What is your favorite "bulk" purchase item at COSTCO or SAMS or other Wholesale club?

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Bryophyte

Lifer
Apr 25, 2001
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Originally posted by: Orsorum
Paper towels and tp, of course. Socks, underwear, pants, and dress shirts. Soy sauce. Paper plates. Lean Cuisines and rice bowls. Yogurt.

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brtspears2

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Nov 16, 2000
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Of the Costco Kirkland Signature brand name, I get:
800 tablets of Ibuprofin, $5
Meatballs

I also get fried snacks like cheese sticks, jalepeno poppers, fries. Eggs are usually $1-1.49 for 18, and about $5 for 5 dozen.
 

seanws

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Sep 20, 2004
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Originally posted by: jurzdevil
i bought 5000 straws for 7$

lol, what on earth do you plan on doing with 5000 straws?

i go for the paper towels, the king sized jars of olives, mach3 cartidges
 

ChefJoe

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I go to costco and pick up the 4 pouches of Ivar's clam chowder that cost like $8 in WA. It's like 8 dinner portions of chowder.

Oh, and TP, paper towels, laundry, and dish detergent.
 

Thump553

Lifer
Jun 2, 2000
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Giant cans of pudding for my kids at college. For some reason, they don't seem to appreciate it.

I'm working up the nerve to buy one of those giant cans of tuna.
 

anxi80

Lifer
Jul 7, 2002
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alcohol. big ass bottles of it, or hard to find beers available in 24's packs.
 

OutHouse

Lifer
Jun 5, 2000
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Rice, flour, TP, Paper Towels, cheese, ground beef, chicken boobs

and of course every trip i have to get a box of those frozen creame puffs from Holland. man those are awesome!
 

jmgonzalez

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Dec 1, 1999
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TP, diapers, tabasco sauce, ketchup in the can (I reuse Heinz ketchup bottles after cleaning them), soda, gatorade, vodka, meat, dino nuggets, hamburger patties, fresh fruit platters
 

TheNinja

Lifer
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Booze - namely Jack Daniels and Bicardi Rum - MUCH cheaper at Costco
TP - for my bunghole of course
AA batteries - I swear every piece of electronics uses these things
Cleaning supplies - 409, soft scrub, etc.
 

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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20lb box of frozen Alaskan King Crab legs.
~5lb of Ribeye steak for Ruth Chris oven style.

Makes for great weekend eats w/ friends and family.
 

Chunkee

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Jul 28, 2002
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Originally posted by: dsfunk
chicken

the big bags of chicken wings are pretty good, there is a new flavor of tyson, lime and tequila i believe, they are not as good as the bbq ones

jC
 

Uppsala9496

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My best purchase was some 5 pounds of pasta for $0.97. I thought it was a price error, but it rang up correctly. Never saw them there again......That was some 2 years ago now.