Dollar store buys

• $1 - Puzzle Erasers/ Subway Seat
• $3 - 3 wrapping paper tubes/ Washington Square, bus stop, photobooth
• $3 - 3 glow in the dark wands/ fortune teller shop, Alain de Botton venue, NYPL library
• $1 - crochet heart kit/ ATM not attached to a bank
• $1 - 2 bubble mailer envelopes/ post office
• $1 - Motivational Stickers Roll
• $1 - 9 Bubbles containers/ 3 at playground/fountain by chicken and rice cart/bank
• $1 - Fun straws/ Jamba Juice
• $7 - 7 Scratch and sniff stickers/ hotel lobby, bar, mirror, lamp post, garden, elevator, gotham writer's workshop free newsletter box, and pay phone
• $1 - composition marble notebook/ penn station in the NJ Transit waiting area
• $2 - 2 animal motion stickers/ b&h photo and video store and best buy
• $3 - 3 metal easels/ lomography store, CVS or that sort that develops film, photography studio
• $1 - activity pad with assorted paper/ Hooters
• $1 - Glow in the dark constellations and planets/ skin care aisle at sephora
• $1 - Superhero stickers/ playground
• $2 - sidewalk and regular chalk/ by a neglected bare wall that's graffitied over and my "before I die" wall that are both by my future workplace that's hopefully a book publishing company *crosses fingers* hehe
• $6 - 6 window markers/ in front of an apartment building with a horrendous view of walls, not even with windows, just walls.
• $2 - 2 inspirational word search books/ nursing home and hospital
• $1 - bandages/ court house
• $5 - 5 greeting cards/ newspaper stand, flower shop, saint patrick's cathedral church, college of some sort, psychiatrist's office
• $2 - Dictionary and Thesaurus/ MTV and NBC

Books

• $7.99 - Gabriel Gadfly's Bone Fragments poetry book on war/ Mc Donalds
• $5.03 - Alain De Botton's Status Anxiety/ Unemployment office
• $8.80 - Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close/ Empire State Building
• $6.83 - Nora Ephron's When Harry Met Sally... screenplay/ Washington Square Park
• $5.97 - Four Films of Woody Allen/ East 68th street and Madison ave aka Annie Hall's Apartment building
• $6.97 - Cecil Castellucci's The Plain Janes and Janes in Love graphic novels/ in a particularly barren and drab area

Other places

• $2.20 - Endangered animal stamps/ post office
• $5 - Starbucks purchase for the person behind me
• $11 - Wholefoods gift card/