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Buying in Bulk

Posted by on Feb 16, 2009 | 7 Comments

I’m fascinated with the idea of buying in bulk. But fear not. I haven’t gone completely off my rocker, filled my shed with supplies, padlocked the door, and set the Rottweilers loose … well, not yet at least. But I am slowly accumulating a number of items en masse. For the most part, I’ve been concentrating on non-food items, with boring household essentials, including:

  • sandwich bags
  • aluminum foil
  • kitchen garbage bags
  • bath soap

The non-exciting stuff seems to be a good bet … by having a bunch on hand, I don’t run the risk of over-consuming. If we had five giant boxes of cookies, we’d surely eat them all in a week. Not the case with garbage bags. (Then again, I do worry about having a jumbo roll of aluminum foil in the house, just in case I might happen to get the urge to cover the walls and ceilings.))

Winter seems to be a good time to stock up on canned goods, however … the local supermarket chain always has a “Can-Can” sale when it make sense to fill up the cart with canned soup and tuna fish. But that stuff can get mighty boring mighty fast, so I tend not to buy too much of it.

I’ve even gone so far as to have signed up for a Costco card. That’s a first for me … the jumbo warehouse and oversized shopping carts seem like a bizzaro world of massive consumption.

What do you buy in bulk?

  • Buffet

    Laundry and dishwasher detergent, T.P. (duh), sweet n’low, tea bags, and protein powder.

  • Buffet

    - There will be no “moderation”!

  • http://www.ronknights.com/ Ron Knights

    I joined BJs warehouse store a month ago. I bought lots of food, etc.

    I usually go grocery shopping once a month.

    It’s the 23rd of February, and I haven’t gone grocery shopping yet. I still have lots of tuna fish, etc.

  • http://none Dgrtft

    Don’t buy deli meat.

  • gypkap

    In other parts o the country, Costco or Sams Club are your friends. I’ve been a Costco member for a long time, since the mid 80s. Kids are grown up now, but we still buy food, soap, clothes, and non-prescription pills from either of these stores.

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com:80/hackonia/2009/01/21/the-republican-base-looking-for-confrontation-with-white-house-already/ parkbench

    I work at a COSTCO and I enjoy their products. No, I dont get a discount. What I buy on a consistant basis.
    canned chili, Vegistraws (a snack), cashews, milk, various breakfast cerials, italian meatballs, aaa and aa batteries, Kirkland bottled water(mostly for disaster prep) and more. That is all I can think of just from my fallible memory. We do buy much more there. We have walmart here but not SamsClub.

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