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Post by BearClause on Nov 11, 2019 20:42:01 GMT -5
I get my tires there and the savings in tires and gas alone pay for the membership. I work at a college and often buy things for work there. If we're cooking dinner for the team or getting office supplies or a few snacks for meetings. Recently bought cold medicine, pain relievers, cough drops and what not for the health center and training room. I don't buy a lot of food there as I am single, but my coworkers that are also single will sometimes go to buy things in bulk and split the cost of whatever. I'm going to buy my eyeglasses there. Good court is bomb and rotisserie chicken is great for lazy nights and making ramen or congee. I have occasionally paid my parents to buy me a Costco gift card. You need a membership to buy a gift card, but with the gift card you can buy stuff without a membership. There are a few tricks to the Costco Cash Cards. That's all one needs to buy gas at a Costco gas station, although iit will obviously max out at whatever the limit is. The other trick is that a card with any value can be used and the remainder of a purchase paid with cash/credit/debit. My membership lapsed for a while and I got my folks to buy them. I remember making a $150 purchase with less than 25 cents on the card. But it's got to have some value left. Once I made sure my gas purchase left a few cents on the card so I could use it to buy something. Even an expired Costco membership card lets me in if there's a food court. And sometimes the food court is outside. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2019 23:24:14 GMT -5
If you're ever craving Lasagna, their Italian sausage & beef is pretty damn good.
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Post by Wolfgang on Dec 16, 2019 17:35:24 GMT -5
I bought the following Peanut Butter Pretzels. Is this thing bad for me?  |
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Post by WahineFan44 on Dec 16, 2019 18:18:35 GMT -5
Chicken Bakes, and its not even close lol
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Post by yoda on Mar 14, 2020 14:23:52 GMT -5
Anybody been to a Costco in the last couple days? I haven't but filled up with their gas at around 7:30p last night and the parking lot was super packed.
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Post by bbg95 on Mar 14, 2020 18:50:07 GMT -5
Anybody been to a Costco in the last couple days? I haven't but filled up with their gas at around 7:30p last night and the parking lot was super packed. On Thursday here in Utah, I got gas in the afternoon, and it wasn't bad. I was going to buy some food later that evening, but Google indicated that it was insane (that was the day when all the sports got shut down). By Friday night, it seemed a little busy but okay. I only had to wait two minutes to check out. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 15, 2020 0:22:20 GMT -5
I have occasionally paid my parents to buy me a Costco gift card. You need a membership to buy a gift card, but with the gift card you can buy stuff without a membership. There are a few tricks to the Costco Cash Cards. That's all one needs to buy gas at a Costco gas station, although iit will obviously max out at whatever the limit is. The other trick is that a card with any value can be used and the remainder of a purchase paid with cash/credit/debit. My membership lapsed for a while and I got my folks to buy them. I remember making a $150 purchase with less than 25 cents on the card. But it's got to have some value left. Once I made sure my gas purchase left a few cents on the card so I could use it to buy something. Even an expired Costco membership card lets me in if there's a food court. And sometimes the food court is outside. This reminds me. Alcohol laws are very different in every state. In some states, it's illegal to have "memberships" to liquor stores, so Costco must make their alcoholic beverage sales available to anyone, membership or not. But in WA, Costco won't sell alcoholic beverages to anyone without a membership -- even if they have a gift card. |
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Post by BearClause on Mar 20, 2020 10:42:06 GMT -5
There are a few tricks to the Costco Cash Cards. That's all one needs to buy gas at a Costco gas station, although iit will obviously max out at whatever the limit is. The other trick is that a card with any value can be used and the remainder of a purchase paid with cash/credit/debit. My membership lapsed for a while and I got my folks to buy them. I remember making a $150 purchase with less than 25 cents on the card. But it's got to have some value left. Once I made sure my gas purchase left a few cents on the card so I could use it to buy something. Even an expired Costco membership card lets me in if there's a food court. And sometimes the food court is outside. This reminds me. Alcohol laws are very different in every state. In some states, it's illegal to have "memberships" to liquor stores, so Costco must make their alcoholic beverage sales available to anyone, membership or not. But in WA, Costco won't sell alcoholic beverages to anyone without a membership -- even if they have a gift card. I don't know about buying alcohol in Washington at all. My relatives in the Seattle area ask us to bring wine there because the taxes are so high in WA. Heck - we've bought Washington wines here for them because it's cheaper. However, I had free alcohol at a winery tour there, while in California a nominal fee is required because of rules. I've been to taprooms here where I was told they had a limit of 3 samples and they had to be relatively small. Once I had a tiny serving of Budweiser during an event at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fairfield, California. They had the Budweiser Clydesdales there and were also giving free tours of the brewery without any alcohol served. I've been on their $5 paid tour, and there was alcohol served at the beginning of the tour and a coupon for another sample at the public tasting room. I ended up using the coupon on a can of Coke since I was driving home. I have read that Sam's Club has alcohol sales to any member of the public in all states. |
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 20, 2020 16:10:31 GMT -5
This reminds me. Alcohol laws are very different in every state. In some states, it's illegal to have "memberships" to liquor stores, so Costco must make their alcoholic beverage sales available to anyone, membership or not. But in WA, Costco won't sell alcoholic beverages to anyone without a membership -- even if they have a gift card. I don't know about buying alcohol in Washington at all. My relatives in the Seattle area ask us to bring wine there because the taxes are so high in WA. Heck - we've bought Washington wines here for them because it's cheaper. However, I had free alcohol at a winery tour there, while in California a nominal fee is required because of rules. I've been to taprooms here where I was told they had a limit of 3 samples and they had to be relatively small. Once I had a tiny serving of Budweiser during an event at the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Fairfield, California. They had the Budweiser Clydesdales there and were also giving free tours of the brewery without any alcohol served. I've been on their $5 paid tour, and there was alcohol served at the beginning of the tour and a coupon for another sample at the public tasting room. I ended up using the coupon on a can of Coke since I was driving home. I have read that Sam's Club has alcohol sales to any member of the public in all states. It used to be standard here that wineries gave free tastings, but too many people started just showing up to do rounds of free tastings at all the wineries. Almost all now charge a fee, although typically it's refundable if you actually buy something. Washington State was a hotbed of the Progressive movement back around 1900, and part of that was temperance. Washington passed a state Prohibition law about five years before the national constitutional amendment. When the 21st Amendment passed in 1933, ending prohibition, Washington made alcohol legal again too, but within a year the state restricted all sales to state-owned liquor stores. Wine and beer were legal from private distributors. This also included a strange provision where the state mandated a layer of distributors that had to be between producers and retailers and mandated a price markup at each level. That, plus high taxes, has always made Washington among the highest-cost states for buying alcohol. About 10 years ago an initiative ended the state liquor stores and allowed liquor to be sold retail, but taxes are still pretty high. |
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Post by BearClause on Mar 20, 2020 22:06:10 GMT -5
It used to be standard here that wineries gave free tastings, but too many people started just showing up to do rounds of free tastings at all the wineries. Almost all now charge a fee, although typically it's refundable if you actually buy something. Washington State was a hotbed of the Progressive movement back around 1900, and part of that was temperance. Washington passed a state Prohibition law about five years before the national constitutional amendment. When the 21st Amendment passed in 1933, ending prohibition, Washington made alcohol legal again too, but within a year the state restricted all sales to state-owned liquor stores. Wine and beer were legal from private distributors. This also included a strange provision where the state mandated a layer of distributors that had to be between producers and retailers and mandated a price markup at each level. That, plus high taxes, has always made Washington among the highest-cost states for buying alcohol. About 10 years ago an initiative ended the state liquor stores and allowed liquor to be sold retail, but taxes are still pretty high. I remember a free tasting at Chateau Ste. Michelle in Woodinville back in 2013. That was free, but they had assorted other tastings for maybe $10 or $20 with more expensive wines. I distinctly remember another group in our free tour and tasting arrived by some limo operator. My 2 year old went on the tour, and at one point was handed a cup with Concord grape juice just to have something to hold onto. I mentioned Anheuser-Busch in Fairfield. They've since discontinued their tour and their gift shop. |
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Post by yoda on May 24, 2020 10:43:30 GMT -5
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Post by yoda on May 25, 2020 10:05:55 GMT -5
Weird...image looks super dark on my laptop but looks fine on my iPad.  |
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