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Winners of a ‘lifetime supply’ of something are sharing what that actually meant – 19 fabulous tales

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‘My grandparents were gifted a lifetime subscription to Reader’s Digest as a wedding gift. They were offered that, or some other magazine that went out of business a decade later so they made the right call.

‘Being a frugal family, that subscription was utilized fully. After grandma & grandpa were done with each issue, it would be passed along to siblings and their kids with this little round robin thing they did (sharing photos and updates of what everyone was up to, passed along in a manilla envelope and when it came back to you, you remove your items and put new ones in).

‘They had been together for 62 years when grandpa died, but RD honored the subscription an extra decade until Grandma passed. I forgot how much was paid for it, but I’m certain the gifter got their money’s worth.’
Just_call_me_Marcia

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‘I had a friend in college who won a lifetime supply of gillette razors. They just sent him a crate of Mach 3 razors and refill cartridges and that was that. It was just a one time shipment but it would be hard to get through that many razors in one lifetime.’
4Ever2Thee

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‘I won a lifetime of free oil changes for my car. It was during a sale the dealership was having where you had to take a photo with your pet and the person who most resembled their pet won.

‘I don’t know if I should feel happy or concerned about that one. What they did fail to mention is that it was lifetime oil changes for the vehicle I had and I couldn’t transfer it to anyone else. So when my dad took over my car loan they dropped that little tidbit of info on us. Only really lasted me for about two oil changes.’
kingyoblock

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‘When I bought my bicycle, the shop policy was that any new bike purchased included free tune-ups for life.

‘Personally, I thought this was a great business move, because it got me back in the store regularly to redeem my tune-ups, kept my bike running smoothly which kept me as an active cyclist (active cyclist = active customer), and I also would regularly buy parts/service beyond the tune-up when I was there. Which I was happy to do since I had a good relationship with the shop through this free tune-up deal.

‘When the shop changed owners, they discontinued the tune-ups, even for people like me who had purchased their bike under these terms. I don’t go there anymore.’
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‘I won free groceries for “life” at my local grocery store in a raffle. They give me a digital $100 gift card once a month, which is wonderful, however it doesn’t even cover a week of groceries.

‘It will end when the total given has reached $10,000. I’ve got about $4000 left.’
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‘My Uncle gets free Ben & Jerrys for life. He’s been Friends with the actual Ben and Jerry since before they opened the first shop. He has a card that says free ice cream for life and he can get pints or cones at any scoop shop (at least locally).

‘He also gets decks of free pint coupons that he can use at grocery stores and gas stations. When Unilever bought them out they tired to buy back all the “free Ice Cream for life cards” I guess it was a fairly generous offer because my uncle is one of only a few that chose to keep the card.’
dillydally85

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‘Back in 1977 when I was 13 years old, I won a contest for a lifetime supply of models from Revell. A semi truck pulled up to our house in a very quiet suburban neighborhood and proceeded to unload 4 pallets of plastic models in the driveway. There were hundreds of models; probably one of everything they offered in their catalog at the time.

‘I kept about 2 dozen which kept me busy for a year or so. My father helped by finding a local retail hobby store to buy the rest of them at a very favorable price so we could just get rid of them. He put the money into US Savings Bonds for me which I cashed out many years later to use for a down payment on my first new car.’
MileageAddict

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‘I won a life time supply of AA and AAA batteries from a major Canadian tech retailer about 20 years ago. Thing is, batteries last a long time and there really isn’t that much that I use batteries for. Hypothetically I could start a black market battery business by just getting my free batteries and selling them to people in need, but it’s just not worth the time.

‘Even getting the batteries isn’t worth the time. I have to get them to type in my name in their system and there’s a note by my name indicated that I get free batteries because I won a contest 20 years ago.

‘And then they run and get their manager to look at it, because that looks suspicious. And then the manager looks at it and then asks me questions and then they finally relent and give me my free batteries.’
garlicroastedpotato

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‘I won a lifetime supply of Oreos. It was actually just one pallet full of Oreos. Probably would last a normal person their whole life. It was like 1000lbs of Oreos.

‘I gave away so many Oreos! Having a party ? I’ll bring a bunch of Oreos. Break room needs snacks? Oreos. I ended up donating like 400lbs of Oreos to a shelter, just to get them out of my garage.

‘Just for kicks I called to inquire if lifetime meant my lifetime, and that I had finished off the pallet. They said the pallet would last a reasonable person their whole life. So… That was a bummer. But I think that’s typically how those things work.’
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