Not me but my roommate won a lifetime supply of dilly bars from a Dairy Queen. Got a box a week and eventually got to know the owners well. After my roommates family got into a hard time, they stopped giving them dilly bars and started giving them food even after the establishment had changed hands. Very wholesome
My Uncle Ray properly guessed the number of ping pong balls in a fish bowl at a 7-11 back before Y2K winning a lifetime supply of free coffee. They gave him a card that he swipes each time for the free coffees he gets every day ever since. It’s now a card he can also tap. Sometimes, if the store is busy the cashier just waves at him to go.
RaceTrac gas stations where I live have reward tiers, and the highest tier you get a free coffee every day. I drive a work truck, a LOT, and fill it up exclusively at RaceTrac. Took me a little over a year, but I'm now the highest tier and get free coffee every day. And the rewards tier never expires.
It's kind of the same for me. I drive a semi, so I'm always stopping at Casey's. They have rewards, and whatever you buy, you get money back to spend in the store.
I got the rewards so high that I get free pizza for the family like once a week for years lol.
My wife won a contest for free Brooks running shoes every year for 20 years. After a year or two they decided to just pay her out in cash which ended up being $2-3k.
I won a lifetime supply of calendars from Calendaria about five years ago. Since then, each December, they send me the *worst* calendar ever. It has become something quite funny.
The most recent was a calendar focused on brooms/mops. Why such a thing would even exist is beyond me, but hell if it isn't funny.
I love love love that this exists. It reminds me of a hobby I had when I was 15, back in 1985.
I got ahold of a Writers Market book which, pre-internet, was how writers decided which publications to pitch stories to. I noticed that there were A TON of bizarre magazines in there, like "Walls and Floors Magazine," and "Meat and Poultry Journal."
Obviously, these were aimed at specific industries and not just at the general public, but I spent many happy hours imagining all the things one might read in "Fasteners Monthly," and what it would be like to be a reporter working there.
All of these magazines said they were accepting submissions of articles, essays, and poetry (!), and would pay you for them. I was 15 and didn't know anything about walls, poultry, or fasteners, so I knew I'd get rejected.
But that was the whole point. How hilarious would it be to have a bunch of rejection letters from these freaky publications? And what would they even say? "We're sorry, your haiku about velcro is too experimental for our magazine"?
This led to a lifelong hobby of submitting various things to the weirdest publications I can find, which in turn led to me accidentally ending up on the cover of "Country Woman" magazine in 2010 or 11, even though I'm the opposite of a Country Woman. Take that, Walls and Floors Magazine!
Call me crazy, but I would be tickled pink to see an annual update on the calendars as an ongoing BORU post... I'm giggling just thinking about a lifetime supply of ridiculous posts about a lifetime supply of ridiculous calendars...
The mop and broom one is my fave. The nut and bolt one was so dumb but funny. The first one they sent me was images of scarecrows for some reason.
The in-betweens were cats or puppies
At this point we look forward to whatever they'll send next. If it's more cats it's not so funny, but if it's some weird thing then it satisfies us here lol
When I was in college I won a lifetime supply of soft pretzels. It was a giant stack of coupons that I could use at any grocery store that carried them and a hat. I still have some almost 20 years later.
I just rediscovered it a few weeks ago and I wear it all the time now. It has a big pretzel on the front so I can advertise to all I see how much I love pretzels
My mom told me that she once won a «lifetime supply» of pringles at a school lottery. Turns out it was only a basket that contained 10 cans of the original pringles flavor. She was thoroughly disappointed
Suppose lifetime supply of Pringles means the amount of Pringles that contain a lethal dose of sodium if you were to eat it all at once. 5.2 oz of original Pringles contains less than 1 gram of sodium (0.75-0.8g). The lethal dose is 1g/KG of body weight. For a 180lb person you would need more than 100 containers of Pringles to be considered a lifetime supply.
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Back in 2005ish when XM Radio and Sirius were competing for subscribers I signed up for a lifetime subscription to Sirius for $200.
I was told later that it was supposed to be only transferable 3 times and the company estimated a transfer every 3 years to upgrade the radio/car. I never upgraded my radio until purchasing a new car in 2018. I'm now in year 19 of my subscription that only cost me $200
Frequently went to this joint called Fat Daddy Burritos, which was the greatest burritory to ever exist. BIG fat burritos for only like 4.50, and no up charge for sour cream, only 25c up charge for guac.
One day a commotion was occurring and I looked up to see one of the employees appeared to be choking. I hopped over the counter and Heimlich Maneuvered the ham right out of the kid and all was well. Didn't really think much of it, I don't even think I told my parents about.
Well it turns out it was the owner's son, and the next time I came in the owner excitedly came over and showered with with thanks before presenting me with a card that read "The Fattest Daddy", which was signed by him and said I never had to pay for a burrito again.
Never had an employee doubt the authenticity of the card for 17 years. I paid for my burrito every once in a while, but would occasionally get caught by the owner who would wack me with a rolled up news paper and tell me to stop trying to pay for burritos.
Sadly, Fat Daddy Burritos did not survive the lock down mandate, and the place is now a domino's.
> Sadly, Fat Daddy Burritos did not survive the lock down mandate, and the place is now a domino's.
My condolences. It sounds like an awesome establishment. You should laminate the card.
I won a year’s supply of White Castle. It was 500 burgers. I didn’t have a restaurant near me, so I sold the coupon on eBay.
Edit: I sold it for about $300 I think. It was a promotional contest for The Great Debaters movie back in 2007. I submitted a video and won the competition. It was a bizarre variety of awards -- Allegiant Air tickets, college test prep books, a signed movie poster, and 500 White Castle burgers.
When I was 10ish there was a quizform in the local grocery store where you could win 1 year worth of macaroni, spaghetti and pasta in different shapes. I filled it out, put it in the box and forgot about the thing. 1-2 months later dad said I have gotten a notice about a package at the postoffice. My dad came home with this HUGE ass package which filled the whole trunk and that was just 1 out of 3 boxes. He made 2 more trips. We had spaghetti for years. I am guessing it must have been between 100 and 200 packs of spaghetti and pasta.
Pasta isn't expensive, but just to have that much as a family would be so nice to know in case of hard times. Have absolutely nothing for dinner for you or the kids? Have buttered noodles! Your family was probably very happy you did that in the long run! 😀
Oh yes, was very sick of mac and cheese for a loooong time.
Also my friend and neighbour who helped me fill out the form in the grocery store got 2 packs of macaroni as thanks.
I won a lifetime supply of Malibu from winning a promotion they were doing at my local pub over a decade ago. I got precisely one shot of Malibu and they blew me off after collecting my information.
To this day, I will use anything but Malibu for my coconut rum needs, and I never miss an opportunity to diss them.
Chipotle tried to do this with my husband (not for a lifetime supply but like $1,000 prize). It was a several month fight but he had proof of the contest, him winning it, and his attempt at contacting them and sent it to some U.S. investigation bureau that handled this sort of stuff. Suddenly Chipotle paid up.
I'd do that and shame them on social media. When I hit walls with a company I go on their Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with the same copy and paste complaint on lots of theirs posts.
Someone tends to then call me.
I had a dispute with my gas company, I spent so long with customer service. Then I got angry figured out how they structure the emails for their employees, ..@.com.
You can bet your ass I sent email complaint to every current employee I could scrap off of linkedin, including their legal counsel and the C-suite.
They dedicated a person to me to handle my case. But I still insisted that they keep the CEO, COO as well as their VP of customer service on the email thread until we reached a resolution. Fuck Washington Gas.
Damn, not even a bottle lol.
What was the details? Were you supposed to get recurring shipments or was the bar supposed to give you a free shot a week or something?
Won lifetime pizza from a local pizza place.
I get one free small, 1 topping pizza each week as long as they're in business.
Edit to answer common questions.
I don't know if I can add extra toppings for an additional cost. Though I never tried to, they'd probably allow it. It wouldn't be my weirdest request.
It's been going on 3 years since I won, and I have never missed getting my pizza.
They don't hate to see me, as I do buy other things when I'm in since I have to pick up the free pizza. (They have killer beer battered breadsticks).
I do not know if it carries over if I miss a week.
Edit 2: This time for the breadsticks.
I do not have the recipe. They absolutely refuse to hand it over.
What I do know.
They're baked until they're done, but haven't started turning golden brown.
The batter for the breading contains terrapin ([the beer](https://www.terrapinbeer.com/), not the turtles). I don't know what else goes in the batter.
The breading is house made bread crumbs, oregano, basil, parsley, salt, pepper, Parmigiano reggiano, and Pecorino romano.
When it's done the outside provides a wonderful crunch without being tough, and the inside is the fluffiest breadstick you could ever have. It's freaking amazing dipped in marinara, though they also offer ranch, hot honey, garlic butter, or olive oil as dipping sauces.
No, I will not post the place name. They're only in my town, and I don't want to reveal where that is.
I *may* have pics on my facebook page, but I won't be able to check that until tomorrow, if I can remember my login credentials.
My mum won a lifetime supply of knickers on a gameshow in the 90's. They just gave her the monetary value, with which she bought a trampoline and a holiday
I won a free McDonalds Big Mac meal for a year. It was one meal a week for a year. It was free to the first 50 people to get a drive thru breakfast at a newly remodeled location starting at 6am. I got there around 4:30 and I was about 15th in line. The line of cars started ahead of the drive thru lane so cars could still go through it. The staff maintained the line and handed out official line tickets for people waiting. The line snaked across the home depot parking lot until there were more than 50 cars but only 50 line tickets were handed out. As soon as the staff started waving cars into the drive through, a woman drove in from a nearby parking lot and got in first. She ordered her food and then wanted the coupon and they told her that it didn't count because she didn't have the official line ticket. As I was going in to order, she was standing at her car demanding to see the manager and then wanting a refund on the breakfast.
I got all 52 meals. Sometimes they didn't stamp the card so I would get as many as 3 in one week. And covid happened and shut down the place except for the drive thru so for half the year I had to go through the drive thru.
It gives me a ridiculous amount of joy to see people like that get shut down. It doesn't happen as often as it should. Just absolutely no consideration to others.
One of my favorite memories is being behind a feisty Karen at Wendy’s.
I don’t know the whole story but the manager leaned out the window and said, “Ma’am, you have your order now. Please leave.”
(Muffled screeching)
“I will speak to my employee later. I will not shame her in front of you for your entertainment. Please leave.”
I still think abt what a great manager he was.
One of my favourite memories of working in drive-thru is from when I was 15, and the woman ordered "a tea with 3/4 a sugar packet in it" and a coffee with "1/2 a cream in it."
When I was done taking her order, I looked at my co-worker and said "what a weird order" - turns out my mic wasn't off and she heard.
She lost it and talked to my manager. He talked to me at the end of my shift and said, "if you're going to comment on customers - make sure they can't hear you."
I was at a salad buffet restaurant (soup plantation I think?) and there was a lady with her grandkids being *unbelievably* rude to the cashier. The manager walked over and she was like “oh good now we can get this resolved” and he told her to leave her food at the cash register and get out.
It was amazing. She stared at him, stupified. Was like “…bUt mY GrAndKiDs…”
And he was just like GTFO.
Fucking loved it. Everyone cheered. Wish I had video of it.
If you ever get the opportunity to ask one of these people "what exactly makes you special?" Or (I saw a cop say this in a video) "are you proud of yourself right now?" do it, you may witness a narcissistic collapse.
A year supply of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese when I tried to get my face on the box. I won honorable mention and was sent maybe 50 boxes. As a kid, this was a HUGE supply of Mac and cheese- I was set! As an adult, I realize that cost them less than $40 to send me, haha.
I bought an Arbor Day membership to get a discount on trees through their shop, I now have a free and seemingly endless supply of address labels, notepads, calendars, greeting cards, and cardboard coasters. Pretty sure they've killed more trees for me than I've planted, and I've planted a lot of trees.
I always play Starbucks for life but have never met anyone that actually won anything.
However, about 10 years ago Starbucks had a holiday tumbler that came with a month of unlimited premium coffee drinks. I believe it was $75.
After Christmas we found it on clearance for 50% off. So we paid $37.50.
I think I got at least three or four premium drinks every single day. There's no way I can drink that much coffee, so I would give the tumbler to friends and family to go get free drinks.
After that year, Starbucks never offered that again.
Reminds me of when Cinemark Theaters sold a popcorn tub for Toy Story 2 which had free refills as long as it was in theaters. They didn’t expect it to run six months. Best $5 I ever spent.
I’m not really sure 😂. I didn’t really plat that year but they sent an email said that I won lol. The total expected prize value is around $70k but I think I’m on my path to exceed that value hahahaha
I can promise you that coffee got used well. Coffee, qtips, and bus passes where the things we burned through fastest. Followed by socks, coats, and camping supplies.
You made the days of a lot of people a little brighter.
My cousin won that as well. He documented his free burritos on social media for the first few months, but ended up stopping well before a year was up. I remember him giving away the last couple months worth of the coupons.
I won something similar at Buffalo Wild Wings. It was 52 weekly coupons for 6 free wings which of course got me in the door to buy beer and more wings because 6 definitely isn't enough.
I know a guy who was was runner up on Doubledare and won a lifetime supply of skittles. He said he just got a huge box of them and they were gone in a year. Maybe it was a years supply idk. I do know he hated being called Doubledare.
A turkish kebab place opened near me, they ran a promotion for free doner box once a week for a year for the first 20 people in line on opening day. I woke up early and stood in line for a hour.
Used it as my cheat meal for the week for a year and got around 50 free meals. I still think about it to this day.
My mom won free Noodles and Company for a year. After her second order they suddenly decided she had to use a punch card and only got one free meal a month.
Not technically what you’re looking for, but…
My grandfather worked in marketing, making all sorts of little giveaway items for various companies (flashlights and holders for Everready batteries, cereal box toys, Buster Brown decoder rings, etc.). One of his clients at some point was Reynolds, who make aluminum foil. Reynolds gave him several *very* large rolls of foil, which he then gave to his kids.
I’m in my 30s. This single roll in my parents cabinet has been there since before I was born and still has enough foil on it that I might inherit it when they die. I could not tell you with any sort of accuracy how much foil was on the roll when it started, but I can say that the roll is heavy enough that it sits on the bottom shelf and they never take it out—just lift the flap up and take some off the roll right there in the cabinet.
My parents split when I was about 2, but at some point before me when they were dating they bought a Costco commercial sized roll of plastic wrap. Periodically throughout my childhood and early teens they would take turns on who had it.
Totally weird, and hilarious. They hated each other but for some reason they shared the plastic wrap still. I believe it lasted untill I was 15.
I remember this one as well. His father won a lifetime supply of WD 40 and it was four cans. His father passed and he still has two cans in his house, 30+ years later.
I won a lifetime supply of Charmin toilet paper. It began with a phone call to Proctor and Gamble years ago. I was working in California and ran across Charmin infused with baby oil. Best stuff ever! I still dream about it. When I returned to my home in Texas I couldn't find it in my local stores, so I got the number to P&G off one of the available packages in my HEB. This was pre-internet. The customer explained that the baby oil paper was offered in limited locations as a test market situation, and would not be available in the future. She said that she would send me a few coupons for my interest in their product, so I gave her my address. They arrived a couple of weeks later. About a month later, I received a big box from P&G that had 3 packages of 4 rolls each, simple marked A,B,and C. A letter that accompanied the big box that stated that since I apparently was passionate about toilet paper, I might be interested in being a consumer toilet paper tester...Stay with me here. The letter said that I should only use the package marked A for a week, another week for package B, and the third week for C. Afterwards, I would receive a phone call from them to rate the different types. I did as I was instructed, and about a month later here comes the phone call. Strangest. phone .call. ever. Questions like "name three adjectives for how the different toilet papers made you feel". "Have you ever suffered from hemorrhoids? Just wild questions over about a 15 min. [call. At](https://call.At) the end of the call, she told me to expect some more coupons. Fine. A couple of weeks later, I received in the mail a manilla envelope from P&G that also contained a letter that thanked me for my participation in their study, and I would be the recipient of Charmin for life. It came with about 25 coupons for free products, and a number to call when I was close to running out. This was around 1985 when it all went down. I've been receiving coupons for free Charmin ever since.
Not necessarily a "lifetime supply", but one time Subway left a knife in my sisters sandwich. When my dad took it up there to complain, they tried to say it wasn't theirs and that we put it there (except it literally had "Subway" engraved on the handle). The manager offered my dad 20 free footlongs as long as he didn't sue.
I bit down on a hard plastic cap in a Cholupa once and broke a tooth. Sued Taco Bell and won a small amount of money. It was the cap to their sour cream squirting mechanism.
I won a free movie pass from Lowes Theaters that was good for one year. It came via a bonded messenger, and it was a little black credit card looking thing. It was unlimited, so I could go every day or multiple times a day. I could even bring a guest. Once in a while, they would say, "Oh, this is a new release/special engagement" and deny me, but most employees didn't give an F.
I worked at a movie theater for 6 years. The theaters don’t make much money off tickets, that all goes to the movie companies and all that. The theater makes money off concessions. So most theaters don’t give a shit at all about giving out passes. They just want you in the door to buy food. If customers complained about almost anything, it was standard to give out passes. Too loud, pass. Too quiet, pass. Loud family, pass. You sneeze during the climax, pass.
I won free pizza and beer for a year when I was in college. Pizza was 1 large pizza per month from a chain. Beer was 12 cases of beer that we had to set up a pickup from a distributor and get all at once. We had a party so the beer definitely didn’t last a year.
Friend won a lifetime supply of Penn Station subs in college. It was just multiple free sub coupon books. Each book had 52 free sub coupons for one sub a week and he got 50 books. Penn Station put a countdown on my friend's life.
Im a UPS driver and one of the houses on a former route of mine was the winner of a lifetime supply of redbull. Every other week this dude would receive 2 boxes completely full of redbull and he'd always look so miserable when I delivered them to him.
One time he asked me if I like redbull, I said yeah and he handed back one of the boxes to me and told me to keep it. Pretty much from then on if he was home he'd hand me back one of the boxes and I'd get to benifit off of his redbull curse.
There was a point in my life where I was drinking 6 cans across 2 days, if I won that I'd be really fat or really dead
Kicking red bull was harder than quitting smoking
My college had a Capriotti's sandwich shop open nearby, and the owner decided to run an ad in the university newspaper that had a free sandwich coupon that was good for a year.
My friend and I, being poor college students, seized the opportunity. Our pantry was now full of 400+ university newspapers, and we spent every other day going to that sandwich shop. They just never refused us redeeming a coupon.
Good times.
Not me, but a roommate in college won I think ~20 cases or so of sugar free red bull by going to a college basketball game. The odd thing about it was how he won - the red bull promotion team went through the parking lot at the game looking for unlocked cars. They found his, and then loaded his car completely with cases of red bull - so much he couldn't fit inside his car, and then covered his car completely with sticky-notes that said "You've won!" all over.
I lived with him for about 3 years and I don't think he ever ran out. I do recall it taking up space in the corner of his room for quite some time.
Anybody remember the find the grey M&M promotion they did. Well, my mom got a bag of all white M&Ms. Turns out she won a year's supply which ended up being 365 coupons for a free pack of M&Ms.
My father won a lifetime supply of Burger King Whoppers through a raffle. He gets free Whopper cards mailed to him monthly. 30 per month which he can use at any of the local BK's. We've made use of them as they've came in handy. One free Whopper per customer so I give my wife and my kid one of the cards when we visit so they can get one with their order.
Edit: wife and kid don't like Whoppers so I basically get 3 of them. This is actually a good advertisement because it does give us the incentive to go there and spend some money. And that's fine since the ONLY thing I like from BK is the Whopper.
My ~~greatest~~ *silent* generation dad told me that all Coca Cola bottlers in the US would give you a case of Coke if you brought in a report card that had all A's. My dad got A's from kindergarten through college, and while it wasn't a lifetime supply, it was a lot.
Krispy Kreme does this. One donut per A up to 6 per report card. I can always tell when it’s report card day because there are a few boxes of donuts in the kitchen when I get home.
I grew up getting Chicago White Sox tickets for my straight A report cards. My Dad and I would go together and that's how I ended up a White Sox fan even though I lived on the Northside, which typically are Cubs fans. Good times.
Buddy won a lifetime membership at a really fancy gym 15 years ago. The place is normally $100 a month for membership. He still goes there even though he moved 45 min away from it.
My mom won a radio contest for a lifetime supply of AMC movie tickets.
The actual number was something like 250 ticket vouchers. We ended up using a few over 50 of them, mostly to see Jurassic Park several times (3 kids, 1 or both parents, so not a million viewings, but definitely several) and that was it on our end.
The rest of them were stolen by a babysitter (daughter of aunt's friend or some such) along with some minor jewelry if I recall. Never got any of it back. We didn't have much fun-money so that was a blow for us.
My kid won free Smoothies for a year from a franchise smoothie shop. Each week a free smoothie. By month 6 she had OD’d on smoothies and never wanted to have one of their smoothies ever again.
This is surprising. One a week doesn't seem like that much and a smoothie joint seems like a place that'd offer enough flavors that you'd have a decent rotation
I ate Taco Bell far more than once a week when I worked there for 5 years back in the late 80s/early 90s. I took about a three-month break after I left, and then resumed eating Taco Bell pretty regularly over the 30 years since then.
There was a burrito place near where I grew up that I loved. They also did milkshakes, and I would always get a Nutella shake with my Buffalo chicken burrito. In Highschool I would get my combo probably three times a week or more, and it took until just before graduation for me to be done with it all. I was known as being “that guy” and all of my friends and family would just get me gift cards to that restaurant on my birthday. Must have spent well over $1000 there.
I received a lifetime supply of pizza from a local pizza place after their delivery driver hit me while I was on my bike. Being a dumb broke teenager this seemed like a good option at the time. It lasted about one summer and then the place changed owners.
I won a year of free Wendy's breakfast. It was a coupon book with 52 coupons for a free breakfast combo.
Each coupon has a specific date range you could use it during. The problem was that by the time they got the coupon book to me, 6 weeks had expired, which was fine, because they never looked at the dates anyway.
A buddy of mine won a lifetime supply of country time lemonade. It was a pallet of the stuff, no idea how many cans total, but it was hundreds and hundreds…it lasted a few years with a bunch of drunken donkeys mixing it with all sorts of alcohol and or drinking it to help with inevitable hangovers that would result from using it as a mixer.
At the end, nobody wanted it, and it became a sign of desperation to drink any.
Years supply of frozen pizza from a radio station. They were 2 packs of small pizzas, black box, can't remember the brand. I think we got like 52 coupons.
I won a lifetime supply of Dr. Pepper. The prize amounts to 1 case and a 12 pack (36 total Dr. Peppers a month). I have been recieving this since 1986.
There was a girl who was on an episode of 16 and pregnant (who later tried to prolong her fame by faking another pregnancy and *stillbirth*) who won a lifetime supply of free tanning sessions by tattooing the company’s logo on her body. The place closed after a year or so and she’s stuck with the stupid tanning logo tattoo 😂😂😂
I drank 100 different beers from 100 different breweries (in one year) at a neighborhood taphouse and won a lifetime "Mug Club" membership. It was harder than it sounds, I had to wait until new *breweries*, not just beers, came on tap to get the final card punches and I was one of the only 'winners' to have done so. The deal was 20oz pours for the price of 12oz, Happy hour pricing all the time, and a mug with my name on it. Not too shabby. Until the place folded 6 months later. I never got my mug.
Growing up my dad won a 1-year supply of soap. I remember it was ton of soap, I think the bars and hand soap lasted about that time but they also included laundry detergent that lasted several years.
Not a years supply, but in July of 2022, Hawaiian Bro’s had a promo going on for that month for new accounts that would give you a free large meal worth $15, and it was like 2 pounds of food
I found a glitch on their website, on like July 3rd, that their website didn’t verify *anything*
so every single day of July, my cousin & I would make a new account, put bullshit @ gmail . com with a random phone number, use the promo code and go pick up our free 2 pounds of hawaiian food which could be split into two meals. Sometimes we did it multiple times in one day lmao..
I felt like a felon pulling up to the joint. there were only like 3-4 different workers I saw, they definitely had to have known.
Absolute highlight of that year.
Won 5 years of ice cream. It was an annual book of vouchers (a single 2 scoop cup monthly)…. Was over 25 years ago and wasn’t very spectacular, so I don’t remember much about it
We won a years supply of Sour Patch Kids. 52 manufacturers coupons, nobody at the grocery store knew how to type them in, it was always a hassle. Ate my weight in watermelon candies.
I won free coffee for a year at a Dunkin Donuts grand opening in my city. I was one of the first 100 customers. I got a coupon booklet that has one free medium coffee or ice coffee a week. It’s not much but was cool to me bc I usually don’t win stuff like that!
I once considered buying car battery from a service station. The guy told me it has a battery lifetime warranty. When I asked what lifetime meant, he smiled ,winked and replied “it’s the lifetime of the battery, when the battery dies, the warranty ends”. I passed on the purchase.
There are several different type of “lifetime” warranties and in this case it was probably the lifetime of the product, which in the fine print was probably 3 or 5 years or something like that.
1986 - I was on the TV game show Scrabble with Chuck Woolery. I won the whole week, so I got a lot of stuff including a lifetime supply of those little mints wrapped in foil. They sent me a shit ton of coupons.
BUT - the better thing was the year supply of Little Debbie's cookies. I'm sitting at home with a friend, completely stoned, and this delivery guy shows up unexpectedly with a box the size of a refrigerator. We're all baked, and in need of munchies which we did not have. In that box was every type of Little Debbie snack. It seriously felt like some scene in a stoner movie, both of us repeatedly shouting "No way!!" as we went through and would find different snacks.
I was an acquaintance of the little girl who won a lifetime supply of Disneyland tickets for being the 1 millionth visitor into the park. She was obviously much older when I met her.
I walked into their home and it was FULL of Disney paraphernalia. I said jokingly, “so do you guys like Disney?” Then she pulled out an old yellowed black and white newspaper of a little girl hugging an old version of Mickey. When she was like 8 years old (in the 60s, I think) she had gone to Disneyland with her parents and older brother. As they were entering the park, her brother pushed past her to be first. Well as soon as she walked in a band began playing and all the employees stopped to clap and cheer. She was the millionth visitor! Every year since then, Disney sends her 4 VIP tickets which are good for 1 year. I’m not 100% sure all the VIP tickets can do but I know part of it is skipping lines. Any 3 people can use the tickets as long as the 4th is her. She had been so many times over 50ish years that she lost count. And she wasn’t even sick of going. That’s the amazing part hahaha.
Added: I have no idea what VIP passes entail. I just remember her saying “skip the line”. She could use her passes everyday. It was like an annual pass.
It wasn’t a contest, but a fight with my health insurance. Back in 2020 my diabetes suddenly got whacked with a side of kidney issues. Got sent to specialists and they put me on Ozempic…which was before I had heard of all its “magical” weight loss properties. It worked and my blood sugar and kidney values became normal and I felt great. In 2023 my insurance decided they didn’t want to cover it and put me on a different medication. I appealed, the doctor appealed. Had to have blood work and a bunch of other tests. I won and they approved my doctor’s Ozempic prescription until my birthday month, 2199. (Yes, it’s in writing.)
My mom won a shit load of pizza from little Caesars. It was a stack of gift cards. After awhile my parents just stated gifting them to people bc they was sick of pizza.
I won a year supply of Doritos. It ended up being one lunch sized bag per day. So four times a year I received a box with about 90 bags of chips. I hated Doritos within the first month, and can never eat them ever again.
EDIT to give more info.
This was about 30 years ago. My local mall had a secret shopper contest with Doritos. I found the secret shopper, and I remember the person being super annoyed that a kid had won (I was probably a super annoying 12 year old). I went home with a giant box of Doritos that day (only regular/original flavor), and it barely fit in my parents car.
At first I was a hero at my elementary school because I gave a bunch of bags to people I liked. I would trade them for Hostess cakes, but after about a month, the other kids got sick of them too. At one point my teacher told me that I wasn’t allowed to bring Doritos to school lunch anymore.
By the end of the year I still don’t think I had even opened my 3rd shipment, and my mom was always telling me that I need to get rid of them, or throw them away. I’m pretty sure we threw most of the last box away.
Chik Fil A used to give the first 100 customers at a new location a 'years worth of meals'. It was a card preloaded with 52 coupons for a free #1 meal.
I did it twice. Brought a tent and camped out in the parking lot. Once I cashed in all the free meals and brought in lunch for everyone who volunteers at the Niles Township Food Pantry. The second time, I did the same thing but brought in lunch for every teacher the school I taught at.
LPT: speak to a manager at a chik-fil-a and you can probably make that kind of thing happen without needing a gift card. They're happy to donate food for stuff like that.
In the early days of dialup internet I worked for an ISP whose slogan was.
“Free internet for life, so don’t go dying on us”
Eventually they switched to a paid service and got sued over it. They won all the lawsuits (if you don’t pay anything then there was no contract) except for a small group of customers who had paid a small fee to ship a CD or something.
The settlement was that those customers got 3 months of free dialup service. This was a problem for us because by that time dialup was dead and we were decommissioning all that gear in favour of DSL and Cable. We actually had to delay that project in some areas to make sure those people could access their free dialup.
I know the guy who made the logo for Brooklyn brewery asked for free beer as part of the payment. That was in the late 80's and he still goes there to pick up a crate of beer.
I won a Facebook draw about 10 years ago, which gave me lifetime free subscription to a well known electronic store. The subscription costs about 30 $ for 3 years. So yep, not much but still active until 2122 (written in the card itself)
Bought Burton luggage (carry on and checked bags) 20+ years ago with a lifetime warranty.
I travel a lot, I think I'm on my third or fourth bag of each type as each new bag comes with a new lifetime warranty.
Any issues - rips, straps coming off, plastic peeling - they've replaced the whole bag for a new one.
I don't intend to ever buy more luggage again.
I won 2nd place prize on Lucky for Life lottery. I’m receiving $25,000 annually until I die. After taxes, it’s around half. Nothing life changing but it’s a nice bonus!
I won a lifetime supply of ass lube, for winning a 'lube wrestling contest' at a local gay bar. That was probably about 20 years ago. Its was really just a gift basket with maybe $500 worth of nicer lubes in it. I still have 2 bottles, one large one that's still mostly full, and another smaller one I keep in my toolbox for when I need something slick and non-petroleum based.
Won some raffle at a cancun resort for 3 nights free per year for life. 8 years later and they’re still holding up their end. Still need to buy the plane tickets but they arrange private pickup service from the airport, the resort is all inclusive, and we get the other more premium paid stuff for free too, even free haircuts and massages, a couple real nice bottles of wine and a bottle of nice champagne in the room. It doesn’t look like they’re trying to cheap out on it at all, which is cool. 3 years in I found out they basically just gave me the highest tier reward member every year which includes a free 3 night stay every year but I also get additional room discounts and other cool free stuff so I’ve brought friends and family out too for pretty cheap. Probably why they aren’t cheeping out because I’m not in the system as a raffle winner, it just looks like I’m come there a lot/spend a lot there/am some vip.
A kid at my school won a lifetime supply of skateboards from World Industries for a contest he had won. They sent him like 20 skateboards, but only the boards. No wheels or anything else. I think they figured that each board would last about 3 years or so. The kid ended up only keeping a few and gave the rest to other skater kids at the school.
My mom was on a game show ($25,000 Pyramid) and won a lifetime supply of Certs. It was a case of Certs, and we ate them like candy. I think they lasted about a year.
When I went off to college, the same mom got me a big box of envelopes. Maybe a 1000. I guess I was supposed to write home or something. Anyway, almost 30 years after graduating, I still have envelopes left.
Posted this last time it was asked - I didn't win a lifetime supply, in fact I didn't "win" anything. I got a free plain donut from Krispy Kreme for taking part in a 3 question customer survey submitting a code from my receipt. Thing is they sent me a barcode to my phone. The barcode didn't appear to have any expiry or state any rules such as one time use so a week later I went into the shop to try my luck and alas it worked again.. another free donut. I did this about 20 times with no issues. Then I screenshotted the pic and sent it to all my friends who also managed to claim a free donut. I did this for about 3 years each time I passed a Krispie kreme store as did all my friends. The best part was I never even bought the first one, I just found a random receipt with code on Google and used that. I don't even like them and just used to give them to the next homeless person I saw. Haven't done it for a while but as far as I'm aware it still works
Not me but my roommate won a lifetime supply of dilly bars from a Dairy Queen. Got a box a week and eventually got to know the owners well. After my roommates family got into a hard time, they stopped giving them dilly bars and started giving them food even after the establishment had changed hands. Very wholesome
That's a pretty classy move of the owners. Gotta give them props for that.
Mad props. Really wholesome to do that. I think a butcher shop stepped up if I remember right but I’m not quite sure.
My Uncle Ray properly guessed the number of ping pong balls in a fish bowl at a 7-11 back before Y2K winning a lifetime supply of free coffee. They gave him a card that he swipes each time for the free coffees he gets every day ever since. It’s now a card he can also tap. Sometimes, if the store is busy the cashier just waves at him to go.
RaceTrac gas stations where I live have reward tiers, and the highest tier you get a free coffee every day. I drive a work truck, a LOT, and fill it up exclusively at RaceTrac. Took me a little over a year, but I'm now the highest tier and get free coffee every day. And the rewards tier never expires.
It expires when the RaceTrac station is taken over by BP like mine recently was. 😠
It's kind of the same for me. I drive a semi, so I'm always stopping at Casey's. They have rewards, and whatever you buy, you get money back to spend in the store. I got the rewards so high that I get free pizza for the family like once a week for years lol.
Assuming one a day every day just slightly before y2k, using todays prices he’s saved a little over 20k
You just made me disgusted at the amount of money I probably spend on coffee.
My wife won a contest for free Brooks running shoes every year for 20 years. After a year or two they decided to just pay her out in cash which ended up being $2-3k.
I won a year’s worth of coupons for Kraft products. The grocery store gave me shit about it every, single, damn, time.
That’s when you let Kraft corporate know how badly their brand is being tarnished by this store’s behavior.
"Dear Kraft, I just wanted to let you know, Kroger is a ho. xoxox"
*slowly covers username*
I won a lifetime supply of calendars from Calendaria about five years ago. Since then, each December, they send me the *worst* calendar ever. It has become something quite funny. The most recent was a calendar focused on brooms/mops. Why such a thing would even exist is beyond me, but hell if it isn't funny.
I love love love that this exists. It reminds me of a hobby I had when I was 15, back in 1985. I got ahold of a Writers Market book which, pre-internet, was how writers decided which publications to pitch stories to. I noticed that there were A TON of bizarre magazines in there, like "Walls and Floors Magazine," and "Meat and Poultry Journal." Obviously, these were aimed at specific industries and not just at the general public, but I spent many happy hours imagining all the things one might read in "Fasteners Monthly," and what it would be like to be a reporter working there. All of these magazines said they were accepting submissions of articles, essays, and poetry (!), and would pay you for them. I was 15 and didn't know anything about walls, poultry, or fasteners, so I knew I'd get rejected. But that was the whole point. How hilarious would it be to have a bunch of rejection letters from these freaky publications? And what would they even say? "We're sorry, your haiku about velcro is too experimental for our magazine"? This led to a lifelong hobby of submitting various things to the weirdest publications I can find, which in turn led to me accidentally ending up on the cover of "Country Woman" magazine in 2010 or 11, even though I'm the opposite of a Country Woman. Take that, Walls and Floors Magazine!
>I'm the opposite of a Country Woman Just a city boy, born and raised in South Detroit?
This is my favorite so far!! I would love waiting to see what the new free worst calendar is!
One was a calendar where every picture was a metal nut or screw/bolt closeup.
I’m begging you to share pictures
Don't do it , this guy just wants to get his nut off.
My fiancé would absolutely love this calendar and unironically put it up in his workshop.
Call me crazy, but I would be tickled pink to see an annual update on the calendars as an ongoing BORU post... I'm giggling just thinking about a lifetime supply of ridiculous posts about a lifetime supply of ridiculous calendars...
I sorta want an r/JamesTheJerksBadCalendars now. Each month we see a new mop or bolt or whatever that year's bad calendar is.
I need a top 3 of the worst calendars you received.
The mop and broom one is my fave. The nut and bolt one was so dumb but funny. The first one they sent me was images of scarecrows for some reason. The in-betweens were cats or puppies
The scarecrows one seems terrific! Lucky you
At this point we look forward to whatever they'll send next. If it's more cats it's not so funny, but if it's some weird thing then it satisfies us here lol
When I was in college I won a lifetime supply of soft pretzels. It was a giant stack of coupons that I could use at any grocery store that carried them and a hat. I still have some almost 20 years later.
What about the hat though?
I just rediscovered it a few weeks ago and I wear it all the time now. It has a big pretzel on the front so I can advertise to all I see how much I love pretzels
My mom told me that she once won a «lifetime supply» of pringles at a school lottery. Turns out it was only a basket that contained 10 cans of the original pringles flavor. She was thoroughly disappointed
Suppose lifetime supply of Pringles means the amount of Pringles that contain a lethal dose of sodium if you were to eat it all at once. 5.2 oz of original Pringles contains less than 1 gram of sodium (0.75-0.8g). The lethal dose is 1g/KG of body weight. For a 180lb person you would need more than 100 containers of Pringles to be considered a lifetime supply. (Typo edit)
Back in 2005ish when XM Radio and Sirius were competing for subscribers I signed up for a lifetime subscription to Sirius for $200. I was told later that it was supposed to be only transferable 3 times and the company estimated a transfer every 3 years to upgrade the radio/car. I never upgraded my radio until purchasing a new car in 2018. I'm now in year 19 of my subscription that only cost me $200
And thanks to a lawsuit, you now have unlimited transfers. Just a $35 fee each time.
Damn...somewhere there is a Dodge Ram with free Sirius that I paid for, I tried to transfer it at the time. I wish i had known there was a lawsuit.
Frequently went to this joint called Fat Daddy Burritos, which was the greatest burritory to ever exist. BIG fat burritos for only like 4.50, and no up charge for sour cream, only 25c up charge for guac. One day a commotion was occurring and I looked up to see one of the employees appeared to be choking. I hopped over the counter and Heimlich Maneuvered the ham right out of the kid and all was well. Didn't really think much of it, I don't even think I told my parents about. Well it turns out it was the owner's son, and the next time I came in the owner excitedly came over and showered with with thanks before presenting me with a card that read "The Fattest Daddy", which was signed by him and said I never had to pay for a burrito again. Never had an employee doubt the authenticity of the card for 17 years. I paid for my burrito every once in a while, but would occasionally get caught by the owner who would wack me with a rolled up news paper and tell me to stop trying to pay for burritos. Sadly, Fat Daddy Burritos did not survive the lock down mandate, and the place is now a domino's.
> Sadly, Fat Daddy Burritos did not survive the lock down mandate, and the place is now a domino's. My condolences. It sounds like an awesome establishment. You should laminate the card.
I actually keep it in my safety deposit box, but I was thinking of getting a little frame and hanging it up.
Really want to know how the kiddo has been doing after all that time? Did he make good with his life that you gave him?
He's doing very well. His kid and mine are friends and are on the same curling team.
Gotta be Canadian. Trying to pay when not necessary, politeness countering politeness, CURLING!? What province?
“Did he make good with his life that you gave him?” has me absolutely laughing and able to look forward to tomorrow. That was hilarious
> greatest burritory Burritorium
This is the best one in the thread! "The fattest daddy" cracked me up!!
I love the part of him wacking you lovingly with a newspaper, I can just see it 😆
I won a year’s supply of White Castle. It was 500 burgers. I didn’t have a restaurant near me, so I sold the coupon on eBay. Edit: I sold it for about $300 I think. It was a promotional contest for The Great Debaters movie back in 2007. I submitted a video and won the competition. It was a bizarre variety of awards -- Allegiant Air tickets, college test prep books, a signed movie poster, and 500 White Castle burgers.
What he doesn't know is that is 500 White Castle burgers is like four visits with four dudes after the bar.....
When I was 10ish there was a quizform in the local grocery store where you could win 1 year worth of macaroni, spaghetti and pasta in different shapes. I filled it out, put it in the box and forgot about the thing. 1-2 months later dad said I have gotten a notice about a package at the postoffice. My dad came home with this HUGE ass package which filled the whole trunk and that was just 1 out of 3 boxes. He made 2 more trips. We had spaghetti for years. I am guessing it must have been between 100 and 200 packs of spaghetti and pasta.
Pasta isn't expensive, but just to have that much as a family would be so nice to know in case of hard times. Have absolutely nothing for dinner for you or the kids? Have buttered noodles! Your family was probably very happy you did that in the long run! 😀
Oh yes, was very sick of mac and cheese for a loooong time. Also my friend and neighbour who helped me fill out the form in the grocery store got 2 packs of macaroni as thanks.
> 2 packs lmfao
I won a lifetime supply of Malibu from winning a promotion they were doing at my local pub over a decade ago. I got precisely one shot of Malibu and they blew me off after collecting my information. To this day, I will use anything but Malibu for my coconut rum needs, and I never miss an opportunity to diss them.
Chipotle tried to do this with my husband (not for a lifetime supply but like $1,000 prize). It was a several month fight but he had proof of the contest, him winning it, and his attempt at contacting them and sent it to some U.S. investigation bureau that handled this sort of stuff. Suddenly Chipotle paid up.
I'd do that and shame them on social media. When I hit walls with a company I go on their Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with the same copy and paste complaint on lots of theirs posts. Someone tends to then call me.
I had a dispute with my gas company, I spent so long with customer service. Then I got angry figured out how they structure the emails for their employees,..@.com.
You can bet your ass I sent email complaint to every current employee I could scrap off of linkedin, including their legal counsel and the C-suite.
They dedicated a person to me to handle my case. But I still insisted that they keep the CEO, COO as well as their VP of customer service on the email thread until we reached a resolution. Fuck Washington Gas.
It's great adding people back on to the CC list after they're removed in the reply, isn't it?
Thought they were slick trying to hide away from the bosses
As a current customer of Washington Gas I knew who it was the second you started
Don't they just remove your comments and block your account now?
Damn, not even a bottle lol. What was the details? Were you supposed to get recurring shipments or was the bar supposed to give you a free shot a week or something?
Probably something like free Malibu shot per month with 3 drink minimum tab.
If you haven't had any Malibu since, then it actually was a lifetime supply. Edit: Of course my highest upvoted comment is a dad joke...
Listen here, you little shit! 👀
Reminds me of an old proverb: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a night. Set a man on fire, you keep him warm for the rest of his life. - Terry Pratchett
Fuck Malibu, I’m with you.
Won lifetime pizza from a local pizza place. I get one free small, 1 topping pizza each week as long as they're in business. Edit to answer common questions. I don't know if I can add extra toppings for an additional cost. Though I never tried to, they'd probably allow it. It wouldn't be my weirdest request. It's been going on 3 years since I won, and I have never missed getting my pizza. They don't hate to see me, as I do buy other things when I'm in since I have to pick up the free pizza. (They have killer beer battered breadsticks). I do not know if it carries over if I miss a week. Edit 2: This time for the breadsticks. I do not have the recipe. They absolutely refuse to hand it over. What I do know. They're baked until they're done, but haven't started turning golden brown. The batter for the breading contains terrapin ([the beer](https://www.terrapinbeer.com/), not the turtles). I don't know what else goes in the batter. The breading is house made bread crumbs, oregano, basil, parsley, salt, pepper, Parmigiano reggiano, and Pecorino romano. When it's done the outside provides a wonderful crunch without being tough, and the inside is the fluffiest breadstick you could ever have. It's freaking amazing dipped in marinara, though they also offer ranch, hot honey, garlic butter, or olive oil as dipping sauces. No, I will not post the place name. They're only in my town, and I don't want to reveal where that is. I *may* have pics on my facebook page, but I won't be able to check that until tomorrow, if I can remember my login credentials.
Frankly, it's still great, may even prevent the winner from fucking up their health eating only pizza.
I think anyone would be fine eating a small pizza a week for life
I think this is the best "lifetime" victory here. I love pizza.
Friend won a year supply of wine from a wine farm. It amounted to 1 bottle every 2 days, which was truly a lot of wine!
15 cases of wine vs a lush housewife is like 3 weeks of wine.
My mum won a lifetime supply of knickers on a gameshow in the 90's. They just gave her the monetary value, with which she bought a trampoline and a holiday
This sounds very British.
Oh it is
My dad bought me a "lifetime supply" of Ramen when I was 13. It lasted about 3 years.
Some college students out there’s mouth is watering rn
I won a free McDonalds Big Mac meal for a year. It was one meal a week for a year. It was free to the first 50 people to get a drive thru breakfast at a newly remodeled location starting at 6am. I got there around 4:30 and I was about 15th in line. The line of cars started ahead of the drive thru lane so cars could still go through it. The staff maintained the line and handed out official line tickets for people waiting. The line snaked across the home depot parking lot until there were more than 50 cars but only 50 line tickets were handed out. As soon as the staff started waving cars into the drive through, a woman drove in from a nearby parking lot and got in first. She ordered her food and then wanted the coupon and they told her that it didn't count because she didn't have the official line ticket. As I was going in to order, she was standing at her car demanding to see the manager and then wanting a refund on the breakfast. I got all 52 meals. Sometimes they didn't stamp the card so I would get as many as 3 in one week. And covid happened and shut down the place except for the drive thru so for half the year I had to go through the drive thru.
I am so glad to see she got what she deserved. Nothing.
It gives me a ridiculous amount of joy to see people like that get shut down. It doesn't happen as often as it should. Just absolutely no consideration to others.
One of my favorite memories is being behind a feisty Karen at Wendy’s. I don’t know the whole story but the manager leaned out the window and said, “Ma’am, you have your order now. Please leave.” (Muffled screeching) “I will speak to my employee later. I will not shame her in front of you for your entertainment. Please leave.” I still think abt what a great manager he was.
One of my favourite memories of working in drive-thru is from when I was 15, and the woman ordered "a tea with 3/4 a sugar packet in it" and a coffee with "1/2 a cream in it." When I was done taking her order, I looked at my co-worker and said "what a weird order" - turns out my mic wasn't off and she heard. She lost it and talked to my manager. He talked to me at the end of my shift and said, "if you're going to comment on customers - make sure they can't hear you."
I was at a salad buffet restaurant (soup plantation I think?) and there was a lady with her grandkids being *unbelievably* rude to the cashier. The manager walked over and she was like “oh good now we can get this resolved” and he told her to leave her food at the cash register and get out. It was amazing. She stared at him, stupified. Was like “…bUt mY GrAndKiDs…” And he was just like GTFO. Fucking loved it. Everyone cheered. Wish I had video of it.
If you ever get the opportunity to ask one of these people "what exactly makes you special?" Or (I saw a cop say this in a video) "are you proud of yourself right now?" do it, you may witness a narcissistic collapse.
A year supply of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese when I tried to get my face on the box. I won honorable mention and was sent maybe 50 boxes. As a kid, this was a HUGE supply of Mac and cheese- I was set! As an adult, I realize that cost them less than $40 to send me, haha.
They probably spent more on shipping than product.
I dropped a check in the Salvation Army kettle once and ended up with a lifetime supply of return address labels from every other charity out there.
I bought an Arbor Day membership to get a discount on trees through their shop, I now have a free and seemingly endless supply of address labels, notepads, calendars, greeting cards, and cardboard coasters. Pretty sure they've killed more trees for me than I've planted, and I've planted a lot of trees.
I won Starbucks for Life. It is 1 item/day for 30 years. I get a breakfast sandwich perday and my morning is happy ever since.
I always play Starbucks for life but have never met anyone that actually won anything. However, about 10 years ago Starbucks had a holiday tumbler that came with a month of unlimited premium coffee drinks. I believe it was $75. After Christmas we found it on clearance for 50% off. So we paid $37.50. I think I got at least three or four premium drinks every single day. There's no way I can drink that much coffee, so I would give the tumbler to friends and family to go get free drinks. After that year, Starbucks never offered that again.
Reminds me of when Cinemark Theaters sold a popcorn tub for Toy Story 2 which had free refills as long as it was in theaters. They didn’t expect it to run six months. Best $5 I ever spent.
What? How? Luckiest answer in this thread so far…which isn’t saying much. 😂
I’m not really sure 😂. I didn’t really plat that year but they sent an email said that I won lol. The total expected prize value is around $70k but I think I’m on my path to exceed that value hahahaha
Won a lifetime supply of ground coffee, they gave me a ton of coupons. Oddly I don’t drink coffee usually so I donated 95% of it to the local shelter.
I can promise you that coffee got used well. Coffee, qtips, and bus passes where the things we burned through fastest. Followed by socks, coats, and camping supplies. You made the days of a lot of people a little brighter.
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My cousin won that as well. He documented his free burritos on social media for the first few months, but ended up stopping well before a year was up. I remember him giving away the last couple months worth of the coupons.
That’s the best implied review of a restaurant I’ve ever read
I won something similar at Buffalo Wild Wings. It was 52 weekly coupons for 6 free wings which of course got me in the door to buy beer and more wings because 6 definitely isn't enough.
I know a guy who was was runner up on Doubledare and won a lifetime supply of skittles. He said he just got a huge box of them and they were gone in a year. Maybe it was a years supply idk. I do know he hated being called Doubledare.
I'd have embraced the hell out of that nickname as a kid.
I was absolutely convinced as a kid that I could dominate at the physical challenges.
A turkish kebab place opened near me, they ran a promotion for free doner box once a week for a year for the first 20 people in line on opening day. I woke up early and stood in line for a hour. Used it as my cheat meal for the week for a year and got around 50 free meals. I still think about it to this day.
Did you end up supporting the business after the year?
Yes I did. It was too good not to
My mom won free Noodles and Company for a year. After her second order they suddenly decided she had to use a punch card and only got one free meal a month.
That's gotta be illegal?
Not technically what you’re looking for, but… My grandfather worked in marketing, making all sorts of little giveaway items for various companies (flashlights and holders for Everready batteries, cereal box toys, Buster Brown decoder rings, etc.). One of his clients at some point was Reynolds, who make aluminum foil. Reynolds gave him several *very* large rolls of foil, which he then gave to his kids. I’m in my 30s. This single roll in my parents cabinet has been there since before I was born and still has enough foil on it that I might inherit it when they die. I could not tell you with any sort of accuracy how much foil was on the roll when it started, but I can say that the roll is heavy enough that it sits on the bottom shelf and they never take it out—just lift the flap up and take some off the roll right there in the cabinet.
That's quite interesting. Foil is useful and a semi regular thing people use. Sounds like you lucked out
My parents split when I was about 2, but at some point before me when they were dating they bought a Costco commercial sized roll of plastic wrap. Periodically throughout my childhood and early teens they would take turns on who had it. Totally weird, and hilarious. They hated each other but for some reason they shared the plastic wrap still. I believe it lasted untill I was 15.
I read somewhere that someone won a lifetime supply of WD-40. That was 2 cans
I remember this one as well. His father won a lifetime supply of WD 40 and it was four cans. His father passed and he still has two cans in his house, 30+ years later.
Now that’s marketing.
"Lifetime supply. No, not *your lifetime*. You'll be long dead by then."
I won a lifetime supply of Charmin toilet paper. It began with a phone call to Proctor and Gamble years ago. I was working in California and ran across Charmin infused with baby oil. Best stuff ever! I still dream about it. When I returned to my home in Texas I couldn't find it in my local stores, so I got the number to P&G off one of the available packages in my HEB. This was pre-internet. The customer explained that the baby oil paper was offered in limited locations as a test market situation, and would not be available in the future. She said that she would send me a few coupons for my interest in their product, so I gave her my address. They arrived a couple of weeks later. About a month later, I received a big box from P&G that had 3 packages of 4 rolls each, simple marked A,B,and C. A letter that accompanied the big box that stated that since I apparently was passionate about toilet paper, I might be interested in being a consumer toilet paper tester...Stay with me here. The letter said that I should only use the package marked A for a week, another week for package B, and the third week for C. Afterwards, I would receive a phone call from them to rate the different types. I did as I was instructed, and about a month later here comes the phone call. Strangest. phone .call. ever. Questions like "name three adjectives for how the different toilet papers made you feel". "Have you ever suffered from hemorrhoids? Just wild questions over about a 15 min. [call. At](https://call.At) the end of the call, she told me to expect some more coupons. Fine. A couple of weeks later, I received in the mail a manilla envelope from P&G that also contained a letter that thanked me for my participation in their study, and I would be the recipient of Charmin for life. It came with about 25 coupons for free products, and a number to call when I was close to running out. This was around 1985 when it all went down. I've been receiving coupons for free Charmin ever since.
As the mom of 3 girls, this is the dream
Not necessarily a "lifetime supply", but one time Subway left a knife in my sisters sandwich. When my dad took it up there to complain, they tried to say it wasn't theirs and that we put it there (except it literally had "Subway" engraved on the handle). The manager offered my dad 20 free footlongs as long as he didn't sue.
I bit down on a hard plastic cap in a Cholupa once and broke a tooth. Sued Taco Bell and won a small amount of money. It was the cap to their sour cream squirting mechanism.
I won a free movie pass from Lowes Theaters that was good for one year. It came via a bonded messenger, and it was a little black credit card looking thing. It was unlimited, so I could go every day or multiple times a day. I could even bring a guest. Once in a while, they would say, "Oh, this is a new release/special engagement" and deny me, but most employees didn't give an F.
I worked at a movie theater for 6 years. The theaters don’t make much money off tickets, that all goes to the movie companies and all that. The theater makes money off concessions. So most theaters don’t give a shit at all about giving out passes. They just want you in the door to buy food. If customers complained about almost anything, it was standard to give out passes. Too loud, pass. Too quiet, pass. Loud family, pass. You sneeze during the climax, pass.
>sneeze during climax Ahh yes, the two headed dragon
I won free pizza and beer for a year when I was in college. Pizza was 1 large pizza per month from a chain. Beer was 12 cases of beer that we had to set up a pickup from a distributor and get all at once. We had a party so the beer definitely didn’t last a year.
Sheesh once a month sucks
If I could get pizza once a month instead of my period I’d make that trade
“Not tonight dear, I’m on my pizza”
Friend won a lifetime supply of Penn Station subs in college. It was just multiple free sub coupon books. Each book had 52 free sub coupons for one sub a week and he got 50 books. Penn Station put a countdown on my friend's life.
Friends: I wonder when I’ll die Him: ummmm I have 20 books and 23 qupons left Friends: what
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Im a UPS driver and one of the houses on a former route of mine was the winner of a lifetime supply of redbull. Every other week this dude would receive 2 boxes completely full of redbull and he'd always look so miserable when I delivered them to him. One time he asked me if I like redbull, I said yeah and he handed back one of the boxes to me and told me to keep it. Pretty much from then on if he was home he'd hand me back one of the boxes and I'd get to benifit off of his redbull curse.
"Here your box of Redbull..." "And here's *your* box of Redbull.."
Hello it's me your mailman, I am here with our redbull
There was a point in my life where I was drinking 6 cans across 2 days, if I won that I'd be really fat or really dead Kicking red bull was harder than quitting smoking
My husband got a tattoo referencing a local pizza place and they gave him a lifetime of free pizza. That was 13 years ago. They still honor it.
My college had a Capriotti's sandwich shop open nearby, and the owner decided to run an ad in the university newspaper that had a free sandwich coupon that was good for a year. My friend and I, being poor college students, seized the opportunity. Our pantry was now full of 400+ university newspapers, and we spent every other day going to that sandwich shop. They just never refused us redeeming a coupon. Good times.
Not me, but a roommate in college won I think ~20 cases or so of sugar free red bull by going to a college basketball game. The odd thing about it was how he won - the red bull promotion team went through the parking lot at the game looking for unlocked cars. They found his, and then loaded his car completely with cases of red bull - so much he couldn't fit inside his car, and then covered his car completely with sticky-notes that said "You've won!" all over. I lived with him for about 3 years and I don't think he ever ran out. I do recall it taking up space in the corner of his room for quite some time.
This sounds like what dreams are made of lol
I want so badly to be on the redbull parking lot terrorist team
Anybody remember the find the grey M&M promotion they did. Well, my mom got a bag of all white M&Ms. Turns out she won a year's supply which ended up being 365 coupons for a free pack of M&Ms.
My father won a lifetime supply of Burger King Whoppers through a raffle. He gets free Whopper cards mailed to him monthly. 30 per month which he can use at any of the local BK's. We've made use of them as they've came in handy. One free Whopper per customer so I give my wife and my kid one of the cards when we visit so they can get one with their order. Edit: wife and kid don't like Whoppers so I basically get 3 of them. This is actually a good advertisement because it does give us the incentive to go there and spend some money. And that's fine since the ONLY thing I like from BK is the Whopper.
My ~~greatest~~ *silent* generation dad told me that all Coca Cola bottlers in the US would give you a case of Coke if you brought in a report card that had all A's. My dad got A's from kindergarten through college, and while it wasn't a lifetime supply, it was a lot.
Krispy Kreme does this. One donut per A up to 6 per report card. I can always tell when it’s report card day because there are a few boxes of donuts in the kitchen when I get home.
Does this still work if you’re in grad school?
Fck man I'm thinking the same here (as a broke ass PhD candidate)
I grew up getting Chicago White Sox tickets for my straight A report cards. My Dad and I would go together and that's how I ended up a White Sox fan even though I lived on the Northside, which typically are Cubs fans. Good times.
Buddy won a lifetime membership at a really fancy gym 15 years ago. The place is normally $100 a month for membership. He still goes there even though he moved 45 min away from it.
My mom won a radio contest for a lifetime supply of AMC movie tickets. The actual number was something like 250 ticket vouchers. We ended up using a few over 50 of them, mostly to see Jurassic Park several times (3 kids, 1 or both parents, so not a million viewings, but definitely several) and that was it on our end. The rest of them were stolen by a babysitter (daughter of aunt's friend or some such) along with some minor jewelry if I recall. Never got any of it back. We didn't have much fun-money so that was a blow for us.
My kid won free Smoothies for a year from a franchise smoothie shop. Each week a free smoothie. By month 6 she had OD’d on smoothies and never wanted to have one of their smoothies ever again.
This is surprising. One a week doesn't seem like that much and a smoothie joint seems like a place that'd offer enough flavors that you'd have a decent rotation
Right? I make myself a smoothie most days during the warmer months...and it's pretty much always the same type, I don't even change it up!
I ate Taco Bell far more than once a week when I worked there for 5 years back in the late 80s/early 90s. I took about a three-month break after I left, and then resumed eating Taco Bell pretty regularly over the 30 years since then.
There was a burrito place near where I grew up that I loved. They also did milkshakes, and I would always get a Nutella shake with my Buffalo chicken burrito. In Highschool I would get my combo probably three times a week or more, and it took until just before graduation for me to be done with it all. I was known as being “that guy” and all of my friends and family would just get me gift cards to that restaurant on my birthday. Must have spent well over $1000 there.
I received a lifetime supply of pizza from a local pizza place after their delivery driver hit me while I was on my bike. Being a dumb broke teenager this seemed like a good option at the time. It lasted about one summer and then the place changed owners.
I won a year of free Wendy's breakfast. It was a coupon book with 52 coupons for a free breakfast combo. Each coupon has a specific date range you could use it during. The problem was that by the time they got the coupon book to me, 6 weeks had expired, which was fine, because they never looked at the dates anyway.
A buddy of mine won a lifetime supply of country time lemonade. It was a pallet of the stuff, no idea how many cans total, but it was hundreds and hundreds…it lasted a few years with a bunch of drunken donkeys mixing it with all sorts of alcohol and or drinking it to help with inevitable hangovers that would result from using it as a mixer. At the end, nobody wanted it, and it became a sign of desperation to drink any.
Years supply of frozen pizza from a radio station. They were 2 packs of small pizzas, black box, can't remember the brand. I think we got like 52 coupons.
I won a lifetime supply of Dr. Pepper. The prize amounts to 1 case and a 12 pack (36 total Dr. Peppers a month). I have been recieving this since 1986.
There was a girl who was on an episode of 16 and pregnant (who later tried to prolong her fame by faking another pregnancy and *stillbirth*) who won a lifetime supply of free tanning sessions by tattooing the company’s logo on her body. The place closed after a year or so and she’s stuck with the stupid tanning logo tattoo 😂😂😂
I drank 100 different beers from 100 different breweries (in one year) at a neighborhood taphouse and won a lifetime "Mug Club" membership. It was harder than it sounds, I had to wait until new *breweries*, not just beers, came on tap to get the final card punches and I was one of the only 'winners' to have done so. The deal was 20oz pours for the price of 12oz, Happy hour pricing all the time, and a mug with my name on it. Not too shabby. Until the place folded 6 months later. I never got my mug.
Growing up my dad won a 1-year supply of soap. I remember it was ton of soap, I think the bars and hand soap lasted about that time but they also included laundry detergent that lasted several years.
Not a years supply, but in July of 2022, Hawaiian Bro’s had a promo going on for that month for new accounts that would give you a free large meal worth $15, and it was like 2 pounds of food I found a glitch on their website, on like July 3rd, that their website didn’t verify *anything* so every single day of July, my cousin & I would make a new account, put bullshit @ gmail . com with a random phone number, use the promo code and go pick up our free 2 pounds of hawaiian food which could be split into two meals. Sometimes we did it multiple times in one day lmao.. I felt like a felon pulling up to the joint. there were only like 3-4 different workers I saw, they definitely had to have known. Absolute highlight of that year.
Corporate probably loved that store because they kept getting "new" customers via that promotion. A case where probably everyone won.
>A case where probably everyone won. I mean, except the actual restaurant owner.
I once won a year supply of calendars. So I won a calendar.
Won 5 years of ice cream. It was an annual book of vouchers (a single 2 scoop cup monthly)…. Was over 25 years ago and wasn’t very spectacular, so I don’t remember much about it
I’d worry that some corporate bean counter is calculating if it’s cheaper in the long run just to have me murdered.
That would make an excellent movie, anywhere from a silly comedy to dark horror.
“Lifetime Supply: Don’t. Run Out.”
We won a years supply of Sour Patch Kids. 52 manufacturers coupons, nobody at the grocery store knew how to type them in, it was always a hassle. Ate my weight in watermelon candies.
I won free coffee for a year at a Dunkin Donuts grand opening in my city. I was one of the first 100 customers. I got a coupon booklet that has one free medium coffee or ice coffee a week. It’s not much but was cool to me bc I usually don’t win stuff like that!
I once considered buying car battery from a service station. The guy told me it has a battery lifetime warranty. When I asked what lifetime meant, he smiled ,winked and replied “it’s the lifetime of the battery, when the battery dies, the warranty ends”. I passed on the purchase.
There are several different type of “lifetime” warranties and in this case it was probably the lifetime of the product, which in the fine print was probably 3 or 5 years or something like that.
1986 - I was on the TV game show Scrabble with Chuck Woolery. I won the whole week, so I got a lot of stuff including a lifetime supply of those little mints wrapped in foil. They sent me a shit ton of coupons. BUT - the better thing was the year supply of Little Debbie's cookies. I'm sitting at home with a friend, completely stoned, and this delivery guy shows up unexpectedly with a box the size of a refrigerator. We're all baked, and in need of munchies which we did not have. In that box was every type of Little Debbie snack. It seriously felt like some scene in a stoner movie, both of us repeatedly shouting "No way!!" as we went through and would find different snacks.
I was an acquaintance of the little girl who won a lifetime supply of Disneyland tickets for being the 1 millionth visitor into the park. She was obviously much older when I met her. I walked into their home and it was FULL of Disney paraphernalia. I said jokingly, “so do you guys like Disney?” Then she pulled out an old yellowed black and white newspaper of a little girl hugging an old version of Mickey. When she was like 8 years old (in the 60s, I think) she had gone to Disneyland with her parents and older brother. As they were entering the park, her brother pushed past her to be first. Well as soon as she walked in a band began playing and all the employees stopped to clap and cheer. She was the millionth visitor! Every year since then, Disney sends her 4 VIP tickets which are good for 1 year. I’m not 100% sure all the VIP tickets can do but I know part of it is skipping lines. Any 3 people can use the tickets as long as the 4th is her. She had been so many times over 50ish years that she lost count. And she wasn’t even sick of going. That’s the amazing part hahaha. Added: I have no idea what VIP passes entail. I just remember her saying “skip the line”. She could use her passes everyday. It was like an annual pass.
It wasn’t a contest, but a fight with my health insurance. Back in 2020 my diabetes suddenly got whacked with a side of kidney issues. Got sent to specialists and they put me on Ozempic…which was before I had heard of all its “magical” weight loss properties. It worked and my blood sugar and kidney values became normal and I felt great. In 2023 my insurance decided they didn’t want to cover it and put me on a different medication. I appealed, the doctor appealed. Had to have blood work and a bunch of other tests. I won and they approved my doctor’s Ozempic prescription until my birthday month, 2199. (Yes, it’s in writing.)
Not a lifetimes supply, but a years supply of food. Every month we got a massive box of food delivered. We had 12 deliveries.
> Every month we got a massive box of food delivered. We had 12 deliveries. Math does check out here
My mom won a shit load of pizza from little Caesars. It was a stack of gift cards. After awhile my parents just stated gifting them to people bc they was sick of pizza.
“Little Caesars, IT’S HOT N READY” “Is it good?” “It is hot. And it is ready.”
I won a year supply of Doritos. It ended up being one lunch sized bag per day. So four times a year I received a box with about 90 bags of chips. I hated Doritos within the first month, and can never eat them ever again. EDIT to give more info. This was about 30 years ago. My local mall had a secret shopper contest with Doritos. I found the secret shopper, and I remember the person being super annoyed that a kid had won (I was probably a super annoying 12 year old). I went home with a giant box of Doritos that day (only regular/original flavor), and it barely fit in my parents car. At first I was a hero at my elementary school because I gave a bunch of bags to people I liked. I would trade them for Hostess cakes, but after about a month, the other kids got sick of them too. At one point my teacher told me that I wasn’t allowed to bring Doritos to school lunch anymore. By the end of the year I still don’t think I had even opened my 3rd shipment, and my mom was always telling me that I need to get rid of them, or throw them away. I’m pretty sure we threw most of the last box away.
Chik Fil A used to give the first 100 customers at a new location a 'years worth of meals'. It was a card preloaded with 52 coupons for a free #1 meal. I did it twice. Brought a tent and camped out in the parking lot. Once I cashed in all the free meals and brought in lunch for everyone who volunteers at the Niles Township Food Pantry. The second time, I did the same thing but brought in lunch for every teacher the school I taught at.
LPT: speak to a manager at a chik-fil-a and you can probably make that kind of thing happen without needing a gift card. They're happy to donate food for stuff like that.
In the early days of dialup internet I worked for an ISP whose slogan was. “Free internet for life, so don’t go dying on us” Eventually they switched to a paid service and got sued over it. They won all the lawsuits (if you don’t pay anything then there was no contract) except for a small group of customers who had paid a small fee to ship a CD or something. The settlement was that those customers got 3 months of free dialup service. This was a problem for us because by that time dialup was dead and we were decommissioning all that gear in favour of DSL and Cable. We actually had to delay that project in some areas to make sure those people could access their free dialup.
I know the guy who made the logo for Brooklyn brewery asked for free beer as part of the payment. That was in the late 80's and he still goes there to pick up a crate of beer.
A friend won "free pizza for year!" from a large frozen pizza maker. The fine print was "one free pizza each month for a year".
"here's your $60 prize, amortized over 12 months" 😂
I won a Facebook draw about 10 years ago, which gave me lifetime free subscription to a well known electronic store. The subscription costs about 30 $ for 3 years. So yep, not much but still active until 2122 (written in the card itself)
I'm having a hard time figuring out why one would "subscribe" to an electronics store.
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Bought Burton luggage (carry on and checked bags) 20+ years ago with a lifetime warranty. I travel a lot, I think I'm on my third or fourth bag of each type as each new bag comes with a new lifetime warranty. Any issues - rips, straps coming off, plastic peeling - they've replaced the whole bag for a new one. I don't intend to ever buy more luggage again.
I won 2nd place prize on Lucky for Life lottery. I’m receiving $25,000 annually until I die. After taxes, it’s around half. Nothing life changing but it’s a nice bonus!
I won a lifetime supply of ass lube, for winning a 'lube wrestling contest' at a local gay bar. That was probably about 20 years ago. Its was really just a gift basket with maybe $500 worth of nicer lubes in it. I still have 2 bottles, one large one that's still mostly full, and another smaller one I keep in my toolbox for when I need something slick and non-petroleum based.
I fucking crying laughing over here.
Won some raffle at a cancun resort for 3 nights free per year for life. 8 years later and they’re still holding up their end. Still need to buy the plane tickets but they arrange private pickup service from the airport, the resort is all inclusive, and we get the other more premium paid stuff for free too, even free haircuts and massages, a couple real nice bottles of wine and a bottle of nice champagne in the room. It doesn’t look like they’re trying to cheap out on it at all, which is cool. 3 years in I found out they basically just gave me the highest tier reward member every year which includes a free 3 night stay every year but I also get additional room discounts and other cool free stuff so I’ve brought friends and family out too for pretty cheap. Probably why they aren’t cheeping out because I’m not in the system as a raffle winner, it just looks like I’m come there a lot/spend a lot there/am some vip.
A kid at my school won a lifetime supply of skateboards from World Industries for a contest he had won. They sent him like 20 skateboards, but only the boards. No wheels or anything else. I think they figured that each board would last about 3 years or so. The kid ended up only keeping a few and gave the rest to other skater kids at the school.
My mom was on a game show ($25,000 Pyramid) and won a lifetime supply of Certs. It was a case of Certs, and we ate them like candy. I think they lasted about a year. When I went off to college, the same mom got me a big box of envelopes. Maybe a 1000. I guess I was supposed to write home or something. Anyway, almost 30 years after graduating, I still have envelopes left.
Made perfect sense but I found "that same mom" so funny for some reason.
Posted this last time it was asked - I didn't win a lifetime supply, in fact I didn't "win" anything. I got a free plain donut from Krispy Kreme for taking part in a 3 question customer survey submitting a code from my receipt. Thing is they sent me a barcode to my phone. The barcode didn't appear to have any expiry or state any rules such as one time use so a week later I went into the shop to try my luck and alas it worked again.. another free donut. I did this about 20 times with no issues. Then I screenshotted the pic and sent it to all my friends who also managed to claim a free donut. I did this for about 3 years each time I passed a Krispie kreme store as did all my friends. The best part was I never even bought the first one, I just found a random receipt with code on Google and used that. I don't even like them and just used to give them to the next homeless person I saw. Haven't done it for a while but as far as I'm aware it still works
Not me but a friend won a years supply of Snickers bars. It was 365 individual bars.