Friday, November 9, 2018

Costco Can Be Detrimental To Your Health

I always go to Costco with a list.  It doesn't help much.  There's so much good stuff, how can you possibly pass it all by??  

My TRUE reason for going there was to check on the variety of ice cream they had and to procure bowls, napkins and spoons for the RV Rally.  I never even SAW the ice cream, let alone THOUGHT about it.  

Instead, I cruised the dessert aisle.  I was so proud I passed by everything!  Not one single desert in the basket.  Then came that refrigerator section where they have everything for a turkey dinner, already cooked.   

Suddenly it dawned on me that Cooper was out of chicken.  Those prepackaged cooked turkey breasts might be just perfect and CHEAPER!!  I bought two.  THEN I spotted the corned beef, packaged all pretty with lots of salt.  Just what I needed for my crampy legs.  
The spoons and napkins were next in the cart.  The only bowls were WAY too big and VERY expensive.  I'll pass on those.  The next thing I know, I've got a box of biscotti, naan bread, gruyere cheese, pork tamales and a huge container of mac and cheese piled up in my cart.  Where did THOSE come from???  Someone was putting stuff in my cart!!!!!

Time to steel myself for the grand total.  It's heart attack time at Costco.  Did I not try to buy very little?  It never fails, the total is ALWAYS over $200, no matter how few items are in the cart.  

Oh ..... and of course my membership was due.  $60 for one year.  In the old days when I was married, it was $40 and easily justifiable.  Nowadays, I seriously doubt I save that much since I rarely shop at Costco.  Once I got over the shock of $274.63, I ran my plastic through the little machine.  It's only money!!  At least I will be reimbursed for $51 worth of rally supplies.

Just so you know, their mac and cheese isn't good at all ... and now I have about three quarts to eat.

When I got home, in order to help balance my checking account, I got on the phone and cancelled Syrius Radio in my rig.  At $20 a month, it's getting too expensive for the joy of listening to music as I drive along for maybe 6 months a year.  Not only that, but did you ever notice they play the same music over and over and over?  

I've been a subscriber for seven years and I'm still listening to the exact same monologue and tunes as I was when I got it.  I think I have a few CD's around here that I can play over and over just the same.

Of course it took me 30 minutes on the phone with the representative to cancel it.  I tried to hang up, but she said I had to listen to all of the offers they had, before she could process the cancellation.  Really?  Okay ..... GO!!

We will give you a discount for one year.      NO

We will send you a radio where you can listen all day long at home.     NO

We will include the radio in your home AND the discount for two years.      NO

At long last after three more tries, she agreed to cancel it for me.  I was put on hold.  Ten minutes later, she came back with one more offer, whereupon I told her NO MORE OFFERS.  I want to CANCEL.  At last, a cancellation number.  Now if I can only find those CD's.

Somewhere in there I went to my dentist for teeth cleaning by a new girl.  Seems the third one I've used has retired.  Gosh, it takes me TWO years just to train them.  Surprisingly, this one did pretty good, saying I got the Patient Gold Star for the day because my teeth were in such good shape.  YAY!!

Since I was on a roll with the "NO" word, when she asked about x-rays, I said NO.  I have no insurance and it's cost prohibitive.  Maybe next time (that's code for maybe in four years).

Since I had such clean wonderful teeth, I figured I might as well sink them into something delicious ... like peanut butter cookies.  That's where the above picture comes from.  The oven gave me fits, but I finally got three dozen edible ones.  They will come in handy when I fire my gardeners next week.  That's tomorrow's story!!








16 comments:

  1. You're a good girl, you can say NO! :)
    Costco is a trap for sure but we still love going there. Now that we are sharing a membership with Rob and Pat, it will be just as bad........no, good!
    Your cookies looks awesome, as usual. Bill is drooling. I must make him some.

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    1. It's always good to know how to get to your man's heart!! LOL

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    2. I meant that we share a membership to Sam's Club. We would never give up our Costco membership, use it all the time. :)

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  2. I gave up my Cosco membership many years ago. I like to shop different grocery stores for their specials and local foods when we travel.

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    1. I would probably cancel too, except for needing all that ice cream come January. If they don't help me out, I'm in a pickle!

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  4. Groupon is very good if you join it for free
    I you could join Costco I think it was $39 plus you get a $20 gift certificate plus you get a fruit platter for joining so you got ripped off
    As for your plastics cutlery and bowls try a restaurant supply store
    If your RV has a CD player.
    go to goodwill Sally's or a pawnshop and pick up your selection of music
    Or i believe you could download the Pandora app on your phone and Bluetooth that to your radio. Pandora has a way far better selection
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    1. No restaurant supply stores around here, but Smart & Final might have something. I had Pandora for awhile ... doesn't it use up cell data????

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  5. Groupon is very good if you join it for free
    I you could join Costco I think it was $39 plus you get a $20 gift certificate plus you get a fruit platter for joining so you got ripped off
    As for your plastics cutlery and bowls try a restaurant supply store
    If your RV has a CD player go to goodwill Sally's or a pawnshop and pick up your selection of music
    Or i believe you could do Pandora on your phone and Bluetooth that to your radio. Pandora has a way better selection πŸ’ƒπŸΏπŸ•ΊπŸ»πŸ’ƒπŸΏπŸŽΉπŸŽΉπŸŽ·πŸŽΊπŸŽΈπŸŽ»πŸŽΆπŸŽ΅

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    1. I was correct Pandora does have pre-app you can upload to your phone and Bluetooth it to your radio whether it be your car your truck or your RV If you have any problem take it to your local phone provider thay will show you how to do it

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  6. We use Sams, and it does cost, but we get the membership fees (or most) back with our Sams Card cash back. In California, I find it is the least expensive EXPENSIVE gas there (still nearly a dollar more than we pay here). As for how much ends up in the cart...depends on if I am shopping alone, or if Marcia is tossing this and that in there. LOL

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    1. I think I'm more like Marcia ... tossing stuff in!! lol
      No Sams Club around here ... only Costco. I would use their fuel occasionally, but there are always 30 cars in line ahead of me.

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  7. Trader Joe's has really good mac and cheese. Get the red box, not the low fat kind. Good, really good.

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    1. Ooooh I love Trader Joe's. I'll check out their red box!

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  8. They just don't make any new 70's ,80's, and 90's music anymore. Years ago, I made back up copies of Sirius music on a DVR. A little bit of Unix magic and converted it to 8 hour songs. Put 8 of them in a playlist and there you go. Only issue is the DJ comments seem dated and they continue to not know what day of the week it is.
    Ever wonder when you go to Costco and try to find things you have bought there before they have either moved the location of the items in the store or they now only sell their own brand.
    Now onto the dentist, who continues to tell me I can have the best teeth in the world, but if I don't do the services they offer for the gums that they are all going to fall out. After 30 years of the disease it has become so bad that now my 13 year old dog must have gotten it. The Vet tells me that is her only problem. The 4 year old dog is fine so far.

    Back to Costco because I forget the get the Pedigree Dentastix.

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    1. I wonder if my I-pod will hook up to the stereo in the rig? That would settle the problem since there's about 8 hours of music on it! Yes, Costco is good at moving stuff around so you will have to hunt for it, therefore giving you time to pick up even MORE stuff you don't need. Especially candy, to help with that dental problem. Yeah, my Vet is all about the teeth cleaning too, an expensive operation. Ha!! I buy the same dentastix!! They have them at Costco???????

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