**Gift Baskets and Valentine's Day Shopping**

I recently ventured out to Dollar General to see what they had to offer for Valentine's Day shopping. As I walked through the aisles, I couldn't help but notice that one of my favorite stores, Dollar Tree, always seems to have a better selection when it comes to quality and variety.

I decided to start with gift baskets, something I've been wanting to try out for a while now. A gift basket that comes with a handle and can be easily strung together is the perfect idea, and I'm excited to give this a try with one of Micah's again. For now, I'll have to settle for a monochromatic look, which is why I'm on the hunt for the perfect basket. After some browsing, I found these adorable little film stickers for a dollar - 50 count in all! The stickers feature cute phrases like "Love" and "Happy Valentine's Day" in red and pink.

**Stickers and Stationery**

The stickers are so cute that I couldn't resist buying them all. And, as it turns out, Dollar Tree has the best selection when it comes to quality and variety. In comparison to Dollar General, which I visited later on, Dollar Tree truly wins in this area. The stickers are not only affordable but also come with a better selection of designs.

I also stumbled upon these adorable little fuzzy pens with foil hearts on top - super cute! And, of course, no Valentine's Day shopping would be complete without some stickers and stationery. I found their Valentine's Day cards, which had more variety than the ones at Dollar Tree (although the ones I picked up were just too cute to resist). The stickers feature little pets, monkeys, flamingos, and even elephants holding hearts - it's like a fun little menagerie! And, for some reason, the Valentine's Day cards are not as small this year, which is a nice change of pace.

**Journaling and Writing**

For my love of journaling, I found a huge sticker book that's perfect for jotting down notes or creating little collages. The best part? It comes with its own fortune-telling activity! I also discovered these $1.50 chunky books by the same artist who created the original stickers. While they don't have faces, which might seem weird at first, it's actually a unique feature that sets them apart.

As someone who loves junk journaling, I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting paper crafts. The black-and-white cover of these books gives them a vintage vibe, and I love how they're not too big or too small - just perfect for flipping through and discovering new treasures. And, as an added bonus, there's even a puzzle to work on!

**A Special Find**

Finally, I came across this variety Puzzle that's been calling my name. The cover is so cute that I couldn't resist taking it home and adding it to my junk journal collection. With a pen in hand (no pencils allowed!), I'm excited to start working on this puzzle and seeing what treasures I can discover.

**Conclusion**

That's it for today's haul from Dollar General - thanks for joining me on this shopping adventure! It was fun exploring the aisles and finding all sorts of cute and unique items that will add some excitement to my journaling and gift-giving routines. Until next time, when I'll be heading over to Dollar Tree...

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi guys it's a rainy day I just pulled up to Dollar General it's actually a brand new one so I've already been in here it's gorgeous it's amazing it's also huge like their food section of this oneand is so good but I'm ready to go in there let's see what I can find like oh my the store is crazy and the carts are fresh all right while I'm here I'm going to grab some half and half if they haven't yeah they do okay they have the big ones I guess that's okay I'm going to go ahead and grab that this one check the express ation it is such a pretty store like look how nice I don't know why but this would be so pretty to junk journal with like this little picture right here also these look kind of amazing I'm also going to grab some bread this is my favorite grab that this candy section is unreal I don't even know where it'll look I kind of want like this but like strawberries where is something with like a strawberry filling I wish Oreos did that has Oreos ever done that coconut bar iced oatmeal I don't see them I mean I don't know what I'm looking for wow a dollar candy a dollar so cute the little magnetic wood dress up okay so far I found some stuff we'll do a haul in the car like look at this giant bear like this bear is freaking massive huge that is so this so cute like how cute is that so cute okay this is really cute I would kind of consider this a milk jug but it's probably not but that is really cute wow this what oh my gosh that is crazy to me gra so cute all right so I'm I'm going to go ahead and show you guys what I got if you see that little Mist that is my humidifier this is just to you know keep my cough under control and not getting all crazy okay so they had so many cute things I saw this little stuffed andt wow it's hot cute little dinosaur stuffed animal this was $3 I just liked the color of him he reminds me of the blue elephant sticker from Dollar Tree which I really loved and and I thought that I might put this in like Micah's Valentine's Day Basket if you know once I kind of get everything together I'll style the basket so if I don't end up liking it in there I'll just ship it off to my niece um then they have these little cups like a his in a her kind of thing with these little Wiggly eyes super cute I think these were a dollar but like this one isn't glued down properly like the white is well I don't know actually like this is actually great maybe it's supposed to supposed to be like this that way this is all you have to like wash in the dishwasher but yeah this isn't really coming up um then I also got these little mini bags drawstring bags with the sequin really cute a dollar for that this is where like Dollar General shines because you know they they're giving us a dollar and you know who isn't um all right I'm going to go in with the food I got the bread which you guys saw and then I found these little like trail mix snacks and I was like H do so this is Planters peanut butter chocolate trail mix I love when they integrate M&M's into stuff like this cuz there's something different about M&M's when it's like seasoned with all of this like stuff on it and you can't it like has to marinate in it like you can't just throw fresh M&M's into this it like I don't know why but it needs to marinate in it so I love when they combine it then I found this one sweet and salty trail mix I just yeah looks so good so I have it and then because I was there I was like grabed the Nutella I also grabbed the um I grabbed the half and half which is right here so you guys saw that we got that just you know out of conven and then I also got these like Spa products I wasn't quite sure but I was like there's only one way to find out this is a little little mineral bath and foot salt set and it's a combination of the three sets that I showed a clip of so one is relaxing salt packet which is eucalyptus and tea tree the other one is calming salt packet which is vanilla and Rose and then there's a restoring salt packet that's lavender lavender and chamomile so love that super cute and then I decided to just get this whipped body butter but now I'm like why didn't I get the vanilla and Rose I don't like the scent Rose but I'm curious as to how it would play with the vanilla so I went with the eucalyptus and tea tree I don't know there's that and then the biggest bag of them all has all of the new Valentine's Day finds super cute I found this little bead Banner garland that you have to like put together here is this one I love you and hugs you know what I love about this not only the dollar price but I like the size of it because what would be really cute is to do a banner across a gift basket maybe get a gift basket that comes with like a handle and then like you string it I might have to do that with one of Micah's again I I don't know why but when it comes to gift baskets I want it to be like monochromatic so we'll see if one of these like fit into my idea um anyways that was like weird then I got these little film stickers for a dollar super cute you get 50 count in here so like little conversation parts here's the red the red say love and and then the pink say Happy Valentine's Day so yeah just you know some cute old stickers I mean I'll say this Dollar Tree wins in that area they have one a bigger selection two qualities better um so for that 25 cent increase I do feel like you really do see a little bit of a bigger difference in quality with Dollar Tree versus Dollar General then I found this little fuzzy pen super cute with the foil heart on top love that um then I did find their stickers so we've got the little pets pets always comes come out on Valentine's Day like okay um then we have the little monkeys monkeys get me monkeys and freaking elephants like monkeys holding Hearts mhm yeah and then we have the flamingos so love those and I found their Valentine's Day cards now they had more I just didn't decide to pick them up but these two were so freaking cute like I love the little planets I love the fun girly one I love how big the cards are that is what I've noticing a difference right now to what I'm finding at Dollar Tree the the cards are a little smaller this year but I've only visited One Dollar Tree store so I'm going to go to more see if I can't find better Valentine's Day cards but um but yeah like look how cute that is I just so you know I had to get had to get more of those so I'm just going to junoll with those I love them and I found a huge sticker book huge for a dollar like what Incarnation um it's like a little Activity Set too I love when they do little papers that's always amazing for J journaling I mean if new I my only child she's 23 you know I don't have any more kids like going through Elementary School and doing Valentine's Day for the class I already went through all that and so I know a lot of you probably looking at this from you know your child perspective which obviously it's made for children um I thought it was a sticker book it's not it's fortune teller Valentine's and then you like fold it like the origami thing that is really cool I don't know why I didn't notice that okay then I scored these $150 these chunky books I also love these from a junk journaling perspective and the moment I saw them I was like oh it's the same artist you can see the cover is unique they don't have faces which I don't know I guess is kind of weird but it's also unique and I found the secret garden I'm sorry what aliceon Wonderland The Adventures of Tom Sawyer now I need to know what other books are out there at Dollar General like this so if you are going to Dollar General or you happen to have seen these comment let me know if I'm missing a book because I'm going to need to complete that collection of course first thing I like to do is I like to open it scroll through it if there's pictures it's a bonus only because from a junk darling perspective like pictures are just so cute I love that it's black and white would have wished for color but black and white is cute too gives them more of a vintage Vibe and yeah so very exciting I'm going to flip through Alice in Wonderland for you like so cute there are people like passing my car and they're like what is she doing anyways love that and the very last thing is this variety Puzzle first of all I love the cover so in the end I will also tear off the cover and junk journal with this I'll add it as like a signature page um but I love puzzles so I'm very excited to just kind of like you know take a pen to this I will not take a pencil to this I've been like this since my whole life like even when I was a kid I hated pencils even in math class I would use a pen I was crazy um obviously unless I was taking the the essay or the the test where you had to do the number two pencil but anyways um why do I say random um but that's it that's my Dollar General haul thank you for coming along with me and for watching me and keeping this channel going it keeps going because you keep watching so thank you so much for that I hope you guys love the content and I'll see you tomorrow for probably a Dollar Tree hulhi guys it's a rainy day I just pulled up to Dollar General it's actually a brand new one so I've already been in here it's gorgeous it's amazing it's also huge like their food section of this oneand is so good but I'm ready to go in there let's see what I can find like oh my the store is crazy and the carts are fresh all right while I'm here I'm going to grab some half and half if they haven't yeah they do okay they have the big ones I guess that's okay I'm going to go ahead and grab that this one check the express ation it is such a pretty store like look how nice I don't know why but this would be so pretty to junk journal with like this little picture right here also these look kind of amazing I'm also going to grab some bread this is my favorite grab that this candy section is unreal I don't even know where it'll look I kind of want like this but like strawberries where is something with like a strawberry filling I wish Oreos did that has Oreos ever done that coconut bar iced oatmeal I don't see them I mean I don't know what I'm looking for wow a dollar candy a dollar so cute the little magnetic wood dress up okay so far I found some stuff we'll do a haul in the car like look at this giant bear like this bear is freaking massive huge that is so this so cute like how cute is that so cute okay this is really cute I would kind of consider this a milk jug but it's probably not but that is really cute wow this what oh my gosh that is crazy to me gra so cute all right so I'm I'm going to go ahead and show you guys what I got if you see that little Mist that is my humidifier this is just to you know keep my cough under control and not getting all crazy okay so they had so many cute things I saw this little stuffed andt wow it's hot cute little dinosaur stuffed animal this was $3 I just liked the color of him he reminds me of the blue elephant sticker from Dollar Tree which I really loved and and I thought that I might put this in like Micah's Valentine's Day Basket if you know once I kind of get everything together I'll style the basket so if I don't end up liking it in there I'll just ship it off to my niece um then they have these little cups like a his in a her kind of thing with these little Wiggly eyes super cute I think these were a dollar but like this one isn't glued down properly like the white is well I don't know actually like this is actually great maybe it's supposed to supposed to be like this that way this is all you have to like wash in the dishwasher but yeah this isn't really coming up um then I also got these little mini bags drawstring bags with the sequin really cute a dollar for that this is where like Dollar General shines because you know they they're giving us a dollar and you know who isn't um all right I'm going to go in with the food I got the bread which you guys saw and then I found these little like trail mix snacks and I was like H do so this is Planters peanut butter chocolate trail mix I love when they integrate M&M's into stuff like this cuz there's something different about M&M's when it's like seasoned with all of this like stuff on it and you can't it like has to marinate in it like you can't just throw fresh M&M's into this it like I don't know why but it needs to marinate in it so I love when they combine it then I found this one sweet and salty trail mix I just yeah looks so good so I have it and then because I was there I was like grabed the Nutella I also grabbed the um I grabbed the half and half which is right here so you guys saw that we got that just you know out of conven and then I also got these like Spa products I wasn't quite sure but I was like there's only one way to find out this is a little little mineral bath and foot salt set and it's a combination of the three sets that I showed a clip of so one is relaxing salt packet which is eucalyptus and tea tree the other one is calming salt packet which is vanilla and Rose and then there's a restoring salt packet that's lavender lavender and chamomile so love that super cute and then I decided to just get this whipped body butter but now I'm like why didn't I get the vanilla and Rose I don't like the scent Rose but I'm curious as to how it would play with the vanilla so I went with the eucalyptus and tea tree I don't know there's that and then the biggest bag of them all has all of the new Valentine's Day finds super cute I found this little bead Banner garland that you have to like put together here is this one I love you and hugs you know what I love about this not only the dollar price but I like the size of it because what would be really cute is to do a banner across a gift basket maybe get a gift basket that comes with like a handle and then like you string it I might have to do that with one of Micah's again I I don't know why but when it comes to gift baskets I want it to be like monochromatic so we'll see if one of these like fit into my idea um anyways that was like weird then I got these little film stickers for a dollar super cute you get 50 count in here so like little conversation parts here's the red the red say love and and then the pink say Happy Valentine's Day so yeah just you know some cute old stickers I mean I'll say this Dollar Tree wins in that area they have one a bigger selection two qualities better um so for that 25 cent increase I do feel like you really do see a little bit of a bigger difference in quality with Dollar Tree versus Dollar General then I found this little fuzzy pen super cute with the foil heart on top love that um then I did find their stickers so we've got the little pets pets always comes come out on Valentine's Day like okay um then we have the little monkeys monkeys get me monkeys and freaking elephants like monkeys holding Hearts mhm yeah and then we have the flamingos so love those and I found their Valentine's Day cards now they had more I just didn't decide to pick them up but these two were so freaking cute like I love the little planets I love the fun girly one I love how big the cards are that is what I've noticing a difference right now to what I'm finding at Dollar Tree the the cards are a little smaller this year but I've only visited One Dollar Tree store so I'm going to go to more see if I can't find better Valentine's Day cards but um but yeah like look how cute that is I just so you know I had to get had to get more of those so I'm just going to junoll with those I love them and I found a huge sticker book huge for a dollar like what Incarnation um it's like a little Activity Set too I love when they do little papers that's always amazing for J journaling I mean if new I my only child she's 23 you know I don't have any more kids like going through Elementary School and doing Valentine's Day for the class I already went through all that and so I know a lot of you probably looking at this from you know your child perspective which obviously it's made for children um I thought it was a sticker book it's not it's fortune teller Valentine's and then you like fold it like the origami thing that is really cool I don't know why I didn't notice that okay then I scored these $150 these chunky books I also love these from a junk journaling perspective and the moment I saw them I was like oh it's the same artist you can see the cover is unique they don't have faces which I don't know I guess is kind of weird but it's also unique and I found the secret garden I'm sorry what aliceon Wonderland The Adventures of Tom Sawyer now I need to know what other books are out there at Dollar General like this so if you are going to Dollar General or you happen to have seen these comment let me know if I'm missing a book because I'm going to need to complete that collection of course first thing I like to do is I like to open it scroll through it if there's pictures it's a bonus only because from a junk darling perspective like pictures are just so cute I love that it's black and white would have wished for color but black and white is cute too gives them more of a vintage Vibe and yeah so very exciting I'm going to flip through Alice in Wonderland for you like so cute there are people like passing my car and they're like what is she doing anyways love that and the very last thing is this variety Puzzle first of all I love the cover so in the end I will also tear off the cover and junk journal with this I'll add it as like a signature page um but I love puzzles so I'm very excited to just kind of like you know take a pen to this I will not take a pencil to this I've been like this since my whole life like even when I was a kid I hated pencils even in math class I would use a pen I was crazy um obviously unless I was taking the the essay or the the test where you had to do the number two pencil but anyways um why do I say random um but that's it that's my Dollar General haul thank you for coming along with me and for watching me and keeping this channel going it keeps going because you keep watching so thank you so much for that I hope you guys love the content and I'll see you tomorrow for probably a Dollar Tree hul\n"