Shopping at the dollar store can be the best idea, or the worst idea. Some items are surprisingly more expensive there than at big-box retailers, while others are inarguably the best-priced.

Dollar Tree has many under-the-sink organizational solutions. Often, we're so preoccupied with clever hacks that we walk past the ready-to-use storage items.

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Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...