No One Cares What You Buy At The Grocery Store, 37 Ideas For Your Blog

So the modern family buys in bulk.  We have one of them big white deep freezers parked in the garage, next to the Honda, and we fill'er  up as often as possible.  Which means that each weekend Modern Hubby comes home with all the normal things a person might grocery shop for, but in "Value" packs of 37.  That is 37 hot dogs, freezer, and done.  We are prepared for a frightening large BBQ.  37 bottles of diet coke, those will be gone by next weekend's trip.  One 37 lb bag of the largest whole wheat spaghetti noodles you have ever laid whole grain eyes on, pantry and done.  One basketball sized can of salted peanuts.  I have no clever explanation for this one except that it is huge and salty.  Pantry.  Two ginormous (now a recognized word by Webster's, I heard this one on the news people, it is for real) cartons of scripture eggs, and as previously stipulated, said religious eggs will probably injure me.  One Clifford the big red dog sized box of waffles.  Too many for even Aunt Jemimah to shake a fork at.  3 bags of bananas so green I thought they were 3 massive bags of cucumbers.  37 Modern Toddler sized drinkable yogurts, cause busy toddlers do not have the kind of time involved to sit down with yogurt and a spoon, places to go and babies to see.  Sometimes Modern Toddler takes her drinkable yogurt on the go and we drink and drive.  Sad little multitasking toddler.  If only her plastic cell phone worked, then she catch up on call backs.  She always lets calls go to voicemail when she is napping.

You see with this kind of shopping you get words like bulk, value, economy and family sized.  It is much like purchasing a new car or running a presidential campaign.  You have to understand the language.  We decided to sit down in the giant store's giant food court and get the freakishly big hot dog and a coke for exactly one dollar and fifty cents.  Modern Hubby is in some sort of reverse sticker shock in this place and cannot get over how much cheaper it all is.  We are now the proud owners of a bottle of Dawn dish soap so big, I plan to reuse it later for the small pony sized Dawn dish soap refill!  Bloody hell this place scares me a little.  But we will save money and should the Perfect Storm ever hit the Midwest, and/or famine, pestilence and other signs of the second coming arrive - we are pretty much covered.

Comments

[patriciaj]

Oh to never visit Costco again

[corky]

It's always good to be prepared! When I was in my 20's I once lived on a box of giant sized Pancakes from Sam's Club for two weeks. After a while I pretty much had to force them down.