Shopping at COSTCO

My wife likes to shop at Costco. Costco is one of those big membership warehouse stores, like Sam's, except that they have liberal policies like paying their employees well and giving them good benefits and they don't try to destroy the environment and other eco-friendly things. It's "Sam's for Liberals". They're from Oregon. Figures!

Anyhow, the problem with a place like this is that they sell things in really big quantities. "What a bargain!!", my wife says as she hauls in a 25 lb. bag of rice.



And so I get around to the subject of tonight's blog. This week, I finally emptied out the last of the 25 lb. bag of rice into the little rice jar that sits on the counter for regular use. All the rice is not yet gone, but I was able to throw away the bag and free up some room in the storage closet. I went back to see when I took the picture shown above which I took soon after the rice came home. I took the picture on February 1, 2006. So it takes this rice eating family a good year to do in 25 lbs. of rice. So if anyone ever asks you how much rice our family eats in a year, you'll know that it's probably less than 25 lbs. but not by much.

Well, that all for tonight.

Khudaa haafiz (good-bye in Urdu)