(The game makers should think about accessibility next year!) I enthusiastically shared my discoveries with them, and they brushed me off, telling me to redeem them because their eyesight isn’t good enough to read the tiny font on the pieces.
#RARE PIECES SAFEWAY MONOPOLY FREE#
I gleefully did so, and found that they had earned free flour, aluminum foil, and bread, as well as a long-tail of random 50 cent off coupons. Since I’m unemployed (see last post ), they figured I had time on my hands to open all of them.
#RARE PIECES SAFEWAY MONOPOLY FULL#
When I visited my parents, they handed me a fat envelope full of unopened game pieces. Then I would neatly store away all the board game pieces in an envelope for my cousin. Hey, fresh produce is expensive these days! So my basic workflow would be to first open each ticket to see if I got any instant winner items (like free groceries), or coupons for things I would normally buy ($1 off soap or 50 cents off frozen veggies). They looked very confused, but I hope they redeemed it.įor me, these tiny prizes can be just as exciting.
I didn’t have any more money on me, but I gave them the coupon for a free pound of bananas. This one time, I passed by a hungry family was sitting outside Safeway asking for spare change. It’s like lotto tickets but instead of winning jackpots, you can win things like a loaf of french bread or a bottle of aspirin. THE INSTANT WINNER COUPONSĪnyhow, this game is just a hilarious waste of time, but it’s so funny how people get so into the game for bursts of time (including myself) juxtaposed against people who absolutely do not care about the game but get wrapped up into it somehow.Ĭollecting them is addicting.
Then I got yelled at by my younger cousin for stepping on all the organized piles of pieces on the floor and ruining their system. I walked over to the living room and sat on the couch nonchalantly.
They were just too enthralled by the hundreds of Monopoly pieces that needed to find their resting spot on the board. I was hosting a cousin get-together at my house and prepared all this food for a taco bar feast, but my younger cousins just ignored the food. That’s the age in life when you love collecting and sorting things (it was stickers and pencils in my day), so they loved playing the game. MY OTHER COUSINSĪnyhow, one time, she delegated the work to my younger cousins, who are in middle and high school. Too bad there’s no Monopoly prize for a free wedding that plans itself. Except she has a wedding to plan for this summer, so she is swamped with other things to do. Instead my cousin, full of eagerness (and more importantly without any kids), emailed out to the whole extended family asking for their Monopoly tickets. This year, my sister has a baby, so she ain’t got time for this no more. Or the winning pieces were at the bottom of someone’s trash can. They were probably only a couple of winning pieces somewhere in the vast expanse of this country. The whole time, she was 2 pieces away from $1 million, but couldn’t find those last two pieces. For months, she collected stacks and stacks from family members and methodically put them on the board. Last year, she emailed my whole extended family asking people to give her their Monopoly tickets. There’s a ton of duplicate pieces, so sometimes you don’t even get the satisfaction of sticking it on the board! What a letdown. Similar to the game we all played when we were younger, if you collect all the pieces within a category like $1 million dollars, then you win that prize.Īnyhow, I’ve never bothered to stick the pieces onto the board because you’ve got to hunt around to find where it belongs. When you tear off the ends of the game ticket, you unfold it and see either a coupon of some sort and 4 thin game pieces that go on the Monopoly game board. Sometimes the cashiers (either being really nice or don’t give a crap about the game) hand you a stack of tickets instead of counting out the number that your receipt says. On a normal shopping trip, you may earn anywhere from 1 – 20 game pieces, if you had a full cart of groceries. If you buy “Monopoly bonus game ticket” products, you get an extra ticket. When you buy something at the store, the receipt tells you the number of Monopoly game tickets the cashier will give you. If you aren’t familiar, every year, the Safeway grocery store has a Monopoly game where you collect game pieces and try to win some prizes – money, scholarships, free food, cars, homes, etc…
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