A small tip from the interior designers: To start, find out when your neighborhood store restocks so you can go early on a weekday and get first dibs. As soon as you enter the store, work your way around the edges before moving into the middle. This will let you go through the bulkier items first and hold them at the front of the store for later checkout.

1. Bowls

Wow! There are so many decorative bowls at HomeGoods that you can’t even decide which one you should buy! There are countless rows of stunning serving dishes large enough to stock entire kitchen shelves or feed a large dinner party just a few aisles over. There is no excuse to place ordinary boring bowls on your table ever again; there are various hand-painted ceramics and contemporary metallics under $10, unless your meal is much better! Putting away the jokes, HomeGoods offers them for fairly reasonable pricing, with the lowest starting at about $19,99.