These 30 People Got Brutally Candid About Winning A “Lifetime Supply” Contest

My friend won a year supply of gourmet wood fired pizza, one per week for a year. She's a mom with 8 kids (5 bio, 3 step) and so she made it a weekly outing for just herself or sometimes her and a friend to just sit in the restaurant and have free pizza in silence :).

I won a computer in 1985 when I was 8 years old.

I've been programming ever since, so I won a lifetime's supply of being a complete f*****g geek.

Had a customer when I worked at a Toyota dealership who had won a “new Toyota for life” promotion years earlier. They had tried to buy her out several times but she refused and showed up faithfully every 2 years for her new base model Toyota. I did the paperwork for her 2-year $0.00/month lease on a 5-speed Yaris with no AC.

My sister once subscribed to the magazine ‘seventeen’. She canceled after a year... she’s still getting them. We’ve moved out of state twice and different cities countless times. They find her EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It’s been 20 years.

When I bought my car, they threw in the "free oil changes and car washes for life" option for free. Cool. Now, every 3 months, I take the car in, get a free oil change, get it vacuumed and washed and usually they "recommend" certain extra services which I end up doing myself for a fraction of the cost.

It's been a pretty good deal for the past 5 years. Nice clean car, fresh oil and free diagnosis'.

I have a “lifetime” supply to amazon prime...but have no idea why. A couple years ago everyone was telling me to get amazon prime. I finally decided to go ahead and get it, only to find out I already had it. I have never signed up, and no one else has access to my email. Ever since then I’ve been using it and it keeps renewing without me doing anything or paying anything. It’s weird, but I’m not complaining to amazon!

Not me, but a story from a long time friend who was an attorney. A famous Ft Worth oil and gas law attorney defended a startup BBQ restaurant owner from a nuisance lawsuit for no cost because the young entrepreneur had limited funds. (My friend worked for the law firm in question here.) They were able to get the suit dismissed and the young man asked what was the fee? The attorney said he wanted a BBQ dinner delivered every Friday at his office for life. The last I heard this had continued for over 35 years...

My dad bought a lifetime subscription to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1977 at age 30. It's issued weekly. He's still receiving it (and he still practices medicine). I don't know how much it cost him at the time but it's currently priced at $189 / year for physicians. They've asked him several times if he'd be willing to switch to an online subscription but he's refused. He does actually still read a lot of it and tears out articles of interest and sticks them in other textbooks on related issues. My mother wants to choke him because he will often have a dozen or two piled up around the kitchen.

A friend of my dad won a lifetime subscription to a magazine. He was quick to point out that "lifetime" referred to the lifetime of the magazine, not him. He's outlived the publication by a few decades and counting.

My mom won a year supply of free burritos from chipotle. They did a promotion where they hid these large fake burritos around local parks and such and my mom found one while walking in the park. Those who found the burrito were entered into a photo contest, where they had to go around town and take pictures with the burrito on their adventures. My mom won, and she got the burritos. They gave us 52 cards for free burritos. Since we had them as a family, we used multiple cards each visit. It still lasted us about a year though because we didn't visit every week.

Not a lifetime supply, but when I was about twenty I won a whole esky (cooler for you non-Australians) of iced coffee. It was supposed to be a month’s supply and contained 30 litres!

The problem was, being milk and being issued all at once it only had an expiry date about 14 days out so I had to either live on the stuff or waste it.
So me and my friends lived on baileys and iced coffee for a couple of weeks, any time of the day.

It was a rough few weeks.

It's not food or fuel or any of that outrageous stuff but I won a lifetime VPN. Still getting the service after 2 years.

Not a lifetime supply, but my wife won a year's supply of Pringles. She had 3 or 4 cases delivered in one go. The problem was that 75% was Chicken...


EDIT: since people were asking, they were Roast Chicken flavour.

EDIT 2: I am an Aussie and Chicken is a common flavour of chips/Pringles/crisps here. Possible unpopular opinion but they are only sorta ok if you have nothing else, but they are pretty terrible in comparison to Sour Cream and Chives, Salt and Vinegar and normal.

A friend of mine won free haircuts from sportsclips by making a half-court shot at the halftime of a basketball game, underrated prize for sure as haircuts there are $20-$25.

My girlfriend won a lifetime supply of fruit roll ups back when she was young and they delivered them all in one lump sum. She said that she went through the "lifetime supply" in about a month and they never gave her anymore fruit roll ups. Needless to say, her "lifetime supply" of fruit roll ups isn't doing much for her today.

I have a lifetime VIP membership to Zappos which gives me free next day shipping. Normally I get my order in less than 24 hours. They gave it to me because I had to call in after using the app to change the size shoe I ordered because I neglected to change it from the default option.

I’ve had it for about 9 years I think.

Edit: also when I log in on the app a bunch of VIP icons come raining down the screen.

My dad bought a price guaranteed phone contract back when the network was new and very few people had smart phones. He pays £8 per month for unlimited texts, unlimited calls, and 50GB of data.

They have called him relentlessly trying to get him to switch deals.

Edit: so I text my dad and he said it was for unlimited data, but it was 3G. He eventually switched to 4G and got a really good deal still because they had to give him incentive to switch from the amazing one.

Not a lifetime supply but when I was young my family went on a trip to the east coast. Tropicana Twist had some sort of contest going on so my parents bought me and my brother one each. We both won’t free drink. So at our next stop we cashed in on our free drink, and won a free drink. In total me and my brother won 57 free drinks which lasted the whole three week trip.

In 1995 I won a life-time supply of Kentucky fried chicken. Every month I'm able to get a 20 piece bucket two large fries two large salad two large gravy and two 2 l bottles of pop/soda for free. And it's still going.

How about a Christmas present from my to-be-wife of a case of toothpicks.

48 boxes of 250 toothpicks = 12,000 toothpicks

I just checked and there are 6 unopened boxes left. We've been married 27 years so ruffly 4 years left. So not quite a life time.