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Husband obsessed with McDonald’s Monopoly
sickandtired300 · 18/09/2022 14:42
I just need a rant.
I dread it every year as he is always the same, but this year is particularly bad. He’s absolutely obsessed with collecting the stickers and trying to win the prizes.
He has been going several times a day (we live just round the corner) and spending stupid amounts of money on food to get the stickers. He never even eats half the food and gives it to the dog or the DC. I don’t mind them having McDonald’s but it’s meant to be a treat and he’s giving them cheeseburgers and nuggets every day for a snack ffs to get rid of them because he’s only interested in the stickers on the packaging.
I have lost it today as he has come home with 12 lots of fries!!!! We can’t fucking afford this. We’re not on the breadline and have a couple of hundred spare each month but not for fucking McDonald’s splurged. We are now just one sticker away from winning the holiday (the final sticker is extremely rare and there’s only a few of them in circulation, so out chances are still vanishingly low) and so the obsession has ramped up. We’d had our breakfast (he pissed off afterwards for his McDonald’s stickers) and so they got thrown out. We have an on and off rat problem so I’d rather not be throwing out heaps of uneaten food.
He joins fucking Ebay auctions and is always on his phone inputting the codes. He even joins online discussions on it. He really wants the cash prize. He is saying that somebody is selling 500 of the stickers for £80 and he’s considering it. I’m sure it’s a scam. He knows I will go nuclear so I’m praying he doesn’t do it but we both allow each other some treat spends each month so he may well spend it on that.
It’s all he fucking talks about. This morning he was moaning about how he saw an article saying that he saw an article about McDonald’s staff cheating and peeking at the stickers beforehand, and I snapped at him to bloody shut up. He is completely neurotypical and doesn’t typically hyperfixate on things, but this is always an issue every year.
He’s also convinced the kids we’re winning a car and a holiday ffs. When I’m cleaning I’m always having to pick up the stickers. We’ve got that many of those free meal prizes that our family of 4 will never be able to get through them before they expire. I handed most of them to homeless folk in town the other day, otherwise they wouldn’t have been used. And he whigned that he could’ve used them to buy more food to get more stickers.
It is genuinely making me resent him. I can’t wait until it ends.
sjxoxo · 21/09/2022 21:47
I’m shocked at how many people on this thread are also into this monopoly crap.
it’s absolutely gambling! Just at a family restaurant. They call it a game but really it’s strongly encouraged ‘free’ gambling.
Says everything you need to know about the ethics at McDonalds…
Op Sorry you’re dealing with this.
Are you sure there’s no other gambling/addiction behaviour going on? I can’t believe someone can be this obsessive over one thing and never ever ever do any other type of gambling.
xox
Choconut · 22/09/2022 20:18
Hey just saw this and thought of your thread. I don't know if it's true but it basically says that to win the bigger prizes you have to have proof of purchase for every single monopoly sticker thingy - or you don't get anything and that they do that so they don't have to give out any of the big prizes.
www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/19883383/work-mcdonalds-people-dont-know-secret-monopoly-rule/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunmainfacebook&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1663852007
ChiefWiggumsBoy · 22/09/2022 21:24
Choconut · 22/09/2022 20:18
Hey just saw this and thought of your thread. I don't know if it's true but it basically says that to win the bigger prizes you have to have proof of purchase for every single monopoly sticker thingy - or you don't get anything and that they do that so they don't have to give out any of the big prizes.
www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/19883383/work-mcdonalds-people-dont-know-secret-monopoly-rule/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunmainfacebook&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1663852007
That’s literally an article that used the video I posted!
BertieBotts · 22/09/2022 21:34
Sounds like total bollocks - why would you believe anything you see on tiktok? How could they "cross check" since they don't know what stickers they are handing out at the time they give you the receipt?
And yes, surely if that was true nobody would ever win and there would have been sadface articles in previous years from people who had potentially won except they hadn't kept their receipts.
Blocked · 13/10/2022 19:24
caggie3 · 21/09/2022 15:39
Just so you know OP, you need to keep the receipts you won the tickets from or they are worthless. My friend won a TV a few years ago and needed receipts for the items he got the tickets for (which he didn't have) so no TV. If he goes and buys a load online and 'wins' a holiday he has no proof of purchase for those tickets and won't actually get the holiday. It's a total scam because who keeps receipts for McDonald's?! No wonder no one wins the big prizes.
I suppose lots of people can get proof of purchase from the app now.
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