Ditto most of the aforementioned. Especially spices and eggs, but now I know better. Also our Kroger lets us buy single sticks of butter, I thought that was cool.
Green onions. One bunch of those will garnish enough food for a marching band. I’d need cryogenics to keep them fresh until the next use though. Regular onions too, if I want a little red onion to put in my burgers, a whole onion is waaay too much.
Nobody’s said batteries yet? I hate having to buy four AA’s when I only need two, since I’ll certainly misplace them. It’s even worse with C and D’s.
I rarely use paper sandwich bags, but I had to buy 50 so they’ll be there forever.
Who uses blank envelopes anymore? Doesn’t every bill come with a return envelope nowadays? Why do I have to buy 50 envelopes to send in one odd payment?
Soy bacon (and real bacon if I ate meat). I live alone and don’t miss meat, but every once in a while I want my Sandwich Of Death: Soy Bacon on a toasted, buttered salt bagel. I buy half a pound for an outrageous price, cook a little bit, and end up tossing the rest.
Whenever I crave baked goods, I always just plan to take most of the batch to work. Good for the karma, good for the waistline (provided that my willpower holds out.)
Otherwise I don’t have anything to add. I’m a big cheapskate and buy stuff in bulk whenever I can get away with it. If it goes bad before I finish it, I still (irrationally) feel like I got a good deal.
Funny, I find the 24oz single-serving bags are just the right size. One bag rarely lasts even through to halftime or the 5th inning.
As to someone’s comment about eggs, I once got very ill from eggs that had been in the fridge for about a month. So my personal rule is eggs go from fridge to trash two weeks after I get them. If hard-boiled when new, I’ll chance it to 3 weeks.
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Somebody else mentioned the dilemma that larger sizes are cheaper, but smaller is less wasteful for slow-use items.
The miniature sizes are almost always the most expensive, but the opposite is not always true; the largest is not always the cheapest. I’ve noted a sneaky trend in my local chain grocery store: often the middle-sized package is really the cheapest.
example: 12 rolls of TP for $X, same brand 8 roll pack is slighty cheaper per roll. 128oz liquid laundry detergent is $X, 80oz bottle of the same brand is slightly cheaper. They only seem to do it when the sizes aren’t easy to convert in your head, such as 128 vs 80.
Anybody else notice this where they shop?
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