The family dollar by me has some very cute items. I got great wrapping stuff there. Last year I loved the gift tags I got, although this year I bought some where the Santa Claus was black. Which was very topical this year, and I don’t really care, but I didn’t want to hear the jokes (I’m very into gift tags, so people actually read them) - I didn’t use too many of those!
I bought a few Christmas wrappings at the Dollar Tree. Didn’t see any black Santa’s - Hispanics would be more appropriate in our area anyway. Did buy some really funny Christmas cards for $1.00 each though - they said Merry Christmas 2007. Message inside was to the effect that I had bought them on sale from that year and didn’t want to waste them. Friends really enjoyed them and thoroughly understood the message.
Dollar Tree is also a great place to buy stuff which our Republican Women’s group sends in gift boxes to our vets and servicemen - sun glasses, foot powder, puzzles, pens, scratch pads, etc.
We have some adopted black family members, and I'm always interested in my own reactions when I shop for the children and the packaging has only white kids pictured. It's a good mental exercise. One year I tinted the only wrapping paper I had left on Christmas Eve with a magic marker so that Santa Claus looked a little bit tan. I also tinted a Noah's Ark figurine. For one thing, neither Jesus nor Noah was likely to be a pale European white -- both probably olive-skinned.