Things that make Costco (et al) worth it:

• diapers (or so I hear)
• planning a huge party and needing tons of half-decent wine
• many of them sell eyeglasses

For normal groceries, for one or two housebroken people? Not worth the seven pounds of meatballs. But if you can pay off the membership with some crazy big expense, stock up on some things and then let it drop the next year.

I haven't decided on colors. May go orange for the living room. Or some sort of khaki. Red couches, you see.

Am trying to decide if I should go more for something soothing, for the bedroom, or cheerful...possibly a blue or purple-grey, for soothing. Yellow for cheerful?

Hmm. When WOULD you be free, O CostCo Enabled One?

planning a huge party and needing tons of half-decent wine

This is totally what we used to need CostCo for when I lived with two roommates and we threw parties! We go, buy mixers, wine, appetizers (those mini quiches!) and a big slab of salmon. Then we'd get ready for the party, cook up the salmon for dinner for ourselves and any early guests, and wheee, party!

I was thikning the new place will be perfect for parties, and then I was all "Ack, but I don't know enough people for a party!" Clearly, I will need to work on that.

Hmm. When WOULD you be free, O CostCo Enabled One?

Maybe Sunday?

I wish I could squish over the internet the color of a high school friend's livingroom. It was a lighter shade of the color of the Ogran Mountains 10 miles away as the crow flies. In addition to the fact that it complimented their view of those mountains perfectly at every hour, I always just relaxed entering that room. It was a blue-purple-lilac that didn't seem like a pastel or sacchrine at all.

God, I loved that room and view.

One of my original friends here had a bulk warehouse (I don't think we have cost-co) card here while she was single. She did get a lot of mileage out of it (toilet paper, shampoo, catfood & litter, party supplies for work, electronics) but she had a lot of storage. I think that's key. That and not being product-promiscuous. If I had a year's worth of one shampoo, I'd probably impulsively switch to another while the fifty-gallon drum of the first congealed. Jesse once commented on my insane array of shampoos and conditioners. I like variety, even as I'm really picky.

Seriously, Sara has as much different stuff in her bathroom as when my friend and her mother were living together and one worked for Estee Lauder and the other one sold Arbonne.

I rotate!!!

Yeah, I fear I'm a terribly accustomed consumer, and having a biiiiiig bottle of something means that by the time i get halfway through, I feel like it's old or not exciting or stale or something.

I'm so damn American.

I've actually been noticing how long it takes me to use shampoo and conditioner, because I'm only washing 3-4 times a week, and I'm alternating two kinds. I'm like an inch down in one of the bottles, and I've had it two months!

I'm so glad that our pleiades is taking care of our meara.

I am the sort of person that can use a CostCo type store effectively. I have (or had, and will have again shortly) a big freezer and a lot of pantry space and a willingness to buy products in bulk, remember where I put them when the first batch runs out, and use it all.

But then I am the sort of person who buys meat in bulk at the supermarket and comes home and rebags it in serving sizes before freezing it. And marks it, and builds a menu plan around the frozen protein I know I already have. If you are not this person, don't buy in bulk.