Diaso, how do I love thee let me count the ways?
Diaso is like a dollar store, except everything is Japanese and most of it is $1.50. I have gotten the cutest things ever from there from tea sets, dishes, stationary and aluminum foil with teddy bears on it. When I am broke and need a little retail therapy, I head to Diaso.
Sometimes, I don't know what in the hell I am looking at, but it's only $1.50! I found this one thing that looked like a bunched up net with a little hello kitty button in the middle. Come to find out, it was a drain cleaner. Never would have guessed.
I find a lot of great things for my house. I found a grid and hooks to hang on the inside of my hall closet so that we can hang our scarves, backbacks and sweaters quickly. I found an adjustable curtain rod to replace the flimsy plywood closet doors and hung a curtain I found at Ross in it's place. If I went to Wal-Mart, I would have spent around 5 to 10 bucks for the rod. At Diaso, I spent 2 bucks. I found another grid and some shelves that I put in my bathroom to hold my MP3 speakers a magazine rack and a couple of shelves to hold toothpaste, lotion and mouthwash. And I was able to buy all of that for 7 bucks.
Stationary wise, I go plum crazy. I found those 20 ring binders for 1.50 and the paper to go along with it. If I went down to the other side of downtown, the Japanese bookstore sells these items for waaaayyyyy more. I found cute memo cubes, lovely notepaper and more pens and pencils than I want to admit to buying. As I said before, I have a love affair with paper and I have now decided to stay away from that section.
There is a Diaso one short bus ride away from me. Last week, I picked up little jars for shea butter gifting, a grocery basket to store household stuff and other items and spent less than $20 and left with a huge bag of stuff.
How great is that?
Sometimes, I don't know what in the hell I am looking at, but it's only $1.50! I found this one thing that looked like a bunched up net with a little hello kitty button in the middle. Come to find out, it was a drain cleaner. Never would have guessed.
I find a lot of great things for my house. I found a grid and hooks to hang on the inside of my hall closet so that we can hang our scarves, backbacks and sweaters quickly. I found an adjustable curtain rod to replace the flimsy plywood closet doors and hung a curtain I found at Ross in it's place. If I went to Wal-Mart, I would have spent around 5 to 10 bucks for the rod. At Diaso, I spent 2 bucks. I found another grid and some shelves that I put in my bathroom to hold my MP3 speakers a magazine rack and a couple of shelves to hold toothpaste, lotion and mouthwash. And I was able to buy all of that for 7 bucks.
Stationary wise, I go plum crazy. I found those 20 ring binders for 1.50 and the paper to go along with it. If I went down to the other side of downtown, the Japanese bookstore sells these items for waaaayyyyy more. I found cute memo cubes, lovely notepaper and more pens and pencils than I want to admit to buying. As I said before, I have a love affair with paper and I have now decided to stay away from that section.
There is a Diaso one short bus ride away from me. Last week, I picked up little jars for shea butter gifting, a grocery basket to store household stuff and other items and spent less than $20 and left with a huge bag of stuff.
How great is that?