading a lot of TTC bulletin boards and EVERYONE was talking about them. So I figured I would go check it out for myself.

There aren't a lot of Dollar Trees here in Massachusetts, but there is one on the way from my house to my grandparents' place, so I stopped in and -voila! there they were.

[estrange.livejournal.com]

:) Good luck! You sound like me, stocking up on the pregnancy tests. Just so you know the more expensive ones work better - as I discovered from my experience!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm sort of just doing this for fun because I figure that once I get my blood test I won't really need the expensive ones. Although if I ever DO get a BFP on a blood test, I might buy one of the expensive ones just to give to Jen!

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

I buy the dollar-store tests to make my period show up when it's not being regular. So far, my period's started within four hours of using one every time.

If I'd discovered dollar-store pregnancy tests earlier in my life, I bet I'd have regular periods by using them. Hee.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope that doesn't work for me! I would /hate/ to get my period this afternoon. That would be waaaaaay early! :)

I've only taken a pregnancy test once before in my life, in my paranoid youth. It definitely did not bring about my period. Then again, nothing does. :)

[keelamonster.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I work where I can steal the pregnancy tests. Of course, I was doing mine, saying "no pink lines. no pink lines. no pink lines."

What was funny is that after 5 positives and resigning myself to being pregnant, about 2 weeks later, my nurse said "they must be doing a lot of pregnancy tests on the weekends, we're almost out!"

I just smiled and nodded.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Okay, THAT is funny.

You should totally steal me pregnancy tests. And whatever else you can get your hands on. Hook me UP, Dr. K!

[stapynam.livejournal.com]

hopefully you will get a BFP and have lots of unused pregnancy tests hanging around taking up space!

btw, according to my wheel, your edd will be 12-29. maybe you can have the first 2007 baby!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, FF told me that if I got pregnant this cycle, my EDD would be 12-29. While it would be cool to have the first 2007 baby, it would also be cool to have a baby on 12-28. That's the anniversary of when we started dating!