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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (19381)	3/28/1998 2:51:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

X, I can certainly understand how you feel like a pioneer woman, stocking up to protect your family, when you shop at Costco. Once I have found places to store everything I buy there, I am finally able to relax, and feel satisfied in much the same way. My sense of feeling spiritually empty when I leave the store is based more my feeling kind of vulgar and materialistic, pushing one of those huge baskets around, piled high, and dodging people who have three times as much stuff on those gigantic pallets with wheels. It just feels to me like Americans are too materialistic, and greedy, and that there is something mildly obscene about the experience. I am not very religious in a traditional sense, but I feel pangs of guilt at odd moments like this. It may be more of a neurosis than a positive trait--it is important to enjoy what we have given, and worked very hard to accomplish. I think it is very healthy that you robustly enjoy the whole experience. Maybe a little of my different view also comes from the fact that there are only three people in my family. We really have to work hard to consume the products we buy, which would seem simply wonderfully convenient in a larger family like yours. And I did read the results of a survey recently which showed that if people have huge quantities of anything sitting around, they tend to consume them much more quickly, tending to overeat and be wasteful with household goods. So I think the Costco experience may tend a little towards that, at least for me.