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VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

shoophobo posted:

you could afford to eat and offer free advice if you saved money buying in bulk at your local COSTCO® Warehouse. :grin:

Sonny I think you need to have a kibitz with your Bubeleh

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shoophobo
Aug 30, 2013

"shoophobo? more like shittyposter!" :grin:

Fallen Rib

VendaGoat posted:

Sonny I think you need to have a kibitz with your Bubeleh

racist.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe

VendaGoat posted:

Sonny I think you need to have a kibitz with your Bubeleh

I did Nazi that coming

Tato
Jun 19, 2001

DIRECTIVE 236: Promote pro-social values
Anyone ever been to one of those BJ's Wholesale places? Can I get a trip report? Any hot dogs? I wanna know how the other half lives...

Mycroft Holmes
Mar 26, 2010

by Azathoth

VendaGoat posted:

Sonny I think you need to have a kibitz with your Bubeleh

no jew in their right mind would pass up costco savings

actionjackson
Jan 12, 2003

shoophobo posted:

watches are perfectly acceptable accessories for men and if you look down on and get angry over people who wear wrist watches you have some kinda personal problem imo.

I have a Skagen, it looks cool and didn't cost an absurd amount of money

anyway

Are you sure shopping at Costco is really cheaper when almost everything is in such large quantities? You guys really never buy more than you end up actually consuming?

actionjackson fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Nov 23, 2016

A Concrete Divider
Jan 20, 2012

The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating
I have an orange and blinged out gshock

A Concrete Divider
Jan 20, 2012

The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating
Just kidding I'm wearing a small, modest Citizen.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Mycroft Holmes posted:

no jew in their right mind would pass up costco savings

Citation needed

Tokelau All Star
Feb 23, 2008

THE TAXES! THE FINGER THING MEANS THE TAXES!

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I told you; Get Money through the great savings at your local Costco, gently caress Bitches by using that money you saved at your local Costco. I will not repeat this excellent quality $1.00 Hotdog and 20oz drink again.

Goldmine

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel
The gently caress are you guys on about watches?

$10 for the Terrorist Watch.

poo poo works. If desert combatants like it, it's gotta work. I just got one. It shows me the time which is just crazy.

Also Toyota trucks.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe

Pennywise the Frown posted:

I told you; Get Money through the great savings at your local Costco, gently caress Bitches by using that money you saved at your local Costco. I will not repeat this excellent quality $1.00 Hotdog and 20oz drink again.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

actionjackson posted:

I have a Skagen, it looks cool and didn't cost an absurd amount of money

anyway

Are you sure shopping at Costco is really cheaper when almost everything is in such large quantities? You guys really never buy more than you end up actually consuming?

If you've got two people in your household the bag of mini oranges lasts roughly a week. They start turning after a week and a half. Costco has it down to a science.

HOT! New Memes
May 31, 2006




I bought a bear gutted it and wear the skin around the house.

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx

VendaGoat posted:

Citation needed

I grew up in South Florida and like half the white people are jewish. I went to several dozen bar mitzvahs growing up.

Costco was an institution.

The only people dumb enough not to see it were poor people who can't think more than 2 weeks ahead. WAAAAA I have to pay 40 dollars NOW to save literally HUNDREDS of dollars on gas and groceries over the year WAAAAA.

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

TheLightPurges posted:

The only people dumb enough not to see it were poor people who can't think more than 2 weeks ahead. WAAAAA I have to pay 40 dollars NOW to save literally HUNDREDS of dollars on gas and groceries over the year WAAAAA.

There's some interesting research about how poor kids learn decision making and what's optimal for them, but you're probably just trolling.

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx

...and the pitch! posted:

There's some interesting research about how poor kids learn decision making and what's optimal for them,

This is what I was referring to but in a more over the top jokey way. Thank you for pointing it out.

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

TheLightPurges posted:

This is what I was referring to but in a more over the top jokey way. Thank you for pointing it out.

Semi unrelated but I love those videos of really young kids trying to make a good decision about eating the marshmallow. They're so bad at it!

edit: plus it uh sheds some light on how I make my own choices

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx
My mom was a teacher and she said the saddest thing about her job was the number of kids who'd come to school with 200 dollar shoes with the latest iphone (6-7th graders) but be on free lunches and stealing everything that wasn't nailed down in the classroom like pencils.

A Concrete Divider
Jan 20, 2012

The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating
I don't always buy $200 Nikes but when I do it's on a payday loan. And I don't always buy an iPhone 7 but when I do I make sure to leave just enough money for a plan which requires me to put minutes on my phone.

Chinatown
Sep 11, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
:rip: anyone shopping at Costco today.

A Concrete Divider
Jan 20, 2012

The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating

Chinatown posted:

:rip: anyone shopping at Costco today.

not me don't have a membership yet as i'm still a pleb student :( and i'm writing a paper

if anyone does go take pics!

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

The ones I tried had been in the steamer or whatever it is too long. The hotdogs are perfect every time.


How do we Get Money, wise one? Spell it out please, we need your wisdom. I'm pretty sure the bitch problem will solve itself.


Ohhhhhhh, see, I get it now.

the answer to quick and easy profit is: buy for less, sell for more

TheLightPurges
Sep 24, 2016

by exmarx

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:


How do we Get Money, wise one? Spell it out please, we need your wisdom. I'm pretty sure the bitch problem will solve itself.


Usually by providing goods or services to another person.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
Yes, yes, people with money make more of it, we all know that. How do you make your first million and make the other boys accept you?

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

Yes, yes, people with money make more of it, we all know that. How do you make your first million and make the other boys accept you?

Oh well you gotta get some nest egg inheritance first lol yea

then you just stick that first mil in a safe index fund and enjoy your 5-10% per year. maybe work some hobby job to occupy your time.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

Yes, yes, people with money make more of it, we all know that. How do you make your first million and make the other boys accept you?

:lol:

Pennywise the Frown
May 10, 2010

Upset Trowel

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

Yes, yes, people with money make more of it, we all know that. How do you make your first million and make the other boys accept you?

Well, when you inherit your first 10lb bag of frozen chicken, you divide it into securities which are then sold by the executive card members. They then split those securities among the 30 packs of paper towels or tissues depending on the market. Then your frozen chicken equity builds and you can use that equity to buy 5lb frozen California Blend vegetables. After those mature, you can sell all dividends, buy even more 10 packs of Clorox Bleach, divide into securities, and finally enter the wide open GOLD member market.

Bam, you just saved your first million by shopping at your local Costco.

It's a toilet paper market right now though, so things are slow but very stable.


I have no idea what any of these financial words mean or how to use them.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Well, when you inherit your first 10lb bag of frozen chicken, you divide it into securities which are then sold by the executive card members. They then split those securities among the 30 packs of paper towels or tissues depending on the market. Then your frozen chicken equity builds and you can use that equity to buy 5lb frozen California Blend vegetables. After those mature, you can sell all dividends, buy even more 10 packs of Clorox Bleach, divide into securities, and finally enter the wide open GOLD member market.

Bam, you just saved your first million by shopping at your local Costco.

It's a toilet paper market right now though, so things are slow but very stable.


I have no idea what any of these financial words mean or how to use them.

Sounds legit. See, VendaGoat? This guy knows what's up.

Moridin920 posted:

Oh well you gotta get some nest egg inheritance first lol yea

then you just stick that first mil in a safe index fund and enjoy your 5-10% per year. maybe work some hobby job to occupy your time.

I've already blown through my first five inheritances? How do I get another?

naem
May 29, 2011

Moridin920 posted:

Oh well you gotta get some nest egg inheritance first lol yea

then you just stick that first mil in a safe index fund and enjoy your 5-10% per year. maybe work some hobby job to occupy your time.

This describes a lot I've people I've known somehow

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:

Sounds legit. See, VendaGoat? This guy knows what's up.

Return Of JimmyJars
Jun 24, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
My Costco was so crowded today it was literally impossible to move. You just had to flow with the crowd. I can't believe the fire Marshall hadn't shut the place down.

Also I got three gigantic pies for $18.

A Concrete Divider
Jan 20, 2012

The Unbearable Whiteness of Eating

Return Of JimmyJars posted:

My Costco was so crowded today it was literally impossible to move. You just had to flow with the crowd. I can't believe the fire Marshall hadn't shut the place down.

Also I got three gigantic pies for $18.

Yet you took no pics while there. K.

Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Return Of JimmyJars posted:

My Costco was so crowded today it was literally impossible to move. You just had to flow with the crowd. I can't believe the fire Marshall hadn't shut the place down.

Also I got three gigantic pies for $18.
Just a normal weekend-day at Costco tbh.

Though day before thanksgiving is a special Madmax Thunderdome hell at every single grocery store, especially the ones around here are awful

Drunk Nerds
Jan 25, 2011

Just close your eyes
Fun Shoe
As a high schooler, one of our favorite pastimes was grabbing a bottle of hard liquor, sneaking into one of their demo sheds one-by-one, bolting the door, passing the bottle around until it was empty, then staggering out as fast as we could and going to the local burger king.

Grem
Mar 29, 2004

It's how her species communicates

I haven't bought a second box of loving trash bags in many years, I don't know how many bags are in this loving thing but it's too huge roles and it's not even close to running out. Two big rear end rolls and they appear to break the laws of physics or are literally Jesus.

Also I got the Costco Visa, that's right fucks, THAT Visa. Get it if you haven't, seriously. I get paid, pay off the balance, and use it for every single spending I can except the mortgage. Bills, groceries, gas, parking at school, collecting the cash from friends at a restaurant and paying on my card. All cash back! Paid for a cruise, broke up with the girl so I cancelled it, got a refund, and still earned cash back on the original payment. Over $400 earned at it's not even close to being a year in my wallet.

goodness
Jan 3, 2012

When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, you stop. But what do you do when the light turns blue with orange and lavender spots?
Does Costco have family memberships and if so can I get one if I am in a different state than they are

Stalizard
Aug 11, 2006

Have I got a headache!

Tato posted:

Anyone ever been to one of those BJ's Wholesale places? Can I get a trip report? Any hot dogs? I wanna know how the other half lives...

My ex had a membership there, it's totally identical to a Sam's or a Costco. One time we bought a 55" TV and a wheel of brie, just cause. Welp, that's my BJ's story.

Oh and also making jokes about getting BJ's in bulk gets old way faster than I thought it would

Demonachizer
Aug 7, 2004
Just bought a couple whole tenderloins (PSMO because I like the chain) to make some beef wellington for Thanksgiving. I also grabbed a bottle of their 25 year single malt which is decent but unfortunate in that it is bottled at 40% which isn't quite right for scotch.

Also my costco wasn't super crowded but I also went while regular folk were at their jobs. I mean it was more crowded than a normal Wednesday afternoon certainly but lines were only 3 deep so not so bad at all. They had some Indian yogurt to sample and it was just ok.

Oh I got a bunch of king crab legs (loving expensive it was like 200 dollars for a box of them), shrimp, lump crab, lobster tails, and langoustines for appetizers. I couldn't decide if leading with cold seafood stuff was weird with the rest of the menu (beef wellington, mashed potatoes and gravy, asparagus, salad, popovers, different desserts).

Demonachizer fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Nov 24, 2016

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Prokhor Zakharov
Dec 31, 2008

This is me as I make another great post


Good luck with your depression!

Grem posted:

I haven't bought a second box of loving trash bags in many years, I don't know how many bags are in this loving thing but it's too huge roles and it's not even close to running out. Two big rear end rolls and they appear to break the laws of physics or are literally Jesus.

Also I got the Costco Visa, that's right fucks, THAT Visa. Get it if you haven't, seriously. I get paid, pay off the balance, and use it for every single spending I can except the mortgage. Bills, groceries, gas, parking at school, collecting the cash from friends at a restaurant and paying on my card. All cash back! Paid for a cruise, broke up with the girl so I cancelled it, got a refund, and still earned cash back on the original payment. Over $400 earned at it's not even close to being a year in my wallet.

I have the visa and can confirm it's good as hell

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