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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm looking for ways to cut our spending this year and I'm thinking of finally getting a Costco membership. Is it worth it? What types of items are cheaper there? I'm looking for a good amount of savings because (like everyone else) we have limited time on the weekends (which is realistically the only time I could go). Two kids and working parents. Trying to buckle down and save a lot this year so this seems to be a next step. Interested in folks thoughts. (I searched this board but didn't find much)[/quote]

No.

I went there to check it out once.... I really couldn't imagine buying much there.  [b]It's just excess stuff you don't really need.[/b][/quote]

Do you not eat?

Shop at Costco like you play craps - stick to the bets on the perimeter, stay away from the middle, that's for the suckers.  [/quote]

The whole idea of costco is :  BIG.  You need a Big car to haul all those Big lots of stuff, so you can store it in a Big frigde/freezer/pantry/basement, and become bigger eating all the stuff you bought so cheaply!  I don't need to supersize my life that much.  I can buy a family pack of chicken or ground beef at wegmans and divide it into 6-7 freezer bags...I don't need 20 lbs of ground beef!  I can buy the 12 rolls of TP at Wegmans.  I don't need to store 80 rolls of TP.  I don't need a 90in TV.  I don't need an 18in apple pie!  I don't want to buy 12 jars of peanutbutter at one time.  I don't need a gigantic anything!

Honestly, the gross consumption just made me sick.  [/quote]

Um, we drive up in our hybrid sub-compact and the big things we buy are a big 25 lb bag of brown rice, a 25lb bag of flour, quinoa, etc. a big container of yeast, big bag of carrots and then we can bake our own bread and grains and rarely drive to shops.  Yes, all that big consumerist stuff is there, but you are showing you lack imagination.  We use far less packaging, eat less processed foods, and drive far less as a result of Costco.  We supplement Costco with a 3 season garden and a few Asian markets.[/quote]

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