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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
In order to make sense of shopping at Sams we purchased a big freezer to store stuff in our garage. Can buy fruits and veg in sizes that we can use up within a week so we usually will go to either Sams or BJ weekly.
Pricing is great for many things but certain items like TP not so great but convenient to bring home a case.
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For citrus fruits, I pick them off the trees in the neighborhood (limes in my own back yard). I squeeze the lemon juice by hand and freeze it in an ice cube tray, it's great for making scampi all year 'round. Bananas seem to turn brown and mushy within 2 days of buying them, so I only buy 1-2 at a time. Unless I want to make banana bread. Then I'll buy a bunch and let them get mushy.
I try buying melon chunks because I know hubby likes them but he forgets we have them and they go bad and I end up throwing half the package away. So - more stuff I rarely buy, and only in very small quantities.
Veggies - I buy only what I'll consume within a few days for the same reason as the melon chunk situation. Walmart sells packages of 48 rolls of "soft and strong" toilet paper. Staples also sells large packages of it, and I usually use any credits I earn through their rewards program to get TP there (thus costing me absolutely nothing). I only need to buy TP 3-4 times a year and the Staples package fits perfectly in the cupboard in the master bathroom. For paper towels, I buy maybe one package of 12 rolls of the Walmart brand once a year.
Like I said - pretty much everything I need is at Walmart, and it's only a few minutes by golf cart from home.