Okay, look. I do have a Costco card. We use it for tires, electronics, sometimes books & DVDs, but never for groceries or toiletries. I get those MUCH cheaper at the grocery stores using coupon sense to match sales with coupons.
Here is an example: Ragu pasta sauce is something that comes up for .40 on a regular basis using coupons and waiting for a good sale. I get several newspapers each week so that when something is cheap like this, I can stock up. So, I might have 6 coupons. So I can get 6 jars of Ragu for $2.40. There is NO WAY you are going to walk in to Costco and get a 6 pack of Ragu for $2.40. It’ll be more like $6.
Oatmeal is another example: Quaker prints a LOT of coupons, and quite often. So I get the canisters of oatmeal for FREE several times a year. And with the newspapers i get at the discounted coupon sense rate, I’m stocking up to last me until the next time it’s free. The large containers at Costco are about $6 and they are hard to store, they spill easily, and go bad faster once opened. The small ones that I get for free are fresher and easy to donate if I can’t go through all of the oatmeal by the time it expires.
See, it’s not rocket science. Just waiting for coupon sense to tell me about the $1 sale, quickly digging out the coupons which double at most stores - and its free! Simple as that!
