Yearly Grocery Haul | Costco Haul | Ikea Toddler Bed | Shipping Groceries on the Barge
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2025
- Our yearly grocery haul has arrived. It was as wild as ever and of course we forgot a few things. It's bound to happen, but we got a good amount of what we will need for the year. Hopefully we will be traveling a little bit more this year and can grab a few essentials then.
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Thank you for giving us a glimpse into REAL Alaska living
Of course. Thank you for watching.
I love watching grocery hauls, but this is BY FAR the most interesting one I have ever watched! The lengths you have to go through to buy groceries is amazing.
Awe! That’s awesome. So glad you liked it!
Wow, the logistics of shopping and hauling living in Alaska is eye opening. Two thumbs up
I am so glad Joe was able to come on this huge shopping trip this time! Love watching these hauls.
We are so very glad also. So much easier then doing it alone.
You guys are such amazing people! It's so impressive the way you guys packed everything into the back of the car and the boxes! I love adorable Bonnie's sweet self at the end!
Awe, thank you. Isn’t the Bonnie cam so cute.
I love vlogs like this! So wholesome!! Great job guys! Beautiful family ❤️
I don't know how you guys do it! That seems insane. I'm sure your used to it but......Wow!!!!! Kudos to you because I really don't think I could do it. God bless you two!!!!!
First time watching your videos, its a very intelligent thing to do to shop in large quantities, I love to do that!
This was so fun to watch! Thanks!!!
Thanks for watching!
You guys are incredible! Watching your videos and seeing the lengths you have to go just to get groceries has made me realize how much of a whiny butt I really am. You make me tired just watching,lol. I’m very happy that Joe was able to go with you this time. Not only for the help but also for the company. Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful family with us. Take care and stay safe.
We are very thankful that Joe was with there. So helpful.
Lol.... I felt the same... no more complaining from me.
I just love your colors! Ginger and those eyes ❤️❤️❤️. You really are a beautiful lady! Enjoying your film. Greetings from Sweden.
Awe, thank you so much. Very kind.
I only just found your channel, but I apparently can't stop watching your shopping vlogs... Even after watching you do your yearly shopping trips, I can't quite wrap my brain around the logistics of how you do this every year. It looks so physically and mentally exhausting!! A wild ride, like you said!! I am highly impressed!!! I think my brain would overload, and then melt. ;) Thank you for sharing your vlogs!! I will be checking out more of your videos!
Welcome to our RUclips Family! Thanks for following along with our adventures :)
Australia here.. Adore This Channel, you three soul's are so down to Earth, IKEA hmmm purchased two thing's when my son was little, screws missing from both boxes, never again. Bonnie is Adorable. How lucky you are to live my dream, to live in Alaska with the cold, snow, beauty. Thank you for letting us live the dream through your video's.. Kindest thoughts from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Awe, you are so very sweet. Im sorry you had a bad experience with Ikea. We where nervous because we did not get a chance to open it before hand. Im glad we can share our life in Alaska. Thanks for watching ❤️
Huge haul. Glad you got what you needed. Pain in the butt to put away but, nice to be stocked up for awhile.
It feels really nice to not have to worry about food for sure.
Wow guys that was a long hard day shopping and packing. Hi Bonnie 👋 alright 👍. Thanks for sharing your 👍 🥰
It is worth it in the end :)
Glad to see you guys.I think I somehow missed the last vlog,gotta go back and watch.Hugs from Missouri 🤗
Oh man. Hope you get to check it out :)
Oh my!I can’t even imagine how y’all do that!😄🤪It would take me forever!!!Good job👍🏻
Thank you!
That was one proper shopping trip, it must be so exciting to run riot in so many shops even with the ouch factor. You two definitely know how to fill a cart or four+. It was great to see you both and a little Bonnie moment. Sending love and best wishes to you all 💞
It is kind of fun to just shop shop shop. Hard to see the bill when we get back though lol.
(Julie) I am so glad you do these videos! I find them so very interesting! Thanks for sharing this kind of content!
Thank you for watching! So glad you enjoy it.
I just yelled ...where's the chips mama....you did not disappoint. I love chips. This was a great video. I hope baby girl enjoys her big bed. You both are very awesome and fun.
We love chips too. We try not to buy to many though. Because then we eat them lol.
What a great job! You deserve a nice day off at least to recover , is hard job but it is really nice to have most things at home specially those days with "those virus mutating" we never know when or if we will be " at home based " again ! So really nice video ! Thank you
Yes! Never know what we will be able to get in town. Thank you
I love these videos. At least you didn't have to go alone this time. I would love to shop for 6 months and not go back lol.
Thanks for watching! For real, it was so much easier with Joe.
I love watching your yearly video shop, such a lovely family, stay safe and have fun putting all that shopping away😂
Thank you! It always takes a while. Lol
I just found your channel and i already love it😍😍
I look forward to your big shopping trip!
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing this process. Haha, I’m not sure most marriages could survive the stress of shopping OR packing all of that. You guys are awesome.
Of course, thanks for watching! We do our best. Our communication skills definitely got tested lol 😂
Y’all are such a beautiful couple! Love the vlog.
Awe, That really means a lot, thank you!
Really enjoyed this but would’ve liked to have seen the haul and what you have bought etc…the best part! Lol x
You are not alone. Its so many items that it would probably take an hr to show everything and the prices. Maybe we will do a separate video next year with everything. I just didn’t think people would want to see that :)
Suggestion items that are double packages such as boxed mac& cheese inside of another box, take out of the case & put in totes. You won't need to pay for the outer packaging.
Yeah, that is a good idea. We will definitely keep that in mind for next year.
This was so cool to watch!! I love the way you live
Thank you!
This is SO interesting!!! Also I hate grocery shopping so this is also my worst nightmare 🤣
Lol, I actually love it, except spending the money.
Your yearly haul videos are always so fascinating, thanks for sharing!
Of course! Thank you for watching!
Hey guys just found your channel so excited to join your journey much love from New Zealand 😁
Welcome to our RUclips Family! Thanks for joining our adventure!
one thing i have learned about shopping big hauls for 4 houses....you learn to pack the car well!!!....one of the girls at castco helped me load things in the car...and she looked at me going "this is not all going to fit...i looked at her and laughed going "oh it will, we just turn the box the other way, it will fit" she looked like a deer in the head lights when it all fit and i could close ALL the doors and still see out the back mirror and side windows.
Thats awesome. I am sure you use every space.
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska very nook and cranny!!
So interesting! If there's something you forgot or the shops didn't have, do you buy it locally? Or is the price too high?
I'd love to see where you keep all those groceries at home, too! Do you show it in other videos?
We will usually wait until we travel again to buy it if we can wait. If not we will sometimes have it flown in with our groceries. If we are really desperate and need it right away we can buy it at the store for a higher price. We will be doing a video of our storage! Probably in a couple weeks.
Wow awesome job guys 😁😁
You all really made good time considering all that you all bought at Costco
We thought so to!
My kids have the same bed! Its fantastic! My daughter is due for an extension, its so easy to extend when the time comes!
Oh, thats great to hear! Hopefully we wont have to extended it for a while, but knowing our daughter it will be soon lol.
You know I couldn't remember your channel and I had it saved and I don't know what the heck happened but I hadn't seen some of your videos for a while. Glad to see some of this video. Hey take a look at acre homestead this young lady has a garden and the way she cooks her meals and everything like that I thought that would be cool for you guys I don't know if you want to do that but I thought that was pretty neat anyways glad you guys are doing good
Glad you found us again!
Wow that was a lot of food! And bikes and a bed too. I couldn’t imagine. Looks like you have everything your hearts could desire. Does everything arrive ok to Kake? Anything melted, broken and leaking or crushed? Hard to believe summer is about over and now it’s back to school. I’m sure you guys all had a great vacation. Safe travels home. Bless your families, I’m sure they will miss you.
We are very fortunate that we can buy all that we need. I think everything got to Kake in good shape. Nothing broken, thank goodness. We are already missing the family. Hopefully Nana can visit soon!
Hi
New fan here!
Everytime i load my groceries into the car its like a sauna. It doesn’t even matter the weather. Its hot. Also its like a puzzle filling the car up.
Hi! Welcome to our RUclips Family. I agree on the heat, especially in trucks.
Fun to watch
Wow, that was quite the shopping adventure. It actually looks like a lot of work. Good thing Bonnie got to stay with grandma while you shopped. Extra fun time for Bonnie. Can’t wait to the totals.
If Bonnie could not stay with Nana, we probably wouldn’t have done it. It would not have been fun lol. We are also glad they got to spend extra time together before we left!
I just want to know how many smiley faces the Costco door person drew on the back of your receipt
Lol, I actually don’t think there was a smiley face. Just someone who looked at us like, really.
Hahaha, only a bit into the video and I’m already chuckling that she reminded herself it’s a colander.
I love your vlogs and thank you for sharing xx All done mama 🤪xx ♥️🤗🙏
Thank you so much.
I bet you guys are really good at puzzles 😁 !!!
Hahah. We do like a good puzzle.
Whoa that's my ikea, cool!!
Hahah, nice :)
I just went on 3 wk vacation in Alaska and had opportunity go smallest Costco well visiting. It was super cool I live in Fremont, Ca but found Alaska a cool experience. I talked one pregnant women that had fly bigger part Alaska a few wks before giving birth.
Thats great! Where did you go? Oh man. i do not like traveling while pregnant. Hopefully she had a good time.
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska she was traveling to give birth I. Bigger part of Alaska
Wonderful haul
Thank you!
Heyyyyyyyyyy ... it's my favorite red headed Alaskan family. 👪
I've missed you (been super busy)
Great video 🙃
Hi! Awe, thank you ☺️. Glad you got to stop by and say Hi!
You guys are sooo cute and I love to watch💗😘👍👍
most shocked that they have ikea in alaska we don't have one anywhere near my state in the lower 48. and the costco is 120 miles round trip which for us is a lot!
those are strainers not colanders but you could use them for that lol :P
This shopping haul was in Washington State. We where there on vacation. Wow, you live very far from a Costco. Hopefully you have something close that helps you save a little money. Hmm, I don’t think I know the difference between a strainer and a colander. Im going to have to look it up. Is it based off of the mess size?
There is this container it looks almost like a coffee pot it's red and you can buy it at Walmart and you put popcorn kernels in it and it ear pops it in the microwave something to think about instead of using those toxic popcorn bags they use in the microwave I'm not being a negative nitty I'm just trying to be helpful that's why I am anyways congratulations on your new baby super super cute with all the red hair in the family or I'm from there's two towns that I service and you wouldn't believe the number of redheads there it's crazy crazy I just love it
Cool, we will have to look for that.
I must sound like I have the worst grammar ever but I'm text talking and I'm talking fast LOL and I just don't even put punctuations in it. Anyways it's pretty cool but I love my air popcorn maker.
I have a serious problem, because all I could think was “is that all the toilet paper?” Send help…..This was very educational, I’ve never seen this done before. Thanks!
Lol, I was sure we had a full bag at home of toilet paper, turns out it was almost gone lol. So we will probably have to get one more sometime when we travel. Thanks for watching!
U guys should also show prices of the things
We did on the newest grocery haul! ruclips.net/video/Zzgs8DfR1y0/видео.html
Oh yeah!! 🤣
Ooooh….I live in Seattle
Very cool! We had a great time.
I always love your hauls, your life is so interesting!!
Thank you so much ❤️
Wow! How exciting that must be! I would certainly rest easier once everything finally made it back home. I’m curious, are mice an issue for your food items on the barge? Thanks for sharing your adventures!
We have never had mice get into anything on the barge 🤞🏻. Hopefully that never happens.
I’m not sure it it’s true but I have heard that some use cats to control the mice population.
What about those small insects that appear in rice and lentils after sometime
Pmsl @ the thought it was gonna fit in one box 😂😂😂
You got a cute family
Thank you :)
Thats very impressive.
Thank you
and when I was little my mother said that playing tetris was not useful at all ... hahaha
Lol, it definitely comes in handy.
❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹 my fav people..teamwork makes the dreamwork
For sure! So glad we could do it together this year.
I want to shop like this and I'm close to stores 😂 I don't love grocery shopping. I'm trying to get more and more everytime I go so we can have a stock pile so I don't have to shop all the time but we are a family of 6 right now so that's a lot of groceries.
Oh man. We actually like going to the grocery store lol. When we lived in Juneau for College. We probably went to Costco once or twice a month :). Hopefully you can find a way to go less though!
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska that's great. I wish I enjoyed it!!
WOW
Wow thats such an imcredible way to get your groceries home. I admire all your hard work. Just curious, how much is it to ship something like that?
Thank you. You can find our the prices in our next vlog! I am working on getting everything together right now :)
Get yourselves a mattress protector for the new bed. Will save you a small fortune in the future.
Great idea. We actually have one we are going to put on there!
Hello just subscribed watched a couple and Bonnie is such a cutie wish i could shop 6 months at a time that would be great 💞😊🛐
Yayyy, welcome to our RUclips Family! We are very thankful we can shop this way to save us money in the long run.
This is my very first video and I was wondering does this last all year or about how long? Also those kid beds look great
There are definitely things we will get low on, but for the most part it lasts right around a year. :)
New subscriber
Your daughter is adorable
Love her name my daughter's name is bonni also.
Awe, very sweet.
How do you all do Christmas shopping
A lot of ordering online. We try to shop when we are traveling if something jumps out at us, but we mostly end up ordering a lot online.
Whew!! That's a haul. Guess it's a little cheaper and easier for you to do this before winter sets in. How do you keep everything fresh? Noticed the bags of chips, etc.. I enjoy all your posts.
Yes! For sure. We have a lot of large plastic storage containers we put things that we open in. You will be able to see it in the storage video coming soon!
WOW guys what a job😱I'm tired just watch it all this goodness goodness WOW Bonnie's getting good at the camera you go girl show how it's done 🙂she is so cute💞💞hey when does school start there it's already started here August 23rd 🙂 will guys be safe and see ya on the next video💞💞💞❤️💙💛🧡💜💚✌️
Joe started school on the 16th and the students started the 19th. Have a safe school year!
Every good Costco haul includes prices?? Consider it next time??
That is very true. If we went through everything and did prices it would make for a very long video. It also takes a ton of time and we only really had one day to shop. We will try to think of something for better for next year.
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska Thanks!😊
I think their video's interesting enough as it is
Hello! Dawn, how’re you doing?
Your little girl is absolutely precious with her cute voice.
Awe, thank you ❤️
Hey guy💞 question do they ever lose anything or broke something ? If so how do you go about I guess getting your money back what do you have to go through 🙃
It can happen. When you pay to ship it, you also pay insurance so that if anything happens the cost would be covered.
Fresh fruits and veggies how do you get them ?
We have them flown in. The barge takes to long without it being refrigerated.
Oooof you got stuck doing this during our big heatwave yikes! Do you come down on the Ferry into Bellingham?
Yes! Quite an adventure lol. For our family it is less expensive to fly to Seattle from Juneau, so we do not take the ferry. It would be a fun adventure sometimes though if we had extra time.
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska I live in Bellingham and we have thought about camping on the ferry deck and making the trek up one of these days. We went to Juneau and Skagway on a cruise 2 years ago and I fell in love with the area.
Why no bags for the groceries
Do you mean, reusable bags? Costco never uses bags because most things are to big.
Where do you stay on shopping trips , if paying for accommodation how it add up?
We try to always stay with family or friends. In Seattle we stayed with Chelsea’s mom.
Sustainable homesteading in the future?
We hunt and fish for about 90% of our meat, we gather berries and have a garden. I don’t think we will ever have the time or desire to do everything ourselves. We would not be able to do other things we love, like travel.
New subscriber here! I love Alaska videos. I do wonder how much it cost you to ship everything. Makes my videos look small in comparison! Anyways, good luck.
We will hopefully have costs in the next video. :). Welcome to our RUclips Family! Thanks for joining us.
Joe needs a bike, surprised you didn't stop at a Harley shop!! Lol
Lol. I am sure he would have loved that.
That’s so cool you guys are in Seattle area I’m from here and I have been wanting to ship items to anchorage this seems like a good idea can you tell me what shipping company you used? Thanks!
Hi! The only barge line that goes to Kake is AML ( Alaska Marine Lines ). I think there might be a couple other ones that go to Anchorage. Hopefully it works out for you.
Thank you for the reply! I will keep searching the best fit.
I am new to your blog… what do you do for work in that part of Alaska?
Hi, welcome to our RUclips Family! We are both teachers. Joe is teaching right now and Chelsea is staying home with Bonnie.
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska awesome! I am a teacher as well. I am enjoying your blog!
How much does each box cost to put on the barge? Like the big ones you put the bikes and totes into?!
The barge charges by weight. The prices will be in the next video :)
After not being in the US for 2 years, we finally got to visit and of course went to Costco. We could only take what fit on suitcases so no large items or perishables. Are you guys like me and the minute you unpack you realise you forgot to buy an item and have to wait for next visit? Or are you super organised? Thanks for taking us along on the shopping trip, and of course, for the adorable cameo by Bonnie.
Oh man. Where do you live now? Im glad you got to travel again. Oh yes, we definitely forgot some stuff. We will be traveling again around Christmas time. So we will be able to get a few things that we forgot. :)
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska we live in Jerusalem, Israel. Our airports were often closed since March 2020 so we could not see family or get American items. Many foods are expensive here, although basic vegetables and fruits in season are reasonably priced. Items that are shipped are heavily taxed and take a long time to get here. Dates and olives are better here so that’s a compensation!
Does the local store mark ups end up being more than the transportation cost and time you spend? Just wondering-I would not even try to shop for a year-I feel weird when I do a month lol
Yes. It does save us money. They have to pay the same barge prices and still mark items up to make money. It would definitely be a lot weirder if Chelsea had not grown up doing the same thing.
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska You guys are just too organized! Thanks
If i could only go to ikea once a year i would be in there for 8 hours and go to the cafe 4 times
Lol, we didn’t even eat there this time.
You guys could pass for brother & sister.
Lol, we got that a lot when we first started dating.
OMG!!!
Is all of this trouble worth living in Alaska?
Most definitely!
I really missed your videos and seeing you guys and Bonnie too..
Can I ask a question..I don't know how your barges work, Why can't you just leave the stuff in your truck and take a Car Barge Over to the other side. You paid for all that Stuff anyway..I was wondering about how you guys did that..Thanks for sharing..
Hi! This truck we used was not ours and we do not have car barges in Alaska. People are not allowed on the barge. We also did this years shop in Seattle, WA :)
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to order a lot of that stuff off of Amazon? They sell so many groceries now and deliver for free if your a Prime member.
That is a good idea, I have ordered some things in the past, but not everything will ship to our location. I did have to get some gluten free food off of there before we got home.
@@LewisFamilyVlogAlaska I noticed recently that they started delivering more of their food items to remote areas of Alaska including places like Barrow. They had things like peanut Butter, soups, flour, etc. might be worth checking into again for your area. 😊
Holy did that say you only spent 1600$ at Costco? Where I'm from in Canada that would of easily been 2X the cost!
Yes. That main trip we filmed was only 1,600. It probably would have been at least 2,000 in Alaska as well. Sorry its so expensive for you.
I just found your channel. Why do you have to box everything instead of just leaving it in your truck and drive it home??
If you watch our first Q&A, I think it would help answer that question :) ruclips.net/video/-zkv9p1mDIg/видео.html
What is the benefit of living so remote/isolated that you have to shop for
a year?
If you see some of our vlogs you can see that we love to be outdoors and live off the land as much as we can. We are also culturally connected and it is important for us to be around and grow in our culture.
Oh you are both lovely, so lovely, but golly he is erm descriptive zzz xx
Sorry I feel like I missed something why do you shop once a year and ship it to urself? Love the video ❤️
We live in Southeast Alaska on an Island and the store there is very expensive.