'We had free pizzas weekly for years': 20+ top clever loopholes people used to their advantage

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Dec 10, 2023 2:00 PM EST

Discovering a loophole is like unlocking one of life's top secrets. You have to be extra careful about who you share this secret with; otherwise, the fun will be ruined for all involved. In theory, adulting is about being so on top of things that you don't need to find loopholes to get free stuff. In practice, though, adulting is very much about being that savvy. As someone who hopes to remain a part of his family's Netflix household for as long as possible until I am discovered, I am always looking for the next way to get as much access to food and entertainment and promotions while paying as little as possible. Like I said, figuring out how to pull that off effectively is real adulting, and I won't hear any pushback on that, thank you very much.

Keep scrolling below for this collection of clever loopholes compiled from this r/AskReddit thread. When you're finished, take a look at these top tales of instant karma. 

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    20+ Top Loopholes Back in school, I found if you stuck two pennies together the vending machines would accept them as £1. I had a LOT of cheap chocolate and soda. 3.1k ↓ Reply Share
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    r/AskReddit . Posted by u/Aarunascut 5 days ago What was a loophole that you found and exploited the out of?
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    Otis Firefly 5 days ago Not real sure it's a loophole but I'll still post it. I run a recycling center and when Mountain Dew did the win a Xbox one with codes under the soda bottle caps we got a total of 20 Xbox ones. Every worker got one that year. Also Casey's pizza had a thing going that you collect 10 tabs off the large pizza box you'd get a free pizza. We had free pizzas weekly for years till they stopped doing it. 15.5k Reply Share
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    driveonacid 5 days ago During my first year teaching, teachers were each allowed 1500 photocopies a month. I had 150 students. That wasn't enough. One day, a coworker announced that she was leaving for a different opportunity. I asked her for her copier code. They never deleted her code, so I had 3000 copies per month for the last 5 months of the school year. 8.5k Reply Share
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    weakplay 5 days ago Back in the 80s we found vending machines which were not regularly serviced that would overflow the coin box and spill quarters on the floor. We used to scrape them out from under the machine with a stick. Was a good time to be a latchkey unattended minor. 5.7k Reply Share
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    RedLeader7 5 days ago . Burger King used to have an app where you'd shake your phone and it would sometimes display a free item. Guy at work write his own app that looked identical to Burger Kings, but would only ever show a Whopper Meal. Every lunch time he'd go to Burger King and get a free meal. ↑ 5.4k ↓ Reply Share
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    AMLT1983 5 days ago You used to be able to order dollar coins from the mint. Pay for it on your credit card, free delivery. Get sky miles. Take dollar coins to bank, deposit, pay off bill. Repeat. 3.6k Reply Share :
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    -Satsujinn- 5 days ago Back in school, I found if you stuck two pennies together the vending machines would accept them as £1. I had a LOT of cheap chocolate and soda. 3.1k Reply Share ...
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    Roofbunk 5 days ago I used to abuse the McDonald's coffee stickers scheme for a couple of years, you needed to purchase 6 cups of coffee and get 7th free. You could just buy the stickers of eBay and stick them on the redemption cards, worked out 5 pence a coffee. Then they came out with the app 3.0k Reply Share
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    MapUnitKey edited 4 days ago 5 days ago. Older vending machines like the ones in my high school and car wash used to take golden dollars(yes, the Sacagawea coin), count them as a dollar and then spit them back out. You could buy the whole machine with one golden dollar. My friends and I exploited this for 7 months senior year until they swapped all of the machines out. 2.8k Reply Share
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    Panther90 5 days ago My senior year of high school a Chick Fil A opened in our town and to advertise the grand opening they put a free chicken sandwich coupon in the yellow pages of the phone book. No purchase, no stipulations. For whatever reason there was like 1,000 phone books stored in a storeroom off the gym. Me and my buddies ate a chicken sandwich near every single day of senior year. 2.3k Reply Share
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    detail_oriented_guy . 5 days ago Create a new amazon account by adding a "." (period) to your gmail and get another free 6 months of Amazon prime. Your order emails still comes to the same gmail as gmail is period insensitive. 2.1k Reply Share
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    ZealousidealSea2737 5 days ago From 1980s found a skiball machine at chuck e cheese that dispensed unlimited tickets but you had to manually pull them. My pops helped and we slowly pulled out 300 tickets. 1.8k Reply Share
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    Stone_Reign 5 days ago . When Pizza Hut first started online ordering they gave me a code for a free pizza for ordering online for the first time. Turns out the code also worked if you just ordered as guest and kept working. Reply Share 1.6k
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    ccx941 5 days ago My GF worked at a gas station that had points cards that gave a discount. if the customer didn't have one she'd scan hers for them to get an item discount and we got the points for discount gas. Never paid over $1/gal the entire time she worked there. Reply Share 1.5k
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    CON Robineggblue84. 5 days ago. edited 5 days ago Enroll in a college class, get the student ID and e-mail address, then drop the class. Usually if you drop in the first week and you don't have to pay for it. Then you have a valid student ID and email for all the discounts you could get. I got a a lot of VERY cheap software back in the day. In my defense I was in college at the time. But a few semesters after I graduated I did this just to get a few more things I needed but couldn't afford. ETA:
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    homerinthebushes 5 days ago My bank thinks the vending machine at work is an ATM and refunds my "atm fee" automatically.. chase bank if anyone wondered I noticed I was always getting like $1.50 returned to my account here and there and then I realized what it was 1.4k ↓ Reply Share
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    impiousdrifter. 5 days ago In the 80s, Coke had prizes under their bottle caps. We turned over the Sprite bottles to find the winners 1.2k ↓ Reply Share
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    Emergency_Pay3110 5 days ago Back in early 2022 I started using Coinbase for some crypto investing. I have Rakuten setup on my browser which gives you money back for purchases on certain sites. When I logged into Coinbase I'd get a pop up saying they were giving you $30 cash back, so I enabled it. This popup would show up every time I logged in so I would click it thinking nothing of it but turns out there was glitch and they gave me $30 EVERY time I logged in. I ended up getting a check from Ra
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    rosso_saturno. 5 days ago Last July I went to a metal fest. Beer was J €7 and you paid by purchasing a coupon online, which would then be swiped off by the bar attendant on your own smartphone. After the first legitimately purchased beer I thought to my IT self: what if the swiping off animation of the coupon is on client side? If that's the case, turning internet off before handing the coupon would prevent it from being voided. Then, turning internet on again and refreshing the web page should
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    crackeddagger 5 days ago You're not actually required to get married or have children. You are totally just allowed to spend that time however you would like. 1.0k Reply Share
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    EsotericHappenstance. 5 days ago I lived in an apartment in a big city. The building lot was $120 per month. Street parking was $60 for the year, but it was first come first serve street parking, in designated areas. The rest of the street was metered. There were some nights I had to pay for metered parking, just so I could go to bed. One time though, I found a meter that was broken. Parked there the rest of the year, then never renewed my parking permit and parked there for another year. Saved
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    thisisinput 5 days ago If you're a Hilton Honors member and stay at a hotel where you get the $15 food and beverage credit, make sure you reserve as two guests even if it is just you. You will get $30. 711 Reply Share
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