Warehouse Clubs: How to Save & Whether They're Right for You

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chicken and your underwear all manufactured by the same company. Hey, if it works for them, it can work for you. Diversifying try something different today? Is that? Is that similar to uh diversity which is an old, old wooden chips? So what? Oh? If you get that reference? I I love you, Jill, her friend didn't she didn't get it it over my head or didn't get I'm not even just beyond me. I M I must be too young, too young to get reference. But if you do, you

can be old with me. All right, So warehouse clubs, am I right? Yeah, that's what we're talking about today. So I think you're right about that. So Jill, have you ever been a member of a warehouse club? Never? Ever? But have I been to a warehouse club? Yes? Yes, funny all of them b J Sam's Costco. I've been there checking out. I was a member for free because my mom got it included in her work for a while, and then she left that job, but they never took

her off of the membership. N So for years we would keep going whenever we needed something, and it was just kind of like, are we going to get in? Let's see every time they canceled their membership. I don't know one day they did. For a while, it was really fun, but it's really it's really individual on whether warehouse club works for you, and and people should know this.

I mean, I know that there's a lot of people in our group who love to buy in bulk, and then in our Facebook group, the Frugal Friends community, and then there's some people that want to keep their home more minimalists. So even if buying in bulk might save a little bit of money. It's more worth it to them to have a minimalist home versus you know, two hundred rolls of toilet paper that they got on sale, and both are really good. And I are more on

the minimalist home side general. I think you do too. Oh I have to It's it's something I want to do, but it's also a necessity, especially as we plan to move into one hundred seventies square feet. So yeah, a toilet paper, as nice as that sounds, I don't ever important. But then there's also big families that as quickly as they buy toilet paper, especially in you know, twelve and six packs, they will go through it. So I will say that I am grateful for my friends and family

who do have Costco memberships. I'm not going to say that I don't ever use them. There are certain things that I do appreciate getting from there, and I like to have access to it, but it's never been worth it for me to have the membership, which we'll talk about that, you know, figuring out if it's for you, whether or not you want to have a membership or not saying don't do it. It could be the frugal

way for you depending on your lifestyle. Correct. But while normally we would go through our first article, just one article throughout, I actually didn't find what I was looking for when I was searching the internet. So I'm gonna make something up, and we're going to make up our own first article out of a collection of different articles.

And it's a way to get a sense of how how much you will use of something, so you can calculate if buying in bulk is going to save money for you, and also so that you don't buy too much bulk, because that's that's a problem. My grandmother had with toilet paper. And when I think bulk, my mind automatically goes to toilet paper because of her. She would buy it whenever it was on sale. She was one woman who bought probably rolls of toilet paper a week.

And when she died, we did not inherit much money, but we inherited about six months of toilet paper each Hey, that's something to be grateful for. I wasn't write her all. My inheritance from my grandmother of toilet paper got me through about six months just me using it. So so figuring out and people don't calculate how many rolls of toilet paper they use every year, Um, except for these people on the internet. They did it. They did it. So we're gonna go through toilet paper and a few

other things so you can figure out yours. So this first one is control and roll dot Com. And they figured out is an ambiguous gender, so I can't say here she, but they figured out how many rules of toilet paper they used in one year. He or she used forty nine rolls of toilet paper, which equated to thousand sheets of whatever toilet paper they were using in one year, which you've got to wonder, right, is their usage of toilet paper the same as my usage of

toilet paper exactly? This is all going to be subjective, it will be, but probably an approximate right to plan for about fifty rolls of toilet paper a year, so then you can base whether or not you would want to get all of that at Costco or Sam's Club or b J's or not. I will say the article talked about I guess Cheryl Crowe at one point said that people should only use one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit, which is a little disconcerting. Although my

grandfather would always tell me to do that. He'd yell at me through the door, one sheet on one sheet, which was always lovely. We both we both have interesting stories of toilet paper and our grandparents. What was the deal with that? Like, worried about running out, so your grandmother collected, worried about running out, so my grandfather limited. I don't know what it is. I don't know either, But if you have a funny toilet paper story, we'd

love to hear it too. I went to the Sam's Club website to see what their brand of bulk toilet paper is going for. And right now you can get at my Sam's Club by my house a forty five roll pack of toilet paper um, which may not be the best. And I will say that every bum deserves the best toilet paper, like you don't ever in your life deserve the cheapest toilet paper. See I say every septic tank deserves the best toilet paper because I have lived in motor homes, so you don't want to get

Believe me, you want the finn stuff. Depending on where you live, what is best relative, yes, but if you live in a house like me, I spring a little extra for the nicer toilet paper and I never feel guilty about it. Good job, And but I didn't check to see what type of toilet paper this was. It says ultra premium. Who knows, and it is sev there's

like a dollar fifty off right now for rules. So if you're rounding down and you know it's like eighteen bucks and you've got two of these in a year, you could if you bought them on the same day and just use them for a year, like recorded when you bought them, and use them for a year straight or until you run out, then you could start to at least get an idea of how much toilet paper you use a year. But whose toilet paper purchases are

really setting them back financially, Let's be real. That's another thing, like how how much do you really need to save by getting a club memership? You're getting You're you're getting too deep too quickly, Jill, because come to this relevant revelation at the end of the sorry we only like ten minutes in. That's it, by guys. So if you're really curious and wanted to try it out for a year,

you could just buy. And this is essentially my hope, is that my plan would be to find somebody else with a warehouse club membership by all these things in one day, in one visit with them, and then never have to do it again for the year, and then to talk to that person again either except till next year, and and just avoid the membership fee and over over buying in bulk because it does I mean, I'm not sure what type of toilet paper this is, but eighteen

bucks for six months of toilet paper, I mean that seems cheap to me. Also, all the toilet papers also really cheap, and all they doesn't have a membership fee. Can you tell are fans of all the if you've listened to at least one episode of the show, you will. So Another article that Jen put together, Thanks Jen, comes from Men's Health, and it's talking about shampoo, so which is funny Men's Health, but they're talking about long hair,

so hair that would go to the shoulders. This person generally used seventy five uses like seventy five showers per twenty four ounce bottle, which equalled for them three bottles a year. So if you're using about three bottles of shampoo a year, figure out what's going to be worth it for you? As far as savings goes. Yeah, And I did a little math on my own for this one, because they gave a range for men, and like, some

of us will have hair longer than their shoulders. But if you are shampooing four times a week, that's probably going to be three twenty four ounce bottles a year. I was doing budget coaching with somebody like last year, and they were buying shampoo once a month, and she had just hair down to her shoulders, and I was like, why, why so much shampoo? What's happening in that shower? But for the first time, it made her aware that she might be using too much. Why so she was actually

running out. It wasn't just get this, get this and collecting. She was running out of running out yet. And so she was buying out of necessity, not out of like hoarding or sales. Oh my word, that's stressful. Yeah, so that might be if you were buying more than three bottles bottles a year, and that's a quarter side portion is what they recommend for your hair down to your shoulders, you might want to consider using less or maybe shampooing fewer times a week. Yes, check out our beauty episode

on that one. You don't need to shampoo that often. Yeah, So I didn't do any research on prices of shampoos because you could get into the weeds on that one. But that was another one that you can try and buy three bottles of you know whatever ORNs or whatever equals that um and see how much you're going through, See if you're maybe using too much, and you could cut back, see if you could cut back to one sheet of toilet paper per no. And we've talked about

this in our Kate Flanders episode. You know, we talk about tracking spending but also tracking usage. This could be helpful whether or not you're considering a warehouse membership, to know what you consume for budgeting purposes. Yes, I And every time that I thought about this, I went back to Kate on our show talking about spending her second year of her spending fast just tracking what she used.

I think she used two deodorants in a year, and just taking one year, like you don't have to do this the rest of the year life, but taking one year to figure out what you use can help you save money for the rest of your life. Yeah. And I think connects you to your consumption more too, and just that can help you to realize, oh, man, I don't want to be using this much of whatever the product, or I want to switch to this because I realized I don't use as much as I thought, so I

could get a better product or whatever. There's so many realizations that can come out of that kind of tracking. Yeah, and in the end it saves you a few dollars here and there, but I think even more importantly it reduces your consumption and over time, not only to those dollars at up, but the effect that you have on the market and consumption in a hole in the world really does make a difference if we all just try to use less and spend less. Off my soapbox there,

I liked it all right. And then the last one that I looked at was trash bags, and this one was This one is hard to quantify um, but the average person creates about six pounds of trash per year, and they're basing that off of creating about four point four pounds of trash per day. I don't feel like I make that much. Yeah, but that's an average. Some people make more, some people make less. Sure, I could see a family family of five that does a lot of living at home, I could see that. Yeah, so

but this is like per person. So yeah, so you have to be aware of what you're creating. But in the end, I think we all create more trash than we're actually aware of. I think we would be shocked with if we actually looked at it, the trash we produced throughout the day. But that aside, pounds of trash per person would equal forty fifty six gallon trash bags per year. Per person, fifty six gallon trash bags, get a box of forty of them and that will last you per year. And you can just even that out

if you have a smaller trash can or whatever. But that's another thing I think we buy for the two of us, Like we don't get fifty six gallon bags, but we'll buy two boxes a year. Mhm um. So there's no reason for us to buy those in bulk because all these sells them right, Look at you jump into your conclusion already. Yeah, but that's just me. Like, if you have there are six people in your family, you will create more waste than just the two of us.

And all of these are nonperishable items that we've mentioned that if you have the storage space for it you could stock up on. This isn't to mention the perishables, the foods, the big unexpected items that you can get at these warehouses, so we'll we'll get into that in our next article. Yes, yes, anything to say about these. These are the only little things that I tracked. There are obviously some people use paper towels, but other people

will use reusable ones. So there's your savings right there. And then there's like cleaning products unless you make your own hashtag episode whatever where we did d I Y cleaning products just less three great. Well by the time this one comes out, and spoiler alert, we record early. So yeah, so look at what you're using. It's not gonna be the same for everyone, and then figure out how much you're using of it, and a quick Google search can kind of tell you or guide you about

how much that might be excellent. Mhm. So our first actual article that we're going to go through is from the Balance, and it is how much does buying in bulk actually save you in one year? M I think this covered a lot of what I already knew, but I won't assume that what I knew is what everybody knows. How do you feel about it, Jill, I would agree because I've been to these warehouse clubs. I know what

they have to offer. I'm a little bit familiar with what's the deal, what's not the deal, some of the pitfalls. But I think it's a good overview for anyone considering getting a membership who hasn't had one before. I think it's a good one to check out. I really liked some of their ideas for wanting to save because sometimes it's not just about family size. Maybe you're running a small business, or maybe you have a membership through work or whatever, and you're looking to take the best advantage

of these warehouse clubs. So I thought the tips they offered in here we're actually pretty good. My favorite one was trying to split the membership cost and items bought, like split it with a friend, or like one couple splits it with another couple. That could be, you know, across four adults. That could actually be like saving you money definitely and not running as high of a risk of spoiling the items, getting veggie or meats or that

kind of thing, and then splitting it. Then you're less likely to have to throw things away and make the whole thing pointless, I also liked their list of items that are good deals to buy there, and I would agree at least to have it through from my experience. The meats, some of the ready to eat meals, the canned items we've already talked to, nonperishable items, the shelf stuff, paper products, paper towels, paper plates. They also did a rundown.

They did the math even of diapers, so if you are a mom or dad with young kids, it seems to be about cents of diaper, which is it sounds like cheaper than most other places. Although I don't know all the I know all these seems to have a good deal. I don't know the math on the all the diapers, but they recommended and then laundry and dish detergent, garbage bags, coffee if you drink a lot of it,

But then that's the thing too. If you're a coffee snob, you know that coffee fresh is best, so even if you're keeping it and your freezer, I don't go that route. It probably is a great deal, but I don't think it tastes as good. Then they also mentioned dog food or treats, toothbrushes, cereals, jewelry. I know some people get their prescriptions from Costco. They I mean, like I said,

they've they've diversified. Man, there's all kinds of stuff you can get and I've used this, and like you said, for for if you have a small business, it's great. But I've also tried to cash in on friends or families Costco memberships if I have a party coming up and you know, we're doing a bunch of burgers and hot dogs or getting the cake from there. So when you're trying to feed a lot of people, even for just a day, I found that that is a good place to go for that, Yeah, for sure. And it

also lists the different membership fees. I'm not sure where what the perks difference is for them, but like for Sam's, you'll pay forty five dollars a year, b J's you'll pay fifty dollars year. In Costco you'll pay sixty And these are for like the baseline memberships, so that also has to be factored into the cost of your items, like dispersing those like this person is saying their their son goes through twelve diapers a day. Whoa I know, and then it's Sam's there cents for the nice diaper,

where Target it's cents a diaper. And sometimes you want to go with name brand just for whatever reason. So that's another time buying in bulk can make sense if if you need a name brand. It's also a time when tracking consumption can make sense. Twelve diapers a day, I know it must be a really young child. Maybe that's an infant. So I also liked what they had to say about unexpected purchases. Costco all of these warehouse clubs, I can speak specifically for Costco though, they'll have these

items that you wouldn't expect, which rotate. You can't always count on them having the socks that you like, but they'll offer at different times of the year, different types of clothing, outdoor furniture, all kinds of stuff that this article even says. This author says that they get their insurance, their life insurance. I was shocked. Yeah, they just have everything, life insurance, chicken underwear, whatever you want, come and get it.

And I have. Their clothing is really good quality. I've liked every article of clothing that I have bought there. It's not thrift store prices, but it's not department store prices either, it's kind of the middle ground, so you can get some some good deals there if they have what you're looking for. They say that their Costco life insurance save them about two thousand dollars, so that is obviously worth a sixty dollar like annual fee. So that's a big That is where you stop nickel and diming

and you start saving the real money. I will say, I think a lot of people also like warehouse clubs because of the quality control that a lot of people will think everything that I've gotten from Costco I really like. So there starts to be this trust, like this brand trust of yeah, if they have a mattress, it must be a good mattress. And that has been my experience

so far. We've gotten mattresses, TVs big items at a discount, deep discount, you know, at least a couple of hundred dollars lower than what you'd get it elsewhere, and it always has been a good product. So for those bigger items, it could be worth it or find a friend. And then the last part of this article just considers what we've already been through, is like how are you planning to store this? So if you're planning a party or a long trip, or you have an extra freezer, you

can afford to think about buying in bulk. But if you're in a one bedroom apartment, or if you're in a three too, and your space is already feeling cluttered, and you're thinking, oh my gosh, we should really consider buying a four bedroom house, and you're still thinking about buying in bulk. It's far more expensive to get more square footage in your house than it is to just spend the extra money to go out and buy toilet

paper every time you run out. So I think we've watched too much HD TV and we see these like large pantries and all this kitchen storage and these walking closets and stuff, and we buy the things to fill them up, and then we fill them up before we can use them, and we just keep buying more, more and more, and a mortgage payment is far more expensive than paying the premium prices at your grocery store for

six rolls of toilet paper. Frugality is always going to air on the side of simplicity, exactly right, that one on your bumper, Oh my gosh, yes, thinking where else I can put that. Frugality is always going to air on the side of simplicity, and simplicity sometimes cost you a little more upfront, but in the long rue will always be cheaper. So use that filter when you are

trying to think warehouse club or not. Yeah, well, man, I don't know how else to follow up such a great summary other than the best time of the week. It's time. It's time for the billow bill week. That's right, it's time for the best minute of your entire week. Maybe a baby was born and his name is William. Maybe you paid off your mortgage. Maybe your car died and you're happy to not have to pay that bill anymore. That's built buffalo bills. Bill Clinton, this is the bill

of the week. Hey guys, my bill of the week is actually a parking pass that my husband and I purchased for the ferry. We we're going to catch the ferry and go over for the day, and there was an option of paying for parking, which cost for the day eighteen dollars, which felt very monstrous to me, and I had a little argument with my husband about whether or not we should park down the street and just walk. But we also have a baby while almost two year old.

A car seed gifts we're bringing over for family, and we end up buying the parking paths, which I was initially heartbroken about. But on the way home we missed the ferry, and then we had to catch the ferry, which took two hours to arrive back to our home Vancouver Island. And after sleeping on the ferry and waking up disoriented, I was pretty happy in the end to have my car sitting right outside the door rather than a fifteen minute walked down the road. And that is

my bill of the week. Oh my gosh. We did not listen to that bill before we set all that stuff. I promise you we did not. Yes, we were both like on the edge of our seats, like listening to how is this story gonna go? How is this gonna end? And my goodness, that ended in your husband being right, yeah, yes, and you even admitted it to the rest of the world. Right, because the whole world listened to our podcast. I know you need to play this for him, Emma, because yeah,

I and that would be me. I would want to pay the eighteen dollars and Travis would be like, no, let's park down the street. But yes, exactly. Sometimes it's worth it to spend the extra ten dollar bill, five dollar bill and three one dollar bills, especially when you consider what your circumstances were. It probably would have been fine if you didn't have gifts and a baby, But with gifts and a baby, you just want to be

close to that ferry. Write that one on your bumper sticker and when you live a frugal life you can figure out. I mean, you've already saved eighteen dollars and other places, so you can make your life a little simpler by not having to stress over um parking. That's going to make your in your family's life easier. I love that. Thank you, Emma for that bill of the week.

If you have a bill of the week, you can let us know at Frugal Friends podcast dot com slash bill and leave us a voicemail or record on your desktop over speak pipe and we will get it and we will play it and we will love it. Moving on to our Lightning Round Lightning Round BA, which seems to change every week. Every week, it's something different. Most podcasts have a consistency factor um so it's why people love us. It's inconsistent, unpredictable, mysterious, that's how I would

call it, just like all good relationships. So we're going to actually go off sound off eleven things you shouldn't buy in bulk, and maybe we'll explain why, but maybe we won't. You'll never know, but you'll be on the edge of your seat the whole time. I know, all right, I'll go first. Number one brown rice and whole grains. One word natural oils. Number two it's two words. Oh gosh, I'm sorry. That's okay, you're pregnant. Number two nuts and seeds. I don't have anywhere I was gonna go. I didn't.

I mean, I'm reading here, I'm reading your facial expressions. Number three liquid bleach actually only has a shelf life of six to twelve months. Spices similar reason to bleach. They lose their potency six months to a year after purchase. Number five olive oil. The same reason is bleach, And basically the takeaway is spices and olive oil are just like bleach in that exactly. Number six eggs shouldn't need an explanation on that. No explanation for that one. You

know why you shouldn't get a thirty six pack? Yeah. Number seven sunscreen, even if you live in Florida. Wow. Number eight canned vegetables, which is actually contradictory to our previous article. But we're just we're just reading. We're you know, we're just the messengers, you guys. Yeah, this is from money crashers, and they can have a different opinion than the balance. That's fine. But like also hashtag botulis um. Yeah.

Number nine condiments, yeah, the shelf life, similar reason to bleach. Number ten. Number ten frozen, Yes, frozen items that I don't know if I agree with that one. We're just again, we're just listening out. But they think frozen items mm hmm, well okay, good for them. And number eleven plastic or paper plates, utensils and cups because how many people are you feeding? Well? And so this is again where I would disagree with this because I have found the best

deals for a party. I love to throw a part Actually, my mother in law loves to throw parties. I just tell her I'm having a bunch of people over to her house, so I go with her to Costcow. It's fantastic. Yeah, so it has come in handy. Then, if you are hosting a lot, you do a lot of parties, you have unfortunately made people know that you are a good cook and they're constantly coming over. Then yeah, get get your get your paper plates there. Yeah, but for like parties,

not for everyday life. Everyday life. Yeah, and those are the eleven things that you shouldn't buy in bulk. We did it. That was that felt like a lightning round. I felt most like a lightning round than we've ever done. That was the closest for sure. Yeah. But also in this lightning round, I want to give my pro tips because I'm gonna self proclaim pro pro tips here. Yeah. Yeah, you're definitely a prol on this one. So you can still eat at the cafeteria, at least at Costco, even

without a membership. You just enter through the exit, which is a little risky. It's not actually that risky. They let you do it. It just it might feel risky because it's like, oh my word, the door says exit, but I'm entering. Doesn't matter. That's where their cafeteria is. So you can go in without a membership. Get your dollar hot dog. You know I love hot dogs. Get your two dollar smoothie, Get your dollar fifty slice of pizza, your dollar fifty fries, whatever your hankering for, or they

also have salads. They've got great prices on their gafeteria foods. So I'm telling you I will. If I'm just driving around the area of Costco, sometimes i will stop in to eat there because it is the biggest bang for your buck. You don't have to have a membership. That is so smart, Like it's cheaper than fast food at this point if you're in a pinch and I would have never known, I know a Kia super cheap they do too. Yeah, so great to go there for lunch. But Costco also a good option. Yes, so do it

even without a membership. Also avoid the pitfalls of this, especially if you don't have a membership and you go with a friend. Sometimes it can be you know, kid at the candy store, like, look at all these things that they have, And so just avoid the impulse buys that can happen. No beforehand, have a plan because it can be real tempting to get that massive thing of turtle candies or peanut butter filled pretzels or whatever cases.

And also know that when you buy it in bulk, even if it is a good deal, you're you're eating that much more of it's like, look at how much I have. I can just have a handful of all this candy because it's never running out. So think about your health goals to regarding purchasing in bulk. Amen, there you go that those are my My other tips were sprinkled throughout as far as the bigger items and all that. But that's enough. Don't try and pressure me into thinking

that that wasn't enough. It is enough. Oh my gosh, I just I was. I was on the edge of my seat for more because I love that so um. But I think the moral of the story for me is find somebody with a Warehouse club membership and go with them once a year. Oh I did forget one. Take it. Advantage of the free trials and try before you buy, because your friend who you think you're super similar to, who raves about it and loves it, you may not actually be that similar to her, and you

may not want the same thing she wants. And now you've wasted sixty dollars only to find out that you're not actually going to buy that much chicken or that prepared meal. All the time they have free trials, yeah, most of them. We'll have free trials if you've never had a membership before. They'll give you like a month free. What then you go and there you go, there you go. You don't have to have a friend that has membership.

You do the one month free. Then your spouse does one month free the next year, and then you change your name and you do it, and you just go back and forth, and then you raise your kid real quick to be able to go get a membership on their own. Oh my gosh, your friends. Have you got in this? With your friends? Everyone could get a free and you can all go together and listen. I'm never going to advocate for mooching off of this system, but for sure general neither of my fruality is not mooching.

That's an important distinction. It should create community, not break it. Oh another good saying. Oh yes, this has been at least an episode for some frugal wisdom. All right, So it's March, and if you want some more frugal wisdom, we are reading Soulful Simplicity by Courtney Carver. I think that dovetails nicely with our frugality, airing on the side of simplicity statements from earlier. So it's a great book.

Courtney Carver. She created the project three three three and it's where you only wear um thirty three items of clothing for three months. So it's like alternative capsule wardrobe. So I like it, Yeah, definitely. If you want to learn more about that, read Soulful Simplicity with us. I also like it for the alliteration, you know us. We love our soulful simplicity. Yes, and we're still doing our thing over here where we're giving away these free books

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I there's so much I didn't know about Warehouse clubs. Yeah, I mean we did talk about them in some other maybe the gifts episode where you can even get gift cards to places at a discount, like hundred dollars worth of gift cards for eighty dollars, which I would definitely do in my one month free They have some gems. I think they even do vacation planning, which is still probably outside of my praise range. I think groupon would still be a better deal, but yeah, for a one

stop shop, it's um. They can be really good. Yeah, I'm gonna get some diapers. You can see my wheels turning now that I know that there's a one month free trial, at least in my area. I'm yeah, I know b J has had it. I do get my gum from there because you know, I'm a gun at it, so I always I always tell my mom like, whenever she goes, can you get me? Because they've got like the seventeen packs of gum for twelve bucks. It's an investment, but quickly do you go through those? I have lessened it,

but I go through about a pack a week. So if I were a ser'd be decent, right started going to pack a day I get you're right. Oh you've got a problem. Jill pack a week. Sometimes I share with people, okay, you know when I'm outside and I'm like, hey, you want to stick ye? Do you know that's how it goes down.