I always thought there should be "Costco Clubs" of people who get together and split a giant package of loo rolls, cases of tinned beans, etc. You would only need one membershp card, and nobody would end up trying to find room for 48 rolls of asswipe.
That's not a bad idea - I might suggest it to my nearest and dearest! We had a vague idea in Canada of splitting perishables like Parmesan cheese (which came in quantities far too big for us) with another couple, but never actually got round to doing it.
Costco now also do online shopping & delivery, -I think I remember my sister saying they had a delivery.... so if you did get a costco club with your family, delivery might also be an option. And if, in the new job, you are an NHS employee, I think that also means there are costco discounts for your individual membership....
Remember Samuel Pepys? He very commendably stayed in London during both the Great Plague and the Great Fire; but, when fire threatened his house, he dug a hole in the back garden and buried his wine and his Parmesan cheese (which I'm sure was very vauable).
I don't know if he ever dug it up again, or what state it was in if he did.
I am not sure that I can comprehend the concept of too much cheese.
Especially parmesan which lasts for ever.
Not necessarily - my sister had a block of Parm that went quite spectacularly off in the fridge - blue mould!!! <eek!>
How unusual. We buy the big Costco wodge and it does for months. We have a shelf in the fridge which is exclusively cheese. Tonight I am going to try a new recipe which looks simple - essentially roast squash and pasta doused in Gorgonzola.
TICTH the library patron who came in with an attitude, was hostile and rude to both me and a co-worker for absolutely no reason, and threatened to report us to our supervisor tomorrow (she isn't in the building today) for what we do not exactly know. I have done a security incident report on it, and informed my boss about it, and all seems well so far, but who knows what will happen tomorrow.
I’m hoping this was sorted to your satisfaction Nicole. Having been in that situation several times I realise some customers come in only to get into an argument and upset the staff.
Last week I went to Costco (warehouse-type store) and had toilet paper on my list. As soon as I walked in I saw that the end of every aisle had a HUGE stack of 36-roll packages. I also noticed that almost every grocery cart I passed had a package, as did mine.
However, there was a line in one section for bottled water and paper towels, with a limit on what one could buy. (I wanted neither item, so I don't know what the limit was.)
Yesterday I stopped by a "regular" grocery store. I noticed that the toilet paper shelves were just about empty.
Stopped by Costco a little while ago. There was a sign at the door indicating they were out of toilet paper, paper towels, and bottled water.
Another library incident today, not a patron incident, but a carbon monoxide incident. Our alarm went off and we had to evacuate the building. The fire department came and investigated and found our heating unit was leaking, so they turned it off. We are now back in the building, but with no heat.
It all turned out all right, the man from the boiler company came and fixed it. It turns out that the burners had been installed sideways. Very disturbing.
It all turned out all right, the man from the boiler company came and fixed it. It turns out that the burners had been installed sideways. Very disturbing.
We have experience of this kind of ineptitude... About two years ago, we got a gas fitter company to service the boiler of the house in foie gras land. Within about 24 hours, it went into security mode, and continued to do so all the bloody time no matter how many times we called them back. Finally this summer we called a different technician, who discovered in the space of about 10 minutes that they'd removed a joint from the flue, which meant that it was constantly blowing carbon monoxide back into the system and therefore turning itself off to avoid poisoning, explosion etc.
There are two possibilities: either they took it out to clean it, didn't put it back and on the umpteen subsequent visits never noticed it was missing, or they removed it on purpose so that we would have to call them back over and over.
We are busy getting them a very bad reputation in the neighbourhood.
Yeah, well, we had an alleged friend and alleged highly-qualified person (NOT, but we didn't realize that, and I'm not sure his employer realizes it even now) work on a wooden enclosure-with-doors to go around our water heater, which is adjacent to the furnace system. That was twenty years ago. Five years ago a professional HVAC guy came out and said, holding up a six-inch lid-type thingy, "Why did I find this set aside on the floor? Don't you realize it belongs in [indicates spot] and without it you have carbon monoxide going straight into your house?"
Said "friend" spearheaded the effort to get us thrown out of our parish and excommunicated a couple of years later. I can't help wondering--especially when he was found to have installed unprotected electrical wiring by the damp ground in the home of another person in the church whom he ALSO tried to get rid of...
Don't know whether he's just a shitty worker or whether he's actively homicidal.
Yeah, well, we had an alleged friend and alleged highly-qualified person (NOT, but we didn't realize that, and I'm not sure his employer realizes it even now) work on a wooden enclosure-with-doors to go around our water heater, which is adjacent to the furnace system. That was twenty years ago. Five years ago a professional HVAC guy came out and said, holding up a six-inch lid-type thingy, "Why did I find this set aside on the floor? Don't you realize it belongs in [indicates spot] and without it you have carbon monoxide going straight into your house?"
Said "friend" spearheaded the effort to get us thrown out of our parish and excommunicated a couple of years later. I can't help wondering--especially when he was found to have installed unprotected electrical wiring by the damp ground in the home of another person in the church whom he ALSO tried to get rid of...
Don't know whether he's just a shitty worker or whether he's actively homicidal.
TICTH Amazon's packaging. I ordered a vacuum cleaner* from them which arrived in the manufacturer's box, which was inside a cardboard box of almost identical proportions, which was in turn inside a much bigger box (almost twice the size), and the extraneous space filled with industrial quantities of brown paper.
Why on earth did they need the bigger box? And more to the point, how the hell am I supposed to dispose of it when I don't have transport to get to a recycling centre?
I hear you Piglet, they seem to overbox, for no reason. Can you break down the boxes into small pieces and put them in your recycle bin? What a pain that is.
I don't actually have a proper recycling bin - the only one with my flat number on it is a general rubbish bin. There's a recycling centre a bus journey plus a walk away, but the box is a bit bulky for that. If our current lockdown rules change I'll see if I can get my brother to come over with the car.
@Piglet I think you should check the West Lothian council website regarding your bins. As I read it you should have at least two, maybe three. They are grey, blue and brown, and the blue one is for recycling. If you don't have one the council ought to give one if you communicate with them. At least they would where I live! There is no way in this day and age that you should have to cart your plastics and papers away to some remote location: that is hardly the way to encourage environmental responsibility.
I'm going to get on to it - getting my brother to come over isn't an option, as he's in a different tier, so I'll see what WLC have to say. There isn't actually space in the bin cupboard for me to have more than one, but I could keep it outside the front door - that's what my neighbour seems to do.
All the Blue Bins have been sold to the Kingdom of Kent, to be converted into Boris Bog-Boxes, for the use of incontinent lorry-drivers on Kent motorways post-Brexit.
I hadn't thought of that. According to news reports on Facetube, due to a clerical error, Orkney Islands Council recently ordered a thousand blue bins in the wrong size, so that may explain the shortage.
Unfortunately West Lothian Council probably won't want them, as they're printed with OIC's coat of arms ...
I think that'll be my next move; I don't know why I've been shy about introducing myself to the bloke next door. He spoke to us when we were viewing the flat and seemed very friendly (I think my sister-in-law had quite a chat with him), but I haven't bumped into him since I moved in, and I'm not sure of the protocol of just knocking on a stranger's door - especially in the middle of a pandemic!
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Costco now also do online shopping & delivery, -I think I remember my sister saying they had a delivery.... so if you did get a costco club with your family, delivery might also be an option. And if, in the new job, you are an NHS employee, I think that also means there are costco discounts for your individual membership....
And don't forget to leave your contact details for Track and Trace.
Especially parmesan which lasts for ever.
I don't know if he ever dug it up again, or what state it was in if he did.
Not necessarily - my sister had a block of Parm that went quite spectacularly off in the fridge - blue mould!!! <eek!>
Keep a six foot distance from the tellers...
How unusual. We buy the big Costco wodge and it does for months. We have a shelf in the fridge which is exclusively cheese. Tonight I am going to try a new recipe which looks simple - essentially roast squash and pasta doused in Gorgonzola.
I’m hoping this was sorted to your satisfaction Nicole. Having been in that situation several times I realise some customers come in only to get into an argument and upset the staff.
Stopped by Costco a little while ago. There was a sign at the door indicating they were out of toilet paper, paper towels, and bottled water.
Hmmm...maybe it got cozy with some blue cheese?
Funny nobody expert noticed.
There are two possibilities: either they took it out to clean it, didn't put it back and on the umpteen subsequent visits never noticed it was missing, or they removed it on purpose so that we would have to call them back over and over.
We are busy getting them a very bad reputation in the neighbourhood.
To be careless is one thing, but to perhaps sabotage the boiler so as to get extra business is quite another - possibly criminal.
Mind you, getting them to admit it in court would be difficult...
Said "friend" spearheaded the effort to get us thrown out of our parish and excommunicated a couple of years later. I can't help wondering--especially when he was found to have installed unprotected electrical wiring by the damp ground in the home of another person in the church whom he ALSO tried to get rid of...
Don't know whether he's just a shitty worker or whether he's actively homicidal.
Bloody Hell! 😬😡
Ridiculous.
Why on earth did they need the bigger box? And more to the point, how the hell am I supposed to dispose of it when I don't have transport to get to a recycling centre?
* not a Dyson - I do have some principles.
All the Blue Bins have been sold to the Kingdom of Kent, to be converted into Boris Bog-Boxes, for the use of incontinent lorry-drivers on Kent motorways post-Brexit.
Simples!
Unfortunately West Lothian Council probably won't want them, as they're printed with OIC's coat of arms ...
I'll get me bog-brush, and me PPE...
I'll maybe pluck up the courage to chap his door ...
I should have thought of that in my earlier post.