VMP Milestones

@somf69
but VMP since Sept '24 as well

Duh… 9/14

@lljk PastaDrop was so fun. Fed me, some friends, and later on a bunch of mice that found some while I was away for Winter. I still find pasta in strange places brought there by the mice. I stopped feeding them (unintentionally) and they seem to have moved elsewhere.

@lljk @pmarin I still have some pasta even after giving A LOT away and several years passing by, but I did receive 330 lbs in the grand finale drop

@cbilyak @lljk Damn dat’s a lotsa pasta. Don’t want to ask how many Stroopwafel you have. It was a fun time, or at least added some fun when a lotsa people were not having fun.

@cbilyak @lljk did you have a loading dock and forklift, or just a very annoyed delivery person? Can’t remember if UPS or I think some was postal service.

@lljk @pmarin no stroops, do not care for those. And thankfully, the delivery person got a kick out of it, even though the boxes were spread out over a 2-day span, he just backed into the driveway and I helped him unload. With the boxes reading “Noods”, he was intrigued.

@lljk i broke even on pasta… bought two or three batches for me and friends and on one order only got one bag… lost money on that one.

did eat on it for some time though.

@lljk @Noddy93 although I am not a Kickstarter or original VMP, and never participated in pasta drop, I have the pleasure of being the recipient of 20 lb of linguine in an irk a year or so back. I don’t know if I was specially selected for the honor, but we have genuinely enjoyed that gift. It’s one of the little things whose uncertainty about the cause just adds to the interest level. I have no reason to believe that this irk was custom assembled, and yet I feel special for having received it.

@blaineg same thing that’s wrong with us all, apparently.

@Zendriver yes stuff like that happens to us and it’s amazing how everything turns on you for something like an expired credit card. It’s like don’t you know who I am?? But no then just someone with a card that was rejected.

And, yet, I blame society.
/youtube Repo Man Death of Duke

@Zendriver Same sort of thing for me. Didn’t even notice that I’d lost my VMP until I went to buy something, and I was being charged for shipping. Damned credit card had expired, and I never even thought about having to update that info here

@earmstrong Do you mean your 10 year mirk?

@earmstrong I can understand that, and am definitely trying to cut back on “stuff” and yet if I get something new and cool, which eventually shows up, I will get that and hopefully clear out old stuff to donate or recycle or trash depending on condition. As I mention below it was also the wine site which has been great at times and also has a good user community, though I see little overlap between frequent users here and there. But in any case the Mehmbership gives you included shipping there too as well. And I’m sure the real shipping cost for big boxes of wine is not cheap, so it’s absorbed as part of the business; sometimes I feel guilty when I buy wine with the membership and it gets 2-day shipping that I don’t have to pay extra for.

@earmstrong @pmarin We used to buy wine for my wife but we have a full cooler and neither of us drinks much these days. That is a valid point for when they have wine and it is actually desirable.

@pmarin So you saved $1,265 on shipping!

@cengland0 Tru 'nuff but those orders are heavily weighted towards being 5 - 6 years ago or more. For the last few years I’ve definitely “lost” money as the occurrence of interesting items has declined along with my order frequency. And I rarely even look at Sidedeal or Morningsave… counting this last Irk, maybe 4-5 orders over all.

@Bretterson For many, its inertia.