A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month

also wtf germany

http://www.hitschler.de/sites/default/files/796-hitschies-kaubonbon-165g.png

They will conquer your taste buds, then march down your throat and occupy your stomach!

http://i.imgur.com/RKuB4MZ.png

i carve my own frontier straws thank you very much.

outdoor knots!

3 10-CL test tubes of wine for $35/month, plus shipping.

― mutually aquatinted (doo dah), Friday, February 5, 2016 9:54 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is basically the cost of actually going to the bar of a nice restaurant and ordering some good wines by the glass, minus the atmosphere, service and remote chance of getting laid.

I was looking up natural/organic/biodynamic wines and found this sub box - https://dryfarmwines.com/
$157/mo for six bottles of red wine that I'm willing to bet retail for $12-15

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, February 6, 2016 1:58 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If the wines in their instagram feed are representative, my googling suggests you are correct!

So tell me more about bocandy

man, german candy really sucks

it was fun just prohibitively expensive (says the fuckhead paying $60 a week for homechef) and i think i signed up during a bit of a sugar high

it's not all candy, he usually throws in a savory snack or a packaged pastry-type thing (not as big as a hostess). it's actually a pretty diverse selection and not all just kit kats from japan (though japan, western europe and scandinavia still dominate the boxes). lots of uh 'eclectic flavors, i still have a couple boxes worth of stuff lying around because they look kinda gross and i'm squeamish but i'll get to them someday. he includes a printout with a paragraph about every item in every box. a random one i just picked up lists:

Daim double (sweden), a toffee bar
Balkan Kakao Cake Bar (Bulgaria) which is this, and apparently it only exists on the internet in reviews of this particular bocandy box
Cheesecake Kit Kat (Japan) lol whoops
Cactus Lakerol ("make in Slovakia but imported from Sweden"), cactus licorice
Orion Mini Cola (Japan) he did this one several times because they're delicious, little coke-flavored sugar candy pellets
TOMY El Clasico (Mexico) annoying little caramels
and he filled the rest with little leftovers from other months

it's always a pretty packed box. also i had trouble cancelling my subscription because the website wouldn't recognize my account but he (blake) took care of it ASAP and was very nice in email.

i was just looking at that site! man it seems weird that someone is making a living opening up bags of milkita and parcelling them out at four per subsciber

xp to myself speaking of being a fuckhead i'm going to do this: if you're interested in trying homechef you can use my referral link https://www.homechef.com/invite/zMmNxsX5M6aE and get half off the first week! you can also find coupon codes for half off the first week everywhere, but if you want to be awesome to me you can use that link too. tho imo the menus for the weeks of the 22nd and 29th look preferable to next week's.

we're liking it so far, some very good food and easy cooking. only problem is each recipe instructing us to rinse the fish and chicken. delegitimizes the whole thing a bit.

xp to thomp uh sure i guess but i don't really feel like buying a bag of milkita just to try it out, and he gets plenty of candies that take more effort than an amazon order. it's a good assortment and a very good amount of product for cheaper than most everything itt. doesn't really belong next to the big box o' knives and frontier straws

no i mean sure, good on him

there are so many millions of cheap weird are-you-wholesale-or-are-you-retail candy stores around here that it's kinda surplus but if those things are less available or more marked up then, well, sure

otoh i think the frontier straw may be a legit product, though admittedly not one i need shipped as a surprise. i suspect if ever i need a frontier straw it's going to be on a trip involving some quite protracted planning.

It's weird how so many of these businesses (all of them?) have a business plan that consists of "we can definitely charge a gigantic markup and make tons of profit merely by putting different stuff together in a fancy box'" -- as though the gift basket industry metastasized. It's like people think that just because now there is this thing called the internet and new businesses are called "startups" that old bad business ideas with limited appeal suddenly have limitless potential. I'm sure no one will notice that they are paying 200% of retail for some snacks because we "curated" them.

I can't imagine any of these companies lasting very long.

i would hope most people understand that they're paying mainly for a service

most of these boxes are fucking stupid and drain disposable income for ridiculous combinations of luxuries people have no use for, but it's pretty reasonable for a cheap box of little shit you generally intend to use. i'd gladly pay a 200% markup for candy worth $7.50 if someone else were to find them, organize them and ship them out to me with paragraphs explaining each one. or i wouldn't, because i cancelled, but it was still a better alternative than doing all that myself. and paying much more anyway because it's not like i have access to small amounts of bulgarian food products. you have to be sort of intransigent to treat all of these services like they're just fleecing people.

and i like surprises, sue me

qualx otm

You may have sold me on this

https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E05/793291.jpg

otm

man, german candy really sucks

― carly rae jetson (thomp), Thursday, February 11, 2016 4:44 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wronger words were never posted.

Feelin' smug that I out-Trayced Trayce.

A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month

pplains rn

http://britfa.gs/b/src/144283371594.png

Dammit I dont know how I missed that.

https://twitter.com/michaeljhudson/status/713494984402604034

http://spongeclub.com/

lol

http://spongeclub.com/faqs/

You can write a message which can be particularly useful if it’s a gift or for a client/tenant (ex. from your loving mother, from your neighborhood realtor 555-555-5555) however we will screen messages for profanity or inappropriate language because cursing in your message is bullshit.

Even sponges get cute nowadays.

Jeez.

I saw an offer for a company that would ship you home air filters - no shipping cost and the price was actually less than what they sell 'em for at Home Depot.

Hell, that's not so bad, I thought. I went through the process, adding in how many I would need, what weird sizes they are, etc.

Got to the end and they were all "Great! Just hit confirm and we'll start sending you filters every two months!" and I was all ok, so there's the catch, slow down cowboys.

https://mysteryexperiences.cratejoy.com/

literally "A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month"

"How do I pay?!!! No really, where can I get one?!! Take my money!" - Jane C. from Massachusetts.

crtl+f "mystery" replace with "disappointment" - solved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61xwsu7QyOQ

lol, this is the one I desperately wanted as a kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkqgH9ji0oY

ah shit, now i wanna go find those on ebay

https://mysteryexperiences.cratejoy.com/

― gr8080, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 1:09 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/DgQAV6U.jpg

i had safari cards!!! those were great

not sure what pplains has there, but it reminds me of a "hot dog cooker" that was in my grandparents basement when I was a kid that was apparently a school project my dad made as a youth

it was a board with two metal pieces sticking up (it looked like two segments of a metal clotheshanger) and an electrical cord that looked like it was stolen from a lamp. each of the wires connected to one of the metal pieces. don't even think it had a switch, you just put the hot dog on the clotheshanger and plug it into the wall to electrocute your hot dog

there must have been a much lower creativity/safety threshold in the 1960s

This is like the second reference to a household hot dog cooker I've heard you make in the past 24 hours.

The pic's a model of one of the Unabomer bombs. Could cook a whole pack of hot dogs at once.

can't speak for mh but if my dad was the unabomber this is NOT the way i would've wanted to find out

xp true, but my reaction to convenience store rollers is "this is an excellent idea"

I'm thinking the direct electrocution method might not work on taquitos and I'm not going to try

guys, safari cards tho
http://www.atlaspicturecards.com/safari_cards.html

http://i1.wp.com/www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/safari-cards.jpg

there's gotta be a torrent of those things scanned in somewhere right?

Not exactly a monthly subscription but...MAN CRATES.

did anyone actually get safari cards? I thought they were a mythical thing that were advertised (and I think I had some free sample ones they sent in a promo) but I never heard of anyone having a full set

there might have been a really beat up set of them in one of my elementary school classrooms

i never had a full set but they gave away packs of ten at my local grocery store and rotated it every week for a year or so. I got about sixty of em?
I used to make my own, lol.