What a Dollar Can Buy

A dollar can buy a lot of items, especially if you shop at the dollar store. They carry items that include stationary, frozen food, snacks, household items, automotive items, make up. toiletries, clothes and even reading glasses. There is one thing that you cannot buy in the dollar store, at least in the Dollar Tree. Hanukkah decorations. I needed to get a few decorations for my office just to add to our old decorations. I went into the Dollar Tree and wandered through the holiday aisle. Maybe I should just say Christmas aisle. Don't get me wrong, I love the holiday spirit and the beauty of Christmas decorations, but I think there needs to be a balance. I looked in the three holiday aisles and there was not one Hanukkah item. Not one. I asked the salesgirl and after she thought for a moment she said that they were mixed in with all of the other decorations. I looked again and still saw nothing. I asked her if the store had even ordered any Hanukkah items and she said that she did not remember seeing any. How disappointing that a store in New York, the state with almost as many Jewish people as Florida,  did not have Hanukkah decorations in their inventory. I went to the next dollar store, which was owned by Pakistani people and that is where I bought my wall hangings, window clings and candles. I am so disappointed in the Dollar Tree and will write to their corporate office. From now on I will buy at the small independent stores. They understand their clientele.