70 Dollar General Flip Flops for OCC Shoebox Packing: A Great $21.00 Investment

Dollar General currently has 70% off their yellow tagged clothes and shoes which includes the $1 flip flops.  All of the stores I shopped at were totally stocked with these $1 flip flops--dozens of each size and color.  I knew I wanted to buy a lot for my Operation Christmas Child shoebox packing, but I also wanted to leave plenty for others, thus I shopped at more than one store.  There are still two or three more within driving distance, I just may go and get some more.  My favorite is a child's with dinosaurs--looking forward to making a few dinosaur theme boxes with them.

I also got the little girl's t-shirt for Sarah's penguin themed box.
It was on 70% off, too, so was $2.10.
[I love that "Happy Feet" fits the flip flop theme of this post, too.]
PS  Can you tell what the flip flops are trying to spell out?
OCC for Operation Christmas Child.

My family is not a flip flop wearing family so I know nothing about the quality or how long they could be expected to last.  I try to put reasonable quality items in
my shoeboxes and struggled about these $1 flip flops.  I finally decided that I could spend my $21 and shoe 70 children for, say at least a year, or spend that $21 on 4 to 5 pairs of more expensive flip flops and shoe those children for perhaps two to three years.  I figured I'd get 70 years out of my $21 instead of 8 to 15.  Once again, this quality verse quantity for packing shoe boxes remains a dilemma.  How do you decide?

One reason I am gathering so many at DG after my Family Dollar Flip Flop Deal is because I share with the kids at church for their Operation Christmas Child packing party each year.  Last year the children's pastor asked specifically for flip flops and I only had a few to give, so I am on a mission to not only put one in each of my boxes but have 75 to 100 to give him.

And here is the real reason behind my flip flop frenzy:

Image from the following Clip with Purpose post:
Shoes Can Mean So Much!
These were a pair of flip flops a child was wearing who received a shoe box.
Others had nothing on their feet.

After writing this post yesterday I read Dollar General had some socks for under $.30 so Sarah & I went shopping again.  Got lots of goodies, but that's for another post :-). I'm loving living in town--I can run out and grab so many more bargains for my Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes.

Each Saturday Sarah shares our additions to our stockpile.  You can see them all here:  Shoebox Stockpile Saturday ~ Adding to Our Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Stockpile.