Costco Date Night

I ♥ Costco, and I know a lot of you do too! C'mon admit it. I could spend hours there, even though at no time have I needed 12 cans of chicken soup. I do however, love their spinach salad with poppy seed dressing, their jalapeno artichoke dip, and their white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, which for some reason only come in their giant multi pack of cookies. Hey folks at Costco, I could really use a giant container of just them...well maybe on second thought I don't NEED but I'd really like one☺ My dad and I are big fans of their chocolate cake. I also enjoy their discounted book section, we got the new Fancy Nancy book there for 40% off yesterday, ER was so happy. We also seem to always leave with a giant container of diapers these days too!

Back when we were first married and living in CA, we lived ten minutes from a Costco. I can't tell you how many times we ended up there on Friday night with me eating a piece of their giant two dollar pizza slices (blot them heavily as they can be greasy) and Brad with one of their polish sausage and drink combos. Grand total for our meal four bucks, because my husband is cheap enough to make me share his drink! My coworkers would joke about our "romantic" date night.

Why Friday night? That was our store's slow time, if you went on the weekend there were lines a mile long. On Friday night, it was practically empty; we've noticed it's that way at most Costco's after seven, unless there's a big holiday coming up.

My husband jokes our meal expenses have gone way up, 50% as a matter of fact, as now that's she's bigger and ER needs her own piece of pizza; not just a few bites of mine. She eats hers minus the pepperoni; we can't get her a slice of the cheese pizza because they put a ton of extra of cheese on it and it's too cheesy for her. Can you believe it, there's such a thing as too much cheesy goodness?! And on days when we also get a frozen yogurt to split as well, then we're up to a 100% more.

Don't feel too sorry for my husband's wallet, it still only comes to eight dollars then. He really isn't that cheap. We just like thinking we're saving money somewhere, makes the hundred bucks we drop almost everytime we step in that place seem not so bad. It's those diapers, they cost a small fortune over the first few years, wouldn't you agree?

We went last night and ER was great because one of the samples happened to be vanilla ice cream, which she got to eat before dinner. Can you imagine how happy she was? I was pretty excited too, because I found out they're running a sale through May 3rd: 4x6 digital prints are only 9 cents each and my order was over ten dollars less than I expected.

Costco, is definitely one of the things I love. Read about more favorite things at Things I Love Thursday, hosted by The Diaper Diaries.

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