We just joined the “buy more sh&t” club

I am so lucky that the Mr. doesn’t like having a lot of crap around. He’s a little on the freakish side about it, but this is good because it keeps me from buying more crap. The Onion had a very nice article about the consumer culture this week: New Linens-N-Shit opens.

So we’re expecting a baby, you know this about us. All of our friends said, if you’re buying disposable diapers, Costco is the way to go. Sigh. I’ve avoided places like Costco for most of my adult life - I try to buy things just before I need them, and a cleaned out cupboard/refrigerator give me a little burst of joy. Somehow seeing evidence (in an empty cupboard or something) that I don’t have a lot of crap in my house makes me happy. Places like Costco, with its cheaper-by-the-bulk marketing, seem to go against this basic philosophy of ours.

However, the “I don’t want to be encouraged to buy more crap” urge is being overtaken by the “We need to be frugal” urge, and we caved in. My mom said she would get us a Costco membership for my birthday, and we took her up on the offer. So this morning we drove over, signed up, and walked around the store just to see what was there. We found the huge boxes of diapers and the enormo-packs of baby wipes, which is what we will buy when we need to, but we also saw the bulk food, alcohol, snacks, etc etc etc.

I’ll keep you updated on how we do on not buying a bunch of crap. The Mr. is likely going to be doing most of the diaper runs so I think we’re pretty safe.

Posted by on August 3rd, 2008 under Uncategorized

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