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40 People Who Won Lifetime Supplies Of Something Share How Things Are Working Out For Them
The feeling of winning is unlike any other, isn’t it? That’s why so many people hastily scratch lottery tickets and try their luck in sweepstakes for that slight opportunity to experience the shock, the surprise, and that sweet moment of victory.
But if you think only a lucky few can brag about their triumphs, these two Ask Reddit threads may prove otherwise. Users Kelvin_Inman and DangerousBeans addressed the people who won a lifetime supply of some product and wanted to know about the aftermath of their winnings. Responses came flying in and delivered hundreds of stories with forever winners opening up about their experiences and how it all went down.
Whether they guessed the right number of jelly beans or got the correct answer on a local radio show, they were set with their favorite candy bars, shampoos, or magazines for life. Bored Panda has collected some of the most interesting and amusing replies from these threads, so continue scrolling and upvote the ones you enjoyed most! Just to warn you though, while it all may sound like a dream, some real-life prizewinners reveal it’s not as magical as it seems.
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#1
I knew someone who won free pizza for a year from a chain (mind you, we live in NJ with some of the best pizza there is. No one is ordering from a chain). He bought the whole "year worth" in one shot and threw a pizza party for the kids at an underprivileged youth camp.
Luis Gomez 3 years ago
How does that even work when its a "years worth"? A pizza a week? A month? 365 pizzas ?
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#2
I currently receive what seems to be a lifetime supply of toilet paper. Over 20 years ago, I became fond of a variety of Charmin that was infused with baby oil [because] it was so soft and smooth. When I moved for work, the local stores didn't have baby oil Charmin, and I was told that it didn't exist. I called Proctor and Gamble to find out what was up, and was told that the baby oil version was only offered as a test market and didn't turn out so well, so it was no longer sold in stores. I was crushed. The company did, however, take my name and address, and I was told that I would receive coupons in the mail for my inquiry, and interest in their product. About three weeks later, a box arrived from Proctor and Gamble that contained two separate four packs of toilet paper, one marked 'A' and the other 'B.' The letter that was enclosed stated that since I had such a penchant for toilet paper, I had been selected to test out their new varieties."
"I was instructed to use the package marked 'A' for a week, and then switch to the package marked 'B' the following week. After two weeks, I received a call from the company asking about the results of my test. They asked questions like, 'Could I name three adjectives describing my experience with both types of paper?' It was definitely a phone call to remember. At the end of the call, I was told that I would receive coupons and other considerations in the mail for my participation in this test. Ever since then, I have received a free four-pack of Charmin toilet paper once a month, every month. This has gone on for over 20 years, and it does not look like it will stop
Jo Johannsen 3 years ago
So when the Great Toilet Paper Shortage of 2020 happened, you just laughed maniacally and strolled on out of the store?
Anna Banana 3 years ago
This has got to be up there with the most hilariously absurd anecdotes ever told!
Julia Winfield 3 years ago
Seriously! I live alone and feel like I go through enough for a 3 person household every month 😢
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Althea Whyte 3 years ago
Having a free supply of an item thats as necessary as coffee. Best tp brand too.
We managed to get in touch with the creator of one of these Ask Reddit threads, Kelvin_Inman. The user revealed they do not remember how they came up with the question but guessed it was likely something that inspired them at the moment. They found the comments to be very interesting and were glad their thread received so much attention, since “you never know which post gets traction”.
Bored Panda was curious to hear their take on why so many of these lifetime supply contests didn’t turn out as expected. Kelvin_Inman said that one reason could be the strange products these competitions usually offer, “the ones that either expire or the winner could easily get sick of.”
#3
I once went to a grand opening for QFC — Quality Food Center, a big grocery store — when I was 12. They were having a free raffle, so I entered. Did I win the plasma TV? No. Did I win the iPod classic? No. I won a year's supply of Tillamook cheese. It was a sheet of 12 coupons, each for two blocks of cheese. WTF was I going to do with cheese? I honestly didn't even like cheese at the time. After going home and moping for a while, I had an idea." "After I discussed it with my parents, we went back to the QFC, and I met with the manager and proposed my idea. After being given a few more sheets, I sat in the entryway of the QFC with a cheese hat and sold them for face value. What did I do with the profit, you ask? I donated it to hurricane relief in New Orleans. I sat there for the whole day saying, 'Cheesy for the Big Easy?' to every customer who came in. This was shortly after Hurricane Katrina, and we ended up raising $500 that day.
Jeremy James 3 years ago
"I didn't even like cheese at the time." I have never heard of this affliction but I'm glad OP got better. That sounds like an awful way to live.
Bill 3 years ago
24 blocks o cheese isn't even a month's supply of cheese. It maynot be enough to last a week
Tonya Wallace 3 years ago
I hope you supplement your diet with LOTS of fiber! ☺️✌🏾
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Somewhat-Guilty 3 years ago
OMFG... I ADORE Tillamook!!! Their cheese and specially their ice cream!! That's awesome of you donating... But I would've eaten the whole thing LMAO
Evi Grimes 3 years ago
Okay that's nice, but TILLAMOOK CHEESE. That prize was wasted on you 😭 I mean yeah, um... Charities and stuff
#4
I won lifetime passes to the Oregon Aquarium for being, like, their fifth millionth visitor. My original pass didn't expire until, like, the year of 2999. Then when I got a replacement, it showed the expiration as 2099. They got smart. I planned to name every child my name so they all could use that pass.
Lisa Greene 3 years ago
I planned to name every child my name! Meet my daughter, John Mitchell... I love it!
They also mentioned that their favorite story from the thread was about donated cat food. User HazelKathleen typed out a reply about their dad who won a year’s supply of cat food but “it was delivered in one go and the cat didn’t like it (of course). The people at the shelter were super happy though, so it ended well!”
Kelvin_Inman told us that this comment was a perfect example of how poorly executed these contests can be, but luckily it had a great result due to the creative and caring winner. “If I were to win a contest like this, I’d want it to be for paper towels — I go through a ton of those,” they revealed.
#5
Not a 'lifetime,' but my family once won a year's supply of Oreos. When we were kids, we were rarely allowed to eat junk food. But when my little brother was really sick and wouldn't eat, my mom was so desperate to get him to eat something, she told him that he could have any food in the world he wanted. He picked Oreos. The one box of Oreos we bought turned out to be the winning box of a year's supply of Oreos. How many, you ask, is a year's supply of Oreos?"
"I'm glad you asked, hypothetical reader. It was 365 boxes. For a family of four individuals who did not normally eat junk food, this was quite more than one year's worth of Oreos for us. We kept a couple of boxes, and then my parents took the rest to a food bank as they were delivered
Morgh Wolf 3 years ago
Poor little fella, must have been really sick. Of all the things he could choose to eat, he picked the worst cookies ever...
Zophra 3 years ago
Could be worse...he could have picked a cookie with raisins.
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David Henry 3 years ago
In 39 years I haven't ever won a f*****g thing, EVER. But other people buy one solitary, never again box of something and win a years supply. The universe may have many eyes but swear to f*****g gods one of them is firmly fixated on watching me and making sure absolutely nothing happens lol
Jp@nda 3 years ago
It seems like all the people that win are giving away their winnings to a good cause though. There is so much in this world to be thankful for that I'm happy their winnings were able to do some good. I hope you have some better luck too😊
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My dad won a lifetime supply of Subway sandwiches. By "won" I mean that the owner of a subway hit him with her car while he was walking through the parking lot and he didn't sue.
Jo Morris 3 years ago
A good incentive for Subway to follow through with the "for life" part. If they stop, he could say he's intending to sue.
Hamster 3 years ago
Except by then the statute of limitations will have kicked in
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Phyllis Turbin 3 years ago
Heck, the Subways around my area won't even redeem the coupons from the paper because they "don't participate" with coupons.
Post Indie rock 3 years ago
He got hit and the owner wants to punish him more? I'd sue, not even good food for life is worth it.
Lisa Valen 3 years ago
Yes, but what if one doesn't like Subway sandwiches? Perhaps he was walking through the parking lot to get to the pizza place? Or McDonalds? Wendy's. Denny's.?
Derek Bird 3 years ago
That's what I call an out of court settlement. I wonder if it only is applicable while the owner is still the owner of that Subway?
Tiara Brazell 3 years ago
Omg. I'm bout to jump in front of my Subways managers car! If y'all see me asking for a manager, it's strictly for identification purposes. 😆
If you believe that people often win competitions out of sheer coincidence, it’s also possible to make your own luck. There are plenty of people who win a variety of contests regularly by entering a lot of them at once, and they often see it as a fun and exciting hobby. They are called the “sweepers”, and Carolyn Wilman of Ontario, Canada, is one of them.
The sweepstakes specialist runs a blog called Contest Queen and is the author of You Can’t Win If You Don’t Enter and How To Win Cash, Cars, Trips and More, all dedicated to winning things for free. “‘Sweepers find, enter, and win sweepstakes as a hobby. It’s very simple and a lot of fun,” she told Bored Panda and added that people call them contests in Canada and competitions in the UK and Australia. “The hobby is the same globally, no matter what you call it.”
#7
My buddy doesn't want to make an account, so I'm posting this for him.
When he was 16, he won a lifetime supply of M&Ms. He found one of the packs with all white M&Ms. The contest was to win $1,000,000. He gave it to his mom and had her send it in since he wasn't 18.
She didn't believe he had won a million dollars, so she procrastinated sending it in. After she eventually did, they got a letter stating that they had not gotten the wrapper sent in on time, so no million bucks, but they were gonna get a lifetime supply of M&Ms.
In the letter was a redemption card he could send in and get 52 coupons for 1 pack of free M&Ms each, plus a redemption card for the next year. He did this for 5 or 6 years until he lost the redemption card.
The first year he got all of the M&Ms and ate them himself. After that, as soon as he got them, he would usually trade all 52 coupons for a quarter bag of weed.
As you can imagine, he really wished he had gotten the million.
Béla Kun 3 years ago
I had a gf who was fired from the University because she was too lazy to go in and give them her index book.
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Leslie Burleson 3 years ago
Omg , I bet it's really hard to forgive somebody for messing that up . Why on earth wouldn't she have checked it out at least ?
Lisa Valen 3 years ago
I like "M"s. But not a bag every week. Yep. Rather have the million. Well, 'cept for taxes... But then again, didn't the weed give him munchies, making him wish he had the "M"'s?
#8
My brother-in-law won the Chipotle Adventurrito thing and won free burritos for a year. There are 52 coupons for burritos. He's used some of them, but now he uses them as alternative currency. Homeless man asking for money? Chipotle burrito. Not sure what to do for a casual gift? Chipotle burrito coupon. Want to tip a person without giving money? Here's a burrito. Guess what I got for Christmas?
jon gilbertson 3 years ago
sounds like he should team up with person that gets free toilet paper
Paul Davis 3 years ago
I almost got something like that - I ate at a Chipotle and the burrito had shards of chicken bones in it. They gave me a coupon for a free meal. I ate there again, shards of chicken bone again. Free meal coupon again. At there again, chicken bone shards, free meal.. and this time I stopped eating there because I kept thinking if I'm catching shards of chicken bones in there every time I eat there, what other lazy, sloppy, dangerous s**t are those people doing to the food? Decided it wasn't worth risking my health any more.
Autumn Artemis 3 years ago
I think I would cry if I were tipped a burrito coupon, but I can’t be sure from which emotion the tears would stem from
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No you can't have my name 3 years ago
"want to tip without giving money" if you don't want to tip and you live in the states you should just eat in.
#9
My parents won a win for life. They get a 1000 bucks each week, a little less than that because of taxes.
MacintoshID 3 years ago
Couldn't we all use an extra few dollars each week. Hate going to grocery store even more now that prices keep going up.
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Richard Willis 3 years ago
Taxes? In the UK competition winnings are classed as ‘unearned income’ and are not taxable.
Kyndal T 3 years ago
For a sec, I had the thought "that would be nice so I wouldn't have to work!" Lol! Then I remembered that I make that much a week and still can't afford life. Oh, well. Maybe I'll win the lottery some day!
Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. That IS a struggle in the U.S.. Doesn't detract from those barely hanging on who are making less, but no need to downvote you for struggling on that amount.
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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 2 years ago (edited)
Hot dang. Holy c**p. That is a lot of money. Edit: CRÂP? REALLY?!
When asked about the most memorable prizes she has ever won, three things came to Wilman’s mind. “A trip for four to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, a trip to the set of the Harry Potter movies, and meeting Sting,” she revealed. But while entering contests may seem like a very time-consuming activity, she doesn’t spend as much time as people may believe — only around one or two hours per day.
It also doesn’t take long for her to find competitions to enter. “I can spot the word ‘win’ at 100 paces plus I use a sweepstakes aggregate.” Wilman mentioned she created her website as “a hub of all things contesting,” making it easy for anyone to get started. “I have a list of sweepstakes aggregates people can check out. All of them post legitimate sweepstakes for people to enter. They are all different formats and styles,” she said.
“I recommend people try different ones out and see what they like. When they are having fun, they win. If it feels like work, stop. This hobby is supposed to be fun!”
#10
A friend of mine won a lifetime supply of Juicy Fruit gum when she was 12 years old. She told me that she was absolutely in love with Juicy Fruit at the time. Her mom entered her in this random contest as a joke. One day, without any notice, UPS showed up at her door with about 15 huge boxes. She was so confused...
So they open up the boxes and there it was... a couple thousand packs of gum. The company never sent her a letter or any piece of acknowledgement that she won, just a ton of gum.
Today (about 12 years later) the sight of Juicy Fruit makes her sick :(
Bryan With a Why 3 years ago
If you're getting a lifetime supply of gum you definitely don't want it delivered all at once! Yikes
RandomFrog 3 years ago
My moms friends dad works at an airhead (the candy) company, and my moms favorite candy is airheads. She sent us a ten pound box of white airheads and I ate so many that whenever I see and airhead I get soooo sick.
#11
A friend of mine used to run science fiction conventions. Once word gets out, movie studios send you free promo swag — normally, it's like 50 posters, 100 keychains, or 200 buttons. One day, a truck pulled up and gave him eight pallets of foam 'novelty flying discs' for the movie Blade. Each pallet had dozens of boxes, and each box had about 50 of these red, foam, ninja-star-like foam disks about the size of a salad plate and about an inch thick. They didn't fly; they were too thick and too light. It was like throwing a huge potato chip." "People thought at first, 'Oh, cool! Ninja frisbees!' But then when they didn't fly and left ink on their hands, they didn't want them. So my friend was stuck with thousands of these things. Later, he ended up using it to supplement his attic insulation. I wonder years from now, when someone buys his house, if they will wonder what weird insulation company the previous owner used
Brandon Marlowe 3 years ago
Probably not a good choice for insulation. Huge safety hazard!
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Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
I now have the urge to throw a huge potato chip and see how far it goes...
JLN 3 years ago
When snacking sometimes I will toss one to my dog, poor dog never knows if they're going to go left, right, across the room or just a few inches, they're very unpredictable, and I generally use the same force/style for each toss
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Sawdust 3 years ago
When the "vampire apocalypse" (?) hits, he'll have the safest house it the world.
#12
New York has a trendy, expensive spot that does an annual food writing contest for their hot chocolate, which is kind of like a mug of warm pudding with fancy homemade marshmallows. Some upscale folks are really passionate about it come winter, and the place is established enough that they get lots of submissions. Even some well-known writers supposedly submit their entries. Anyhow, my sister lives near the place and insisted I enter and win the contest so she could have the prize, a week of free $6 hot chocolates. The theme that year was: 'Hot chocolate: with or without marshmallows, and why?' My contribution was a completely over the top, multi-generational epic designed to at least land third place in the long-form category. The story won, and they decided to create a new category for it they called 'best screenplay potential.' My sister was thrilled."
"About a year later, I was in the place for only the second time, since a friend wanted to try what was supposedly the best hot chocolate in the city. The manager says, 'Hey, you're that guy that wrote that story!' I was shocked since he'd only met me once, a year earlier. I asked how on earth he remembered me, and he said it was because my year of free hot chocolate was up. They gave my sister and me a YEAR of free hot chocolate instead of a week because they liked the story so much, but they never told us
Dadolwch 3 years ago
Stupid like a fox! Can't cash in on what you don't know about.
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So you had a YEAR of free hot chocolate and didn't get it? They should have given you another year.
ArodTheHorrible 3 years ago
I suspect they never told YOU... sis has been enjoying on the sly :)
However, even when the Contest Queen manages to win so many competitions, it’s still not enough to make a living out of it. You see, some prizes cost money. “I always say it’s a cheap trip, not a free trip. The last trip we went on that we won was to Universal Studios before the lockdowns.”
“The trip was four days and three nights with park passes and spending money, but we still had to cover getting to and from the airport (at our end), tips, souvenirs, etc. If you win concert tickets, you still pay for a babysitter, gas, parking, dinner out. You get the picture. This hobby enhances your life. It cannot fund it,” she explained.
#13
My grandmother didn't "win" this, per se, but her father bought her a lifetime subscription to National Geographic when she was a child. She still receives it. I inherit all her old issues (she brings them to me when she's done with them). I have a collection that dates back to 1924; I recycled many of the more common ones from part of the 1940s-2000s, but kept the oldest ones. I guess this is a little off topic.
Nitro Codes 3 years ago
I am even more so jealous! I would READ THE HELL out of those things!
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M O'Connell 3 years ago
Hopefully you kept all the ones from the 1980s that had holographic covers
Jyndaru 3 years ago
That was my first thought too! I bet they're just getting free copies at this point
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Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago (edited)
So lucky ❤️ I had a few good ones, like when king tut was found and the edition when the sphinx got a nose job 😂
Brian Garrett 3 years ago
Have a couple boxes of my grandparents ones still so I get it. And they are a great read.
#14
Not a supply exactly but I won Life time free entry pass for a mini golf club in Myrtle Beach by making a near impossible shot(for me) in their final special round. Still consider it the biggest achievement of my life:))
Blake Ingram 3 years ago
I wonder which one…there are a ton of mini golfs in MB and Garden City
#15
I won a lifetime supply of Kraft mac 'n' cheese. But, being in college, it only lasted two quarters
But while nearly everyone dreams of winning a big prize, it’s important to watch out for con artists who try to lure people into giving out money or personal information with their fake promises. “That is why I recommend using a sweepstakes aggregate as they aggregate all the legitimate giveaways for you to enter, plus if you spot major advertising, it’s legitimate,” she said and stressed the importance of always reading the rules.
#16
My friend won a year's supply of dairy products.
They arrived all at once. On a very big truck.
Where do you put a year's supply of dairy products?
Lisa Reuss 3 years ago
That's like bait + switch. There isn't a dairy product that has a shelf life of a year, especially milk + eggs. Sure, you won the contest, but the prize is worthless. Disgraceful.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
I agree completely. The "winner" is not going to get a years supply of dairy products, if it's delivered all at once, and they know it. They should have given coupons to him. It's disappointing that they chose the method that they did.
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Jasna Svast 3 years ago
Be like Cleopatra. Fill big bathtub with milk and bathe in it.
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DeeDee Borick Burlington 3 years ago
Makes me think why? Get rid of it all at once instead of sending it every month...Takes to much effort? Yikes
#17
My friend recently won free alcohol for a week at our local pub. It was literally unlimited drinks each night for seven nights. I had to drive him to the hospital on the second night.
XRaine 3 years ago
probably thought he would behave like a sensible adult.
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Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
Well that's just stupid. They could have given him one free pint every day for a month for instance. But only one a day.
Jeremy James 3 years ago
US here. Are bartenders not criminally liable for over-serving in other places?
CA3 3 years ago
It's hard for us Americans to envision a place where people take responsibility for their own actions and self-serving lawyers aren't in control, right?
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#18
I am one of the Visa winners who gets Superbowl tickets every year.
Ogre Juan Canolli 3 years ago
I Would Get Lower End Zone ! (Behind A Support Beam ! )
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Lisa Valen 3 years ago
That'd be great if I liked football. And if I could afford the travel expenses, hotel, food, etc.
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 3 years ago
tbh I would sell them. those things are expensive, and I don’t care about football
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Walter Peeples 3 years ago
Now that's a true win..plus you can always sell them..wish it was me..good job
Brian Garrett 3 years ago
Nineteen in and besides the 1k a week for life definitely most jealous of this one congrats and hope you enjoy it
It might seem overwhelming to see how many different contests are out there, and that’s why Wilman writes books, newsletters, blogs, and creates countless videos to teach people and help them become “super sweepers” themselves. She shared five of her top tips to get started: “Create a new email address only for entering, use a sweepstakes aggregate to quickly and easily find legitimate giveaways, use tools to help you enter faster, use all five entry methods to increase your odds of winning, [and] always read the rules.”
#19
I won a life time supply of shampoo, they come in mini bottles each month and are great gifts for people who you don’t like that much but you don’t want to offend.
Lisa Valen 3 years ago
I am homeless. The problem with getting bathing products is you've no where to bathe or shower. And we can't carry around these types of items indefinitely, regardless of the good intentions behind the donation
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#20
When I was a kid, we opened a box of Frosted Flakes and it had a card in it that said "You won free cereal!" So we wrote in, and a few days later got shipped a crate of 50 boxes of Frosted Flakes. That was fun. We're a family of 7, so we went through it quickly. Gave some to friends. Remember having a box in my locker.
Julia Winfield 3 years ago
Oh this would have been a dream come true for me as a kid! That was my all time favorite cereal.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
Mmm, me too, and the banana frosted flakes during those special edition times.
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Agent 8433599 3 years ago (edited)
I love cereal so much!! I once sure an entire box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch™ in one sitting! I know it's unhealthy to do that, but I couldn't help it!
Brian Garrett 3 years ago
Frosted flakes is one of if not the best cereal you can eat without milk etc.
#21
When I was a kid I won a "life time" supply of Lipton Ice Tea. Between me and my friends we went through it in less than two years. A life time supply is a projected number based off the average users drinking habits.
Oh and I never want to drink a Lipton ice tea ever ever again.
Zero 3 years ago
If it's the plain tea, it has no sugar. All of the flavors though, yeah, a ton. Even the green tea has a little.
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Amanda Nolting 3 years ago
I'm so confused by these. Do they deliver the whole "lifetime's worth" at once and expect you to portion them out? The expiration date on Lipton iced teas are usually within about a year.
Lisa Valen 3 years ago
I don't think I want a "lifetime supply" of anything, ever. ..Well, maybe money.
Gladys Hayes Southerland 3 years ago
You & the Juicy Fruit person. Too much of a good thing usually is bad.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Yeah, that's weird. I wonder where it is sold? I don't think I would like it though.
Load More Replies... Jyndaru 3 years ago
Diabetics, people with high cholesterol, people with IBS and other stomach issues. People trying to lose weight. Plenty of people actually care about their health.
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Derek Bird 3 years ago
That would really work very well for me, but with Pepsi only. I drink 2 Litres a day. I am also a collector of all things Pepsi.
Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago (edited)
2 litres of pepsi is 229 grams of sugar. the average male should consume no more than 36 grams of added sugar per day. i think you're better off without the free pepsi. jesus christ, man. & i thought i was bad for having a 12oz can of soda every two or three days...
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#22
Radio contest asked, which 3 pop/rock singers have the biggest lips. It was call-in, I called and the phone picked up. My answer: " Mick Jagger, Steve Tyler, Carly Simon" (this was around 1989). I won! Pint of Baskin Robbins every Sunday! - until I moved. That was the highlight of my life until that point.
Amanda Nolting 3 years ago
I won a "what movie is this quote from" radio contest. Free movie rentals for a year. The card they gave me was for 2 free rentals every week for a year. Card expired at the end of December. It was December 15th. Another time, my manager gave me a Visa gift card for helping out when we were swamped. Just $10 but hey, that's lunch at least. Well she'd had the card for so long that it had started getting fees for non use. So it had like a dollar on it.
Cold Contagious 3 years ago
Oh wow, that stinks. You seriously got the shaft on those things. I think I would have complained to someone about the free movies, I would have been sad about it. Especially since it came from the radio station, maybe just let them know that the video store wasn't really honoring the prize and the spirit of the gesture was lost to the store they were using. Maybe they could have found a different store to promote. You should have had free movies from December 15th that year until December 15th the next year. They were scam artists. I'm sure you've thought about it plenty. I wish you much more luck and success the next time that fortune appears to come your way.
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Alexander Polis 3 years ago
"until I moved" I hope the people that live there now also get free ice cream
Gladys Hayes Southerland 3 years ago
Big lips, big money... Glad none of them had surgery to "improve" their looks.
Scagsy 3 years ago (edited)
So... am I the only one that wants to know? Was it Jagger, Tyler or Simon? Was it circumference or pout? I just need to know! I think Steve Tyler but it's a tough call. Oh! Put me out of my misery!
Nitro Codes 3 years ago (edited)
Ok, where do you live, so the Agents can begin de-Misery processes.
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#23
I won a lifetime supply of Mnt Dew at MLG Dallas 2006. It was like only a month's worth though. They had a truck pull up to my moms house, I opened the garage and they brought in like 5 dolleys worth.
Thats why I needed 4 root canals in 2007
ItsJess 3 years ago
I am a dental hygienist (17 years) and "Dew Mouth" sadly is a thing
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Joseph Kastorff 3 years ago
Fun fact: Mtn Dew was created to be mixed with whiskey. (think along the lines of a whiskey sour)
Nolgoth 3 years ago
5 dollys of the dew only lasting a month? Holy crikey, dude was probably drinking an emtire bottle a day 😳
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
That's what contributed to my uncle dying young, drinking at least 2L coke a day. Really messed up his esophagus and stomach.
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Aurelia 3 years ago
Even less lmao I've never had mtn dew and I never intend on doing so it's sugar mixed with water
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Jaybird3939 3 years ago
When I was a kid, and they still used glass bottles, Mountain Dew had a cartoonish Hillbilly on the bottle. Squirt had a baby in diapers on their bottle. I loved MD until I found out about the caffeine thing.
#24
I had a teacher who got a lifetime supply of Tide. He bought a box at the grocery store, and it was half empty for some reason, so he wrote a really polite letter to Tide to let them know. A truck showed up at his house with a lifetime supply of Tide. They used to give it away as gifts to dinner guests and friends because they didn't know what to do with all of it. One day, he got a call from his mom saying she was using the final box. Apparently, it lasted for a good number of years, though. It would have lasted for longer if they didn't give most of it away
Mama Panda 3 years ago
Hmmm....so a really polite letter huh? It's tempting but I can't be dishonest.
Scagsy 3 years ago
Just write to a company telling them how much you love their product. The gushier or funnier the better. I've scored a good few freebies that way. Good luck!
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Lisa Valen 3 years ago
I once got 4 Brownie Bites in a bag that boasted 6 Brownie Bites. I called Hostess. They were kind and sympathetic. I got a coupon for one free box of Brownie Bites. yay.
Christina Hill 3 years ago
Found a chunk about 4 inches long and an inch wide in my Kelloggs cereal so i wrote them asking to check that no one would be harmed from this batch. They tested it and it turned out to be just a large chunk of sugar. Gave me coupons for 5 free boxes of cereal anyway.
Monica Sargent 3 years ago
I remember DEA agents couldn't figure out why, when they raided the homes of know drug dealers, their garages were packed to the ceilings with Tide. They had been using it as currency. That's a strange but ringing endorsement for Proctor and Gamble.
Ines Olabarria-Smith 3 years ago
My sister got a huge box of cleaning supplies when she wrote a letter to the company after buying a box of latex gloves. Instead of being 10 there were only 9. The funny thing was the letter she wrote. She explained how “the company had left her down”.
Suzanne Clark 3 years ago
I bought a 6-pack of Dove bath soap, Aargon scented, on sale. It smelled so bad I couldn't stand using it; it even stank up the bathroom drawer it was stored in. I finally threw it all in the trash. I wrote Dove to complain, politely I might add. They sent me a coupon for one bar of soap.
Spiffsmom 3 years ago
I wrote a letter to Gerber baby foods, in 1975 our two year old would eat nothing but gerber junior spaghetti. I would buy ten to twelve jars at a time. I opened a jar just sauce same way for the next two jars. I wrote a letter, about a month later we received twelve jars of spaghetti and a huge box of all their products. They told me in accompanying letter their machine ran out of pasta but kept filling the jars with sauce. They thought they got all of them.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My mum was given free cereal and chips after she called to 'politely' enquire about why products that naturally should be gluten free were not! Turned out the chips became labelled gluten free not too long after!
#25
I once won a year’s supply of Golden Grahams. It was shipped to my house in a giant, unmarked, neon yellow box. My dad thought it was a bomb.
Anna Banana 3 years ago
Now I'm wondering what kind of big wig the OP's dad is that this is the first thing that comes to his mind. Is he an ambassador? President? Abortion provider?
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Monica Sargent 3 years ago
It would be funny if the bomb squad came and blew it up, Golden Grahams raining everywhere.
#26
My dad worked in marketing for transportation catering in the '90s, and Snapple gave us a truck full of every single one of their product types. They stopped by every six months or so to get our feedback and ask if we wanted more. At one point, we had a Snapple-only double fridge in our laundry room to chill three of each flavor while the rest were in boxes taking up a good part of our garage. My cousin tried to maintain a bottle top collection, but lost count after 5,000. I have no idea if my dad still gets Snapple like that, but his house still has a Snapple-only fridge. It was awesome, bordering magical. I would replace my veins with '90s Snapple if I could. No regrets
M O'Connell 3 years ago
It's a brand of fruit and tea beverages. The inside of the cap contains a bit of trivia knowledge. One of my teachers many years ago would bless us with that bit of trivia from her daily beverage.
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JessG 3 years ago
Oh man, in the late 80's and 90's Snapple made lemonade. That was THE best bottled lemonade ever!! They got rid of it for some stupid reason, and I've never missed a bottled beverage more. I think they also had a raspberry lemonade at one time, that one was amazing too. They used to have so many flavors that are not made anymore, the glass bottles are gone, as well as those iconic metal pop lids. All those things combined have turned me away from Snapple unfortunately. I don't even know if the lids still have trivia facts in them, if not, well that's another strike. Snapple, you bum me out.
ItsJess 3 years ago
I miss "old" Snapple. Haven't even bothered to drink it in years.
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Maygan Norborg 3 years ago
I used to collect the caps with the facts in them. I was an after school teacher and would write the facts on the board. I wasn't getting any new ones so I wrote to Snapple and they emailed me the list. It was several pages long. I would love an unlimited supply of Snapple!
#27
My mom got a year supply of Dr. Pepper. But, it came at a price. Back in the 90s she got a Dr. Pepper from a row of vending machines right as the delivery guy was loading up the last one. There was a hunk of something when she took the first drink, but she thought it was just ice from it being freshly loaded. She bit down on it. It was a f*cking cockroach. Since the distributor saw it all go down, she got free Dr. Pepper for a year. It's been almost two decades and she still will not drink a beverage out of the original container. She has to pour it into a glass first.
Man in the ceiling 3 years ago
Same! I remember crushing a big one and the juice getting on my sweat pants, biting one? 🤢🤢
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ComfyPanda 3 years ago
Oh Scagsy, do I have a story to tell you...picture a fireplace and next to that fireplace there's a rocking chair. On the other side of the rocking chair is a magazine rack. I had just poured myself a nice tall glass of sweet ice tea and set it on the fireplace hearth. Sat down in my rocking chair and then heard some rustling in the magazine rack (ex hubby had a horrid mouse problem in the house.) and as quickly as I could I jumped up and rushed the magazine rack outside to get rid of the rodent. As I was dumping the rack out I noticed that I didn't really see the mouse. Just shrugged my shoulders and went and sat back down and took a nice long swig of my tea. I don't know what possessed me to look INSIDE my cup while I'm drinking but I did...and guess what I saw. Yup!!! The mouse had jumped and when it jumped out landed directly in my tea glass. I immediately spit out the offending tea all over the living room and started to cry. This is 100% true. I can't make this s**t up.
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Hmmm, I wonder a similar incident would explain my late grandmother's obsession with every beverage being in a glass regardless of circumstances.
Sue Foster 3 years ago
My mother was the same way. She never ever drank out of a can 🤢
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Had something very similar happen. And didn't discover it til the drink was almost finished. To this day of something is in a can I pour it in a cup. It scars you for life!
YetAnotherSarah 3 years ago
And now *I'll* never drink a beverage out if the original container again either.
Brian Garrett 3 years ago
Feel so bad for her. It obviously and for good reason traumatized her
#28
A friend of mine won a "lifetime supply" of Smarties from a distributor. The delivery was a 120lb case of Smarties.
He's a professional film editor, so he spends a LOT of time at his computer. He also is often too lazy to cook proper meals (as we all are sometimes). He put the 120 lb case of Smarties next to his desk, and then proceeded to consume all of it in a matter of weeks.
jamie artis 3 years ago
these are the only smarties we have in america. i always forget these are called different things in different places.
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Margrete Sonnenberg 3 years ago
Smarties in Canada are like m&m. Smarties in USA are those chalky fruit flavour disks. Some candies are named the same it happens. Side note don't be off put by my comment on usa smarties I actually like the chalky sweet candy. I loved getting them at Halloween. Though they were called rockets.
Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
Best response to the debate yet. And as a lover of the American version of Smarties, "chalky sweet" is a perfect description, and I also loved getting them at Halloween.
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Huddo's sister 3 years ago
OMG I was wracking my brain trying to remember what we call them in Australia! I thought it was fizzy or something :)
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Aura 3 years ago
The Smarties/Rockets schism will be the spark that kicks off an American/Canadian war.
L1z 3 years ago
In Canada too! They look like M&M's but have shirtier chocolate than M&M's
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Zero 3 years ago
Have a friend who basically did the same thing but with Skittles. She didn't eat too much else. Ended up in a nursing home for a few months because her vitamin levels dropped so low she basically had a stroke, landed in a coma for a month, followed by temporary semi paraplegic state, then a year of physical therapy to rebuild all of the atrophied muscles.
Sleazy Weaver 3 years ago
brit living in america here: real smarties aren't available at regular grocery stores :( i have to get them at an import shop. but since they're right from the uk & not rebranded for america, they're still called smarties. americans have no idea what they are though
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#29
When I was a kid I won a contest at a local ice cream shop where you guess the number of jelly beans in a jar and won a lifetime supply of free milkshakes. Unfortunately the place went out of business a few months later.
Jyndaru 3 years ago (edited)
Not sure why you got downvoted. This is true. Voter suppression used to include making black people guess the number of jelly beans in a jar before they could vote. Just another terrible part of American history. Of course, with contests like this, I'm sure the companies aren't thinking about the historical significance.
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#30
I won a 20-month supply of Dippin' Dots from a Facebook promotion. They would ship a gallon bag in a dry ice container every month. It would only last for about three days before melting, and I was in college, so I just threw monthly Dippin' Dots parties. It made for a great pickup line.
JessG 3 years ago
It's basically flash frozen ice cream beads. It's ice cream in all respects except that it get frozen to extreme temperatures really really fast, and made into "beads" or dots. They come in a large variety of flavors and are fun to eat. You can find them at mall kiosks usually, but not really the grocery store. Actually, I think they do sell cups of them in some stores, but they are nowhere near the same
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Micah 3 years ago
It has sometimes been the deciding factor for why I go to an amusement park.
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#31
When I was a kid, my Tastykake had a human fingernail in it. I was eating one of those delicious pink snowballs when I bit into something hard instead of the creamy, icing-y goodness that snowballs are known for. [So,] I won a year's supply of Tastykakes. Every week, a new box would be at my house. As a 10-year-old kid, life was pretty good.
another one 3 years ago
Buffalo Bill, maybe? "It Rubs The Lotion On Its Skin Or Else It Gets The Hose Again!"
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Heather Talma 3 years ago
If I found a fingernail in a food product I'd be unable to eat that food product anymore
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
My stepdad bit into a Royal biscuit (biscuit with marshmallow on top, covered in chocolate) as a kid and it turned put a swarm of ants had eaten most of the marshmallow and were still inside! He has resumed eating them, but thinks of the event every time!
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Ivanka van der Reest 3 years ago
Hope the parents regulated how much the kid could eat of those Tastykakes otherwise the 10 yo kid who found a fingernail in the snowball grew up to be an 11 yo kid with obese. 😂 I grew up with only a small cake on Friday and dessert after dinner on Sunday, candy we never even had at home until I was a teenager and my mother developed an addiction to sugar (and then she was the only one snacking them because growing up with rarely ever getting candy made me totally uninterested in eating any as a teen) and intend to raise our kids like that too. If they were to win a yearly supply of cakes I would let them donate most of it.
JessG 3 years ago
I've never really understood this "I'll never [consume] this product ever again!" business. If something you eat tastes bad, or has a foreign object in it, once you inform the maker of said product, they will then be extra sure that it doesn't happen again. The last thing they want is another complaint and return, so rest assured they will be very conscious of preparing it the way it was intended from that point on. Did you love said item to begin with, before the "mistake" happened? Well then why couldn't you love it again? The same goes for restaurants. Let's say you love love the place and the food, then, ONE time you find something foreign in your food; why would you assume then, that it will always be bad from that point on? I'm sorry, no offense, I just never understood that logic...
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In 1974, my dad was a detective in the vice squad. One night, they busted a few guys driving a truck that had many kilograms of cocaine hidden amongst a shipment of razors. After the trial, all the guys in his unit got to take home as many [razors] as they wanted. I was born eight years later, and neither my dad nor I have ever bought razors since. If someone sees me shaving, they might ask where I got that 1970s razor.
Mermaid Elle-Jaye 3 years ago
If only it was the nose candy, an 8ball every weekend for life 😂 I’m joking that wouldn’t be good
J Baker 3 years ago
Seeing as the cops nicked the razors, I'm betting the blow never all made it to trial. Policing in the 70s was scary.
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A Méndez 3 years ago
My hubby is a maintenance man. He told me about two apartments that, before the tenants moved in, they painted huge murals on the walls with Marijuana as the main focal point. Fast forward, hubby comes home and says the DEA had a drug bust on the property. I asked, was it the people with the murals? It was. DEA agents told the property manager that she could take anything (obviously not the drugs) from the apartments for herself. The generous manager saw 4 HUGE big screen TVs and decided to give one to each of the maintenance men! My hubby is also a pastor, so... on the pastor's living room wall sits a huge flat screen TV that used to belong to drug dealers. 🤭
Davo gifman 3 years ago
I thought they were going to say they won a year's supply of cocaine. 😳🤣
Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
I don't like this one. I get that goods associated with crime become property of the state, but I am not comfortable with any state employee getting so much as a paper clip from criminal activity. It's too easy to start blurring the lines. Everything confiscated should be up for auction or donated, and ANY/ALL proceeds going to a completely different charitable institution that does not benefit the police funding in any way. Wayyyyy too slippery a slope.
Lisa Valen 3 years ago
You all still have a supply of contraband razors from the 70's? Good on you!
Ian Dallenbach 3 years ago
They caught them with 10 kilos, you heard that right 8 kilos. This bust of 6 kilos is the biggest we've ever had.
Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 3 years ago
Glad that it wasn't a shipment of condom they hide the cocaine in.
#33
I never got the full story on how they got them, but my grandparents somehow ended up with two dozen or so pallets of Tic Tacs of various flavors. To put this in perspective, consider how big those plastic containers that Tic Tacs come in are. Now consider how many you could fit in a fully stacked pallet, and multiply it several times over. It was pretty awesome...until we ran out of orange ones.
Charles Doucette 3 years ago
I once had two tic tac and got high as I kite. Found out later I'm allergic to aspertime.
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My mom and dad bought a water softener about 22 years ago. With it came a lifetime supply of bar soap. The company gave it to them all at once. It was a pallet of bar soap, thousands of bars of soap. They still have a bunch of it.
Sam 3 years ago
A device that removes the minerals that make water "hard" and create calcium or limescale buildup in plumbing and in kettles
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Sally Barry 3 years ago
Even non-edible things like soap can be donated to food banks and food pantries. Salvation Army, Rescue Mission.
Teresa Thomas 3 years ago
Does it at least smell good? Use it in clothing drawers where you store seasonal clothes to keep them fresh and from bugs
Amanda Hunter 3 years ago
I've gone back to bar soap, I don't like all the plastic containers the liquid soaps come in.
#35
I won a years supply of Doritos during their contest to name the new flavor a few years ago. I submitted "You're Adopted" and won a random drawing, but they didn't use the name. Wusses. I was given 104 coupons for Doritos, since they figured people eat 2 of the big bags of Doritos a week. I kept about 20 coupons and gave the rest away to homeless people. By the end of the year I still had coupons left and bought a bunch of bags to donate to a school party.
#36
Turtle Wax...a whopping 7 jars. I own no car.
Richard Graham 3 years ago
I also won a lifetime supply of Turtle Wax - and I don't have a turtle!
Little Phoenix 3 years ago
Why did you participate in a contest to win Turtle Wax without a car?
Candia Lee 3 years ago
First guess he entered a raffle w multiple prizes. I did and won a nice leather bra top two sizes too small.
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#37
I won a lifetime supply of pop-tarts when I was about younger. They sent a big box with around 30 of the normal shelf boxes in it every three months for about three years and then started dwindling off to eventually not sending any. I could never get into contact with someone to do anything about it either so I just let it go. Hell, I feasted like a king on pop-tarts for years as a kid... No bs about it either, I didn't even realize I had won until I received the first huge box. I even hid the boxes from my parents and sister for a while because I didn't want to share but that didn't last long. You can only do so much as a kid to hide dozens of boxes when you don't take out the trash and they eventually started finding full boxes of pop-tarts everywhere and had come to the conclusion that I was stealing them for fun.
Lisa Valen 3 years ago
Why do Pop-Tarts no longer make Pop-Tarts without frosting/icing? I liked the plain ones, warmed in the toaster and spread with butter.
Travis Fox 3 years ago
They do make them. I get the chocolate ones all the time at my local Kroger.
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Abigail Coty 3 years ago
They do, in fact, make pop-tarts without the frosting! At least in my area- I’m in the US. I have some in my pantry 🙃
Sarah K 3 years ago
This story seems fake too. He won as a kid? And hid it from his family? He was receiving shipments but his parents had no idea? C'mon! I need these stories to be vetted!!
Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
Oh good grief. Your life experience needs to be vetted because your response is quite naive.
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#38
My wife ended up with crates of maxi pads and a lifetime supply of Tums. She worked with a market research firm that would give household products to select consumers to gather information on their experiences with the products. Items like soap, toothpaste, and deodorant were commonly placed. The firm received way too many sanitary napkins in one study, and too many Tums in another. The surplus products are not needed at the end of the study and they typically have no labels, so they cannot be sold commercially, and the supplier never wants them back."
"So the staff can take the items home. My wife, being the thrifty darling she is, grabbed every single crate of pads available since no one else wanted them. They filled our basement, and it took her many years to get through them all. We still have Tums.
Fenchurch 3 years ago (edited)
We worked going door to door market research (many many years ago) and had a similar thing with Always sanitary pads. We got paid per free sample we have away, I convinced so many male only households that they needed the free sample because they were useful for stemming plumbing leaks in an emergency. We also had a promotion where we had full sized properly labeled bottles of Finish dishwasher product (I can't remember what exactly, it was that long ago). These weren't so fun, they were very heavy to drag door to door and at the time hardly anyone had a dishwasher, we ended up at the end of the promotion with a garage full of boxes full of dishwasher stuff, and the company didn't come and collect them, as it would cost too much and the product had already been written off. We didn't have a dishwasher and didn't know anyone with a dishwasher (UK early 1990s), so we took them to bootsales and sold them at 50p each, these would cost around £3 in the shops, just to get rid!
Shelby Moonheart 3 years ago
I have been prescribed Tum for calcium, 1,00 mg twice a day. My fingernails have never been stronger. I'm sure it's also helping my bones be strong.
lara 3 years ago
I used to belong to an organization that would send big boxes of different items. You were supposed to use them, answer a questionnaire for some of the items, or just try new products. I did and I still use a lot of the products that they sent. That was back in the sixties and I really wish they still did that.
#39
I won a year's supply of Chick-fil-A at a grand opening. They gave us 52 free Chick-fil-A sandwich vouchers, which could luckily be used for nuggets as well. Considering how many of those nuggets I would've eaten if it had been unlimited, they got off very easily. I worked next door to a Chick-fil-A that summer, and I ate nuggets for lunch. Every. Single. Day.
Tonya Wallace 3 years ago
I'd love to win free Chick-fil-A. I won't give them a penny of my money, but I'll eat the hell out for it for free.
VeninTheNonBinaryRogue 3 years ago
Yea same. Their food is really good, but I just can’t support them :/
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yellowphantom 3 years ago
My thought exactly. No fast food chicken is that flaky.
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#40
I won a "lifetime supply" of Sour Punch Straws on a kid's radio show. It was a pretty big box, but it didn't even make it to my adulthood, much less my whole life.
#41
I won a year's supply of BACON! It came as 52 coupons. I gave many of those coupons away. And I ate lots of bacon.
Egg 3 years ago
But you could sell the super bowl tickets for a shitton of money every year
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Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
Bacon is its own food group & has been known to broker peace among people & cure many ills.
Sammie 19 1 year ago
When my grandson was 3 I asked him what he wanted for Christmas. Reply was bacon. Ok, what else do you want? More bacon came the reply. All right, anything else? He said lots and lots of bacon. Then he ran around my apartment singing I love bacon for over 10 minutes. For Christmas I gave presents to my daughter and she put the huge pack of bacon in the fridge and hit it behind other items. Just before they opened the gifts her fiancé distracted both kids, giving her time to wrap the bacon in paper. She video called me a few minutes later and my grandson was running around her apartment singing I love bacon while cradling the bacon. She also told me that they asked if they could also have some bacon and he just looked at her, dead in the eyes, and said this is my bacon. Grandma bought it for me and told her she should have asked me for bacon as her gift. He refused to eat Christmas dinner without bacon. As you can understand, he absolutely loves bacon 😜
#42
I won a lifetime supply of a particular brand of ice cream in a local naming contest when I was 12, but I didn't get it all at once. It all accounts to a certain amount of tubs in the form of a voucher that I am able to use over and over again, but I'm not sure what that amount is. I don't keep track of it on account of the fact that I'm lactose intolerant.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I might consider just stocking up on lactase if the ice cream is free...I also might question the company about why they don't have a lactose free option
James Pasquini 3 years ago
That's a bummer, being lactose intolerant. I'll gladly take that lifetime supply of ice cream off your shoulders if you'd like.
#43
I won an Airheads contest for guessing the correct flavour and won a treasure chest(literally) of Airheads, as well as a lifetime supply of Airheads. A box of about 130 or so gets shipped to my house once a month for free. ಠ_ಠ I got tired of them after a while, so I started selling them and now I make about a 100$ a month selling these bad boys. Good comfort candy if you're sad IMHO.
Spikey boi 3 years ago
Sounds great. I love airheads and 100 extra dollars a month can be helpful.
#44
I won a "year of free steak" at a mid-range steakhouse. It was actually one free steak dinner once a month for 9 months.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
One steak a month would be more than enough for me. Meat is one thing I get tired of really quickly. Years of my mum and step dad deciding to do BBQ every time the family has a special occasion I guess.
#45
I won a year's supply of condoms. I was in high school doing college tours, and they had open houses. They had clubs, frats, sororities...you name it. One was apparently a club for safe sex, and I entered the drawing, along with nabbing 20 free condoms. Apparently, I won. I'm serious when I say these condoms were the cheapest, driest, and smelliest condoms you could ever imagine. A box of about 200 appeared on my doorstep once a month. The worst part was having them sent to my parents' house until I moved out.
Mama Panda 3 years ago
200 a month? You would have to bump nasties around 7 times a day to use them up!
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Exactly what I thought. One thing where quality is more important that quantity.
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Roommate and I won a 'lifetime' supply of butter in college. Apparently, 'lifetime' was two pounds of butter a week for a year. Stocked it up, got drunk, and tried to make a Slip ’N Slide with all the butter. It went okay." "For all those wondering about the success of said butter slide — remember to let your butter melt for a while to provide sufficient lubrication. Even with the sting of butter in the road rash, I would give the experience a '7 out of 10, would do again
#47
My dad won a lifetime membership to the "holiday health spa" it went out of business a few years later. Now he weighs 300+ pounds and blames it on that
Man in the ceiling 3 years ago
The holiday health spa employees slowly molded fat into him like clay, they were going to turn him into their new lord and king of the land. Alas they were shut down by the government and hunted down until none were left.
Julia Winfield 3 years ago
So he gained 100 lbs or so of pure water weight? He should see a doctor if he's unable to sweat that out. 😂
#48
My mom once won a year's supply of toilet paper. It all came at once. I guess they just estimated the amount. This was a long time ago so I forget if it it actually lasted us a year
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Even the bulk box of Who gives a crap was too much to have in one go in my opinion! Especially when there is little storage space in your share house :)
#49
My Aunt won a year's supply of Diet Coke. It was 365 cans on a mini pallette delivered to her home. It didn't last nearly a year. She has three kids and would share with family and friends. I think it lasted a few months tops.
#50
During university orientation week, one of the local pubs held a competition where you could put your name in a draw to win a year's supply of meals for you and your flatmates. I won it, along with some other people, and it started off great. The meals were straight off the same menu as the bar food, so they were fairly decent. About three months later, they'd slipped to the point where they were essentially Pot Noodles with a squirt of tomato sauce
Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
You should have sued them for breach of contract. I bet at least one of your friends was pre-law.
Here to Troll 3 years ago
Yeah, waste a bunch of money on a lawyer then lose a frivolous lawsuit, way better outcome.
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I got a lifetime supply of warheads about 11 years ago; for whatever reason they had a competition at walmart where the person to make the best sour-face got a year supply. They picked me because my "face is so red it looks like he's hurting himself". They shipped an entire box with hundreds and hundreds of warheads every month. The first month was amazing. Second month was pretty awesome. You can bet by the 12th I hated them and to this day I probably still have a few rotting around my room and in the cupboards :P
#52
The Chik-Fil-A next to my school was giving away fee chicken sandwiches for life for the first five people to walk in the door for their grand opening. The promotion was canceled a two days prior to the store opening due to homeless people fighting for spots in line
Adrienne Mcginley 3 years ago
They should have donated to the school AND the local homeless shelter tho.
Chris Hardtke 3 years ago
So not only did you not win, but nobody won. Did you not understand the assignment?
#53
my friend won lifetime tickets to coachella.
ToGo 3 years ago
The thought of coachella and all that "influencer" and Kardashian/Jenner crowd being around for a LIFETIME sends chills up my spine.
KitFrey 3 years ago
Well I mean their probably so plastic-y that they will be!
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Katherine Marsh McKinney 3 years ago
Being old (I'll turn 60 this year) at first I thought Coachella was a luggage company - and that Dolce & Gabbana sold beach umbrellas. 😁
Memere 3 years ago
It's a huge music festival held every year at Indio, California. https://www.coachella.com/
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Well when they are old and everyone around them is gone, at least they can still socialise and have fun & make friends in a fun setting I guess 😝
What do you think ?
iblowsheep 3 years ago
I won a lifetime supply of bad choices and worse decisions. I didn't even know I had entered anything.
Willa L 3 years ago
I have never won a lifetime supply or anything buuut I did win an Oculus Quest 2 from a free raffle which at the time was worth 400 dollars and (being a teenager) I was pretty stoked about that
Jerry The Joker 3 years ago
This is not a lifetime supply but I once had a friend that did marketing for red lobster and they had leftover inventory. We received like 50 pounds of king crab legs, six Keylime pies and six double chocolate cakes. That was the best time. The 90s.
Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
I won a year's supply of toilet paper while living in South Africa. I was officially a resident, so qualified for the contest, entered, and happened to win. I entered because why not, but when the cartons of tp arrived and filled our garage, it made me sick to think I had won when there was so much abject poverty all around us. So I gave a huge supply to a few local housekeepers and workers we had gotten to know, and the rest to all the car guards at the local shopping malls who we had gotten to know during our time living there. It was so exciting to win, but monumentally joyous to give it all away again!! (Yes this was way before the great tp shortage of the pandemic.)
Memere 3 years ago
I've never won a "lifetime" or a year's supply of anything, but back in 1999, the architecture/engineering firm I worked at was asked to help design & engineer a "birthday cake" for Hostess Twinkies. It was to celebrate the 70th "birthday" of Twinkies & they wanted to build it with the 12-pack boxes. I don't remember how many pallets of Twinkies they shipped, but we had them everywhere in the office! Our shipping clerk even made a Twinkie blaster & we had fun in the alley behind the building, shooting Twinkies everywhere! I never liked them, but some co-workers had to be stopped from eating them all the time!
Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
My granddad won a lifetime supply of shredded wheat but I'm pretty sure they stopped sending it at some point. He was getting it delivered regularly. This was about 30 years ago and he's now 94
Mika N 3 years ago
My husband camped out at a new Chik-fil-a opening near us to be one of the first 100 customers. He had just been driving by and saw it was happening, so got in line and called me. I brought him dinner and a tent so he wouldn't lose his place in line then slept comfortably at home in bed! He did get free Chik-fil-a for a year, which was a card for 52 #1 meals (chicken sandwich, waffle fries and drink I believe). We went now and then and got two meals together, or treated a small group of friends a couple times, and he gave a few away to homeless people too. It didn't last a whole year but it was fun!
Jeannette 3 years ago
Yea, I wanted to know the how it worked out for lifetime. Ah well
Load More Replies... Leslie Burleson 3 years ago
This was an awesome topic , I want to know more from people who've won stuff .... like people who won McDonald's Monopoly , or people who won stuff on game shows
Corinne Gasner 3 years ago
We have something similar with a grocery chain. My daughter won the kitchen remodel. (They rent) the gave her 25k in cash and a cake for in the promotion pictures. She paid off bills and went on a vacation. Her husband use to get mad that she played these games and said it was a waste of her time. He does not say that anymore.
Load More Replies... Shane S 3 years ago
I want to know what a years supply of makeup is for the winner of rupauls drag race. Drag queens use a ton of makeup. What’s a year look like?!
Sarah K 3 years ago
Ahhh, Shane...it's like you've seen inside my brain. I have wondered the same thing for years!!!
Load More Replies... iblowsheep 3 years ago
I won a lifetime supply of bad choices and worse decisions. I didn't even know I had entered anything.
Willa L 3 years ago
I have never won a lifetime supply or anything buuut I did win an Oculus Quest 2 from a free raffle which at the time was worth 400 dollars and (being a teenager) I was pretty stoked about that
Jerry The Joker 3 years ago
This is not a lifetime supply but I once had a friend that did marketing for red lobster and they had leftover inventory. We received like 50 pounds of king crab legs, six Keylime pies and six double chocolate cakes. That was the best time. The 90s.
Alex the Country Dog 3 years ago
I won a year's supply of toilet paper while living in South Africa. I was officially a resident, so qualified for the contest, entered, and happened to win. I entered because why not, but when the cartons of tp arrived and filled our garage, it made me sick to think I had won when there was so much abject poverty all around us. So I gave a huge supply to a few local housekeepers and workers we had gotten to know, and the rest to all the car guards at the local shopping malls who we had gotten to know during our time living there. It was so exciting to win, but monumentally joyous to give it all away again!! (Yes this was way before the great tp shortage of the pandemic.)
Memere 3 years ago
I've never won a "lifetime" or a year's supply of anything, but back in 1999, the architecture/engineering firm I worked at was asked to help design & engineer a "birthday cake" for Hostess Twinkies. It was to celebrate the 70th "birthday" of Twinkies & they wanted to build it with the 12-pack boxes. I don't remember how many pallets of Twinkies they shipped, but we had them everywhere in the office! Our shipping clerk even made a Twinkie blaster & we had fun in the alley behind the building, shooting Twinkies everywhere! I never liked them, but some co-workers had to be stopped from eating them all the time!
Kiwii Stone 3 years ago
My granddad won a lifetime supply of shredded wheat but I'm pretty sure they stopped sending it at some point. He was getting it delivered regularly. This was about 30 years ago and he's now 94
Mika N 3 years ago
My husband camped out at a new Chik-fil-a opening near us to be one of the first 100 customers. He had just been driving by and saw it was happening, so got in line and called me. I brought him dinner and a tent so he wouldn't lose his place in line then slept comfortably at home in bed! He did get free Chik-fil-a for a year, which was a card for 52 #1 meals (chicken sandwich, waffle fries and drink I believe). We went now and then and got two meals together, or treated a small group of friends a couple times, and he gave a few away to homeless people too. It didn't last a whole year but it was fun!
Jeannette 3 years ago
Yea, I wanted to know the how it worked out for lifetime. Ah well
Load More Replies... Leslie Burleson 3 years ago
This was an awesome topic , I want to know more from people who've won stuff .... like people who won McDonald's Monopoly , or people who won stuff on game shows
Corinne Gasner 3 years ago
We have something similar with a grocery chain. My daughter won the kitchen remodel. (They rent) the gave her 25k in cash and a cake for in the promotion pictures. She paid off bills and went on a vacation. Her husband use to get mad that she played these games and said it was a waste of her time. He does not say that anymore.
Load More Replies... Shane S 3 years ago
I want to know what a years supply of makeup is for the winner of rupauls drag race. Drag queens use a ton of makeup. What’s a year look like?!
Sarah K 3 years ago
Ahhh, Shane...it's like you've seen inside my brain. I have wondered the same thing for years!!!
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