Week 34: Two Dollar Bill Buys

Week 34 signaled two-thirds of this project complete, and I celebrated it with a fun activity: hiding $2 bills around a Dollar Tree store. 

My girls and I love going to Dollar Tree and looking at the holiday items, buying small toys and activities to keep young cousins entertained, picking up small stationary or kitchen gadgets we need, and usually leaving with a bag of candy from the sweets isle. 

Five years ago we hid $1 around the store. But inflation has hit even the Dollar Tree, and so, for this Kindness Countdown grand finale, $2 bills were used. 

(The use of those bills added a little extra something special for me since my grandma used to give them to my brother and me on special occasions.)

My boyfriend Mark and I took a roll of tape and the stack of twos I picked up from my bank to the store and hid them in all the isles. 

Our favorite hiding places were taped to toys (we enjoyed imagining kids finding them and being able to buy themselves something) and on the paper good items. Buying paper towels and toilet paper isn't fun so we thought we'd chip in. 😁

I tucked a bill inside a book as a bookmark, stuck one under a clipboard, and taped them to the bottom of ramen packages, the back of crayon boxes and sidewalk chalk, and other places around the store until the stack was depleted. 

I hope everyone who found the $2 bills enjoyed the unexpectedness of finding a little contribution to their shopping trip. 

Maybe it even reminded them of someone special from their past who used to give those rare-ish bills to them too. 😊