I’m not sure that I totally understand it, but there is something immensely satisfying to me about shopping at Costco.
Why do I feel instantly better having this in my pantry?
Honestly. How long will it take me to go through 500 sandwich bags? I’ll tell you, because I bought the same four-pack last year. It takes a year. I have bought A YEAR’S SUPPLY OF ZIPLOC BAGS.
Is this some kind of mental illness, this needing wanting to have so much…stuff?
Here’s some other items that have me feeling all happy:
Do you have any idea how long it will take my two daughters to eat SIXTY chewy bars? They get sick of them in their lunches after about a week.
And these. My kids don’t even really like Nutri-Grain bars. But there was a coupon…
So now we have 48 of them. I guess I can feed them to their friends on playdates. Looks like we’re going to be having lots of playdates!
The strangest thing about it all is that I don’t really consider myself to be that much of a consumerist. And I’m certainly not a hoarder. But there’s something about Costco that I just can’t resist. Big, bundled multi-packs screaming my name: 12 Tetra-Paks of Juice? YES! 4 12-packs of yogurt tubes bundled in one big box? YOU BETCHA! A brick of cheddar cheese that weighs more than my firstborn did at birth? WHERE DO I SIGN UP?!??!
I occasionally wonder if it’s not some kind of hard-wired genetic behaviour…you know, stock up on the acorns so you and your precious offspring won’t starve. It’s just, in the 21st century, acorns tend to look like this:
(great for school lunches…nut free and all that…ya know…I’m just saying…)
It must be some form of mental illness.
Filed under: humour, introspection, laughing at myself | Tagged: chewy bars, consumerism, Costco, hoarding, nutri-grain bars, rice krispies treats, ziploc bags
I’m with you on this! I was supposed to go there today, but now I’ll be looking for that nutri-grain coupon when I go buy cases of juice and yogurt tubes tomorrow. The feeling good is not a mental illness – it is the satisfaction of feeling like I got a good deal (whether I did or not – I never want to know) and providing for my family (or their play date friends:)
You and my husband would get along really well. He loves to stock up. I prefer to keep it so the cupboards are pretty much bare by the time the week is up.
Only ever been twice and the second time I walked out empty handed. I hate shopping and this place is TOTALLY overwhelming. Plus, urban home in T.O. isn’t exactly full of space to store all of this. You have a big freezer and a ton of cupboards and you’re ok. But you did promise to get my a snowsuit there for my daughter next year…right?