Make an in-person Dollar Tree shopping run or scroll the retailer’s website and you’ll find tons of name-brand items for sale. Before you start adding everything to your shopping cart, it’s always a good idea to try to shop the name-brand essentials that would cost a lot more money to purchase somewhere else.
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Let’s get strategic when building a Dollar Tree shopping list that helps you save the most money. Keep reading to find out which name-brand items you should always buy at Dollar Tree.
Kraft Thousand Island Salad Dressing
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Price: $1.25
You can’t go wrong shopping the Kraft salad dressings sold at Dollar Tree, with flavors like thousand island, zesty Italian and classic ranch all priced at $1.25 each.
By comparison, the same brand of thousand island dressing sold at Walmart costs $4.49 for a 16-ounce bottle. Dollar Tree shoppers can buy two bottles of Kraft thousand island salad dressing and pay $2.50 for both, saving $1.99 in the process.
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Pillsbury Traditional Chocolate Cake Mix
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Price: $1.25
While other big-box retailers, including Walmart and Target, sell Pillsbury boxed cake mixes, Dollar Tree is the reigning champ of the cheapest Pillsbury cake mixes.
At $1.25 each, their inventory includes flavors like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry and yellow cake. The discount retailer also prices Pillsbury frosting for $1.25 each, making it easy for shoppers to buy cake and frosting combinations for under $3.
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Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
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Price: $1.25
While you’re in the baking aisle, it’s a good idea to shop the Betty Crocker cookie mixes sold at Dollar Tree.
Currently, they sell chocolate chip, peanut butter and sugar cookie mixes for $1.25 per package. Check with your local Dollar Tree to see which mixes are in stock, or consider placing a bulk order online if your household goes through cookies frequently. A bulk purchase of nine cookie mixes would cost about $11.25 when purchased online.
Colgate Cavity Protection Toothpaste
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Price: $1.25
If there’s one name brand you have to buy at Dollar Tree, it’s a tube of Colgate toothpaste.
Shoppers have more than a few options available to them with prices all starting at $1.25 each. From kids’ fluoride toothpaste to baking soda and peroxide whitening, you’ll probably find yourself adding a few tubes to your shopping cart thanks to the cheap price tags.
Irish Spring Classic Clean Deodorant Soap Bars
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Price: $1.25
This two-pack of Irish Spring deodorant soap bars has been previously featured in GOBankingRates’ Dollar Tree shopping roundups because it’s such a good value.
We’ve added it to this roundup, thanks to being a name-brand available for a lot less than what you’d pay elsewhere. Similar two-packs of Irish Spring soap bars sold on Amazon retail are typically priced at $5.69.
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Dove Sensitive Skin Beauty Bar
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Price: $1.25
With 394 five-star reviews, Dove sensitive skin beauty bar made it into this roundup thanks to being a shopping triple threat: name-brand item, affordably priced and highly recommended. Original Dove moisturizing bars are also sold at Dollar Tree for $1.25 each.
Vaseline Original Lip Therapy Sticks
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Price: $1.25
You don’t have to pay more for a name brand lip balm. Vaseline lip therapy sticks are $1.25 each at Dollar Tree.
It’s so affordably priced that frugal living YouTuber Kate Kaden counts the Vaseline brand among her top 10 buys at Dollar Tree because of the tube’s heft and value.
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