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I mostly use costco now for those crossiants, the kirkland protein bars, shelf stable vanilla soymilk, and their big bags of sweet potato fries. eggs aren't even the cheapest there anymore I can get a dozen eggs at the aldi near my new house for a buck.
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re:costco produce - I basically only buy apples, bananas, strawberries and the occasional box of mushrooms when a recipe calls for it. Veggie quality from costco is bad in my experience. I often see salads & cukes and such with pack dates a week or more in the past, and it's like rolling the dice on if you get another week or 2 days before it starts rotting.
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Sep 5, 2023 18:57
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I don't think I've ever seen a Costco without a huge line at the gas pumps, it always seemed like a "you might save money but you'll pay with your time" deal.
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Sep 5, 2023 19:04
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I have a friend that would drive several miles out of his way to get gas at Costco because it was slightly cheaper than the gas station a few blocks from him. LOL
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Sep 5, 2023 19:06
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Shifty Pony posted:I don't think I've ever seen a Costco without a huge line at the gas pumps, it always seemed like a "you might save money but you'll pay with your time" deal. It looks like they are changing this with much larger pump islands. The one that opened up near me this year has rows of four pumps each, spaced out further so that all but the dumbest boomers can manage to pull in around other cars without waiting for a whole line of pumps to clear. They also have LED signs at the front of each row to show which pumps are vacant. The closest I've ever been to "a line" is having to pump from the passenger side because dipshits will still gladly sit in a line to not have to hold a hose.
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Sep 5, 2023 19:15
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the costco gas station is open before costco opens, whenever I stop there on the way to work to fill up it is usually reasonable.
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Sep 5, 2023 19:19
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Costco works a lot better if you have an attic or basement or garage to store things like 12-packs of toilet paper; a chest freezer is essential. If you expect to buy major appliances, the Costco membership is absolutely worth it. Do your research, then show up in the store, order it, and it's delivered to your home. Selection is limited because Costco; we bought our refrigerator from Home Depot because we needed an unusual model. Our biggest use is clothes, alcohol, meat, and housewares. The alcohol is substantially below the liquor-store price and the wine prices are great. The meat quality is wildly variable from visit to visit, but there are some cuts we find acceptable. For some reason their lamb is usually pretty good. All meats get divided into mealsworths and individually frozen. If you want work clothes/clothes to wear around the house, there's a solid selection of flannel, jeans, liners, and shirts. We routinely pick up bowls, silverware organizers, stepstools, trashcans, that sort of thing, and the occasional small appliance. They had Cuisinarts cheaply at Christmas, and we bought one for our daughter. I don't generally buy food at Costco because I have no place to put that many of whatever they're selling. I do like the frozen pesto, the prepackaged smoked salmon, and the surprisingly cheap crème fraîche and goat cheese. The crème fraîche*, instead of being a quart, is about twice the size of the stuff you get in stores, and it keeps well enough that we use all of it. I have canned or dried some of those big ol' flats of fruit, and the results were fine. * Costco selection varies wildly depending on location; my memory is that the Foster City, CA one stocked slightly different foods and wines than the East Palo Alto (closer to the richest people) branch. I would not be at all shocked if non-Northern California ones didn't have crème fraîche, or goat cheese, or other local luxuries. The produce we've bought there has been fine, but we're (relatively) right next to where it's grown.
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Business costco is right on my way home from work, never has a line for gas, and is like 20 to 40 cents cheaper per gallon 
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DaveSauce posted:Anyone use one of those trendy Solo stoves for a fire pit? Buddy of mine bought one and I borrowed it from him when he moved. He took it back but I liked it so much I bought my own. The new models all have removable ash pans so the one I got was the last of the old ones, I still have to dump the whole thing. Worth it for half price. I like it for the ambience and smokelessness more than the heat as well, but it does put heat out after burning for a while. I bought a much cheaper spark screen off amazon with a real fine mesh, the solo one costs a ton and had real large openings in the wire mesh so a lot of sparks still got out, I didn't like it.
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Zarin posted:I'm thinking of just DIYing a Murphy Bed this fall. It's a great idea. I used this kit from rockler https://www.rockler.com/rockler-create-a-bed-adjustable-deluxe-murphy-bed-hardware-kit Took me a weekend-- I modified the plans to make it deeper and add a headboard, ended up being about $900 total with the wood.
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Qwijib0 posted:It's a great idea. I used this kit from rockler I really wish I was this handy lol. These look really good
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Costco story of the day: After talking about Costco poo poo on this dead gay forum, I decided to go down there after dinner and get some diet sodas and bottles of tea. The red lines on the map below are how far back the gasoline traffic was backed up for $0.08 cheaper than the place a few blocks down. Also, while yes, this is insane traffic... I also blame this on whoever the gently caress designed the intersection leading to it and on Costco for putting in only one, single-lane-each-way road that serves both the gas station and store access. Utter horseshit planning. 
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Sep 6, 2023 05:07
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There is a Costco thread in GBS, friend.
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Sundae posted:Costco story of the day: Literally every Costco ever.
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StormDrain posted:There is a Costco thread in GBS, friend. There is, but I figured we just spent two pages here about it, so why put it somewhere on-topic? 
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Not Costco chat (sorry for even mentioning it  )I have a ~16x20 deck with a "view" of some distant hills that aren't (yet) blocked by my neighbors trees we spend a lot of time here, mostly worrying about our neighbors trees and trying not to reread motronics advice on glycophosphate but I disgress Looking at doing one of these things. Sunbrella is the name brand in outdoor canvas, particularly with boats, does all their stuff in 60" (5') rolls Thinking about doing 3 x 5' sections of sunbrella (they heat blah blah anti fray the edges on the 60" rolls) x 20' The logic being that my  "view" is on one side and most people (i.e. me, drinking coffee in the morning) sit on the far side closer to the pool, and could retract the side closest to the view sideCurious if anyone else has done something like this, how does it handle with the wind up, does it have a tendency to mold or collect leaves or what?    
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Sep 6, 2023 05:55
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The 3 year warranty says to me that they will last exactly 3.5 years in the California sun.
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That looks like a huge pain in the rear end personally. I can't imagine keeping it clean and I feel like it would collect debris and if it rains it's going to be soggy and have drip/wet stains. Maybe it's fine somewhere you don't have rain or trees, or wind.
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Edit: I didn't realize people don't know about sunbrella never mind
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Sep 6, 2023 09:14
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I know about Sunbrella!
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Looks kind of interesting but I don't think I'd be a fan of all of the cables stretched across my deck. Anecdote on the use of canvas/tarps, my patio had a tarp covering the pergola when we moved in, looked like it had been there for 5+ years and the year after we moved in it tore itself apart in a wind storm. It didn't seem to have any mold though so that was a positive. Here's what it looked like when we bought it. 
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It makes me think of when we replaced our rope hammock with a full canvas hammock and immediately it was like "Oh this really captures stains and bird poo poo".
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Sep 6, 2023 14:45
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Verman posted:That looks like a huge pain in the rear end personally. I can't imagine keeping it clean and I feel like it would collect debris and if it rains it's going to be soggy and have drip/wet stains. I assure you, having a penis is not that bad
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Hadlock posted:Looking at doing one of these things. Sunbrella is the name brand in outdoor canvas, particularly with boats, does all their stuff in 60" (5') rolls There's nothing particularly unique or bullet proof about Sunbrella, they are just the Hoover of outdoor fabrics. There's also Revolution, Nuvella, Outdura, etc. You'll probably pay more to buy Sunbrella just based on the name.
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We stayed in a flat in Grenada, Spain that had one of those sun shades. Not sure what brand it was, but it had been there for a while and it was in relatively good shape.
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As long as it can sustain the wind in your area and is properly UV resistant they tend to last a decent while. In socal I feel like that is 5-10 years for the good stuff. 0-3 for the cheap stuff. But around me if you don't properly engineer them the Santa Ana's will tear them clean off the first year they're up. Marine use is a good indicator of durability. This generally means retract when not in use during wind season, and leaving a hefty gap between it and the house so that you are venting air. (I am not an engineer but have seen many of these things flapping in the breeze no longer bound by all sides to their original structure.) H110Hawk fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Sep 6, 2023 |
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Sorry you guys don’t “get” Sunbrella - if you did (or likewise wasted thousands maintaining a boat like the OP) you wouldn’t be so confused.
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Sep 6, 2023 20:00
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Illegal s-traps and an open neutral without an obvious cause. Day 2 of renovations going great!
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Upgrade posted:Sorry you guys don’t “get” Sunbrella - if you did (or likewise wasted thousands maintaining a boat like the OP) you wouldn’t be so confused. I will acknowledge that I do not "get" Sunbrella. I've never had a boat, a yard, or a boatyard. Can you explain this for me?
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A groundhog tunneled under our concrete front porch. He's gone now, but the tunnel / void is still there. What's the best way to get this addressed? Call someone who does mudjacking / polyjacking and have them fill it up? It hasn't sunk or anything, I just want the hole to be filled with something supportive.
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Sundae posted:I will acknowledge that I do not "get" Sunbrella. I've never had a boat, a yard, or a boatyard. Basically making fun of this Hadlock posted:Edit: I didn't realize people don't know about sunbrella never mind I think it looks great but I know that it wouldn’t hold up for poo poo in LA.
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We're in earthquake country, and I just put the dots together and realized that our unreinforced masonry foundation may be kind of a problem. Does anybody have suggestions on how to find a reliable structural engineer? Is it necessary to find a reliable foundation engineer instead? Helpful information on the Web*: quote:Foundation engineer skills and personality traits brugroffil posted:Illegal s-traps and an open neutral without an obvious cause. Day 2 of renovations going great! One of us! One of us! * omg I still instinctively capitalize Web, put me out to pasture upstate.
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MarcusSA posted:I think it looks great but I know that it wouldn’t hold up for poo poo in LA. Doesn't stay water repellent for more than a couple seasons either, which really sucks for outdoor furniture cushions.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:We're in earthquake country, and I just put the dots together and realized that our unreinforced masonry foundation may be kind of a problem. Does anybody have suggestions on how to find a reliable structural engineer? Is it necessary to find a reliable foundation engineer instead? I'm a licensed PE Civil engineer in California; there's a lot of structural and geotechnical engineers who specialize in these kind of inspections. It's easy to look up their license online but likely you'd want a geotechnical report for the soil type and a structural engineer for any retrofit you might need (maybe shotcrete walls? Hard to say without more info). In your case I'd seek a structural engineer first and they can make a determination if a geotechnical report is necessary, plus they can catch other elements of your home you might not know of yet. Dr. Eldarion posted:A groundhog tunneled under our concrete front porch. He's gone now, but the tunnel / void is still there. What's the best way to get this addressed? Call someone who does mudjacking / polyjacking and have them fill it up? It hasn't sunk or anything, I just want the hole to be filled with something supportive. Controlled density fill is basically super runny grout that fills voids. If you know the extent of the hole tbh I'd just get a general contractor to pump it with CDF, but if you don't, maybe it's time for a professional eval by a licensed PE or foundation contractor.
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Sunbrella. The fabric is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of fabric science most of the value will go over a typical poster's head. There's also Sunbrella's customer service, which is deftly woven into its business model - their business philosophy draws heavily from MBA literature, for instance. The connoisseurs understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the value of the fabric, to realize that its not just durable - it says something deep about your your LIFESTYLE. As a consequence people who dislike Sunbrella truly ARE idiots - of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the value in Sunbrella's 5-year limited warranty, which itself is a reference to the social contract. I'm smirking right now imagining one of these addlepated simpletons scratching their head in confusion as Sunbrella's genius unfolds itself in front of them at Jo Ann's. What fools... how I pity them. 😂 And yes by the way, I DO have a Sunbrella tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. Its for the ladies' eyes only - and even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
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Dr. Eldarion posted:A groundhog tunneled under our concrete front porch. He's gone now, but the tunnel / void is still there. What's the best way to get this addressed? Call someone who does mudjacking / polyjacking and have them fill it up? It hasn't sunk or anything, I just want the hole to be filled with something supportive. This happened at my kids house. Tunnelled under the concrete monolithic front steps, leaving a void the diameter of a basketball and about 5' long. He shovelled in soil. Hog dug it out in 2-days. I loaded in a quarter-ton of broken stone & packed it with a rod &sledgehammer. Good luck digging through sharp rocks, round boy. (that did it)
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Dr. Eldarion posted:A groundhog tunneled under our concrete front porch. He's gone now, but the tunnel / void is still there. What's the best way to get this addressed? Call someone who does mudjacking / polyjacking and have them fill it up? It hasn't sunk or anything, I just want the hole to be filled with something supportive. Get some hornet pheromones and pour liberally into the hole, the hornets will build a high-strength nest to help keep your porch secure
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The thing I like about Costco is they pay me enough that I can post in the homeowners thread and not the I hate my landlord thread. Thanks to my neighbors running their sprinklers everyday even though we are in stage three water restrictions, I don't have to worry about my foundation separating because of the drought and summer that is pushing 105 into September.
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Blindeye posted:Controlled density fill is basically super runny grout that fills voids. If you know the extent of the hole tbh I'd just get a general contractor to pump it with CDF, but if you don't, maybe it's time for a professional eval by a licensed PE or foundation contractor. Thanks, will find someone for this! I checked out the void and it doesn't look too crazy. Endoscope comes in handy yet again!
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Blindeye posted:I'm a licensed PE Civil engineer in California; there's a lot of structural and geotechnical engineers who specialize in these kind of inspections. It's easy to look up their license online but likely you'd want a geotechnical report for the soil type and a structural engineer for any retrofit you might need (maybe shotcrete walls? Hard to say without more info).
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