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Cindy Fuller > wrote:

> Ranee's post about the non-availability of good kosher hot dogs at
> Costco brought up an interesting sidebar. She said that she and Rich
> had let their Costco membership lapse. The SO and I have debated for
> years about the value of getting a Costco membership. I briefly had a
> Sam's Club membership many years ago, but I let it lapse because there
> wasn't one nearby when I moved from Dallas to Ithaca in 1986. Our
> neighbors are big Costco aficionados, and my relatives back east are
> devotees of BJ's and Sam's. To my thinking, a membership doesn't make
> much sense for the two of us. We don't have oodles of space to store
> large quantities of stuff. Anyone in a small household want to chime in
> one way or another?
>
> Cindy

What I save buying Zyrtec there all year over the drug store pays for
our membership.

There are only two of us but we do buy food there - we use a food saver
to package up meats into two person servings and freeze. The prices on
laundry soap for an HE machine are better than the local stores here.
When they have coupons for toilet paper the Costco price then is the
same as Target on sale. We also purchase batteries, vodka, and socks
there for less then the local stores. You do have to be familiar with
prices locally as some things at Costco are the same or a bit higher at
times.

marcella