The Costco thread
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You will use half as many sheets to get the job done with the Bounty rolls.
We live in the only development that's walkable in a 3-mile or so radius. 45 houses. A decent number of people drive in from the surrounding areas where they live on 2 - 5 acre lots. Definitely not 5 Costco bags worth of kids, though.
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I think the max amount of candy we ever needed from Costco for the trick or treaters was 3 bags.
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We leave the lights off
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We don’t get enough trick or treaters here to worry about even being home. Mrs Nacho puts out a bowl of candy with a note saying to take a handful.
When we lived in Burien, we had boatloads of kids. We were close enough to the shitty apartment complexes that they could infiltrate our neighborhood on foot. I bought a little hand counter ticker thing and counted. We had over 110 kids one year.
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I still don’t trust Kirkland brand. Probably shitty versions of Duracell batteries.
One time I bought a Coleman cooler. One of those keep ice in 90 degrees for 5 days jobs. I was at Walmart which is rare. They had the same cooler but for way less. I bought one. Went camping and the next day the ice in one was half gone. Compare the two walls of the coolers. Cheap version walls were way thinner. I ended up selling that cheapo version for almost what I paid for it.Buy cheap, buy twice. And you generally get what you pay for.
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I give each kid 2 pieces. Guessing we get 300 trick or treaters give or take.
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It's officially dried tangerine season at Costco. I bought two bags.
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Richland Costco set to open on August 8th:
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Got two Imperial American Wagyu NY Strips at Costco this past week for 26.99 per pound. Best fucking steaks I've ever grilled at home and better than most fancy steak dinners I've had eating out in Seattle.
They still blade tenderize them @BleachedAnusDawg which is shit AF. I still at them medium rare and didn't get sick.
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Costco staples for me and Mrs flatus (I think these are all Kirkland brand):
- Smoked turkey breast, $4.79 lb. I eat this with homemade pesto and tomatoes almost every day for lunch. Best deal IMHO.
- Rotisserie chicken. I pull the meat (lol) and make 4 L of stock from the bones and random vegetables
- Seedless lemons
- Olive and avocado oil
- Bulk coffee, although the price has surged 25% in the last 6-9 months.
- Raw unsalted cashews. Cannot beat the price per ounce
- Salmon and sweet potato dog food. Easily 50-60% less than reputable competitors.
- Bulk frozen/peeled garlic. We cook with so much garlic, this is gold
These items alone pay for our membership in the first 3 months. Hell, the turkey breast pays for our membership in the first 3 months.
