On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:59:25 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

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>Steve Pope wrote:
>>
>> Pete C. > wrote:
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>> >$50 a year should not be significant to anyone making over minimum wage,
>> >that's less than $4.17 per month.
>>
>> Which is about 2% of the average American's food spend, so you'd
>> have to be saving that much for Costco to be cost-effective.
>>
>> When we were Costco members, we could never get our Costco spending to
>> be more than about 20% of total grocery acquisition.
>
>If you limit yourself to groceries. Paper goods, plastic goods,
>detergents, shampoos, soaps, mouthwash, vitamins, etc. easily make it
>cost effective. I can't imagine not being able to save that $4.17/mo if
>you put any effort into shopping at Costco.

I can save twice that just in a years worth of shaving supplies;
blades and cream.