A month without Walmart: Day one: A visit there and the $ store

My month without shopping at Walmart began with a trip to the store. However, unlike most trips there, I didn't buy anything and instead left the store with more money in my pocket then when I entered.

Since I cancelled my services with Century Link last week, I had an extra telephone laying around my office I didn't need so I returned it to Walmart for a refund.

While I was standing in line to do so, I got a call from my brother-in-law asking me to pick him up a highlighter. Normally, getting such a request while standing in Walmart is easy to accommodate.

But since I'm refusing to shop at the store for a month, I felt a lot like that joke about being stupid enough to starve to death after getting locked in a grocery store. I was in the middle of a store that sells tons of highlighters and was unable to purchase one.

After I got my refund, I drove to one of the town's dollar stores to look for a highlighter. I was able to find three of them for $1. I'll have to see how well 33 cent highlighters work.

While I was at the dollar store, I walked around and was surprised at the large selection of items they have on sale there and all for a dollar. I'm pretty sure one could find everything they need to survive for a week from their selves alone.

I found a couple of items I needed for my office I'd been putting off getting just because I never actually think to get them when I'm at a store and some items I probably didn't really need but I thought I did anyways.

The best part about going to the dollar store and walking out with more things than you actually need is that the entire trip only costs about $7.