On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:11:29 -0800, Cindy Fuller
> wrote:

>Ranee's post about the non-availability of good kosher hot dogs at
>Costco brought up an interesting sidebar. She said that she and Rich
>had let their Costco membership lapse. The SO and I have debated for
>years about the value of getting a Costco membership. I briefly had a
>Sam's Club membership many years ago, but I let it lapse because there
>wasn't one nearby when I moved from Dallas to Ithaca in 1986. Our
>neighbors are big Costco aficionados, and my relatives back east are
>devotees of BJ's and Sam's. To my thinking, a membership doesn't make
>much sense for the two of us. We don't have oodles of space to store
>large quantities of stuff. Anyone in a small household want to chime in
>one way or another?
>
>Cindy

I guess it depends on your requirements. On lots of the electronics,
what you can save on one item will more than pay for a year's
membership.
In our case, we feed wild birds year 'round and have had a Costco
membership since '92. What we save on only one item, the black oil
sunflower seeds for bird feeding, pays for our yearly membership many
times over. The savings on anything else we buy there is just a bonus.

Ross.