Today, I found a gift card under my bed that I lost a few months ago for $400 to a store that went out of business last week. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I found out the gift card my friend gave me for Christmas actually has no money on it and was never purchased in the first place. FML
Today, I gave my friend a $5 VR set that I purchased from the dollar store for Christmas. I received a $60 gift card. Later, I realized I left the receipt in the package. FML
Today, I found out that my boyfriend wrote 50 dollars on my gift card just to look generous, it's really only worth five. I found this out after I tried to buy an arm full of clothes. FML
Today, I lost my wallet while out shopping. Panicked, I retraced my steps and found it at a store, turned in by an employee. Grateful, I opened it to find a note that read, "We left the money but took one dollar for karma." I checked. They did actually take one dollar. FML
Today, I found the birthday card my grandma had mailed. Apparently, it contained a gift of $100. Too bad it was in my mom's trash can, opened, with no money. She told my grandma it must have gotten lost in the mail. FML
Today, the gift my mother had mailed me for my birthday finally arrived. It was a gift card for Starbucks. A gift card that had already been redeemed. FML
Today, at 4:00 a.m., I woke up and realized that I had thrown an expensive gift certificate for a friend in the garbage. Since it was garbage day, I ran out in the rain in my pajamas and rifled through all three bags of garbage. Twice. I found the gift certificate. It was in my pocket. FML
Today, it's my birthday, and my coworkers gave me a $75 gift card to a restaurant chain near my house. Later in the evening, I found out the chain of restaurants abruptly closed. All of them. FML
Today, I hid my credit card from myself so I wouldn't use it. Now I can't find it. FML
Today, I went to the store to buy some groceries. Several hours later I realize that I can't find my wallet. After looking all over my house and then the store parking lot, I had my credit cards cancelled. On the drive home, I feel something under me. It was my wallet. FML
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alwaysalady 0
if someone gave me a $400 gift card, I would have been out shopping as soon as they left. What was your plan here?
762X51 0
So... you havent cleaned your room in a few months?
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Comments (81)
humorizer 14
You spell it Potatoe, I spell it Tomato. Whatever.
Roxas_fml 0
This is why I don't really like gift cards to a certain store. Sucks you didn't find it time. I would've been ripping my room apart had I heard a store I had a gift card to was going out of business.
DynamicDave 11
If it was circuit city they still have a website you can prolly use it at. if not, check online anyway. you've got nothing to lose.
blastvortex 4
That's why you look for something after you lose it. If you're that upset about losing $400 - hell, I know I would be - then you should've looked harder when you realized that you'd lost it. YDI.
RamenYummy 0
Which store?
bugmenotmofo 34
Dude, YDI, since you were too lazy to get your ass up and clean your room - space under the bed inclusive.
unlucky93_fml 0
there are not gift cards with 400 ******* dollars on them.
StaticDown 0
Trust me, the number can get pretty high... Maybe some rich relative or friend felt like being VERY generous... Since it is a big amount... Pretty amazing how he managed to lose it... I would want to spent it as soon as I could... Keep your important stuff somewhere so you don't lose it and clean your room more often... My room is pretty messy but I do know where my stuff is... I keep in my head everything organized :P
ozymandias_fml 0
Get married, and then tell us that. I had more than 1 with 400 on it. granted, most of the gifts over $100 were checks, not gift cards, though.
ozymandias_fml 0
Call up your state tax office. Most, if not all, states have a program for this. I know in my state if this is the case, or if the card expired unused, you can use a program with the state to get the money back.
begeru 0
So what? You didn't lose any money that you already had. I mean, this wasn't an FML until you found the lost card?
codylicious6 0
this wasnt an FML untill he found out the store went out of business last week, dumbass.
DameGreyWulf 1
Hm. If they were going out of business, with that money you probably could have bought everything in the store.