Costco used to be one of my favorite places to shop. Okay, it still is, but I refuse to go there more than once every month or two. The problem is that you can't coupon there. If you buy anything there that you could get with coupons elsewhere, you are spending more. There are a few items that are still cheaper there than I can get elsewhere, but I find that just walking into the store creates a massive hemorrhage in my budget if I am not extremely disciplined going in.
What will I allow myself to buy at Costco, then? Well, produce rarely has coupons, so I can get some of that there. But I have to watch out. No convenient little packages of baby carrots to put in the kids' lunches, for example. It seems like it has a pretty good price when you are there, until you consider the cost of a 5 lb. bag of carrots. If there aren't juice boxes on sale anywhere, those are reasonably priced at Costco. Some baking ingredients in bulk are okay to get there, as well. But really, I think I will be letting my membership expire at the end of the year. It isn't really worth the cost. It might be if I lived closer, but it costs about $6 in gas round-trip, so I think it is more of a burden on my wallet than a help.
If you do have a Costco membership, you might enjoy the free samples they occasionally offer to members. Here is one that is being offered right now. It is a sample of Dove deodorant. http://www.costco.com/Browse/ProductSet.aspx?Prodid=11764061&search=free+sample&Mo=2&cm_re=1_en-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search&lang=en-US&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&Sp=S&N=5000043&whse=BC&Dx=mode+matchallpartial&Ntk=Text_Search&Dr=P_CatalogName:BC&Ne=4000000&D=free+sample&Ntt=free+sample&No=0&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&topnav=&s=1
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