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What is your deal-hunting origin story?

19,701 27,793 January 2, 2014 at 03:37 PM in Chat
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In comic book terminology, an origin story is an account or back-story revealing how a character or team gained their superpowers and/or the circumstances under which they became superheroes or supervillains.
What is your origin story? Sure, we may not have superpowers or are superheroes or supervillains, but what many of us do here is pretty super.

Were there events in your childhood that led you to your life of deal-hunting? Did you perhaps come from certain circumstances that changed you into a person who hates retail prices? Or perhaps this is all a new development and you're just doing it for fun, or out of necessity. (Oh, you may also be a person who does deal-hunting on the side and is mainly in these forums for The Lounge.)


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Tofu Vic, Price Slasher

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01-03-2014 at 01:43 PM.
01-03-2014 at 01:43 PM.
Quote from TofuVic :
My mom and I also recycled cans and bottles, although we didn't pick up strangers' and simply recycled the ones our family and relatives used. I have two siblings, and none of us ever got allowances. What my dad did, however, was give us money based on our school report card GPAs. Anything under a 3.0 GPA equated to no money. Anything above a 3.0 earned us money using a solution he made on his own that looks like the following:
3.1 GPA = $1
3.3 GPA = $3
3.54 GPA = $5.40
3.83 GPA = $8.30
4.0 GPA = $10

We were each eligible for up to $20 per year, as there are two semesters in a school year.

Tofu Vic
We didn't have soda bottles in our house, we drank iced tea in the summer, home made, and in the winter it was milk or hot coco. So if one wanted to make $$ you picked up bottles that you found. No $$ for good grades Nono
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01-03-2014 at 01:52 PM.
01-03-2014 at 01:52 PM.
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Join the S&S thread, lots of deals and freebies to be found every week.
I like the deals from S&S you posted in your signature. I have never heard of S&S until you mentioned it yesterday. Thanks for the information.

Tofu Vic
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01-03-2014 at 02:10 PM.
01-03-2014 at 02:10 PM.
What is the s & s thread?
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01-03-2014 at 02:14 PM.
01-03-2014 at 02:14 PM.
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What is the s & s thread?
Sneak & Steal very quickly and quietly
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01-03-2014 at 02:15 PM.
01-03-2014 at 02:15 PM.
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What is the s & s thread?
That is the thread titled, "Stop & Shop (CT, MA, NH, NJ, NY, RI) Deals." It can be found here.

I do not live in a state where there is a Stop & Shop, so the thread isn't directly beneficial to me.

Tofu Vic
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01-03-2014 at 02:19 PM.
01-03-2014 at 02:19 PM.
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I came for Moot, and I stayed for Finzz when that relationship got too clingy. She wanted me to call her "baby" and "sweetheart". Can you imagine? Roll Eyes (Sarcastic)
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Same with meeeeee!!! That's where I first met you too. You had to keep telling Smidge and me to keep the OT down and Whip us more then once. That's when if you remember you told me to take it to the lounge. Wink EVERYONE CAN BLAME FINZZ FOR MY LOUNGE POSTWHORING!
Butbut....Nevermind....Sadwalk Crying
That's right! You guys are were awful LMAO
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01-03-2014 at 02:22 PM.
01-03-2014 at 02:22 PM.
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That's right! You guys are were awful LMAO
So you remember it. nod It's your fault that I'm lost in this dark hole we call the lounge! Mad
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So you remember it. nod It's your fault that I'm lost in this dark hole we call the lounge! Mad
I accept full blame for your frosting!
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01-03-2014 at 02:24 PM.
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So you remember it. nod It's your fault that I'm lost in this dark hole we call the lounge! Mad
Do you still call it the lounge? I thought the dark hole was the name many of you adopted years ago.

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01-03-2014 at 02:27 PM.
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Do you still call it the lounge? I thought the dark hole was the name many of you adopted years ago.

Tofu vic
You do know that you made a mistake coming to this void in space and time Evil
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01-03-2014 at 02:30 PM.
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I accept full blame for your frosting!
My goal this 2014 is to take over the lounge! Evillaugh
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01-03-2014 at 02:31 PM.
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You do know that you made a mistake coming to this void in space and time Evil
Today is the first day in which I have posted more in The Lounge than in the Hot Deals forum. Forget deals, I'm just going to chat. I apologize to those who follow me.

Tofu Vic
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01-03-2014 at 02:39 PM.
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Today is the first day in which I have posted more in The Lounge than in the Hot Deals forum. Forget deals, I'm just going to chat. I apologize to those who follow me.

Tofu Vic
This can be more fun! Woot and Hug2
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01-03-2014 at 02:40 PM.
01-03-2014 at 02:40 PM.
I'm certain at least one person warned you to leave while you still could laugh out loud


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01-03-2014 at 03:07 PM.
01-03-2014 at 03:07 PM.
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Today is the first day in which I have posted more in The Lounge than in the Hot Deals forum. Forget deals, I'm just going to chat. I apologize to those who follow me.

Tofu Vic

Another one converted! High Five
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