Best $20 You Can Spend at Dollar Tree This Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and Dollar Tree is the ultimate one-stop retailer for saving money on affordable décor, gifts and sweet treats.

GOBankingRates shopped the Dollar Tree website with a spending limit of $20 and found nine items worth buying to celebrate the upcoming holiday. Our total came out to $15, leaving behind enough money to cover taxes. 

See what made our list for the best buys to make at Dollar Tree this Valentine’s Day.

• Price: $1.25

Load up these red heart scalloped buckets with all sorts of festive party favors and sweet treats. Five-star reviews from Dollar Tree shoppers praise the bucket’s size, durability and incredibly low price.

• Price: $1.25

Whether you’re packing favors for a classroom party or a get-together with the girls, don’t miss your chance to shop these frosted loot bags at Dollar Tree. Each set includes six bags in four assorted designs that can be filled with cards, candy, cookies, brownies and much more.

• Price: $1.25

Gifting flowers? Add a Mario glass vase with your bouquet. Measuring at 7 inches, these reasonably priced vases can be used for housing all Valentine’s Day floral arrangements as well as repeated reuse for floral centerpieces throughout the year.

• Price: $1.25

Fill up these light pink plastic bowls with everything from heart-shaped chocolates to pink punch for upcoming Valentine’s Day festivities. These bowls are ideal for continued reuse at potlucks, backyard BBQs and classroom parties held throughout the year.

• Price: $1.25

Still need to buy cards for classroom card exchanges? Add these character Valentine’s Day cards to your Dollar Tree shopping cart.

With designs including Paw Patrol, My Little Pony, Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to choose from, each box comes with 24 cards and 24 sets of temporary tattoos. These cards are ideal for children ages 4 and up and available for in-store purchase only.

• Price: $1.25

Decorate your office, classroom, bedroom and many more spaces for less with a tinsel heart decoration. 

These heart-shaped pieces of décor may be hung on walls or, per photos shared from Dollar Tree shoppers, draped on bedside lamps or attached to chains hanging from ceiling fans. Pick from purple, pink, fuchsia and red colors.

Price: $1.25

If you love gnomes, you’ll fall for these assorted Valentine-themed gnomes at Dollar Tree. Multiple reviews from Dollar Tree shoppers highlighted how sturdy each gnome is when placed in the home or at the office.

“I don’t usually decorate for Valentine’s Day, but could not resist these cute little guys. They are a really good size and quality for the money. Perfect on my reading nook table,” wrote aleecewb in a five-star review.

• Price: $1.25

Spend a little more money on the champagne and cut costs on the champagne flutes with these plastic heart flutes. 

Pick from red, white or pink styles as the perfect additions to romantic Valentine Day’s dinners or chic Galentine’s Day get-togethers with friends.

• Price: $5

At $5 per box, this assortment of Russell Stover chocolates is the most expensive item listed, but it’s well worth the money spent to give to your sweetheart. 

Each box contains a seven-piece assortment of chocolates in six rich flavors. These include milk chocolate caramel, milk peanut cluster, milk chocolate strawberry crème, dark chocolate nut caramel, dark chocolate vanilla crème and milk chocolate chocolate butter cream.

Editor’s note: Prices and availability are accurate as of Feb. 2, 2025, and are subject to change.