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Dollar Store Prenancy Tests: What’s the Verdict?

We at Crap for a Buck are huge fans of the WalletPop blog, and yesterday, Zac Bissonnett (whose last name joins ballooneer, Mississippi and bookkeeper as the only words I can think of that have three sets of double letters) wrote an article about dollar store pregnancy tests.

He and his commentors make several good points (“if you can’t afford an $8 pregnancy test, you shouldn’t be trying to have a child anyway;” “the folks who buy a pregnancy test at the Dollar Tree are the same ones who bought their condoms there;” etc.).

However, who buys one disposable pregnancy test, gets a +, and then starts planning the baby shower? Don’t women generally see a positive, freak out, buy another test (and then another, and another, a la Juno) or go to the doctor to confirm the results?

And if you’re worried about a false-negative, just think of it this way: You get to enjoy another month of blissful ignorance before you run out and buy a pregnancy test from a store that doesn’t also sell raw MSG.

So maybe your dollar store pregnancy test wouldn’t be the last one you take before having that difficult “so-what-are-we-going-to-do-about-the-situation” talk, but as far as first steps go, you could do worse.

And that, dear readers, is me defending the dollar store. I need to go take a shower now.

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