If you have a membership to Costco, you might get as excited as I do every time I go there…which is every two to three months.
It’s not far from my home and I could go more often, but then I would spend more money, more often.
I have a standard list of things I buy but the most fun is looking at everything else the store has to offer. There are always new items.
If you play your cards right, and are hungry, you’ll be lucky enough to try all the free samples that are available to shoppers. You could eat your entire lunch and dessert for free.
If you miss all the samples, there’s still an amazing hot dog deal at the little cafe…and you won’t be disappointed.
Speaking of the cafe, I find it interesting that there are so few tables to dine at when there are hundreds of shoppers in the store at any given time. Just a thought!
I glance at other people’s carts to see how full, or how empty, they are. Sometimes I spy an item that I might like and I ask a perfect stranger, “Where did you find that?”
We went to Costco two days ago even though we were there two weeks ago. My husband bought tires from there a couple of months ago and one of them had a small leak. It would take about one and a half hours to repair so we went shopping.
I’m sure I’m missing out on many amazing products and food items because of my ‘standard list’ of things to buy. However, recently I discovered Costco’s amazing baking-related items at a fraction of those same items at the grocery store. Flour, bread flour, brown sugar, confectioners sugar, walnuts, pecans, etc.
Sure, you have to buy larger quantities but the savings is amazing.
I bake competitively and also have a little side hustle of various sourdough offerings.
Yes, I crumbled and joined the sourdough explosion…on my second try at it.
About two years ago I attempted to make my first sourdough bread. Many failures later I stopped all together. A year later I was going to conquer sourdough come hell or high water…and I did it!
It’s easier than I thought because I let sourdough intimidate me the first time around. With over fifty years of baking under my chef’s hat, I told myself that I’m bigger than a loaf of sourdough bread and I wouldn’t be defeated.
And now I can’t stop.
The more I sell or give away (to family only), the more rave reviews I get, the more I bake. I’m baking about four to five days a week. It isn’t only the bread. I make scones, muffins, cookies, cakes, and the ever requested sourdough pancake mix. This mix makes the best pancakes I’ve ever had in my life.
Only two questions I have related to Costco:
- Why do some customers come to Costco, fight for a parking space, fight the long checkout lines…all for one rotisserie chicken?
- How do I get a job in the purchasing department at Costco? That has to be like Christmas shopping every day for free!
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