Does anyone else keep track of purchases besides me?
18Just a simple question & one I’m afraid not many people really want the answer to, but I took some time & went through all my orders I’ve placed over the years and put them on a spreadsheet. Just for fun I added in all the ancillary websites & came up with a total of $2534.85
That’s a pretty big chunk of change, though I’m positive some people have 2,3,4, or even 5 times the purchases I have. If you’re curious, I have attached a picture of my spreadsheet below. Then, letting my mind wander (as it often does…HEY YOU! GET BACK HERE!!) I realized I still have never received an IRK in all this time, so I thought I’d send out a plea to the powers that be to see if the mighty Meh could clean out some corner of their massive expanse of a warehouse & come up with something…literally anything…that could put this specter of morbid curiosity to bed, once and for all. (Don’t worry…if not, I still love y’all!)
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I don’t want to know.
The fact that you bought not one, but THREE, Pasta Drops says you have a problem.
@Lister maybe they PD’ed friends? You don’t want to know how many I purchased
My friends/family did not think it was nearly as funny as I did
@Lister I have a problem??? REALLY???
@tinamarie1974 Yeah, but I thought it was hilarious when I PD’d friends.
Also getting an idiotic amount of pasta for myself was awesome.
Also, not knowing ahead of time how much pasta was getting dropped was a brilliant slow burn by Mediocre/Mercatalyst.
@yeppers agree on all counts. It was a brilliant execution on @snapsters part. I loved everything about PD. Wish they could somehow bring it back even if it was something different…Cereal Drop, Rice Drop, Ice Cream Drop, Nut Drop…wait that one sounds wrong
@tinamarie1974 @yeppers I really wish I would have been smart enough to PD myself (or even my Mrs.) With those three PD’s, I didn’t even receive a single noodle back for myself…Not as an invitation to dinner. Not as a surprise bag/box of noods left on my doorstep…Nothing!
@tohar1 @yeppers well that sucks. I PD’ed myself, but got SO MUCH pasta I ended up sharing with the neighbors. They are still confused about why I ordered it and how I ended up with so much. Lol
@tinamarie1974 @yeppers All my three victims…er, I mean recipients, received huge amounts of pasta. Like close to if not 100# each…(I think I heard some people “only” received 20 or so pounds.) Two of my drops were under 60 miles from my house, so I guessed we’d receive a few noodles as a joke if nothing else.
It would be great to do both, but in the limited time I have available I can only manage to keep track of you.
On their first birthday Meh had the brilliant idea of sending every member a summary of their year including dollars spent. I took a long break from ordering after that.
@sammydog01 ouch. I’m sure you weren’t the only one.
@sammydog01 that was an intervention, it was only sent to you.
@sammydog01 I’d love to see another round of personalized infographics like that. It also had meh face click statistics, IIRC, and compared them all to the average mehtizen’s stats.
@lljk
That’s some fine record keeping! Everything in its place and organized in a clean and easy to read way. Too bad it’s wrong… so close though.
I don’t want you to lose your mind over it, but you’re off by a single purchase. Let me know if you need any hints.
/giphy so close
@ExtraMedium Over here, bringing the painful “Where’s Waldo.”
@ExtraMedium
/giphy oh noo you didn’t!
@tohar1 this is your first hint. The site you made the missing purchase on was one that ends in .com. You just let me know when you need hint number 2, I’m sure it’ll be equally useful.
200+ orders here and a good handful at mediocritee … no, I do not want to know!
Other sites I do not want to know: Amazon, Woot (not all are catshirtswoot), Amazon, TeeTurtle (haven’t bought anything in many months since the blanks changed) Amazon … did I mention Amazon? I actually had a month in which there was a delivery every single day, Sundays included.
@narfcake I’m absolutely positive I’m the reason that Amazon.com is building a 1.3 Million Square Foot distribution facility here in Fargo, ND…so I feel your pain on the multiple Amazon mentions!
@tohar1 I see you liked Hint #1, but didn’t make any updates to your total so I’ll drop Hint #2. It’s a nice round order total. You nailed the cents at .85 which was why I was initially impressed with your work. Get back on that list and make this right. I know you can do it!
@ExtraMedium I think you’re seeing things…
@tohar1 I think you’re digging for a better hint. I’ll oblige. Hint #3 the order wasn’t this year.
Pride always comes before the fall …
@GetClosure So …late summer?
@rockblossom AFTER you beware the Ides of March.
@GetClosure @rockblossom I thought Pride was in June.
@tohar1 So you’re 3 hints in and they’ve been quite broad so I don’t blame you for not biting, but I say we up the stakes. mmm biting steaks…
Sorry, got distracted. If you can find the missing order (it’s there, we see all on this end) before we have to provide a 5th hint, your wish will be granted. We’ll deliver the regret you’re looking for.
If you want me to stop giving hints just say the word, but I’ll have to set a time limit, so let’s say I drop a hint every hour on the hour until you admit and correct your error. Since it’s so close to the top now I’ll give you that extra 10 minutes. Hint #4 falls in 70 minutes.
/giphy good luck
@ExtraMedium Sure…Now I have to go back to work & get the spreadsheet. (I mean what else would a person do at work…Work?) Appeal of the IRK is too much!
@tohar1 Totally fair. I spent part of my workday searching for a discrepancy in the fruit of your workday. I think we can call it time well spent. Hell, all that hard work could even earn you a $5 bag of other peoples’ trash. That’s profit maximization.
/giphy bad math
@ExtraMedium I THINK I FOUND IT!! I didn’t have the purchase from 05/31/19 $39.00 which makes my total $2573.85
@tohar1 Winner, winner!
And you thought I was the one missing something?!?
Congrats! We’ll call it more time well spent and an IRK hard earned. I’ll talk to the higher powers and get some regret heading your way. No need to reach back out…we have your info.
@ExtraMedium @tohar1 so if we beg and ask nicely does that mean you could send any of us our totals?
@cbilyak @ExtraMedium @tohar1 I can’t tell if we need this dashboard for ourselves or we are protected from it for our mental health and safety.
@ExtraMedium @tohar1 - I applaud your altruism score.
@cbilyak @djslack @ExtraMedium @tohar1
I’d guess we are protected from it to protect meh’s profits when some people realize just how much they have spent.
@cbilyak I’d rather not broadcast them to or for everyone but if you’re dying to know I can whisper a snapshot to you. I only shared it for tohar1 because they’d already shared everything that isn’t available on your profile page in the initial post such as number of purchases and the the total value.
/giphy applause
@ExtraMedium - Do NOT, I repeat do not add up the cost of my purchases here. I’m afraid it would be too meager and embarrass me among mehniacs.
Unless you offer fire extinguishers again, at which point I will rectify my spending deficit.
Thank you in advance.
PS - It’s been a while since I banished the phrase “It’s only $5” from my vocabulary. Wait, are we including totally FOMO VMP dues?
Rats
@kdemo Don’t worry, you and I will average out just fine.
@sammydog01 - Then we really should partner up on this.
Knowing I have 246 orders in my time here is enough, I don’t think I want to know the $$ total.
/giphy blindfold-me-now