I am so glad to know this!!! I would have bought more of them if I had known that and will have to look again next time I get to WalMart. That may not be for a month but I will look.
I also bought seeds on clearance last year from the dollar store. I didn't know about those either, of course they are last year's seeds but they were marked 90% off and I couldn't resist. They are normally 4/$1. I bought a dollar's worth of seeds at 90% off so I got 40 packets. They are in a large old coffee can now. LOL
I am REALLY glad to hear you say they are old seeds now. I feel like I got an extremely good value!
When I bought my first 10 cent packs of seeds at the dollar store, I did some digging in my old books and the current lists, as a friend and I had agreed that if we were to have a garden in this valley, it had to be the old varieties, maybe not the heirloom seeds, but at least a type that they saved seeds from and had grown enough years to survive.
I found many of the 10 cent seeds listed as ‘old varieties’, even read on one forum a person’s advice to not buy the old varieties at the dollar store, as there were so many wonderful hybrids out now.....LOL
To me new is not better, except, my bread machine pleases me, LOL, it is 10 years old.