Winning anything can be fun, be it a teddy bear at a fair or a chocolate bar at your local supermarket. So, it’s no surprise that for many, being set with something they likefor lifeis close to living out their dreams.While it might not seem like it happens often, quite a few people have been lucky enough to win a lifetime supply of something. Many of them shared their stories on a thread on Reddit after one userasked themabout what it was that they won and how long exactly their ‘lifetime supply’ lasted. If you’re curious, too, about what the winners were provided with (or at least were promised to be provided with) for life, scroll down to find their stories on the list below and make sure to upvote the ones you liked most!This post may includeaffiliate links.
Winning anything can be fun, be it a teddy bear at a fair or a chocolate bar at your local supermarket. So, it’s no surprise that for many, being set with something they likefor lifeis close to living out their dreams.
While it might not seem like it happens often, quite a few people have been lucky enough to win a lifetime supply of something. Many of them shared their stories on a thread on Reddit after one userasked themabout what it was that they won and how long exactly their ‘lifetime supply’ lasted. If you’re curious, too, about what the winners were provided with (or at least were promised to be provided with) for life, scroll down to find their stories on the list below and make sure to upvote the ones you liked most!
This post may includeaffiliate links.
10 years ago we won a lifetime of vet visits for my cat. They expected to give it to someone with an old pet, not a new kitten. The cat’s still alive. The Vet Clinic has moved and rebranded 4 or 5 times, but they’re still honouring the award.
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My mum won a lifetime supply of Rice because she went to a school fair and guessed how many grains of rice were in a jar. She was the closest. They send us a 20KG sack every month.Even when my mum died, we contacted to tell them and they said, “Well, the T’s & C’s say lifetime is 50 years from the win so we’ll honour it.“We’re in Year 20 of this. We like rice, but… it’s a lot. We’ve given so much away to food banks and soup kitchens.
My dad bought a lazy boy recliner decades ago. Eventually the springs wore out and the recliner stopped reclining. When he went to buy a new one the sales man raved that the new one comes with a lifetime guarantee. Dad asked if the old one did too. Turns out it did and they fixed it for free!
I won a lifetime supply of Jelly Belly Jelly Beans in a guess how many beans in the jar scenario. My guess was the precise, exact number of 6894 beans!They sent an enormous basket of various goods, t shirts, coffee cups, and new and limited edition flavors. Each month, I open my mailbox to discover a family sized bag of assorted beans. I just give them away now. Especially when they created ‘vomit’ flavor! True!
Not a lifetime supply, but one time in college I won a years supply of chips from the Kettle Brand. They sent me a box of 12 different flavors (party sized bags) every month of 12 months.
When I was little my mom won a year’s supply of m&m’s. We had maybe 20 of those display boxes that have like 20 bags each in them. I was 10 at the time and my sister was 8. They did not last a year.
I have a lifetime warranty on the backpack that my mom gave me when I went to university.20 years later, backpack still alive and well, never had to use the warranty. I love it and use it all time (I’m a woman), think carrying a backpack instead of a purse.At this point, my mother hates it with passion, deeply regrets the gift and tried to replace it at multiple occasions.I’ll probably be buried with the backpack when I die or something muahaha.
I won a year supply of Dr Pepper once in college. I think it was 24 cases. I had to go pick it up at the same place the trucks that load up for delivery to stores get the trucks loaded.The guys there were a little confused about loading up a ford escort when it was usually semis or box trucks.
This doesn’t exactly fit the bill, but years ago I ordered an instant read pen thermometer from a third party seller on Amazon. Couple days later, the pen shows up and life is good. The next day, another one shows up on my doorstep. I check my account and credit card, but nothing has been ordered/charged. I think nothing of it, assumed my wife ordered the same thing, and go about my day.And a couple days later, another instant read thermometer shows up. This happened every few days for a few weeks, but eventually stopped after a dozen pens or so showed up…only for an annoyed mailman to knock on my door a few weeks later with an open mail carrier box with hundreds of the things all addressed to me.I contacted the seller a few times throughout the duration to stop this from happening and to see how they wanted me to return them, but never heard back. Eventually, the shipments stopped. To this day, family members will occasionally ask if I still have my thermometer stash and I give them away two at a time.
Living in Germany with my dad off base (air force), I entered a local raffle not understanding the language. I won a year worth of currywurst from a local vendor, which meant one a day. I was 16 years old and so excited even though I wasn’t a curry wurst fan. My dad would grab it on his way and eat it unless I walked there after school. We ate it for eight months till we rotated back to the states.
Not a lifetime supply, but I once won free pizza for a year from a local pizza joint. I bought 10 raffle tickets at a local Italian festival. I received a one free pizza/ a week coupon.
My neighbor purchased (not won) a lifetime subscription to the local newspaper. He bought it in 1978 for $149.He died in 2006 and the paper kept coming to his wife at the same address.She died in 2016 and still the paper keeps coming to her son, at the same address.I guess it will still keep coming until it finally goes under (which should be pretty soon now!).
My nephew won “a year‘s supply”of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream and received… 24 coupons each good for one free pint. Clearly, Ben and Jerry don’t comprehend the normal American’s relationship to ice cream.
Not a lifetime supply, but I won free pizza for a year. Turned out to be 12 large one-topping Pizza’s. Pizza Nova and I have completely different ideas on how much is a year’s worth of pizza.
I called the number on the Willie Wonka candy because it said just want to chat (or something close, it was many years ago). Had a 20 minute conversation with a very nice woman and she sent me a bunch of coupons for free candy. Gave those away.
My ex got a years supply of Bud Lite bc one of the cans sliced his finger (he needed Stitches) when he went to grab a 12 pack handle.He got a case a week 🤷♀️.
My dad won a “10 year supply” of mustard years ago. It was delivered all at once lol. Our garage was filled with mustard boxes and Chinchilla cages since my dad would breed them. He gave all the mustard away to friends and neighbours after a few days because the smell apparently made his Chinchillas go crazy.
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Kong Dog beds at PetSmart. Had a Dobberman that loved tearing s**t up. Purchasd the Kong beds that guaranteed they could not be destroyed and they would replace them for free. I would take the bed back destroyed EVERY WEEK for about a year, until I personally decided enough was enough and took all his bedding away. I am not sure if they still offer the same guarantee.
I won the gray m&ms in the 90s thinking I won the $1 million. The game piece said I won second prize. A half year supply of m&m’s.Three months after sending in my claim, I had to call and say “what’s the deal”? The next day I got a coupon box for 182 coupons “looked like cash” for free M&ms.My buddy was driving for coke At the time. Coke offered a promotion for free coke with winning bottle caps. He would collect bags of these caps, so we had an endless supply of m&m & coke. A college kid’s energy source! Good times.
As a kid we won a “lifetime supply of icecream” from a regional dairy company.It was a s**t show. I guess the guy at the company who came up with the idea didn’t actually think through how he’d implement it and then retired and passed it to his daughter after the contest started but before anyone claimed it. So she had no idea what to do with it.My dad goes to claim the prize and he asks how it would work and they asked him how he would want it to work. Here’s what he tried to get and why they denied it:1. Voucher for 52 tubs of icecream a year- no we can’t do that, you’ll resell them for a profit and hurt our business2. Gift card for them equal to 52 tubs a year- no we can’t do that you may use it on things other than icecream3. How about a card that lets me redeem one every time I come in, I don’t eat icecream that often so I likely would get 10 a year- no we can’t do that, you’ll give the card to other people and they’ll get free icecreamThey also argued with him how long a lifetime supply should be. My dad was 35 and he said “how about 35 years worth” and they tried to say that wouldn’t be acceptable since a lot of people don’t live until 70 and he’d get more than a lifetime supply.In the end they did probably the least practical thing and just shipped him a package of I think 700+ tubs of icecream all at once. He panicked and gave all the local schools like 100 tubs each since they were the only ones who could store it.
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I won a years worth of Toilet Paper. It lasted 2 years at least.
I bought a used sound mixer from the music store, and they offered a 100% lifetime trade in guarantee. But then they went out of business 🙄.
My buddy in college camped out and was the first person in line at a Chic-Fil-A grand opening and won a year’s worth of chicken sandwich meals. He got 365 coupons for a number 1 meal. We all ate pretty good for a few months. I was so incredibly poor at the time that it was basically a miracle when he gave me 50 of the coupons.
Not a life’s supply, but my wife won a year’s supply of “healthy” candy that we both really liked. Apparently a year’s supply was 12 boxes of 12 little bags….candy was gone in a month.
My brother won a life time supply of excel gum. It ended up being about 10 boxes just stuffed with gum, about 100 packs per box maybe more.He gave away quite a few and the ones he kept lasted him an entire year.
I won a lifetime supply of starburst when I was 13. Within 4 months I had 8 cavities. My mom must have called every mother in the city, and they were all given away within a week.It arrived as a fridge sized box of stick packs like you see in the gas station. So not quite a lifetime supply as claimed, but thousands of packs.
I got a coupon for Dunkin Donuts that said free donut and coffee that was supposed to be a one time use but I would just ask for the coupon back and the person at the register would give it back confused. Rinse and repeat but never too often and at different locations. Lost the darn thing.
My mother, (this was ages ago) at the grand opening of a supermarket called “Tianguis” in the neighborhood, won a prize in a raffle they did. It was a lifetime supply of legumes of her choice (2lb limit per week). I don’t know how they kept track of the prizes or what but the store chain didn’t last, closed down and the store turned into a Sears years later, and that was the end of that.
Not a competition but a promotion:Got a friend in the UK who bought a new Ford that came with “free service and MOT for life” I.e. as long as the original owner still had the car they got free annual service and MOT on the car. FYI an MOT is certification required to legally drive the car on the road, you don’t have to get one done for the the first three years after the car is originally registered.Anyway, guess they assumed people would trade in the cars after a couple of years before it cost them much to honour the contract.But people didn’t, kept them for years and years, after a while the dealer were offering to buy people off to end the contract early because it was costing them so much money to honour.
Bought a $7 watch In the 80s with a lifetime warranty. Strap broke a week later. I called for a replacement. Weeks or months later I received a package with a COD (cash on delivery) handling charge of $17. I was so excited, I had no idea what it was, I paid it and found a new $7 watch inside 🤦♂️.
Like many others, not a lifetime supply, but my brother won a year’s supply of Panda Pops (small bottles of fizzy pop in the UK) and a LotR action figure of his choice during a Return of the King promotion. I remember the day it all arrived on a pallet to our front door! Took us so long to get through all of it as we didn’t even like every flavour, just forcing it down in the end!
When I was in junior high school I bought a “mouth harp”, although it wasn’t called that at the time, with a lifetime guarantee on it.I’m retired and in my 60s now. I still have the mouth harp, and it’s still in just as good condition as it was the day I bought it. The thing is solid. I have a feeling I’ll never have the chance to get it replaced. Although odds are the company that made it went out of business decades ago.
I know this isn’t exactly the same, but I won a year’s supply of Chik-Fil-A once, and it ended up being 52 coupons for free chicken sandwiches.
I’ve got lifetime supply of bosch 125mm cutting discs. I didn’t win them, just got them for free because someone put wrong writing and symbols on them. They gave me about 1000 discs.
1x per month growler refillsCan only get it during thanksgiving/hunting week cause I have to travel (fly 4 hours) to the breweryStill worth it.
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