TheGameHustle

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This guy spent $3,140 on chocolate pudding and got 1.25 MILLION free airline miles His name is David Phillips and in May 1999 he was a 35 year old civil engineer at UC Davis when he spotted a Healthy Choice promotion It was offering 500 frequent flyer miles for every 10 product barcodes mailed in, doubled to 1,000 miles if you mailed them in by May 31 He did the math on the cheapest Healthy Choice product he could find Individual chocolate pudding cups were on sale at his local Grocery Outlet for 25 cents each, meaning $2.50 of pudding could buy him 1,000 airline miles The airlines themselves valued those miles at around $20 He drove a van from store to store across California with his mother in law, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around the Sacramento area and ended up with 12,150 pudding cups stacked from his garage to his living room When suspicious cashiers asked what he was doing he told them he was "stocking up for Y2K" The early bird deadline was 3 weeks away and there was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone, so he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade He would donate all 12,150 cups if their volunteers peeled the labels off first This donation also got him an $815 federal tax write off on top of everything He mailed the barcodes in by the deadline and then heard absolutely nothing back for 2 months His friends told him corporations always get out of promotions like this and his kids even started asking him if he got scammed Then a giant package showed up at his door with paper certificates worth 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles, which made him a lifetime AAdvantage Gold member at American Airlines and was worth around $150,000 in flights The Wall Street Journal put him on the front page in January 2000 and the London Times wrote about him a week later Over the next 5 years he flew his entire family to 43 countries, and in 2002 director Paul Thomas Anderson loosely based the movie Punch Drunk Love on him Adam Sandler made a movie about him and he paid for the ticket with pudding

@RoxyRedbone Fine then, Check dms ;)

@SpoonDroopy That Im bored and still have not received anything

Haven’t received any nudes in a while🙄

@RoxyRedbone What does that mean?

@SpoonDroopy 🥱

@Terra_Fied39 Let's be friends :)

I need my irl friends to step up. Love them to bits but the fact we only see eachother once or twice a year if any breaks my heart.

@enzo_tcg @Bboysephir Good luck everyone:) <3

FUCK IT WE BALL, GOT ANOTHER ONE GIVEAWAY BATTLE HOUR : PREMIUM CARD COLLECTION Like + Repost + Follow I will try to do a giveaway once every 2 weeks, giving back, thanks for the support my fellow Dragooners!

@shezreading Orange

like this if we can be friends 🖤 Comment your fave color and I’ll follow you! 18+ ✨

I have now been banned from the Pokémon Professors Discord. They deleted all of my messages regarding the incident. Will update everyone when I get my disciplinary email from Play!Pokemon. @Firestar73_ you deserved to win. They can’t silence me on that.

Since I’m already going to get in trouble for sharing this, here is the statement that was made after the Orlando regionals regarding judges discussing what happened:

@Terra_Fied39 I bet it looks wonderful. May I see?

My hair in real life is starting to fad to orange.... i really dont like it! :( but got no spare money to get my hair done.....

@Terra_Fied39 You are a gorgeous baddie what do you mean?

Self confidemce is not my thing :(

@kidjoeyt1 Good luck everyone and thank you for the opportunity:) <3

Got extra one for the people that couldn’t make it 2 battle hour be giving it away 2 one of my follower that repost this

@Terra_Fied39 Catch goth baddies with me and talk to me about turtles?

I hope this coughing stops before stream time:3

@DotsCardShop Good luck everyone, Thank you for doing this :) <3

First Partner SEALED CASE GIVEAWAY!🚨 In order to enter you must: Follow - @DotsCardShop & Comment your best GIF, MUST have a caption! Good luck!

@Nagisacchiii No, Just.... nvm lol

@SpoonDroopy Not a pikachu fan? o:

If I was a pokemon, would you keep me in your party? :3