costco rocks

[BLD]

got me a costco nearby chez bld but i dont often shop there i use it mostly to gas up the fridge ferry today i was passing by at 10.00 when the opened and remembered a Finnish mate of mine asking me to get him 2 blocks of jarlsberg he loves the stuff even though its produced in ireland or maybe because of that ? anyway i am designated Drinker and chief tucker fucker tonight so i though i would also get me a few groceries. 700g block is $22 each pretty good value

[BLD]

and i had the plan to buy a cooked chook for the ridiculously low price of $8.00

[BLD]

that bad boy comes in this ziplock bag piping hot and all that chook juice is in the bottom of the bag and can hopefully be turned into a gravy? albeit a greasy one

[BLD]

but the main game wasnt so much the bird its the excellent 3 cheese costco mac n cheese that will go well as a side plus some teeny weeny tators or tator tots $17 for the macn cheese, $6 for a bag of tator tots still got half a bag left and half a bird that bird is good for 2 meals for 2 kids. cant go wrong .

[BLD]

and while i was there i grabbed the kids fave the excellent choc chip cookies. t
yeah, not a lot of veggie action going on but i will hide some pease in there dinner, bloody fussy kids

[malmomike77]

you'd pay half that in the UK.

[taxexile]

whats up bld? paying for food?

no more freebies from the ..."cough cough snigger snigger " motel, has your bin diving missus gone on strike?


we have costco here in the uk, you have to pay a yearly fee to shop there, stock always changes too. you would go in for some bread, cheese and eggs and come out with a sofa, a laptop, a lawnmower and half a ton of toilet paper.
petrol was cheap, but in the end i didnt renew our membership. aldi, lidl and tesco are much better here for staples, and marks and waitrose for the quality stuff.

[BLD]

you'd pay half that in the UK.

But in comparison you're wages are low

[BLD]

whats up bld? paying for food?

no more freebies from the ..."cough cough snigger snigger " motel, has your bin diving missus gone on strike?


we have costco here in the uk, you have to pay a yearly fee to shop there, stock always changes too. you would go in for some bread, cheese and eggs and come out with a sofa, a laptop, a lawnmower and half a ton of toilet paper.
petrol was cheap, but in the end i didnt renew our membership. aldi, lidl and tesco are much better here for staples, and marks and waitrose for the quality stuff.

It is a new thing here in wa the membership is $60 a year
. Worth it for the cheap fuel I rarely shop there except when it's open at a time I am.passing by.

[malmomike77]

But in comparison you're wages are low

are they?

[BLD]

Yes. Fact.

[cyrille]

you'd pay half that in the UK.

But in comparison you're wages are low

Just checked.

Average Salary in Aus converts to £49,700.

Average Salary in UK is £37,400.

So salaries are roughly 25% higher.

[BLD]

Or maybe I've just been on the fat bucks for so long as an expat and now that I'm back in the land of big tits and solid shits I think.$8.00 Australian dollars for a cooked chook is cheap.a quick google of xe currency converter tells me that $8.00aussie pesos is equivalent to.3.85 British pounds. What's the minimum wage in the UK ? I can google that for you also

[Edmond]

we have costco here in the uk, you have to pay a yearly fee to shop there

Fokin' 'ell that's some rort. I heard the place has gone to shiz but that's just taking the pizz.

[BLD]

Just checked.

Average Salary in Aus converts to £49,700.

Average Salary in UK is £37,400.

So salaries are roughly 25% higher.

If Mike's estimate is accurate then you are paying twice the UK price for chocolate chip cookies, thus overpaying by 25%

What do punters have to pony up to rent ?.or buy? Is it affordable? Here it's out of control. Rents expensive, property's expensive. You're kinda fucked if you are a slave to a mortgage here. Which I am not. Infact I've owned my " shoebox " outright for the last 20 years. 15 of those years it was rented out while the exploration strategy called me to distant and sometimes bumfuck locations. Blds ma didn't raise no meatheads.
Gotta say though. Those choc chip cookies from costco are the ducks nuts. Gonna hide some before the kids get em all

[Molle]

Average Salary in UK is £37,400.

So salaries are roughly 25% higher.

Yes but how much income tax is there on an average salary in Britain? 20%?

[malmomike77]

But in comparison you're wages are low

are they?

Yes. Fact.

how do you know my wage?

[Mendip]

Just to join in, Jarsleberg cheese is Norwegian, not Irish, which may explain why your Finnish mate likes it, BLD?

A 700 gram block will cost you 127 NOK in Norway, about £9.30.

[cyrille]

how do you know my wage?

:zing:

Fvck, that was as predictable as getting the shits after a Chitty meal.

[malmomike77]

:zing:

Fvck, that was as predictable as getting the shits after a Chitty meal.

zing.

[malmomike77]

[BLD]

Just checked.

Average Salary in Aus converts to £49,700.

Average Salary in UK is £37,400.

So salaries are roughly 25% higher.

Food for thought cyrille. Hard to put a definitive number on wages in the UK or OZ I'm absolutely sure Australia is bloody expensive and just getting more so. We do produce a lot. But it could be were still dealing with a fucked up supply chain via covid disruptions that haven't normalised yet? Plus we're an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean . Shipping costs compared to lorry costs in the UK need to be factored in. Having said that the supermarket chains Woolworths, Coles etc have been accused of price gouging and I'm fucking sure that's true. But my superannuation portfolio contains some woolies and Coles stock so I would be a hypocrite to whinge or get all fucking righteous.

[BLD]

Just to join in, Jarsleberg cheese is Norwegian, not Irish, which may explain why your Finnish mate likes it, BLD?

A 700 gram block will cost you 127 NOK in Norway, about £9.30.

This one is produced in Ireland. According to the packer. The mad fin loves it

[BLD]

It's produced in Ireland & the states. That's sure to piss off the norgies

[Edmond]

What do punters have to pony up to rent ?.or buy? Is it affordable? Here it's out of control. Rents expensive, property's expensive. You're kinda fucked if you are a slave to a mortgage here

From sometimes talking with friends and family back home about such things, it's completely foked.

20% down needed for a mortgage and rents are so high that it's impossible to pay the rent and save the 20%.

Result: Professionals living in their parent's house until nearly 40 just to save up enough to get the down on a mortgage.

Then there are apparently refugees waltzing in and getting free houses, something like 10% of all housing projects must be handed over for government allocation.

Result: gangs out firebombing various properties. Possibly the professionals forced to live at home with their parents.


And now it seems they need to pay to annual fees to enter a supermarket.