Comments on: Shopping the Big Box Stores in Style

By: nancyjrab

nancyjrab — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:12:08 +0000

I have three words for you about bringing older children to NYC: NO DRINKING AND DRIVING.
Seriously – that’s huge! I think that would terrify me more than anything about living in the ‘burbs. Here – it’s all about public transportation. No drunk kid is going to try to convince your kid to get in the car with him.
See? Don’t you feel better already?
Thanks for reading.

By: Soliloquy

Soliloquy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:09:51 +0000

Your blog fascinates me. Let me tell you why.

My husband heads corporate communications (which is a fancy way of saying public relations) for one of the worlds largest financial organizations. When he took the job, their headquarters were here in the ATL. He traveled frequently to NYC – all was well.

Their headquarters have since moved to the NE and all of his primary functions operate out of NYC now. Although it is in the company’s best interest for Spin to be in NY daily, they are gracious to allow him to commute. His office is on Park Ave. and he is there weekly.

The possibility of another move (to the city) has since loomed over us – and I have to be honest. It’s one I FEAR. I can’t imagine that kind of transition with older kids.

Anyway. I LOVE reading about your life in the city.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:16:37 +0000

I AM SO JEALOUS!
I have to drive MYSELF. Then I have to PUSH the cart. Then I have to UNLOAD it all into my van MYSELF.

We call Costco/BJ’s/Sam’s the 3-Hundred-Dollar Store… go in for some super-sized peanut butter and a bucket of cream puffs and come out with marinated pork loin, 4 cases of soda, 100 rolls of TP, a bushel of apples, some garden tools, a couple orchids, Gloria Vanderbilt jeans (that you did not try on so they don’t even fit!) and a case of CD jewel cases for all the movies you have copied from VHS to DVD…. oh, and the peanut butter and Cream Puffs… and all this comes to– Yep! 300.00 — always. No matter what you put in the cart you are coming out with 300.00 on the receipt.

And I have to stock the shelves of my garage, pantry and standing freezer large enough to put 3 of my children in…
all by myself.
And I never even thought about how small the storage space in a NYC apartment would be — probably cuz I have 4000 sq ft home on an acre in the burbs… not having space would totally suck!

Feel free to come visit my space anytime… I have plenty of room!

By: babiesgottahaveit

babiesgottahaveit — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:31:11 +0000

Oh my god this is a genius story. I love it so so much. I have often pondered just the whole efficacy of driving out of town to go to the big box stores. Once you pay tolls and gas have you really saved that much money? Plus it’s such a tremendous amount of effort. Flushing though…that’s not so bad. I know lots of people in Queens who will be really excited about that. Needless to say, I won’t make the trip from the UWS. I can’t even be bothered to go to the Trader Joe’s in Union Square. How am I going to do that with a two year old? Lug bags of groceries on the subway with her in an Ergo? Yeah. Not so much. Ahhhhh for a walk in pantry.