Serve Guests Like A Pro With Home Bar Essentials From Dollar Tree

One of the best ways to level up your space for entertaining guests is with a home bar. However, when you factor in the cost of buying or building a bar cart and the liquor bottles you need to make your favorite drinks (which aren't cheap!), this might seem like a fairly expensive endeavor. Fortunately, you can acquire an impressive amount of home bar essentials without breaking the bank by scouring Dollar Tree. If you're looking for more creative home bar ideas, Dollar Tree offers more than just cocktail and shot glasses. If you dig a little deeper, you can also snag little gems like silicone ice cube trays for king cubes and citrus squeezers to make fresh juice cocktails, with each product being a little over a $1.

If you're looking to get into bartending at home, there are a few essential items you'll want to include in your bar kit. At a minimum, you'll want glassware, an ice box with a scoop, a bar spoon, napkins, coasters, a knife, and a cutting board. That will be sufficient to make simple, two part cocktails. If you want to get a little fancier, you'll also want a cocktail shaker, jigger, strainer, tongs, and big ice cube trays. While you might not be able to find every single one of these items at Dollar Tree, you can find most of them there, which will save you money that you can instead spend on your favorite spirits! And of course, let's not forget the bar cart itself. Rather than buying a whole new piece of furniture, you can give an old cabinet new life by flipping it into your new at home bar.

Let's start with the basics — glassware for your cocktails! If you're trying to get the party going quickly, you might want shot glasses. You can buy a set of three shot glasses from the Dollar Tree. If you prefer to sip rather than shoot, you can also buy faceted rocks glasses and Yucatan Margarita Glasses. For anyone who prefers beer and wine, Dollar Tree also has champagne flutes, beer mugs with handles, pint glasses, and a wide selection of wine glasses with and without stems. You can use their Cooking Concept Waiter's Corkscrews to open up wine and beer bottles.

To class up your bar cart, you can incorporate a serving tray, which serves as a functional addition to your home bar because you can use it to carry out drinks to your guests. Dollar Tree also has a large supply of coasters, like the Moroccan tile coaster, and beverage napkins you can offer your visitors to not only make them more comfortable, but to also protect your furniture! Another benefit of shopping at Dollar Tree to stock up your bar cart is that the bargain shop carries a lot of fun, seasonal decor. So, if you wanted to have a Christmas party, Halloween celebration, or even a summer luau, you could likely find items like themed napkins, glassware, and parasol toothpicks to serve during the festivities. Of course, stock may vary depending on your Dollar Tree location.

In addition to glassware, you'll need some cocktail making tools to complete your unique bar cart. To make drinks with fresh juices like margaritas and daiquiris, you may want a citrus squeezer, and you can get one from Dollar Tree. This is a fantastic deal because they typically cost at least $9.99.For stirring up drinks that go on a big cube like an old fashioned or a negroni, you can use their sphere ice mold. Need a place to store all that ice? You can always "splurge" on a Dollar Tree ice bucket and scoop. To make your citrus garnishes, there are plenty of cutting board and knife options.

The only items that you might still need for your home bar are a cocktail shaker, jigger, and strainer. Fortunately, you can add those cocktail making essentials to your stash without spending too much money by ordering the Boston Cocktail Shaker Set from Amazon, which includes those last few items for $19.99.