Happy Birthday! Love, Your Favorite Corporation
You know who sometimes forgets my birthday? My mom.
You know who never forgets my birthday? All the big businesses who have my personal data stored in their vaults, or clouds, or whatever.
To celebrate my upcoming birthday, Starbucks is giving me a free drink.
One of my banks is giving me … fake money to spend?
Thanks?
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Happy birthday, Mike!
@probs Not yet! But thanks in advance!
You can sign up with, like, every restaurant under the sun and get free food around your birthday. Auntie Anne’s? Free soft pretzel. Denny’s? Free Grand Slam. Cold Stone Creamery? Free ice cream. The biggest problem is finding the time to eat all the free food in the two week period they usually give you (or on the big day itself).
Also: Forums you registered with in 2006 to ask one question and have completely forgotten about.
@stuffisthings Prius Chat forums finally forgot me last year and I got sad :(
My birthday is this month too, and I got a $15 off coupon for a shoe place I can’t buy shoes at anymore. But maybe I’ll get a bag. Or a wallet…
I also get something free from Sephora on my birthday, but they are sneaky and don’t remind you about it, you have to remember to go in on your bday. I see what you’re doing there Sephora! ;)
I don’t understand what that CITI bank one is though. Are they giving your 200 dollars? That doesn’t seem right. WTF is Extra Cash?
@Megan Patterson@facebook It’s money I can only use in their online store, which sells really weird things, like neon leather watches I would never wear. It’s fake money, and I’d have to pay for shipping, which, no thank you!
@Mike Dang Maybe…gifts? I dunno, I would find something, but $200 is a lot of money for me.
@Megan Patterson@facebook You don’t have to go to Sephora on your birthday to get your free gift! You can get it at any point in the month of your birthday. This year it’s a sampler of those awesome Sugar lip balms that are like $25 a tube.
/knows this because her birthday is next week and loves free swag
@MuffyStJohn WHAT? Sweet. I do actually live near one now, so this is ON!