Hey guys, and welcome to a video that is commemorating the breaking of my no-spend for July... or
rather, my no-Bujo-spending for July... that lasted, what... six days?
[laughs]
I went to a couple different stores today, picked up a couple different things, did some
exchanges - I will explain all that as I go.
Now this actually does not count towards my breaking of my no-spend, because these were
purchased at the end of June.
But I thought I'd just show them to you guys because you might be interested.
These are from Amazon...
I ordered this, the Tim Holtz ephemera pack, thrift shop pack...
I think I've seen people use this before... it was only six dollars, and I've been wanting
to try out some of the Tim Holtz stuff, so I thought, "Well it's only six bucks, I might as well!"
And then I also ordered these lovely beauties.
The Mildliners, again, if you're in the bullet journalling community, you're very aware of
the existence of these.
I did already mention, or show these, on my Instagram when I first got them, but I thought
you guys would want to see them as well if you're not following me on Instagram - which you
should do, by the way!
Same username: canadianjournaljunkie.
So yeah, this is from Amazon, not part of this haul, but I figured some of you would want to see it.
So tonight, the first stop I made, I went back to the Dollar Tree in Brampton that I
went to in my last haul.
And if you watched that haul, you will have seen that I picked up not one but two packs
of stickers that I already had.
And then I wasn't sure what I was going to do with them, and then I realized that unlike
Dollarama, Dollar Tree does do exchanges.
So I decided, okay, I'll go back and I'll exchange those, I'll be good and I won't go
crazy there.
So my plan was I would pick up, hopefully, these stamps.
Cuz I saw these stamps last weekend when I was there, fell in love with them, but they
didn't have the acrylic block to go with it.
So I said, okay, if they have the block, I'll pick up this and the block and an ink pad,
and two of those things will technically be "free", because I've already paid the money
for the two things that I'm exchanging.
So I'm wandering around, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to exchange for, and then I
saw this set again, and when I was there last weekend, this was the only one there, and
I was there-- well, last Friday... and then I'm there tonight, and again there's only
one of these there; it's probably the exact same one.
And to me it was like, "Okay, that's a sign, I have to pick this up!" [laughs]
So I only picked... this is the only craft thing - you have to be very proud of me!
This is the only craft item I picked up today at Dollar Tree... not elsewhere, but we'll
get into that [laughs]... but at Dollar Tree, I only picked up these stamps.
I didn't get the ink, because they still didn't have the acrylic blocks, but I'm like, "You know what?
It's twice in a row now, I better just pick them up, and I'll find a block and some ink
somewhere else".
So I picked that up as one of my exchanges...
... and then I just picked up some more of these cuz they're really frickin' delicious!
[laughs] And Dollar Tree's the only place that I have seen them.
When I went there last week I picked up two of each of these; I still have one of each
in my fridge.
I picked up one more of these and three more of these, cuz they're SO. GOOD.
And it's funny, I actually said to the cashier, I was like, "This is the only place I can
find these", and she said, "Oh, go to Oceans", which is like a...
I'm under the impression it's like an Asian-type grocery store?
She said apparently they have them for 99 cents - it's cheaper than the Dollar Tree!
So I will check that out once I run out.
So you have to be proud of me!
When you factor in my exchanges, I went into Dollar Tree and spent less than four dollars.
So, please be proud of me, because you might not be proud of me when you see the rest of
I picked up! [laughs]
So the next store I went into is a dollar store that I had only recently heard of...
actually when I was researching my local Dollar Tree locations, I saw this on the map in Brampton.
It's a store called Your Dollar Store With More, and I considered going there when I
was there last week, and then I was just too busy running around between Dollar Tree and
Dollarama, and I'm like, "Nah, I don't want to go to this dollar store I've never heard of".
But then I saw Crafty Sher Cupcake haul from there the other day, and she pointed out that
they have a pretty decent craft section.
And, as you might be able to tell, they clearly use the same distributor as Dollar Tree! [laughs]
Popped in there to see what they had, and lo and behold, they had an acrylic block!
It's kinda small, but it'll still work, and it's even got a handle, which I like.
So I was able to pick that up to go with the stamps that I bought at Dollar Tree, and then
they had these ink pads as well, which was good because I've heard that the Jot brand
ink pads - which is all they had at the Dollar Tree - aren't very good.
So these are the Forever In Time, the same brand as the stamps and the stamp applicator,
so hopefully they will be good.
I got a black one, and then this one, I'm not sure if it's supposed to be gold... to
me it looks like kraft paper almost, like a kraft paper/cork-type colour, but it may
be gold, I'm not sure!
But I liked them both, so I picked them both up.
This was $1.25, so the same price it would be at Dollar Tree, and these don't have prices
on them, so I assume they were a dollar each?
I didn't have any surprise at the cash register, so I assume that they were a dollar since
there's no price.
So, I mean, this is stuff I couldn't find at Dollar Tree, for pretty much the same price.
I picked up this staple remover, simply because, once again it's one of those items that I'm
always like, "I should pick one of those up!" and then I don't.
Again there was no price on it, so I believe it was a dollar.
And finally I picked up all of the paper in all of the world.
[laughs] Or at least all of the 6x6 paper!
I actually saw Crafty Sher Cupcake haul this pad, I believe it was this pad.
I have not seen this at Dollar Tree... if you look at the price, it was actually only $1.50,
so it's only 25 cents more than it would be at Dollar Tree, and since the Dollar
Tree that is near this particular dollar store doesn't carry these, I think the 25 cents
is worth it.
So this is called "Cloud Burst", and I'll just give you a quick flipthrough of the patterns;
there are 5 sheets of 6 different patterns.
[music]
And then I picked up three different packs of these cardstock, 6x6 cardstock packs.
They were only $1.25 each, so the same as you would pay at Dollar Tree.
I think I might've seen this one at the Dollar Tree in Meadowvale, not sure why I didn't
pick it up.
But I was looking through them, and in all three of these packs there was at least one
colour that I really loved, so I ended up picking them all up, cuz... they're the same
price that they would be at Dollar Tree!
So I will give you a quick flipthrough of each of these; this is the "Bold" pack.
And these packs all have 24 sheets, and there's four sheets of each colour, so there's six
colours in each pack.
[music]
This is the "Pastel" pack.
[music]
And then finally this is the "Tropical" pack.
[music]
So next I went into the Staples that was in that same plaza as the Your Dollar Store With More...
I actually hadn't planned to go in there, but I had a little extra time, and I keep meaning
to pop my head in there because everyone says, "oh there's, you know, great pen selection,
great washi selection", that sort of stuff.
I didn't find too much that was really in my budget, considering I'm supposed to be,
you know... not spending stuff for my bullet journal and my crafting... but most of what
I found, I did get in the clearance section, which was great.
I only bought two things on full price... one was this washi with the little bees on
it, Scotch brand.
This was, I believe three and a half/four dollars?
I picked this one up because I found it at Walmart once, and I really wanted to buy it,
but like, this part was missing, and they couldn't figure out how to ring it up.
So instead of, I don't know, calling a manager, they were just like, "Yeah, you can't have it."
[laughs] So...
I don't know what happened.
So I've been kind of sad about not having this ever since.
So when I saw it at Staples, I picked it up.
And the other full price item was this Scotch washi tape, which I just thought was crazy-gorgeous,
with the stamps and stuff on it... it was I think about $5.00, which is pretty pricey,
but it was just too pretty, I couldn't just leave it there, I had to pick it up.
So they had these TapeWorks washi tapes for 47 cents each, which is good, cuz I tend to
find that TapeWorks is kind of overpriced.
So for 47 cents, can't complain about that!
So I picked up this one with the little birds...
I don't know if it'll focus or not... there we go... this one with the little birds.
And this one with the little ladybugs.
I just thought they were really cute, and you know... two for less than a buck?
Sure, sold!
And then just for fun I picked up this smart phone lens kit for 97 cents.
And finally, on my way home from Brampton I hit up my local Walmart to exchange that
roll of twine that I picked up a couple of weeks ago.
I picked it up to DIY those journals that I'm going to be putting together to use as
a junk journal, and then I realized that binder rings would work a heck of a lot better.
So once I got those binder rings from Amazon, and I stuck them in the book and it worked
really well, I was like, "Okay, I can return this twine now", so I did that.
I got these to put on the cover of my junk journal, they are my initials, they're these
really cute canvas letters, they're two bucks each.
I noticed them when I was there... well, back when I picked up the twine, actually.
They had canvas letters like this; they had one with like a burlap surface; they have
wooden letters that are really really cute, they're like white and distressed; and they
have slightly bigger, like, tin letters.
I've been thinking about these pretty much since I saw them, and I was like, "Well I
can put these potentially on the cover of my junk journal", so I thought why not pick
them up?
And this was actually what I was going in for, although it really only covers about
half the price of the twine.
So I thought well, maybe if I find like paper stacks or something, I'll grab something...
but nothing there really appealed to me, until I saw these...
They are stencil sheets, it's the "trendy" type... and I guess you're supposed to use
them with paint, but you can probably use them with markers and stuff too.
So those are the patterns, or most of the patterns on these stencils...
I just thought they were really fun, and they were pretty much the same price as the twine
that I was returning, I think they were like 20 cents more or something... and I was looking
for stencils when I was at Dollar Tree, I couldn't find any, I couldn't find any at
the Dollar Store With More, so when I saw these and they were pretty much the same price
as what I was exchanging, I decided I'd pick them up.
So technically I only broke my bujo no-spend with this by like 20 cents, and then like, by
an extra $2.00 with these.
So all in all I did pretty good; I did break my no-spend, which is probably not a good
thing, but I didn't break it by too much.
I hope you enjoyed this haul... go check out your local Dollar Tree, Walmart, Staples,
Your Dollar Store With More, and see what you can find!
Again, I'm going to try and stop spending now, and work on putting all this stuff together
and using it and then showing you guys.
[laughs]
So I hope you enjoyed, and if you have not already, please give this video a big thumbs
up, and subscribe if you have not already, and I will see you in the next one.
Bye guys!
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