65 Lifetime Supply Stories, As Shared By Winners Of These Contests In This Online Thread

"My great-grandfather was a farmer, and won a contest for plowing the straightest row in the county fair. This was about 1910 in Saskatchewan, Canada. He won a lifetime supply of seed. Each weekend he would go pick up about 20+ bags of seed and, with his horse and buggy, take them to the train station where new families were exiting the train. In 1910, Saskatchewan was giving away land to new immigrants, and for years and years he would give each family bags of seed to start their new farm."

"My father was in the Army, and was stationed in Germany during Vietnam as a helicopter repairman, eventually making crew chief. During his time there, the town's local Volkswagen dealership held a stunt driving contest where the winner received lifetime maintenance on their car. My father won, and when he explained to the company that he would be leaving Germany after the war ended so it wouldn't have to be forever, they politely replied that a deal was a deal, and that they would ensure that as long as he drove a Volkswagen, he would receive on-the-house maintenance for it. He's never driven a different make, and the local Volkswagen dealership in Kansas City knows him by name and treats him like a VIP."

"I won $4,000 a week from the "Michigan" lottery. So kinda like a lifetime supply of money. I just get a check once a month."

"My cousin won a lifetime supply of meat from the local butcher. He gets up to 5kg a month and he chooses the meat. I thought he would be getting bad quality stuff but the butcher keeps providing. It’s been 5 years now and my cousin got venison, beef, pork and wild boar."

"About 4 years ago I won a cinema premier card, which entitled me to two free movies a week for the duration of a year. The cinema chain dragged their feet when it came to delivering the prize but I persisted and eventually received the card a few months later. Turns out the card has lasted for longer than a year, still currently in use and set to expire in 2116."

"Won a year’s supply of "Chick-Fil-A" for being their first customer of the year (early work on January 2nd). Delivered in the form of 52 meal cards. Ended up giving most of them out to friends or homeless guys around the block."

"I won a lifetime supply of coffee beans in a contest. Each month they mail 4 lbs. of excellent quality coffee beans of my choice. Sometimes I give them away as gifts as I can't use them all."

"I won a lifetime supply of hot dogs at a hot dog festival once. It came with a nice grill, except when I went to pick up my hot dogs, the company gave them to me all at once. I was 30 at the time, and their figures all worked off an 80 yr lifespan. 3 Hot dogs a day for 50 years works out to be 54,750 hot dogs. That's 5,475 packs of 10. 228 cases of 24 packs, 23 boxes with 10 cases each. I had to buy an extra freezer just to hold them. I gave away what I could not store. Churches, homeless shelters, food banks. We ate them for years."

"I am not sure if this counts. But a family friend did the original art for "Ben and Jerry's" ice cream. At the time they didn't have money to pay her so they said if the business was successful she could have free "Ben and Jerry's" for life. She can walk into any "Ben and Jerry's" show them her card and walk out with as much ice cream as she wants. We also invite her to parties. But we also always joke she should have just asked for stock options."

"Not a lifetime supply but when I was 12 I won a free year of video game rentals from "Blockbuster". The only catch was I could only have 1 game out at a time. Infinite number of rentals for a whole year. As a 12 year old this was a dream come true. Shout out to my older brother who couldn't care less about video games but would chauffeur me to blockbuster multiple times a week to get a new game. Man that was a good year."

"Back in the 60's, my grandmother (who was rich then) had purchased a health insurance policy with no deductible or co-pay for $116/mo. The premium was lifetime, and would never go up. And it was absolutely carte blanche. Pay for nothing, ever. Over the years, that insurance company would be bought and sold, and there was always some scam they would try to get her to 'upgrade' or change policies. Some would even try to bully her. She had a lawyer (whom she outlived) that said, no matter what, don't do anything. Any company that buys them out has to honor your policy. It is lifetime. Just don't miss a payment. She outlived a number of insurance companies (and her money). She lived until age 90, and had excellent health insurance until the day she died of old age. She said her friends said she was crazy all those years ago when she bought it. Her husband had just died, and left her a couple of warehouses in the Minneapolis area. She said she didn't want to worry about health insurance so she bought it. She told me this story about ten years before she died when she asked me for help with fixing the transmission of her 1983 Cadillac. She was about broke then, but kept up appearances as much as a healthy 80 year old can. I do remember when I was young, that she always had great parties at her lake home. She said she blew her money the right way, and in good fun, just didn't expect to live so long (no kidding). Health insurance worked a bit too well, I guess."

"The free coke products were a little weirder--basically when I was attending university I noticed that the "Coca-Cola" I bought near the school just sucked. Like it didn't taste like "Coca-Cola" at all, more like an "RC" mixed with "Pepsi". I commented on this to all my friends and they had no clue what I was talking about but I could blind test cokes from home versus "university cokes" and get it right every time. Eventually I sent an e-mail to "Coca-Cola" basically just asking why the cokes in cookeville sucked so much and if could they fix it. They (quite surprisingly) took it really seriously and asked for numbers off of the affected cans tracked it down to the bottler (canner?) and had it fixed within 6 weeks. Sent me a stack of just hundreds of silver "free 12 pack of any coke product" coupons and thanked me for my time. Worked out great. Still had over a hundred of them left at the end of the year."

"One time "Chipotle" ran a deal where if you bought a $30 gift card you got a free burrito. They did it for a few months, and throughout that period my brother and I bought a $30 gift card with our previous $30 gift card every day(sometimes 2 or 3 times a day) and ate free "Chipotle" for like 4 months straight."

"When I was a kid, Crayola was running a create a new color contest. If you won, your color went in one of their big boxes of crayons and you got a lifetime supply of crayons when they retire colors and make new ones. I made Swamp Green and won. They send me a new big box of crayons 1-2 times a year and have been doing it for 20+ years."

"My grandparents bought my dad a lifetime subscription to national geographic as a kid. We have mountains of those yellow pages. When he had no fixed address they would save all the issues and then ship out the bundle when they found him again."

"My aunt won a lifetime deal with a portrait studio. The same studio locally that does everyone's yearbook photos etc. So every year we would get these beautifully shot family pictures from her. I think her prize was for one studio time and processing every year? These days, with her kids all grown up and moved out she's been struggling for subject matter. So.... we've got a few glamor shots of her cats. It's been... entertaining. I think she won it in 1985 or so? They still respect the prize they gave, which is pretty impressive."

"My mother used to do sweepstakes. She also used my name and address for them too. Well, I won a year's supply of "Purina" dog food. They sent 52 coupons for up to 25lb bags. My dog at the time, Doobie, was a squat 35 lb beagle/yellow lab mix and he was just fine with the small bags per week. So, we donated the vast majority of them to a local animal shelter."

"Not a lifetime supply, but I once won a year of free "Grubhub". It wasn't a full calendar year, but it was ~$1k in free food, and their system kept track of how much was left each time I ordered. Pretty sweet deal, especially since I was in college at that time."

"I won a lifetime hunting and fishing license from "Texas Parks" and "Wildlife". I never have to pay that $65+ a year again. I am pretty excited about that."

"American Airlines used to let people buy a lifetime unlimited first class pass for $250K + $150K for a companion (1980s money). The most prolific users booked over 10,000 flights, (using only about a quarter of flights booked) and flew over a million miles a year. Three purchasers had their passes revoked for alleged cheating (selling flights) but 25 users still have their passes, including Mark Cuban, who calls it "one of the best purchases I've ever made."