|
Jonny 290 posted:i live in 400 square feet and i'm not nearly loving stupid enough to pay a $99 flat fee so i can buy a 24-pack of banana nut muffins that go moldy after i eat seven of them and get fat i avoided that garbage as well, you can skip all that just as you would at a sams or whatever. also a nice place for good cuts of meat for stews and such. they'll have your larger locally-based businesses stuff there as well at good prices also it's just sixty bucks
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:18
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 16, 2024 08:46 |
|
|
the muffins are sold in 2x mix-and-match 6-packs and yes it is Too Much cuz they are huge. i wish i could pay 2/3rds the price for just a half dozen instead of the full dozen it's one of my few actually legitimate complaints about the product volume sizing at costco, since they really aren't THAT-THAT bulk. Like they have candy bar packs to fill a vending machine with sure, but business is also a customer base of theirs. but a 12 pack of kleenex boxes? I guess that comes down to having a closet space to put paper goods in, but its not like a giant office sized carton, its just like 8 or 12 boxes, which is like most of the stuff, right-sized for a typical small to medium household with 2-3 people and a couple pets the muffins are too many!
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:20
|
|
|
Broken Machine posted:also it's just sixty bucks and you gotta join a cult
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:21
|
|
|
no no, that’s the $120 executive membership option
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:23
|
|
|
are these like really good muffins or something? never had them and i'm not a big muffin fan. do they still hold up after 3 or 4 in?
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:28
|
|
|
if you eat 3 or 4 costco muffins the question will be whether you can hold yourself up
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:29
|
|
|
theres a couple places here that import kirkland-branded stuff and they are ludicrously expensive. you gotta really like cornflakes to pay $15 for a couple boxes. i only go there for their canned chipotle peppers; those are hard to find elsewhere.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:31
|
|
|
Kazinsal posted:no no, that’s the $120 executive membership option which comes with a 2% cash back entirely separate from the credit card cash rewards which are on top  im 2/3rds the way thru my renew cycle and already met my yearly renewal cost. I recall hearing the membership was intended to be free if you used it a normal amount, and like i said pages back, i get most of my household/paper goods/toiletries/bottled drinks there
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:33
|
|
|
AnimeIsTrash posted:mr airfryer
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:36
|
|
|
whats a credit card tho
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:37
|
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:i kinda smell what you're stepping in but i also hold that costco is a bad deal unless you're high five low six figgies. fresh food storage capacity is absolutely a class issue. i have basically infinicash for things at this level and i still have to deal with and get upset when a couple bananas rot. also its really difficult to deal with appliances like chest freezers if your remotely itinerant same
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:40
|
|
|
Broken Machine posted:are these like really good muffins or something? never had them and i'm not a big muffin fan. do they still hold up after 3 or 4 in? they're really tasty but each one is more calories than a big-mac.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:40
|
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:whats a credit card tho handy tool for loiding poorly installed door latches.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:40
|
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:whats a credit card tho you can get a combo membership + credit card that has all-in-all "Good Rates" on it, or just a plain membership card the plain membership card lets you in the store and you get 1 or 2% back of your purchases towards renewal, so it ends up free if you use it even semi regularly the combo one does the same as above but is also a Visa and you get a pretty decent spread of cash back rewards and i see an absolute fuckload of people using them as their daily purchase CC out and about both here and in denver
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:40
|
|
|
Midjack posted:handy tool for loiding poorly installed door latches. i had to change the neck angle on my telecaster today so i took it apart and used the keychain membership card king soopers gave me as a neck shim lol
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:41
|
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:whats a credit card tho a convenient tool that you use to collect Literally Free Money on purchases that you pay off every month
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:46
|
|
|
DELETE CASCADE posted:a convenient tool that you use to collect Literally Free Money on purchases that you pay off every month but you have to be wealthy enough to not be gated under Having Bad Credit to get one! if you do meet that bar tho, here's you're free additional money i usually use the amex blue cash preferred most of the time, or my costco citi visa if im getting gas since it has better points there
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:48
|
|
|
after seventeen years of not having such i got a $400 secured card this year. it lives in a box and i have autopay set up and i have sent my $29/month ting bill to it to do the "small payment, payoff on due date" thing which i hear builds a credit score. thats my story.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:50
|
|
|
Sniep posted:It's time! literal lol
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:53
|
|
|
it's a class issue jonny but not for you. you're upper middle class. we've seen your bank account nobody's telling non-six-figgie people to join costco here. people are telling you
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:55
|
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:after seventeen years of not having such i got a $400 secured card this year. it lives in a box and i have autopay set up and i have sent my $29/month ting bill to it to do the "small payment, payoff on due date" thing which i hear builds a credit score. thats my story. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-12-16/the-sec-has-big-plans posted:If you are a young person with no credit history, or a person with bad credit history, you will want to “build your credit.” This consists basically of creating a long record of reliably repaying your debts, so that credit reporting bureaus think you are a good credit, so that banks will happily lend you money, so that you can buy stuff on credit cards and get leases and mortgages and car loans. If you have no or bad credit this is hard, though, since no one will advance you any credit, so you won’t have any debts to pay, so you won’t build credit.
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:56
|
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:costco is laser focused with 10m a year of psychologists and behavioral experts on retainer to appeal to people like my mom, who "won't shop at walmart" because "the customers" i used to not shop at walmart because "the union busting" and "the destroying local economies" but then amazon really stepped up for both of those to such a degree that it'd be silly to single out walmart at this point. these days i prefer walmart to amazon if i can. i try to minimize both but let's just say i ain't perfect here this has basically nothing to do with the clear class (and often racial) bigotry that goes with what you're saying. i'm  ing
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 05:58
|
|
|
i buy meat and paper products and sometimes booze at costco. also the 35/50 lb bags of rice and the giant bags of onions. im never gonna stop taking shits or eating rice as long as i live so  i did have to get some shelves to store the poo poo in my apartment though, keeping 30 rolls of rear end paper around is indeed a conundrum in a 1 bedroom
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:01
|
|
|
PokeJoe posted:keeping 30 rolls of rear end paper around is indeed a conundrum in a 1 bedroom make a fort and become a manic pixie dreamboi
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:03
|
|
|
all that money going into walmart got some decent mtb trails in nw arkansas at least all we get out of amazon destroying retail is expensive seattle real estate and dick rockets that don’t work
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:05
|
|
|
oh my god
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:05
|
|
|
when i was 20 or so i got a credit card and didn't use it very much and always paid it off. then i got an rei credit card that i used in grad school. it got me a good amount of camping stuff. at some point the first one got closed for inactivity. by the time i got out of school i had a really good credit score i guess i got lucky that somebody told me to do that at some point and i listened. also i watched my parents fight over money enough that i learned how to follow budgets real well. i love my dad but he basically gave me a long lesson in "don't buy poo poo you dont need with money you don't have". luckily we were never in a position where we had to buy poo poo we did need with money we didn't have
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:09
|
|
|
super lucky elephant rice owns
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:10
|
|
|
PokeJoe posted:also the 35/50 lb bags of rice Hi, you're my irl friend now. let's talk about how loving good rice is. i buy bags of calrose 30lbs at a time
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:13
|
|
|
rice ain't poo poo, give me BREAD INSTEAD
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:13
|
|
|
PCjr sidecar posted:all that money going into walmart got some decent mtb trails in nw arkansas at least this is an extremely deep obscure cut and i just want to let you know that it's recognized lmfao
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:14
|
|
|
shouldnt you get the gas after youre done buying poo poo to get the cents off points or w/e
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:15
|
|
|
Stereotype posted:we are admitting that society has already collapsed. PIZZA.BAT posted:ah. yeah the one i went to down in dc was always a nightmare. it's much more reasonable here in pittsburgh Fuzzy Mammal posted:tldr: 1 million cases/day in early jan in the us most likely, but we'll run out of test infrastructure before then, lol. that evokes an extremely “heart of the sandstorm moment in Dune” feeling for me: at the most intense, we won’t even be able to tell how intense things are. Stereotype posted:yeah i'm not sure how anyone can disagree with this, it's so obviously true Mr SuperAwesome posted:ur oil is always clean and easy to change after it gets dirty/burnt after a few fries, and if you fry like tempura or breaded poo poo or whatever its easy to filter out the crap and make sure you have that good clean oil costco: sometimes a good place to shop, also a good place to experience the stripped down fact of being one of many consumer cattle who more or less enjoy the experience and are awed by Such A Mighty Pen
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:16
|
|
|
DELETE CASCADE posted:rice ain't poo poo, give me BREAD INSTEAD oh wow we're gonna have to fight i love bread but i can't let this stand
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:17
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:18
|
|
|
can't dip rice in olive oil, can't spread butter on it, can't toast it, can't make a sandwich out of it, like come the gently caress on besides, everyone knows the only good rice is mexican rice, preferably in a burrito
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:18
|
|
|
prisoner of waffles posted:... i used to see a car on the highway once in a while, with a large, homemade bumper sticker, black letters on a white background, in all caps that read THIS CAR RUNS ON USED VEGETABLE OIL you could power a lovely car with it i suppose. apparently that's a thing
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:19
|
|
|
DELETE CASCADE posted:can't dip rice in olive oil, can't spread butter on it, can't toast it, can't make a sandwich out of it, like come the gently caress on cant make egg fried bread. get the gently caress out of here
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:20
|
|
|
Jonny 290 posted:cant make egg fried bread. get the gently caress out of here it's called french toast my man
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:22
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 16, 2024 08:46 |
|
|
so maybe this is controversial but i don't actually like going to costco, especially during a pandemic. the weird people blocking the aisle for a bite of food on a toothpick, the old white lady that will absolutely ram you with her cart because she got distracted by the seaweed snacks, all that poo poo. there is nothing enjoyable about buying things i need. sometimes i'll say "ok yes i will buy shrimp" or enjoy getting a down jacket for a good price or whatever but that's not enough to make it overall a positive experience. it was cool when i could go when it was empty when i was in school but these days it's never pleasant even if im happy with my purchases i just don't like shopping i guess. i used to love going to sprouts though cause i liked going HAM on the bulk spices and granola
|
|
#
?
Dec 18, 2021 06:22
|
|