I get the vanilla almond milk - unsweetened. Cereal and shakes/smoothies. Perfect so as to not drink my calories.
I go for whatever unsweetened is on special, don't care about the brand, but I'm always stoked if an unsweetened vanilla is on sale.
6-pack from Costco - always a good price.
Costco over here you have to pay 60 bucks to sign up just to shop there. Fuck that.
I pay for the $150 executive membership. I made my money back in just gas savings alone. I paid for it a second time just in meat purchases. I paid for it 1.5 more times last year when I got about $230 worth of Costco cash.
Buying a membership to Costco is one of the best financial decisions you could make.
Yea, the costco membership really works itself out if you shop there enough. As a single dude, that means it doesn't work out too often in my favor since I just don't buy that much stuff. However, I do get the membership every few years and will stock up on the things that will last for awhile and then let the membership slide until I need to stock up again... which will probably happen before the end of the year.
Maybe I need to look into it more then. But yeah, like Cram, I don't buy a lot of stuff so not sure it would benefit me a whole that. To be honest I thought it was just a 60 dollar fee to shop there. Didn't understand the reason or benefit behind it.
The cost savings are ridiculous, truly. I live alone and still get my money's worth several times over every year. I can't get everything there though. I don't get much fresh produce there. I mean, I'm not going to eat 5lbs of spinach before it goes bad. But I buy 4lb containers of grapes there, bananas, 12 packs of apples... stuff like that. I get a lot of frozen fruit there and that'll last as long as I need it to. Those are the things that go in my shakes.
Meat too. I'll get a 9 pound slab of pork belly, cut it into three 3lb slabs and freeze them. Same goes for my eye round (for jerky), chicken wings, chicken breast, ground turkey, etc.. I have anything I'd want on standby. Toilet paper, paper towels, cat litter, power bars, milk, eggs, ciabatta rolls (I freeze those too), mozzarella, cereal, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, floss, tooth paste, flowers... those are all things I only buy at Costco and never really end up wasting any of it. It's a great place if you're entertaining and need to feed people as well. You won't beat their prices anywhere else. I've had single day BBQs that almost paid for my annual membership in what I saved at Costco's meat department.
Then there's all the big ticket items. Every year I seem to make 1 or 2 big-ish purchases for the house. A couch, rowing machine, 60" TV, power washer, kayak, generator, a gazebo... all single item purchases, the savings of which paid the equivalent+ of an annual membership each (maybe not the kayak).