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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
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FlyingToilet
United States840 Posts
But eventually i was making too much bank studying and they kinda had to lower it more and by the time i got into sophomore year they just stopped because i made something like 1k and i kinda felt bad. But overall it was nice i got an xbox and a bunch of video games and i also was like addicted to weed at the time lol. But it kinda motivated me to do better so it was a win win for me! | ||
micronesia
United States24678 Posts
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Zaranth
United States345 Posts
I see what you did there. I get some pretty good deals on clothes. One time I got a pair of Lucky jeans (retail between $100-$150) for $20. They used to sell these jeans for a discount at a store called the Buckle. Then they had a sale on their sale items. That was a good day. | ||
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eSgTheBear
United States47 Posts
This deal was only being offered in a four day time frame and to PLNDR members only. It was a collaboration deal with both stores. The deal was you pay $80.00 and in return you receive a box every month. The contents of the box would be random but guaranteed clothing of some sort, buttons, magazine, and some sort of jewelry. It was like christmas every month that year! I got fresh ass tee's, pimp ass men's wrist jewelry, dope magazines, sick ass stickers and buttons, and sometimes albums from talented artists. By far the best deal I've ever gotten! Looking forward to next weeks read as it always brings a smile to my face. Cool new banner too  [5]/[5] | ||
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Jimmy Raynor
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fritfrat
United States50 Posts
For something paid, I'd say a laptop from dell, believe it or not- ordered it, arrived DOA. Put in request for replacement, said "shipped," but then they said they actually didn't ship it and were out of stock. A few convincing emails later, they shipped off a laptop worth 40-50% more for the price I paid for the original. Great blog.. I feel like I'm going to be thinking about whether my salt shakers are pointed toward Mecca every time I eat now. | ||
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hyptonic
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LeafMeAlone
United States301 Posts
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Ingenol
United States1328 Posts
As usual I loaded up my cart with a few packages of delicious, delicious cow, added some other sundries, paid for it and went to wait for the bus home (obviously no room in the budget for a car when you eat at WF). It was only then that I discovered an anomaly: one of my packages of ground beef was only $0.36. That's right: only thirty-six cents for an entire pound of meat! If I were to sell my flesh for the same rate I wouldn't even be worth $50! Apparently something had gone awry with the weighing/labelling process and the sticker on this particular package said it weighed less than an ounce! I felt a little badly at first but I decided since it was the store's own error I would enjoy the sweet taste of delicious deal. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
Nice blog banner update btdubs! As always, really entertaining blog all the way through. One thing I'd really appreciate is a line spacing between each paragraph. It's clear enough as it is but it might be a bit easier on the eyes. If you just feel better doing it that way, it's completely fine of course. I don't necessarily agree 100% with some of the observations and/or analyses you come up with, but your point of view is always well-put and very interesting ^^ Edit: alright, would be fun just to share a story anyway and join the fun~ About two months ago I was planning on a trip to China but planned really late and, as someone unable to bend the laws of time, was thus forced to purchase my ticket from SFO to Beijing Capital International Airport really late as well. Now unfortunately I have yet to Ding! So that's how I ended up in a ten-thousand-dollar, first-class seat for no money out of my pocket. Oh, and did I mention it's a Boeing 747, I believe, Inception-style under the cockpit?! Heck yeah. Maybe I'll meet someone famous | ||
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a9arnn
United States1537 Posts
Everything that was happening on the screen, I wanted to start doing it all too. I was only like 16, but I was determined to find what I hungered for. What I was thinking about day and night as a Junior in high school. I went all over searching for this beauty, and one day, I found it. + Show Spoiler + The StarCraft Battle Chest. $20. Best. Deal. Ever. Here's the first video iirc: + Show Spoiler + | ||
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fatfail
United States386 Posts
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thegeek574
United States29 Posts
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Good1
Russian Federation138 Posts
As far as the topic of the question goes, pretty mych everything i buy from online stores in US and Europe here is a GREAT deal. I buy stuff with my card, get it delivered to my doorstep and chances are it will still be 30-40% cheaper than if you buy it at the store or local online shops. Imagine that!!! Example: Timberland boots here cost up to 450$. Any mechanical keyboad (if you can find it) will cost you at least 200$. | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25551 Posts
The best deal I ever got was purchasing a mini-fridge after moving out of the house. For those of you who live in an actual house, either with your parents or on your own, you probably use a full fridge. Your typical refrigerator is about as high as a man is tall, a half-stride deep, and a stride wide. It often has a freezer compartment, and if it's particularly fancy, a water filter and ice maker. This sort of machine can easily service a group of 6 or 7 people with some room to spare. It can also cost a fortune. If you go upscale, a new 18 cu ft (500 L) fridge can cost nearly a grand. Even a low-end one will still cost a lot, but if you buy used, bargain, and take your time, you may be able to pick something up for a little under $250. It won't be new, clean, or even fully functional, but it'll be something. If you're like me, though, you don't exactly have a couple benjamins just lying around, especially if you're just moving out. A mini fridge, though, has all the benfits of a regular fridge-- you can store your I started, of course, by checking prices online. I found some as of them going for as low as $150 new, and considered (briefly) buying a new unit. I figured I could find a decently new one for cheap online, though, so I started browsing craiglist and shopping around. Your typical used minifridge seller is a lot like me. A young person who's moving, and can't be bothered to lug around a big heavy piece of equipment. Maybe the new apartment has a fridge. Maybe he's moving back in with his parents. Maybe he finally tired of having to crouch every time he wants a beer. Generally, though, the fridge is priced to sell-- and sell fast. I finally found a listing at a price I liked. A used Haier, the description told me, but sturdy. Only used to store drinks, clean, runs well. No freezer unit, but at a fairly spacious 4.7 cubic feet (133 L) and a generously low price of $20 USD, the appliance was a winner. I brought it home and it instantly became part of the household. It ran like crap, the compressor letting out horrible gasping noises, and one of the machine's 4 legs was ever-so-slightly shorter than the other 3, leading it to tilt precariously, threatening from time to time to send the empty bottles atop it tumbling to the floor. The black paint was scratched in several places in slow, long arcs from being hastily dragged into and out of the bed of a faded-red pickup truck, and where the paint wasn't scratched it was faded. In almost every aesthetic sense, this fridge was a piece of junk. It was mine, though. | ||
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Spicy_Curry
United States10573 Posts
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HansK
249 Posts
Later I then noticed that most items won in the normal auctions were taking about 100-200 tokens per person to win. So I changed my strategy to have the best chance at winning with my little amount of tokens into playing their game style auctions where you can use special cards that have different ability's like blanking out the auction timer, etc. They also had cards to counter your cards and cards of their own, so it was sort of a little battle. I ended up winning a laptop worth about $380 in about thee hours of work using their original free ten tokens, if you ask me that is a pretty good deal.. a free $380 laptop for just being slightly clever. | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 09 2012 22:45 Zaranth wrote: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of nothing, must be in want of a 50% off coupon for socks at the local sporting goods store." I see what you did there. I get some pretty good deals on clothes. One time I got a pair of Lucky jeans (retail between $100-$150) for $20. They used to sell these jeans for a discount at a store called the Buckle. Then they had a sale on their sale items. That was a good day. :D at least someone got it... | ||
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Zvenn3n
Sweden1196 Posts
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Zoraque
Canada120 Posts
on a side note, lovely pictures once again! | ||
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Saronix
Canada73 Posts
I savoured that poop and took my time. There's an indescribable feeling of bliss when your bowels evacuate from a state of red alert. | ||
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Th1rdEye
United States1074 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + BLACKJACK BITCHES!!! | ||
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Nibbler89
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Gogleion
United States534 Posts
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Sphen5117
United States413 Posts
To start, I had the taco (I was about 17), a younger friend wanted the taco (about 15), and an older friend (about 23, and mountain bike champion Cameron Chambers nonetheless) was wearing an amazing short-sleeve plaid shirt, but not just any plaid; this used the colors of green, yellow, a lot of bright pink, some red, and a dose purple. This shirt was infamous in our group of friends, and much revered. We were relaxing after an intense session of playing hacky-sack and watching a surfing documentary while drinking yerba mate tea and I had picked up a couple tacos at Taco Bell. The youngest kid was pretty hungry, and I had no problems sharing my food, but he right away mentioned "I wish I had a dollar to pay you for one of those", and before I could say that he could just have one, Cameron let the sack hit the ground (right away an oddity, as he's crazy good at hacky-sack), and said "Wait! I got this!", walked over to us, took off his shirt, and handed it to me while giving me a wink. I smiled, took off my shirt, put The Majestic One on, and gave the kid the taco. We resumed hacky-sack and tea-drinking, and I felt incredible, having just inherited The Shirt by way of tacos. I hung on to the shirt another two years until I traded it to my younger brother in exchange for a two-pound burrito at 5:00 a.m. on the way back into town after a camping trip. (By camping I mean we went to a dried up riverbed five miles outside of town and played hacky-sack around a campfire while eating expired convenience store food provided by a friend who worked at one) | ||
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
On July 10 2012 05:00 Gogleion wrote: The best deal I've ever gotten is that next week I get a $100 Best Buy gift card because I made a witty reply to a TL blog Hey cool would you mind directing me to this reply you speak of? | ||
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InfectedGoat
Canada444 Posts
It all started at school when I heard a friend of a friend talk about how he got a CS:GO key but he plant on using it. Being a counter-strike source avid gamer, I went straight to the guy and asked him what he wanted in exchange for his key. He said 60$ or Dota 2 beta + 10$. Problem is I don't have a dota 2 key. So I looked around on the forums for a key and asked friends and stuff. Then I see this guy on twitch.tv, NxVig or something, announcing that he's gonna do a giveaway of a dota key if he gets to 300 viewers. Then I think to myself, that's bullshit he just wants more viewers. Yet, I still watch and it was very boring watching him play LoL but he eventually gets to 300 and says hes gonna send the key to someone who added him in his friend list. I GOT IT!!! I was so freaking happy and couldn't believe it. So 2 days later I go to Max, the guy who owns cs:go and we do the trade later the night I got a CS:GO key for 10$ when they go for 50-70$!!! | ||
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Gogleion
United States534 Posts
On July 10 2012 05:49 sc4k wrote: Hey cool would you mind directing me to this reply you speak of? Yup, here you go http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=351505¤tpage=2#25 | ||
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Firepaw292
Canada126 Posts
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puppykiller
United States3126 Posts
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 10 2012 07:22 puppykiller wrote: whats the deadline? I usually post these 5-6 days apart...so I guess 4 days from this morning at 5:30 am pst. | ||
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Carson
Canada820 Posts
Incredibly, someone who worked there had put a brand new copy with the bargain bin games (It was beside games like Leisure Suit Larry+ Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news2/Original-Creator-Announces-Kickstarter-Powered-Leisure-Suit-Larry-Remake-2.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c0/Sq4_boxart.jpg/250px-Sq4_boxart.jpg) With no question, the clerk ran it up as only $5.99!! The day it came out! I saved almost 90% because of that blunder. It wasn't the most money I've ever saved, but it was awesome since I had worked hard shoveling driveways all winter (as a kid in Canada) and only had $65 to buy it with. As an aside, great blog. I always laugh. | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 10 2012 07:18 Firepaw292 wrote: best deal ive ever gotten was SC2 for $59.99 wow, that's a good one. =D | ||
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starcraftmastersix
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 10 2012 10:33 starcraftmastersix wrote: The best deal I've ever gotten was when TOMS sent me a 50 dollar gift card toward sunglasses. I tried to graciously give it to my sisters boyfriend expecting nothing but friendship in return but he must have accidentally dropped back in my backpack when i wasn't looking. Hmph. Sounds like a dick. You should tell your sister to dump his ass. | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 10 2012 04:47 Th1rdEye wrote: My best deal was when I got an Ace of Spades then a Ten of Hearts. + Show Spoiler + BLACKJACK BITCHES!!! LOL | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 09 2012 21:53 FlyingToilet wrote: Why is this not on featured? a light of joy comes to my eyes when i see a blog made by king charlie, and to answer your question,i used to get lots of money from my grandparents because i would get paid money for my grades i got like 30 for each A and 25 for a B etc. But eventually i was making too much bank studying and they kinda had to lower it more and by the time i got into sophomore year they just stopped because i made something like 1k and i kinda felt bad. But overall it was nice i got an xbox and a bunch of video games and i also was like addicted to weed at the time lol. But it kinda motivated me to do better so it was a win win for me! Thank you brother. A light of joy comes into my eyes when I see you comment. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
Heyhey I think most of us got it but didn't feel like mentioning it, since it's overall very well tied-in with the general hilarity of the OP~ Golgeion, you were ninja'd by leafmealone on the first page  | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 10 2012 04:57 Nibbler89 wrote: I got a beckon sail with socket pre IAS nerf for 45k gold when lowest for worse stats at the time was 1.8 mil. Hopefully your GF chooses this one caus it's short even if it makes no sense to her because it's less time spent blindfolded listening to charlie's story time. Damn...think of the relative percentage savings...that's a lot. | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25551 Posts
On July 10 2012 21:20 KING CHARLIE :D wrote: Damn...think of the relative percentage savings...that's a lot. It's the equivalent of getting a $1,800 alienware laptop for 45 bucks >.> that's a huge percentage indeed. | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 11 2012 00:43 Blazinghand wrote: It's the equivalent of getting a $1,800 alienware laptop for 45 bucks >.> that's a huge percentage indeed. Are you a writer by profession? | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25551 Posts
I write in my free time but never made it my career. Why? | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 11 2012 07:10 Blazinghand wrote: I write in my free time but never made it my career. Why? You write very nicely. Good pacing! | ||
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Blazinghand
United States25551 Posts
Thanks! I take a lot of my pacing from books, short stories, or essays I've read. I like the way you typically format and pace your blog posts. They're quite excellent as well. Are you a writer? | ||
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calgar
United States1277 Posts
On July 11 2012 07:30 Blazinghand wrote: Get a room you two! Thanks! I take a lot of my pacing from books, short stories, or essays I've read. I like the way you typically format and pace your blog posts. They're quite excellent as well. Are you a writer?  I don't really have any awesome deals that I can remember but good luck to you guys. Nice read too. | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 11 2012 07:30 Blazinghand wrote: Thanks! I take a lot of my pacing from books, short stories, or essays I've read. I like the way you typically format and pace your blog posts. They're quite excellent as well. Are you a writer? Not for money yet. I am talking to several blogging networks that are interested in picking up my blog, so that is a promising direction it seems. When that happens is just a matter of securing the best offer available. Thank you for always supporting me. If there is anything I can do for you, please let me know. | ||
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Sky101
United States1758 Posts
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Vod.kaholic
United States1052 Posts
As for a more normal deal, I ordered my keyboard for like 2/3rds of the regular price via some Amazon seller. | ||
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Sherlock-Canada
Canada269 Posts
The bed is ruined, because it's this off-white thing. She is so sorry, etc. Literally the SAME day, I get a call from a raffle I had entered into months ago, 30 dollar raffle ticket for breast cancer, and I ended up winning a 1000$ shopping spree at Sleep Country. The same day! I guess this doesn't totally count as a deal but it was such an amazing coincidence. The kicker: the girl had convinced me to enter into the raffle in the first place! ^.^ | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 11 2012 19:29 Sherlock-Canada wrote: I used to live next door to a cute girl. She went and got really drunk and, her being lonely and me being friendly, she came and slept in my bed. She was so exceptionally drunk that she ended up peeing just all over the bed, and on me, while remaining asleep. (I was sadly awake.) The bed is ruined, because it's this off-white thing. She is so sorry, etc. Literally the SAME day, I get a call from a raffle I had entered into months ago, 30 dollar raffle ticket for breast cancer, and I ended up winning a 1000$ shopping spree at Sleep Country. The same day! I guess this doesn't totally count as a deal but it was such an amazing coincidence. The kicker: the girl had convinced me to enter into the raffle in the first place! ^.^ She sounds like a real soothsayer this one. How on earth did she convince you to join a raffle? That is a crazy coincidence. My dad would pull this move on a tri-annual basis, but he always told me that he dreamed he was sitting on the toilet. Wait a second, why does he sit down when he pisses in his dreams? | ||
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VirgilSC2
United States6151 Posts
When I was a teenager (around 14 if I remember correctly) I had been gifted an iPod Mini by my mother, as I am a very musically inclined person. Shortly after, as the old iPods had quite a few problems, it began to self destruct and eventually stopped working. The iPod though, was under warranty, so I sent it to Apple in hopes of getting it fixed. About two months later I get my iPod back in the mail. It's clearly the same iPod since it has this long scratch in the back from when I left it in my pocket with a boxcutter. I get it out of the box and plug it in, excited that it's been fixed. The catch was....they didn't fix anything. It came back to me, still broken. I called Apple, explained it to them, and they had me send it back to them in order to be fixed. My iPod returned only 3 weeks later and I was quite surprised. I open the box, plug it in, and it still doesn't work. I call Apple AGAIN, and at this point they told me to hang on to my iPod and they would just send me a replacement with an upgrade to the newest iPod. They called me again the next day giving me the tracking number for the package containing my brand new iPod. Being 14 I naturally didn't give a shit about the tracking number, but I wrote it down anyway and left it next to my computer. After a week of coming home from school hoping to see my new iPod waiting on the front porch like packages delivered to the house usually are, it was Spring Break and we went on a family vacation. Thinking nothing of it, we left town for our trip. Upon returning from our trip, as we were gone for the better part of 8 days, I had expected the iPod to be at my house when we returned. It wasn't. So, I went upstairs, dug through the piles of paper all over my desk looking for that silly tracking number thingy. I went online and tracked the package, which it said "Delivered" and had the date next to it. It had been put down that Apple requested a signature for the package when it arrived, but nobody signed for it on delivery. I called Apple AGAIN, and explained the situation to them. They called DHL and inquired into it, and shortly after they called me back and said that they were going to send ANOTHER iPod. I waited about a week, and one Wednesday afternoon while I was down in the basement playing Halo and yelling obscenities into the microphone at my teammates over XboxLIVE, I heard the doorbell. I put the controller down and answered the door for the DHL Driver. I signed for the package and was handed my brand new iPod! Fast forward about a month later, and I'm in our back yard doing some yardwork around the pool. As I clear some debris from around the retaining wall where wind tends to push stuff around the pool deck, I see a bright yellow stickynote. Being the curious person I am, I pick it up to see if there's anything written on it. Written in black sharpie, in hastily scrawled letters it reads "Neighbors said you are out of town, hid your package in the grill on the back porch - DHL" Sure enough, I open the hood of the grill and there inside is the package containing my OTHER new iPod. I still use that iPod today, 5 years later. | ||
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Sherlock-Canada
Canada269 Posts
On July 11 2012 21:51 KING CHARLIE :D wrote: She sounds like a real soothsayer this one. How on earth did she convince you to join a raffle? That is a crazy coincidence. My dad would pull this move on a tri-annual basis, but he always told me that he dreamed he was sitting on the toilet. Wait a second, why does he sit down when he pisses in his dreams? She exploited my love of gambling! | ||
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lastprobeALIVE
United States973 Posts
funny thing is my dad was trying to pressure me into buying a $1500 car saying i would never find a better deal than that, proved that asshole wrong :-D edit: 2000 ford contour with 145k miles blue book value $2100 | ||
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KING CHARLIE :D
United States447 Posts
On July 12 2012 07:49 lastprobeALIVE wrote: best deal ive ever gotten was i was in dire need of a car. my girl just had our first child and i drove a ford ranger truck, and her car had just died. the secretary at my work was going to junk her ford contour because of timing belt issues. I bought it off of her for $100, put a new timing belt in it and when i started it up it had a full tank of gas. that was a year ago and still using the car today! funny thing is my dad was trying to pressure me into buying a $1500 car saying i would never find a better deal than that, proved that asshole wrong :-D edit: 2000 ford contour with 145k miles blue book value $2100 too rich for my blood. I guess this is how the other half lives =D...nice one man! | ||
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