Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 14:29     Subject: New Costco member here - what should I buy?

Anonymous wrote:We were a family of 3 and now 2. Always over bought ('how could you not) and no longer go. They have some good stuff but who wants to store toilet paper for years.
Let's not talk about the large volume of frozen foods and meats that never left the freezer. Food just doesn't taste right after 6 months. Also, our yearning for some foods just changed.


I am genuinely baffled by the people in this thread who talk about storing toilet paper for months or years. How infrequently do you use the washroom? We are a family of three, one of us is outside the home during the daytime (and thus using washrooms and TP elsewhere) five days a week, one of us works outside the home three days a week, and one of us is home most days all day. We go through a Costco pack of toilet paper every 6 weeks. 3 bathrooms in the home.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 10:37     Subject: New Costco member here - what should I buy?

We were a family of 3 and now 2. Always over bought ('how could you not) and no longer go. They have some good stuff but who wants to store toilet paper for years.
Let's not talk about the large volume of frozen foods and meats that never left the freezer. Food just doesn't taste right after 6 months. Also, our yearning for some foods just changed.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 07:57     Subject: New Costco member here - what should I buy?

Their heavy whipping cream and big cafeteria size cans of crushed tomatoes or sauce are great deals. One big can for making a pot of sauce rather than opening 4-5 from the grocery store.
Anonymous
Post 09/06/2025 07:54     Subject: New Costco member here - what should I buy?

Family of four, we go every two weeks. Cook a ton and eat a ton.

Organic chicken thighs
Organic ground beef, pork, lamb
Fresh buffalo mozzarella
Provolone, chunk
Parmigiano reggiano, shredded, box
Dave’s multigrain bread
Batteries
Electric toothbrush and heads
Toothpaste - sensodyne
Mrs Meyers hand soap
Milled soap French or Australian
Contact lens solutions
Drinks - sparkling water, Gatorade
Kids snacks
Spices
Olive oil
Honey, moms marmalade, kerrygold butter
Rice - sushi rice, basmati
Seaweed snacks
Noosa yogurt

They have started to carry popular Korean makeup products (!)

Various Asian snacks, European chocolates especially at holiday season

Fruits - raspberries, grapes, apples, golden kiwi, blueberries, strawberries, grapefruits, oranges

Gas
Gift cards (Uber)
Swiffer
Boxing tape
Scissors

Monitor, laptop (great return policy)

….I could go on