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Store-shelf grab, then straight to home use
A viral home and real estate format on TikTok and Instagram
Show each item being picked up in a budget store, then cut immediately to it working in the home.
6
accounts it worked for
6x
median, times their usual
#28
of 65 in home and real estate
Editing trick
Voiceover, Slideshow, Talking head
Why it works
Viewers see the price and the payoff back to back, so each item is a mini proof. Dollar Tree, Kmart and Home Bargains hooks recur across many accounts.
Hook formula[Budget store] has [unexpected thing] for just [price], so I tried it
How to make it
- 1Open in the store aisle holding the item and naming the store or price
- 2Cut right away to the item in use at home
- 3Repeat per item and finish with the full setup
Examples
Best first, one per account. Each links to the original post.
- @lizfenwickdiy
350K followers, Instagram
“Dollar Tree gift idea!”
514x their usual likes, voiceover, cleaning and organizing
- @ourhome_onhelmsley
18K followers, TikTok
“VERY AFFORDABLE Items I’ve bought from B&M recently as a home obsessed girlie & How they actually look in our home 🤎”
55x their usual views, slideshow, interior design
- @zapatas_cleaningservices
370K followers, TikTok
“Dollar Tree cleaning finds!”
7.2x their usual views, voiceover, cleaning and organizing
- @ashleynicolelife
595K followers, TikTok
“Dollar Tree Series HAIR STATION ORGANIZATION”
4.6x their usual views, talking head, cleaning and organizing
- @lynsey_queenofclean
386K followers, Instagram
“Spotted this in Home Bargains for just 5.99, so I thought I'd give it a go.”
2.6x their usual views, screen recording, cleaning and organizing
- @jasoncleans
68K followers, Instagram
“I HEARD THAT KMART HAS SOME NEW CLEANING PRODUCTS IN STORE”
3.7x their usual views, voiceover, cleaning and organizing
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How this is measured
- Every post is compared with its own account's usual reach, not with other accounts. "14x their usual" means the post got 14 times the median views of that account's recent posts.
- TikTok videos and Instagram Reels are measured on views. Instagram carousels have no view count, so they are measured on likes against the account's usual likes, and say so.
- A post makes the library at 2x its account's usual or more. A format is a repeatable move (what is said or shown, or how it is edited) that several accounts used in breakout posts. It is listed here once it worked for 3 or more different accounts.
- Formats rank on how many accounts they worked for and how far above usual, damped so a fluke on one tiny account cannot outrank a format that worked for ten.