Oh the sweet joy that is Dollar Bill's Discount World in Derry, NH. We first heard about this blissful nirvana of existence when Dollar Bill was interviewed on the Toucher and Rich Show. By the way, if you're not listening to Toucher and Rich, then you should be ashamed of yourself. Even if you're not from Boston, you can listen online or download the show as podcasts.
So, back to the story at hand. Dollar Bill's Discount World is a store in NH that sells items that stores and catalogs wholesale to him. Since this is in the bustling metropolis of Derry, NH, you can imagine that there is a whole lot of interesting stuff there. Let's just say that if you want NASCAR memorabilia but aren't willing to pay the Wal-Mart prices, get your ass to Dollar Bill's. I do have to say though that we have bought a lot of merchandise from the store. We were initially drawn to visit after watching his weekly infomercial.....oh...he has a weekly infomercial on MY TV in the Boston area or you can watch it on his website...definitely worth your time.....and he was selling marshmallow guns for $5 each. We had to go. We also purchased a really nice bookcase for $30 and Jill buys a lot of candles from them...candles that retail for $20 and she gets for a dollar!!! You can't beat that.
No discussion of Dollar Bill's discount world would be complete without a full description of Dollar Bill himself. Dollar Bill talks like an auctioneer, makes really off color jokes that, if you can catch them, are HILARIOUS, wears an umbrella hat with dollar bills stapled to it and shorts with the same. In reality, Dollar Bill is a quite normal guy who is also wicked nice. He just plays this insane asylum patient on local TV :).
So, this past weekend, Dollar Bill's was holding their annual customer appreciation day. He was having the Clam Haven and Coke cater it and he was autographing umbrella hats. We had looked at the website and found out that he was autographing from 10 AM to 11 PM....since the store closes at 8 PM, we assumed it was a typo, and he would stop autographing at 11 AM...the plan for the day was to hit up the Sam Adams and Harpoon breweries. Sam stopped at 3...more on that tomorrow....and Harpoon stopped at 4:30...see yesterday's post...so I convinced Jill on Friday night that we could hit up Dollar Bill's in the morning and then still make it to the two brewery tours. That, of course, did not take in to account that we drank pretty heavily on Friday night.
So needless to say, we woke up late. I was incredibly pissed that I wasn't going to be able to get my free umbrella hat and almost wrote off going to the event. We picked up our friend who was visiting from out of town, and we decided that it was still worth going to just for the free lunch. So we made the trek up to Derry for free hamburgers and all the people watching you could stomach.
We arrived at my heaven on earth to find Dollar Bill in full regalia waving at everyone who pulled into the parking lot. I went up to him and asked if I missed the autograph session...he said that he would do some more after a trivia game that was coming right up. HALLELUJA! I was still going to get my hat and be able to compete for free swag from the store.
The trivia competition was hilarious to witness. Nothing like a whole bunch of New England hillbillies taking random stabs at questions that they never knew. Jill actually got the first question right which was the address of the store. We won 3 tickets to the Manchester, NH minor league baseball team! Unfortunately, stubhub.com doesn't appear to allow you to sell these on the site. Something about scalping $8 tickets doesn't appeal to them.... I ended up answering a question about the Simpsons. He thought that it was going to be really tricky, so put up one of his biggest prizes for the correct answer. It was a rolling backpack filled with what he called "novelties" that he assured us was worth several hundred dollars. The question was how many kids do Homer and Marge have and what are their names.....................................................the Simpsons have been on the air for 20 years! If you don't know that...then where the fuck do you live? I guess it shows you how much he thinks of his customers. So, the backpack was filled with toys. Worthless toys. What the hell am I, a 28 year old with no kids supposed to do with 150 rubber duckies? Jill and I ended up handing all of the toys out to the kids that were there. Figure I need to give something back every once in a while just to keep Karma off my back.
After handing out the toys, it was time for the umbrella hat signings. After waiting for over 45 minutes in line, I GOT MY HAT!!! WOOT!
Sorry about the lack of pictures. I'll upload them tomorrow.
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