I guess everyone shops on Good Friday?

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All the kids were home from school today, but the other half works a closing shift tonight. I took the opportunity to (finally!) get the rest of the things I needed for this weekend's Easter baskets and Easter dinner. I went to Dollar Tree, Target, and Safeway. Dollar Tree had a surprising amount of Easter stuff left, although they didn't have the rose gold unicorn jewelry holders I was hoping to find. They did have 1 lb bags of frozen hash browns in their freezer section, which was both a surprise and something that I needed for this weekend. There was a massive amount of people in the store considering it was 10 o'clock in the morning. It took me an hour to get in and out of there! Target was out of cream cheese, hams, sour cream, ALL of the eggs (not just the white ones), but still had lots of Easter candy (including Peeps lollipops, which is something I hoped to find). I had a coupon that would give me a $10 gift card when I bought $50 worth of groceries, but I wasn't able to take advantage of that since they were out of most of the things I needed. I bought 2 spiral sliced hams at Safeway, plus pineapple, the rest of my funeral potatoes ingredients, asparagus, a bagged salad mix, and the butter that was on sale. While in line, I remembered that I still needed white eggs! When I got closer to the front of the line, I put all of my items on the belt, told the cashier that I was running to grab eggs, and high tailed it to the egg shelf and back. They were on sale for a good price, but still 3 times higher than they were supposed to have been at Target... but that's probably why Target was completely out of eggs. I ended up being out of the house for over 3 hours, which is not what I planned.