{"id":1461,"date":"2013-06-13T09:42:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2013-06-13T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:52:26","slug":"costco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"Costco"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have voted Costco the store “most likely to have the most\u00a0useless crap I don’t need, yet which I buy anyway.”<\/p>\n

Who’s with me on this??<\/p>\n

I mean, you go in for laundry detergent, paper towels,\u00a0and maybe some bananas (but only if they’re mostly yellow – it’s too annoying to WAIT for completely green bananas to turn yellow and then, once they do,\u00a0have to quickly gobble up 10 of them in two days).<\/p>\n

And you come out one-hundred-fifty dollars poorer with high-end face lotion (that will finally, FINALLY make you look younger!), a dozen frozen steak-and-cheese burritos (which the kids LOVED during sample time, but which they will decide they don’t like AT ALL\u00a0after you make the first one at home.\u00a0 And then the burritos will sit in the freezer for two years until they’re all frost-bitten and expired,\u00a0at which point you throw out 11 of them) and two boxes (8 in each box) of solar garden lights because they were $10 off!<\/p>\n

But not this time Costco.\u00a0 Oooohhh noooooo.\u00a0 Not this time.<\/p>\n

During yesterday’s trip – I came, I saw, and I conquered.\u00a0 I ONLY bought what was on my list.\u00a0\u00a0 Along with\u00a0an under-$10-lunch\u00a0for the kiddos and me.<\/p>\n

And there may have been ONE unexpected side purchase for $29.99, but in the long run it will save me money.\u00a0 In fact, it will save me so much money I’m now calling it “my master plan” and I’ve been patting myself on the back ever since because the whole thing is brilliant!\u00a0 BRILLIANT!\u00a0\u00a0If I do say so myself.<\/p>\n

What could it possibly be??<\/p>\n

A Wahl Deluxe<\/em> Complete Haircutting Kit.\u00a0 And while “deluxe” and “complete” seem a little over the top slash redundant, I’m totally\u00a0psyched I got it so inexpensively!<\/p>\n

I’m gonna use it on Sonny, whose\u00a0hair grows like a weed and is the bushiest thing you ever saw and which needs to be trimmed every 4 weeks otherwise it resembles really nasty\u00a0dolly hair.<\/p>\n

And?\u00a0 AND??\u00a0 (this is where the\u00a0“master plan” comes in<\/em>)\u00a0 I’m gonna\u00a0use it on the dog!\u00a0 At 50 bucks a pop for grooming-which-ALSO-needs-to-be-done-every-4-weeks-just-like-Sonny’s-hair,\u00a0I WAS\u00a0gonna go broke.\u00a0 But NOW?\u00a0 Now, with a-one-time-only cash outlay of $29.99 plus tax I get the following benefits:<\/p>\n