Shop cruelty-free AND cheap

Get over to the Big Lots on Vine St. and pick up Tom’s of Maine toothpaste for $2.50 a tube. Peppermint, spearmint, cinnamint, cinnamon-clove, mango-something, they’ve got shelves-full ready to move. This stuff is $4.51 at the CVS down the street, and all they have is about 5–6 tubes of peppermint at a time, or $4.99 if you order online. Manny’s over there at the Big Lots RIGHT NOW loading up on a year’s worth of toothpaste and sent us these blurry camphone pix.

And they have a half-shelf full of Nature’s Gate shampoo for $1.50 a bottle. It doesn’t look like the VeganEssentials bottles (at $6.59), but it’s the same company (Levlad). Yeah, the Herbal one smells weird in the bottle but your hair won’t smell like that, and the Rainwater Henna one smells really good.

The more you save, the more you can give. Or the more you can spend on necessities you can’t really find anywhere except online or the WFM. Vegan in this town is too damn easy.