Hey Em

MIL has a membership... I've been a few times with her. First time I went it was a fact-finding mission for me to see what they had and the price differences.

Have been two or three times since, my "staples" are:
- toilet paper: 60 rolls, cottonelle, works out to 50c a roll
- tissues: I buy an eight pack of normal and aloe Vera for I think $2 or $3 a box
- Bepanthen - about $7 a tube (same tube in coles is about $10)
- Lynx deo for DH, significantly cheaper than supermarket
- Tuna
- Liquid stock
- pasta sauce
- tinned tomatoes
- Paper towel
- washing powder
- Napisan
- Juice (long life)
- Cat litter
- Batteries
- Tuna

Can't recall what else I always try to buy... But I normally buy only shelf goods. I tried some mince, didn't like it. Tasted different.

Their cookies are yum.

The other things I end up buying are special buys. It's a massive warehouse, set up with all the groceries, shelf goods and fresh produce around the edges and then in the middle they have special purchases. These are things that they get in seasonally or the like.

I normally pick up some great bargains like books and clothes (for the kids)... Last time I got this cool play tent for the kids, complete with 100 play balls. For $40! That was awesome.

I also got a massive box of greeting cards for $30... 20 cards!

They had some Little Tikes stuff there last time and a wooden cubby house that DD loved.

MIL took a friend last time and the three of us spent $1400

We always take the pram out of the car and even with a completely empty boot of my 4wd we struggled to fit everything in!

So I think it's worth it... I mean the tissues and toilet paper I buy you can get from the supermarket for the same price on special but I like buying it in bulk and not having to check the catalogues and run to the supermarket when you see it's on special.

The fresh stuff I don't bother with... The milk and eggs are similar prices to supermarkets... I couldn't handle getting the milk home and you had to buy 18 eggs at a time I think... Too hard.

One of my work friends goes there before she goes up to their holiday house and stocks up on fresh stuff and it works out for them!

HTH!