Seriously, I love the place, but I have a suggestion. How about motorized carts. No, not to drive around in, but just have the shopping carts motorized because sometimes I feel like I'm going to bust a hernia or something from pushing my cart.I went on Tuesday for diapers. I left with diapers, papertowels, 2 pairs of pj's for Oakley, dishwasher detergent, 3 rolls of the cutest ribbon ever, a pineapple, grapes, frie cut sweet potatoes (mmm, btw) hamburger buns, and milks for us. For the office I got printer cartridges, diet pepsi, paper, envelopes, cheese-its, redvines and a lemoncake. Any guesses as to how much I spent? The person closest will win 10 hamburger buns (I only needed two, but they were so cheap!)
Even though the place takes advantage of me every time, I still continue to go and have a serious crush on it.
P.S. If anyone goes and they have any of the red ribbon with the tiny white pom-poms on the sides, get me a roll! They were out. (Insert Charlie Brown music.)
P.P.S Don't be jealous of my mad paint skills, I was so excited when I remembered the spray-paint can, and even more excited when I remembered the dump paint can. Sorry only a few things are painted, it was all I could do because of unclosed lines and it wanting to paint the entire picture that color.
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love the picture! and if you can find a person who can go to costco and not spend at least $100 per stop...they should win some kind of prize themselves.
this truly is: the single funniest thing i have seen all day. and i like watched all my favorite comedy reruns even. i'm loving your pink triangle dress & each distinguishable item in the cart. ie: the pineapple, sweet potatoes, lemon cake, etc.
oakley looks like he enjoyed the trip. word about the motorized carts, i hear ya. at least you can count that as working out that day. no?
I'm on my friend's laptop catching up with the blog world that I've been dearly missing, and I saw my award! I am so excited. And I've been stalking your blog for awhile now, so I'm glad you broke the ice. Now we can be shameless blog associates.
Okay, so maybe I can beat this story. When I worked at a law firm in Salt Lake, they would make me go to Costco to get all the drinks and treats and office supplies.
Here are the drink cases that I had to get every time. Not kidding. Pepsi, diet pepsi, coke, diet coke, sprite, root beer, snapple (the glass jar ones), orange juice, assorted juice, powerade, bottled water, V8.
Here are the food items I got every time. Little bags of chips, saltines, little candybars, candy, packaged crackers, cheezits, peanutbutter ritz, the list goes on. And I had to get office supplies. I would have to do all this in a SKIRT and HEELS. I would have to have two longbed carts. Push one and pull one behind me. And then when I got back to work, I had to load it in the elevator and take it up to the third floor. In a skirt and heels. Not appropriate.
Em, I think the lawyer men wanted to see a cute girl struggle in a skirt and heels. Pervs. I think you have the makings of a sexual harassment case on your hands. Good luck.
The worst part about getting all the pop is trying to load it onto the carty things and as you try to load it, you are inadvertantly pushing the cart away, and it's so heavy. There's no way to be lady like trying to load a cart.
Costco is my BFF/Enemy. My picture would include 2 carts full and my slaves/children pushing them! Even though those 5 slaves/children's stomachs are bottomless pits, they come in handy ever so often. Maybe you need some more Oakley's? Hmmmm?
For reals...did you really draw that...so funny.
I love the anvil on top...my cart would have 2 kids in the front of the cart pinching and pushing each other and the other 2 crying cuz I wont let them stay in the back of the cart...sigh...its a vicious cycle everytime. I think that I have become the speediest costco shopper though, if there was a race I would win...if you see me MOVE!!
You totally have Cathy sweat/tear beads, and I love it. You forgot to mention that the small square on the bottom is your card that Oakley threw without you knowing it, so you got up to the register and it was still somewhere on the candy aisle.
By the way, did you maybe jump up and down and clap when you saw that they had lots of Christmas stuff? Because I did.
Oh, and I think that your stick figure drawing skills transfers to Paint really well. I'd like to see more of these in the future.
Love the picture. Seriously, every time we go to Costco, we NEVER spend under $250 and there's only two of us.
Nice picture! I call Costco the $100 store becuase you can't leave until you have spent at least $100. S
Sorry to hear about Oakley but a blessing for you I suppose.
hilarious! You seriously can't spend less than 100$ a visit, it's wrong.
I share your love of Costco.
A couple trips ago, Grace and I were hitting up the great deals. She was playing with my keys (bad idea, I know)
So I went through the checkout and purchased all of my stuff, and there were no keys in my purse, or in the cart, or with the kid. So I asked the bagger guy, "What do you do if you loose your keys?"
"You can go look for them" He said.
So I did. With my huge cart. I retraced all of my steps and I looked like a crazy looking on the floor and under the pallets. No luck. So I went to the customer service part. I said, "Has anyone turned in any keys?" She said, "No, not today, Keep looking and check back in 30 min."
30 min? I was about to cry. So I said a little prayer so I wouldn't cry at Costco, and that I would find my dang keys. I looked again. They were hanging from the side of the animal cracker end cap (Which explains why I never heard them fall)
Moral of the story: Stay away from the animal cracker end caps.
I had to say something because this picture caused me to CRY cause I was LAUGHING so hard. I was at costco yesterday - and was feeling this exact way. It's such a joke. Costco is never less than $100 and I usually break my back doing it.
Sara you crack me up! I love costco too, but luckily I don't have a membership so I only go with a friend of mine occasionally! But rest assured I get taken advantage of too and still come back for more. I think we need to start a help group!
Janelle
You have amazing paint skills! You should quit your day job and just focus on paint projects. You could make millions! It's cute that the picture actually looks like you, your face and sweatbeads. I can't leave Costco without someone making a comment about all my trillions of kids. My favorite: "They must have a special on kids today! It looks like you picked up quite a load. Ha!Ha!" Yeah really funny-jerk! This is why I'm at Costco!
ok i thought that picture was some clip art you found, i didnt realize you did until the end of your post - nice work.
here is my guss - $538. no one else was guessing so i thought i would throw some random number out there.
last week i went there and only spent $186 - i was so excited about how cheap i got out of there that i couldnt wait to get home and tell jared!
So I forgot to tell you a Costco story I have.
One time...and no I won't say at Band Camp...anyways, I had all my kids with me, and I think they were 5 kids 6 and under at the time. 2 kids were hanging on EACH side of the cart and my #5 newborn in her carseat on the front part and I was ONLY getting a cake for a party, so the cart was not full (which is very unusual)...can you see where this is going...well, I walked away for a second to grab one more thing and I hear...CRASH!!!!!!!! and all these people come running over to MY CART. I turned and see my cart on it's side, newborn hanging by her straps in her carseat (thank goodness she was properly strapped in) and the other 4 kids screaming and fighting over whose fault it was. I thought about just running out and leaving all the kids for a split milli-second. Then I picked the cart up, tried to ignore the dirty looks, the cake was still slightly intact, and proceeded to the check out lane. (kids still fighting, newborn screaming) I go to pull out my wallet to pay and ALL MY CHANGE from my open zipper of my wallet falls to the floor...can any more attention be drawn to me at this point. And please people, if you see a crazy looking Mother like me when this happens, bend over and help her pick up her change...is that too much to ask??? I think I finally got to the car and strapped all the kids VERY TIGHTLY in their carseats and just cried for an hour or so. But Costco stills sees me frequently...so that which does not kill you makes you stronger right? (and I decided to not have anymore kids right after that)
Thanks for letting me publish my story on your blog, feel free to do it to mine anytime.
Family, You now have competition in the funny department. Beth and Chris are bloggers now! Check your e-mail for the address.
Missy, your story is my new favorite, I even snorted. Good job waiting until you were out of the store to start crying, I don't think I could have made it that far!
so, to anyone who wanted to know, I spent almost $300, which I thought was pretty good for the weight of the cart. Maybe they should just start charging by the pound. Maybe $1.50/pound, and you have to leave your kid(s) in/on the cart for weighing. That's how they'd get us to leave them home. They'd also save on samples if the kids weren't there.
That is so funny- I didn't realize you made the picture at first! I do the same thing, I have a love hate relationship with Costco. I usually find some clothes for myself as well. There's a really funny Bernie Mack about warehouse shopping...
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