For fans of rice
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Sadly our closest Costco is an hour away through steep winding roads in the mountains. Beautiful drive in the summer, treacherous in the winter. On one of my trips to the airport to see my mom, I came across a semi on its side - that luckily had slid into the jersey barriers and left enough space to get by so I didn’t miss my flight…
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Yikes.
The rice comes from a Canadian company that ships, but the cost of shipping probably makes it impractical to buy direct.
I think of you every time I'm at Costco. I try to straighten up the carts in the corral when I put mine away. And I wonder why people just shove their carts sloppily into the corral rather than taking an extra five seconds to push them together neatly.
And pumpkin pie showed up two weeks ago. Have you gotten to the point that you can even consider eating it again?
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Lol. I thought about cart duty as I put mine and another that was left in the parking spot next to me together and pushed them both into the corral at Walmart the other day. I usually straighten them up too. That was a low point - those first few days having to do carts. One of the two times I think I cried at that job! My daughter worked at Costco for awhile before grad school - she loved cart duty because it meant she didn’t have to box groceries for pain in the ass customers. I can still eat pumpkin pie. (I never made them, I just wrapped a bazillion of them). They don’t have the wrapping machines any more - everything goes into those plastic clamshell containers now.
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I was at Costco yesterday for basics: Gasoline, TP, Tasso olives stuffed with garlic & jalapeno, frozen shrimp, chicken stock, makeup remover wipes, sardines. The big winner, Mr. AM’s favorite cereal.
64 ounces for $7.49. Local Fred Meyer (Kroger) sells 20.5 ounce box for $6.29. I bought 2 boxes. They come and go.
The stuffed olives are pretty inexpensive, and they add a fun umami kick to this recipe I found in the Washington Post.
Other great buy: Glasses at the optical shop. Last month I bought glasses, sunglasses, and replaced a set of lenses in my own frames. All of it came to $490. The optician at my eye doc office wanted $600 just for the lenses in my computer glasses frame. Membership is definitely paying for itself!
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I bought a truck battery at Costco yesterday. They consistently have the best deal available.
The batteries aren’t great - 36 month is all they offer - but they are really good at swapping them out if they don’t make 36 months.
And they do it oddly. Most pro rata arrangements are that if your 36 month battery only lasts 34 months you get about $8 off of the price of a new battery. Costco does the opposite - if you turn in a 34 month old battery they sell you a replacement battery for about $8. They don’t test them, they just take your word for it.
This can’t be right but I’ve been buying their batteries for some 20 years at stores in CA, AZ, and OH and they all use the same system.
I wonder if they pro rate tires the same way. Winter is rapidly approaching and I need a new set.
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Jodi,
Not to discourage you from coming to Helena and a possible rendezvous with us, but even though Missoula is a little bit farther away, I-90 to Missoula is a much safer road in winter, and there are a lot more interesting things going on there. And the medical care there is top notch. It's about two hours from Helena and we go there on a pretty regular basis for goods and services that are a vast improvement over what we can get at home. I personally hate driving over Boulder Hill and avoid that stretch of I-15 as much as possible. Costco in Missoula may even have a better selection. -
Picked up a bag of this rice blend at Costco. Very good!
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