Battle of the Bulk
You know how, when you go to pick out a Christmas tree, the 9-foot specimen in the lot or field looks a little small? You've brought your measuring tape, so you know it's bordering on being too big for your home, but somehow it still looks short. Then you get it into your house and release the branches and it seems to take up a good 25% of the room.
That's what it's like at Costco. Steve and I have learned to avoid the 2-pack of 96-ounce ketchup bottles, because, really, there is no way 2 people can go through that much ketchup in a lifetime. And I have told Steve never to let me buy 5 pounds of kiwis again. I love kiwis, but seriously. But sometimes we still get suckered.
On our last trip, Steve again pointed out the containers of coconut macaroons. There they were, little containers piled up 4-feet high, surrounded by the warehouse store pallets. They had been there on our previous few trips, but I had managed to resist. I LOVE a good coconut macaroon, especially those covered with chocolate.
The bite-sized macaroons at Costco were not chocolate-covered but that is easily fixed with a few chocolate chips and some double-boiling. So, finally my resolve waivered and I tossed a tray in the cart.
It wasn't until we got the container home to our kitchen that I realized just what a ridiculous number of coconut macaroons we had. What looked like a reasonable purchase at Costco, a number of macaroons that we could get through in a week, was suddenly taking up an excessive amount of real estate on our kitchen counter. Suddenly we have macaroons to last well into summer. Fortunately, we still have chocolate chips from another bulk shopping trip. . .