A Box of __________ Shipped to Your House Each Month

it's so amazingly not shareable, like the person it was made for is literally the lonely guy from sideways

100 ml is a pretty small pour too.

wow it is, less than 4 oz. and not even close to a gov't-defined glass of wine

JUST BUY A GODDAMN BOTTLE OF WINE

sorry. but really now...

thing is that winery memberships, where they'll send you whole bottles, already exist

Gonna be real mad when you have your half glass of boutique European wine and find out it's your favorite ever and can't get more.

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

stuff you can't get easily i can see. but wine or beer or whatever? silly.

like, european cookie club! i could be down for that. stuff i'm not gonna find on my own.

https://candygerman.com/

yeah, now you're talking.

As a guy who lives over there and eats too much candy, I say these boxes are well curated.

Candy German is for candy lovers - like us and like you! As native Germans, we don’t take our homeland’s candy for granted. Germany turns out some of the finest confections in the world, but unfortunately, they can be quite hard to find outside of German borders.

Now you’ve got a friend on the inside. Let us bring you the authentic candies once reserved for Germans only. Your sweet tooth will thank you.

"native" "borders" "germans only" "homeland"

uh oh...

WOLLT IHR DAS TOTALE SÜßIGKEITSABO??????

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

wow 30 euros a month is expensive. i was doing bocandy for a while and it cost half of that for what looks like bigger boxes. but that's based in america.

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.