Jan M.
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It was me this time and I can no longer tease my husband.
My husband I are at our son's in Ohio now and we are all headed up to Wyndham Glacier Canyon in the Wisconsin Dells next weekend for a 9 night stay. We wanted to go to Costco to get stuff to take with us and to stock our son and his family up again. Yesterday afternoon I gave my husband the choice of staying at their house and taking our 3 and 7 year old granddaughters to the pool or taking our son and this time our DIL too to Costco. Our son really wanted her to go to see what all they have as she has never been to Costco. They've talked about getting their own membership.
So here we are at Costco. We're done getting fresh fruits and vegetables and bakery items and are working on the meats. Our son is putting two packages of the organic ground beef that comes in three individual pound sections into the cart knowing they still have a pound or maybe two left from my husband's Costco shopping excursion with him back in April when my husband was here by himself. Our DIL very quietly said our son's name remonstrating him for taking advantage of the fact that I'm paying. He then had her go get two packages of the apple gouda chicken sausages. BTW we all like them and our granddaughters really like them. She is standing by the cart hesitating to put them in because she she is feeling uncomfortable about being greedy. Both our son and I at the same time tell her put them in the cart.
By the time we're finally done with the meat area our son says I'm going to outdo my husband's total. Our son does their shopping and he is very good at mentally keeping track of what he's spending as he goes along. I play innocent and ask if he really thinks so. He just laughs and keeps moving on to laundry products and paper goods. Before we joined Costco our son and I would do a big shopping at Aldi's. So he knows how I shop. If it's something they use a lot of or really like I always tell him to get more than one. Sometimes I would have him make me up a list and go by myself. Although you wouldn't think it's possible I do more damage on my own than when he is with me. When he grabbed a second package of toilet paper our DIL again said something to him. At that point I sent him off to get a second cart as our first one was at max capacity and there is no room for a second big thing of toilet paper. When we were getting the juice boxes that have my seal of approval for their girls I opened my mouth to tell him to get a second package of them and before I could say anything our son said "I know Mom, I'm getting a second one." Our DIL just looked at both of us and I'm sure was thinking that I was going to be upset at check out when I saw the total. And we hadn't even gotten to the frozen, dairy, dry, canned and packaged goods aisles yet. Our DIL was really stressed by the time we finished the frozen aisles so our son sent her to wait in the food court. After she left we laughed about her not understanding how the two of us shop together. My concern is if he has room in the refrigerator and freezer not how much I'm spending. I can and sometimes do fuss about what I'm spending but never for groceries.
Dave, the fish sticks you recommended when they were on sale was one of the things our son made sure to buy again. Something we haven't tried before is the frozen avocado chunks. I pointed them out to our son and he wanted to try them. I'm hoping we and he like them because it's always a challenge to have avocados at the right stage of ripeness when you want to use them and sometimes to use them up so you don't lose them if you buy several. Our DIL asked for more of the pot pies as they all liked them. They do what we do and make an extra chicken breast when we are cooking the chicken for another meal. The extra breast we cut up and put in the freezer to have extra meat to add to the pot pies when we serve them. We also add some peas to ours but they add mixed vegetables. The extra meat and vegetables make them a healthier convenience meal. When we were in the bakery section I added an apple pie to the cart. Our son asked if they were any good. I just gave him a duh look because I'm a known pie snob. The first thing he did after he and our DIL got everything unloaded and put away was try the pie. I heard him in the kitchen saying "Omg this is so good!" I also bought a bottle of the Kirkland Cabernet Sauvignon we had talked about trying sometime. The Apothic Red we get at our Costcos in Florida is $7.99 but in Ohio is $9.99 so I made the executive decision it would be a great time to buy the other wine we'd talked about trying because it is a bigger bottle for the same price. If anyone likes Nabisco Honey Graham Crackers a package of 4 boxes is on sale until the 28th of this month. Another item I bought them two of too. My husband said the sale price makes it an even better price than Aldi's. He is learning to pay more attention to prices since I've teased so much on TUG about his Costco shopping. He also says the Kirkland peanut butter is really good after trying it at our son's house. We haven't bought it for ourselves at home because they only have creamy and we prefer crunchy peanut butter.
Dave, if you remember I said our son bought the Kirkland protein bars. You said you didn't particularly care for them and I said our son probably liked them because he wasn't having to buy his own and none of the good brands are cheap. Free, when it is a more expensive item generally tastes real good, lol. We bought two more boxes this trip. He does like them and uses them for his workouts. He works out and even took a course to be certified to teach some classes at the Crossfit gym he goes belongs to. The nutritional content of the Kirkland protein bars is excellent and he likes the taste too.
Our DIL joined our son and I where we were standing just before check out line reviewing to make sure there wasn't anything else we still wanted to get. She had calmed down and gotten herself an acai granola sundae and gave us the last few bites. It was very good. I always like to look at clothes for the granddaughters when we go to Costco. I didn't see anything for them but I found shoes for my DIL. I knew she would like them and they looked and felt really comfortable. She is a teacher and is on her feet a lot. So while our son ran back to get two more things we wanted I had her try them on to make sure they fit okay. They did, she loves them and wore them last night for their date night. One of the women at the check out was wearing them and when she saw them on the conveyor belt said how comfortable they are with being on her feet at work. Trying to add a picture of them.
Both carts were full, top and bottom, which meant there was no room left for the last two things our son went back to get. So I gave our DIL the pie to hold to make room for them. Now we are checking out and the cashier has pretty much finished ringing up everything in the first cart and our son is helping unload the second one since the other worker is busy boxing and loading what has already been rung up. The cashier starts to tell him to stop and I say yes the second cart too, I'm paying for all of it. Our DIL who is still holding the pie pipes up with "And the pie too!" which just cracked up both my son and I and both of the workers too.
If you read the other I'm blaming TUG thread you know that I was shocked that my husband spent $541.40 on his Costco shopping trip with our son back in April. So how much did I spend. $675.43! If it's a competition I won! Our son is only 32 so proficient in the one handed texting the younger generations excel at. While our son was walking to the door pushing a fully loaded cart he managed to text my husband how much I spent. This is the thanks I get. I'm blaming my husband because the flat of fresh peaches and wine he requested were totally responsible for running the bill up that high! There were 67 items, and nothing over $20 so we did an amazing job. Their Sonata has a nice big trunk and even with the half of the back seat to use too my DIL and I still had stuff at our feet and in our laps.
As we are walking to the car our DIL says how insane the place was and she doesn't know how people can stand shopping there. By this time it is after 6pm on Sunday evening. Our son and I proceed to tell her that for a Costco it was really slow and that it wasn't bad at all. Both our son and I point out that none of the check out lines had more than 2 people waiting after the person who was currently being checked out. The person ahead of us was almost done when we got in line. We've seen the lines all 6, 8, 10 deep. She had to wait to see if we were teasing her or telling her the truth. I don't foresee a willing return visit to Costco for her.
My husband I are at our son's in Ohio now and we are all headed up to Wyndham Glacier Canyon in the Wisconsin Dells next weekend for a 9 night stay. We wanted to go to Costco to get stuff to take with us and to stock our son and his family up again. Yesterday afternoon I gave my husband the choice of staying at their house and taking our 3 and 7 year old granddaughters to the pool or taking our son and this time our DIL too to Costco. Our son really wanted her to go to see what all they have as she has never been to Costco. They've talked about getting their own membership.
So here we are at Costco. We're done getting fresh fruits and vegetables and bakery items and are working on the meats. Our son is putting two packages of the organic ground beef that comes in three individual pound sections into the cart knowing they still have a pound or maybe two left from my husband's Costco shopping excursion with him back in April when my husband was here by himself. Our DIL very quietly said our son's name remonstrating him for taking advantage of the fact that I'm paying. He then had her go get two packages of the apple gouda chicken sausages. BTW we all like them and our granddaughters really like them. She is standing by the cart hesitating to put them in because she she is feeling uncomfortable about being greedy. Both our son and I at the same time tell her put them in the cart.
By the time we're finally done with the meat area our son says I'm going to outdo my husband's total. Our son does their shopping and he is very good at mentally keeping track of what he's spending as he goes along. I play innocent and ask if he really thinks so. He just laughs and keeps moving on to laundry products and paper goods. Before we joined Costco our son and I would do a big shopping at Aldi's. So he knows how I shop. If it's something they use a lot of or really like I always tell him to get more than one. Sometimes I would have him make me up a list and go by myself. Although you wouldn't think it's possible I do more damage on my own than when he is with me. When he grabbed a second package of toilet paper our DIL again said something to him. At that point I sent him off to get a second cart as our first one was at max capacity and there is no room for a second big thing of toilet paper. When we were getting the juice boxes that have my seal of approval for their girls I opened my mouth to tell him to get a second package of them and before I could say anything our son said "I know Mom, I'm getting a second one." Our DIL just looked at both of us and I'm sure was thinking that I was going to be upset at check out when I saw the total. And we hadn't even gotten to the frozen, dairy, dry, canned and packaged goods aisles yet. Our DIL was really stressed by the time we finished the frozen aisles so our son sent her to wait in the food court. After she left we laughed about her not understanding how the two of us shop together. My concern is if he has room in the refrigerator and freezer not how much I'm spending. I can and sometimes do fuss about what I'm spending but never for groceries.
Dave, the fish sticks you recommended when they were on sale was one of the things our son made sure to buy again. Something we haven't tried before is the frozen avocado chunks. I pointed them out to our son and he wanted to try them. I'm hoping we and he like them because it's always a challenge to have avocados at the right stage of ripeness when you want to use them and sometimes to use them up so you don't lose them if you buy several. Our DIL asked for more of the pot pies as they all liked them. They do what we do and make an extra chicken breast when we are cooking the chicken for another meal. The extra breast we cut up and put in the freezer to have extra meat to add to the pot pies when we serve them. We also add some peas to ours but they add mixed vegetables. The extra meat and vegetables make them a healthier convenience meal. When we were in the bakery section I added an apple pie to the cart. Our son asked if they were any good. I just gave him a duh look because I'm a known pie snob. The first thing he did after he and our DIL got everything unloaded and put away was try the pie. I heard him in the kitchen saying "Omg this is so good!" I also bought a bottle of the Kirkland Cabernet Sauvignon we had talked about trying sometime. The Apothic Red we get at our Costcos in Florida is $7.99 but in Ohio is $9.99 so I made the executive decision it would be a great time to buy the other wine we'd talked about trying because it is a bigger bottle for the same price. If anyone likes Nabisco Honey Graham Crackers a package of 4 boxes is on sale until the 28th of this month. Another item I bought them two of too. My husband said the sale price makes it an even better price than Aldi's. He is learning to pay more attention to prices since I've teased so much on TUG about his Costco shopping. He also says the Kirkland peanut butter is really good after trying it at our son's house. We haven't bought it for ourselves at home because they only have creamy and we prefer crunchy peanut butter.
Dave, if you remember I said our son bought the Kirkland protein bars. You said you didn't particularly care for them and I said our son probably liked them because he wasn't having to buy his own and none of the good brands are cheap. Free, when it is a more expensive item generally tastes real good, lol. We bought two more boxes this trip. He does like them and uses them for his workouts. He works out and even took a course to be certified to teach some classes at the Crossfit gym he goes belongs to. The nutritional content of the Kirkland protein bars is excellent and he likes the taste too.
Our DIL joined our son and I where we were standing just before check out line reviewing to make sure there wasn't anything else we still wanted to get. She had calmed down and gotten herself an acai granola sundae and gave us the last few bites. It was very good. I always like to look at clothes for the granddaughters when we go to Costco. I didn't see anything for them but I found shoes for my DIL. I knew she would like them and they looked and felt really comfortable. She is a teacher and is on her feet a lot. So while our son ran back to get two more things we wanted I had her try them on to make sure they fit okay. They did, she loves them and wore them last night for their date night. One of the women at the check out was wearing them and when she saw them on the conveyor belt said how comfortable they are with being on her feet at work. Trying to add a picture of them.
Both carts were full, top and bottom, which meant there was no room left for the last two things our son went back to get. So I gave our DIL the pie to hold to make room for them. Now we are checking out and the cashier has pretty much finished ringing up everything in the first cart and our son is helping unload the second one since the other worker is busy boxing and loading what has already been rung up. The cashier starts to tell him to stop and I say yes the second cart too, I'm paying for all of it. Our DIL who is still holding the pie pipes up with "And the pie too!" which just cracked up both my son and I and both of the workers too.
If you read the other I'm blaming TUG thread you know that I was shocked that my husband spent $541.40 on his Costco shopping trip with our son back in April. So how much did I spend. $675.43! If it's a competition I won! Our son is only 32 so proficient in the one handed texting the younger generations excel at. While our son was walking to the door pushing a fully loaded cart he managed to text my husband how much I spent. This is the thanks I get. I'm blaming my husband because the flat of fresh peaches and wine he requested were totally responsible for running the bill up that high! There were 67 items, and nothing over $20 so we did an amazing job. Their Sonata has a nice big trunk and even with the half of the back seat to use too my DIL and I still had stuff at our feet and in our laps.
As we are walking to the car our DIL says how insane the place was and she doesn't know how people can stand shopping there. By this time it is after 6pm on Sunday evening. Our son and I proceed to tell her that for a Costco it was really slow and that it wasn't bad at all. Both our son and I point out that none of the check out lines had more than 2 people waiting after the person who was currently being checked out. The person ahead of us was almost done when we got in line. We've seen the lines all 6, 8, 10 deep. She had to wait to see if we were teasing her or telling her the truth. I don't foresee a willing return visit to Costco for her.
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