I absolutely love Sam's Club. Yes, you have to pay for a membership, but it's honestly worth it…read more
For starters, GAS. Sam's Club gas is about $1.80 (rounding up). For example, getting gas on the Army base, where everything is tax free, gas is still $2.10 (rounding up). So driving a large SUV, and having motorcycles that all require 91 (premium) gas, the savings in gas alone is worth the membership.
Now then, I'm a single guy. No wife no kids etc. and, shockingly, I haven't the slightest clue how to cook. I still gotta eat though right? Well, at Sam's, in the back, they have a bakery, butchers and kitchen etc. So they make FRESH, a dish like chicken Alfredo pasta. Or Mac and cheese, or whatever .... now because it's a bulk buy kinda place, the make these meals for a "family". Most dishes are usually set up to feed 4-5. So I buy these freshly made meals, I go home, and I divide them up into individual glass, oven safe containers (that I also bought at Sam's lol), and in the fridge they go. Each night after work, I grab one, pop it in the oven, and viola - dinner for one! So one "meal", feeds me for about 4/7 nights a week. And the other 3 nights, I just eat out and use that as a break in the mundane and an opportunity to check in on Yelp lol.
Now On to feeding my dogs. I have two 70-80 pound dogs that live with me. At Sam's, I can get standard Purina dog food, nothing fancy but not terrible, about a 55lb bag, for like $20. Yuuuuup!
Now then, I do bulk up on drinks. I stay thirsty. So I love buying huge bulk cases of Powerade, water, and Diet Dr Pepper lol.
Same goes for body wash, deodorant and shampoo. Tooth paste and mouth wash. These are things that don't expire, and are slightly cheaper when bought in bulk. So 5 sticks of Old Spice deodorant? 5 pack of Crest Optic White toothpaste? A bottle of Old Spice body wash the size of a gallon of milk? Yes please.
And house hold cleaning products. TVs, Beds, cooking stuff, even clothes! Sam's has it all.
I definitely get my money's worth here. And it's my go-to for almost everything.