Sack arrived this afternoon.

Contained:

• 6 bags of air
  
• 2 cupcake lip gloss
  
• 1 grocery bag with flower print on it
  
• 1 kids bingo game
  
• 1 pico projector optima foldout screen
  
• 1 brown hand towel with 'fringe'
  

My first Burgandy Olfactory Center! It was 2.3 lbs and I wasn't as excited after reading what most others receive, however I am pleasantly surprised after opening my box. Here is what I got:

1 - Woot Box (priceless for our new pup)
1 - Orange Bag with a Blue Flower (??)
1 - Embroidered White Towel ($5.00)
1 - Knock Knock "Crap" Task Clips ($9.50)
1 - Altec Lansing Octiv Mini ($29)
1 - Diva Darling Headband ($2)

Well pleased.

my 1.9 lb crap contained:

- Kids Night Out Bingo http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00471YUJK
- Spitball Dartpad Excuses http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00471V6BK
- Flower Design Tote Bag
- 2 Cupcake Lip Gloss
- Ugly Ass Handtowel (one end has a string of fake pearls and some ribbon)

5.9 lbs

5 Shirts (large)
Fun Foot Flush
2 x dish towels
Green Grocery Bag
Diva Darling Facial Mitt

@ColonelCrap thanks for postin'. I look forward to seeing what you can do.

Standard 5.9 lb craperoo:

5 XL shirts (my size), all in colors that I would wear (though the mustard yellow is a bit of a stretch)
1 Fun Foot Flush (installed, but a bit wobbly in my non-standard toilet... wife said no way in hell it's going in the guest bathroom)
1 Brown tasseled finger towel/dishrag
1 Diva Darling Facial Mitt (with a rough texture that neither one of us can touch with our dry winter hands... kids will use in the bath)
1 Gwen's Nest (purple on green) grocery bag
7 bags of East Texas Crude (air, that is), 5 inflated, 2 missing their airy goodness

Thanks for the crapportunity!

colonelcrap wrote: I have been sent to clean up the mess, address the issues and right the ship.

Welcome aboard, ColonelCrap, sir!

Whether you are a veteran Woot employee with a new and appropriate to your new duties user ID or a Woot newcomer as of yesterday - I think I will speak for most Wooters if I say that we are glad to see somebody taking the Crappy responsibilities into their hands!

Cleaning up the crap, sorting it out boxing it up and sending out is a tough job, but it is one of the most respected positions at Woot (at least from our perspective)!

I'll be looking forward to the next BоC as eagerly as ever!

colonelcrap wrote:It sounds like the troops’ moral is diminishing. I have been sent to clean up the mess, address the issues and right the ship. It looks like I have an uphill battle, but I have a good battle plan. If you will give me time, you have my commitment that we be victorious in our pursuit of the best Beachhead of Ceasefire yet.
I know there is some dissension in the ranks due to the changing of the guard. I have read that some of you are grumbling about how your crap is too crappy, not crappy enough or too much like your neighbor’s crap. Instead of addressing each of those complaints individually, let me just say that I am aware of the issues and have the power to make changes where changes need to be made.
I am here to make sure that the items being shipped are more diverse, interesting, bizarre, broken, weird and worthy of blog banter. I am also here to make sure that every package has, at least, the minimum amount of crap and that the crap gets shipped in a timely manner. I am here to make sure that communication about the shipped crap is distributed so that everyone can start getting battle-ready to receive their crap.
I know that there is more to address, but a plan doesn’t work if it never gets started. I am sure that this plan will work and make this a mean, lean, crapping machine. See you in the trenches.
ColonelCrap

YAY!!!!

In my 9.6 pound Bag of Coal non standard shaped dell box I got:

3 cupcake lip glosses
1 diva darling
1 hand towel with flip flops on it
1 standard duffel bag (blue)

And last but certainly not least

Dell Latitude D630... 2 gigs of ram 80 gig hard drive and 1.8 Intel core 2 duo proc.

Woot woot to you woot. Thank you for my haul. I know there has been some bum speak about the less than randomness. I know that's part of the fun and i do hope it comes back.

But i'm not going to be complaining....not tonight.


Apparently I'm bad at posting pictures too..

ThunderThighs wrote:They have high hopes for your tomato plants!

I recently inherited a cat (literally) so I thought it was a kitty litter scoop.

LOL what?!?!? is this not what it is!?!?

http://www.harrietcarter.com/summer-store_outdoor-cooking/tomato-slicer/

Apparently the God of War action figure I got sells for about 20 bucks online- now if I only had wanted one! Sounds like eBay is in order for me!

Got my crap, and thats exactly what it is CRAP.

2 hand towels, 2 cupcake lip gloss, 1 bag.
all went straight in the trash.

As someone previously posted, looks like they just buy dollar store junk for the Burgandy Olfactory Center#39;s now.

Amazon has ruined the woot experience.

So, my mailman saw I wasn't home, and said he knows the "intrinsic value of a Burgandy Olfactory Center, and left a note that the boxes were at the post office for me.. Benefits of small town USA.

Mine: 6.1 Lbs

1 x Fun Foot Flush
5 x XL Fruit of The Loom T Shirts - asstd colors
1 x Flowered shopping bag
1 x wash cloth - peach
1 x USB Flash drive cleverly disguised as Santa

The Wife 1.6 Lbs:

1 x red duffel bag
1 x flowering tea (black tea). We have the teapot from a previous woot!
1 x table top tripod
1 x embroidered wash cloth

I miss the woot! of old... My very first bag contained a couple of refurb sansa's, a Donald Rumsfeld talking action figure, a Roomba and a remote control helicopter.. It was the best one I ever got... None since can compare.

I guess this is now woot.yugster.com...

Shame, too....

colonelcrap wrote:It sounds like the troops’ moral is diminishing. I have been sent to clean up the mess, address the issues and right the ship. It looks like I have an uphill battle, but I have a good battle plan. If you will give me time, you have my commitment that we be victorious in our pursuit of the best Beachhead of Ceasefire yet.
I know there is some dissension in the ranks due to the changing of the guard. I have read that some of you are grumbling about how your crap is too crappy, not crappy enough or too much like your neighbor’s crap. Instead of addressing each of those complaints individually, let me just say that I am aware of the issues and have the power to make changes where changes need to be made.
I am here to make sure that the items being shipped are more diverse, interesting, bizarre, broken, weird and worthy of blog banter. I am also here to make sure that every package has, at least, the minimum amount of crap and that the crap gets shipped in a timely manner. I am here to make sure that communication about the shipped crap is distributed so that everyone can start getting battle-ready to receive their crap.
I know that there is more to address, but a plan doesn’t work if it never gets started. I am sure that this plan will work and make this a mean, lean, crapping machine. See you in the trenches.
ColonelCrap

Well this is interesting. Because after my 3rd spitball dartboard in as many boxes, my addiction to Blue Orange Cyans has been cured.

I'll believe there's change when I see it. Until then, I'm sitting on the sidelines.

colonelcrap wrote:
It sounds like the troops’ moral is diminishing. I have been sent to clean up the mess, address the issues and right the ship.

Welcome aboard, ColonelCrap! I'll be standing guard with my trusty F5 key, faithfully awaiting my next order!

-PFC Barkwoot

I guess my Santa Sac is having a blast in Los Angeles. It's been there since yesterday and my delivery date was pushed by 3 days. I understand I had lived there for 37 years.
Even though I know what's in my box I still want it.

Here's my Xmas Santa Crap:

1 x Flower Bag
1 x weird kitchen towel
1 x Pico pocket projector portable screen
1 x Spitball Excuses target board (I now have 3)
2 x cupcake lip gloss (now have 3 of these too)

:sigh:

mikegberg wrote:Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!

Shoot, I was just kidding.

Mine came today:

1 - red duffle bag
1 - black with gold trim wash cloth
1 - Microsoft wireless mobile mouse 4000
1 - 4 GB Sandisk Sansa MP3 player

One of the better Bags of Crap that I have gotten.

Cheers,

colonelcrap wrote:It sounds like the troops’ moral is diminishing. I have been sent to clean up the mess, address the issues and right the ship. It looks like I have an uphill battle, but I have a good battle plan. If you will give me time, you have my commitment that we be victorious in our pursuit of the best Beachhead of Ceasefire yet.
I know there is some dissension in the ranks due to the changing of the guard. I have read that some of you are grumbling about how your crap is too crappy, not crappy enough or too much like your neighbor’s crap. Instead of addressing each of those complaints individually, let me just say that I am aware of the issues and have the power to make changes where changes need to be made.
I am here to make sure that the items being shipped are more diverse, interesting, bizarre, broken, weird and worthy of blog banter. I am also here to make sure that every package has, at least, the minimum amount of crap and that the crap gets shipped in a timely manner. I am here to make sure that communication about the shipped crap is distributed so that everyone can start getting battle-ready to receive their crap.
I know that there is more to address, but a plan doesn’t work if it never gets started. I am sure that this plan will work and make this a mean, lean, crapping machine. See you in the trenches.
ColonelCrap

This is awesome to hear. Most companies would roll their eyes at many of the silly "complaints" that people (including me, though I admit my shame), have posted about the crappy crap experiences.

For me, it's almost always the fact that I never get a chance to even buy the crap...likely the same for many of course. But I don't miss very many Burgandy Olfactory Center sales and am almost always ready to hit the button right away but almost never get through. I think Texas has some kind of Burgandy Olfactory Center embargo with California because it doesn't matter how fast I am, I rarely get through.

So, I was more excited than usual to get a Burgandy Olfactory Center this time even though I am pretty sure the only reason I got one was because of technical difficulties lasting about 30 minutes (besides the obvious "DDOS attack" of customers of course). I guess after 30 minutes most people started giving up, or maybe something was fixed, because myself and many others were able to order right about then all of a sudden.

Anyway, although I'm excited that there may be some renewed mystery to Burgandy Olfactory Center in the future, I am sad to know I likely won't see any for some time. I will definitely keep trying but unless Texas and CA can work out their trade issues and allow free flow of bytes through the internets so us CA wooters can get a decent chance at scoring a Burgandy Olfactory Center I will probably be left sitting somberly in the glow of my monitor, a failure once again.

Of course I have a good amount of woot experience (as my black square of awesomeness suggest) but even with all that experience, I lack the required location.

Which gives me an idea...any chance for some kind of extra "weight" or front of the line fastpass given for some future Burgandy Olfactory Center for those with black boxes? ;)

Regardless, thanks for the woots!

mikegberg wrote:Shoot, I was just kidding.

I got a dell... with vista and 2 gigs of ram. but the sucker holds a charge. honestly think it might have a new battery. said 4.5 hrs on it.. we shall see..

ps does this mean i have to throw my old laptop off my roof?

Mine says Out For Delivery but it says expected date to be the 7th? white tundra frost

2.7 lbs
1 small blue duffle bag
1 topsy turvy tomato garden
1 dish towel
1 HDMI cable (philips)
1 egg slicer...I think?

W00t! Santa's Sack of Crap 2011 by Ringo67, on Flickr

My first Bandolier of Confectionery was waiting for me when I came home today. It turns out the 1 lb weight that I thought was a placeholder was correct. So, needless to say, no T-shirts, Footflush or pop-up sprinklers for me.

What I did get was:

1 x large orange tote bag with a red flower on it
2 x cupcake lip gloss
1 x embroidered burgundy washcloth
1 x Diva Darling headband
1 x container of caca task clips

The clips are the best thing in the box, though I can't really bring them to work, unfortunately. The washcloth is nice and will get some use. The tote bag will probably replace the bag I've been using to bring my mom's laundry back and forth from the nursing home. I think she'll love it. She might be able to use the Diva Darling as well.

All-in-all I am very happy with my crap. Though I am disappointed that I didn't get any Texas air. Heck, I had to complain about something. :{)

my 2.9lb box showed up. seems to be similar to a couple of other people:

1x Pico pocket projector portable screen
1x Sylvania 2GB MP3 Player
1x Orange hand towel/rag thing
1x Blue Duffle
1x Spitball Excuses target board (not used, thank you woot!)
1x Diva Darling Microfiber Headband

bbmaier wrote:Now how are you going to get it away from her?

We also got a box from Amazon today, I'll see if I can get her to switch over.

Still waiting, should be another hour or so.

Both hubby's and my Burgandy Olfactory Center arrived today. Decent haul.

Hubby's
2 cupcake lip gloss
1 God of War Kratos figure
2 hand towels
1 mini duffel bag
1 Kids night out bingo

Mine:
1 Flower bag
1 Diva headband
1 12-pack Crap binder clips (love these!)
1 fancy hand towel
AND
1 bag of 21 count Mini DINGO meat in the middle dog treats.

We don't have dogs. Wonder if my cat will eat them.

Our best Burgandy Olfactory Center yet. Last year we scored the Xmas Burgandy Olfactory Center and got 3 2010 Fact or Crap calendar. Our box arrived on Jan 8 of 2011.

My 1.8 Lbs:

1 x red duffel bag
1 x flowering tea (earl gray black)
1 x table top tripod
2 x embroidered wash cloths(black)

Alas, I will have to continue to flush by hand, I will never know the joy of cupcake lip gloss, and I will have to dry my tears with a black wash cloth instead of a hand towel with a fake pearl fringe.

Two Boxes of crap came to my family's house today...two identical boxes of crap, that were in fact identical to another posters, so I'll just copy/paste and save myself the effort

1 x red duffel bag
1 x flowering tea (black tea).
1 x table top tripod
1 x embroidered wash cloth

I did get a camera fro Christmas, so the tripod might come in handy.

If you don't get the crap you want, want the crap you get, right?

Maybe we can all band together and Macguyver together a 90" Projector screen for the Superbowl. Who is with me?

chrisjv70 wrote:2.7 lbs
1 small blue duffle bag
1 topsy turvy tomato garden
1 dish towel
1 HDMI cable (philips)
1 egg slicer...I think?

It's a tomato slicer


http://www.harrietcarter.com/summer-store_outdoor-cooking/tomato-slicer/

duffeball wrote:


In my 9.6 pound Bag of Coal non standard shaped dell box I got:

3 cupcake lip glosses
1 diva darling
1 hand towel with flip flops on it
1 standard duffel bag (blue)

And last but certainly not least

Dell Latitude D630... 2 gigs of ram 80 gig hard drive and 1.8 Intel core 2 duo proc.

Woot woot to you woot. Thank you for my haul. I know there has been some bum speak about the less than randomness. I know that's part of the fun and i do hope it comes back.

But i'm not going to be complaining....not tonight.


Apparently I'm bad at posting pictures too..

FTW!!!

Just want to say that I decided to use one of my five shirts I got to work out today, and it held up great to my sweat! Well worth the $8! Thanks Woot! By the way, can't wait to see what you do Colonel! Lets all work together to make this ship the best it can be! Long live The U.S.S. Woot!

Edit: Wait. There's no Colonels on ships. -_- Oops! Well anyways, long live Woot!

TRADE/ BUY REQUEST:
Hey, anyone that got that Earl Grey Flowering tea that may want to part with it( I know its Best by date is 11/15/11. For me, That's ok as long as the seal/ packaging is intact/unopened). PM me I am willing to pay $5 or possibly trade, maybe monkeys for some. I love tea and I gave some of the same tea( from a previous Burgandy Olfactory Center to my sister for Christmas and she loved it. Thanks
~~Jinx 8)
EDIT:
Welcome aboard Colonelcrap. Glad to see someone picking up the flag...

I've got a 1.0 lb. box due for delivery tomorrow (Saturday). In reviewing the post's I see only one other post of just a 1 pound box and that had several items in it beyond 1 pound.

I'm dreaming of opening the box and finding a "woot letter". Of course, it cound be a flower bag and three lip balms.

Anyone have experience now or in the past with a 1 pound box of carrots?

skg574 wrote:
http://www.drugs.com/condition/obsessive-compulsive-disorder.html

Then I read the list and I think I have seen every one of those drugs listed on some late night attorney class action commercial. It appears to be dangerous to be medicated for ocd.

Wouldn't want to be you two.

LOL I just looked at that list... I have been on 3 of those meds( for bi-polar, not OCD) over the past 15+ years and am currently on a 4rth from that list. Thanks for that link. Maybe I should be more concerned but I just think its funny... and so far I haven't seen Seroquel( the 1 I am currently taking) in any of those class action commercials, but I will does some. research on it.
~~Jinx

duffeball wrote:


In my 9.6 pound Bag of Coal non standard shaped dell box I got:

3 cupcake lip glosses
1 diva darling
1 hand towel with flip flops on it
1 standard duffel bag (blue)

And last but certainly not least

Dell Latitude D630... 2 gigs of ram 80 gig hard drive and 1.8 Intel core 2 duo proc.

Woot woot to you woot. Thank you for my haul. I know there has been some bum speak about the less than randomness. I know that's part of the fun and i do hope it comes back.

But i'm not going to be complaining....not tonight.


Apparently I'm bad at posting pictures too..

Nice haul!

colonelcrap wrote:It sounds like the troops’ moral is diminishing. I have been sent to clean up the mess, address the issues and right the ship. It looks like I have an uphill battle, but I have a good battle plan. If you will give me time, you have my commitment that we be victorious in our pursuit of the best Beachhead of Ceasefire yet.
I know there is some dissension in the ranks due to the changing of the guard. I have read that some of you are grumbling about how your crap is too crappy, not crappy enough or too much like your neighbor’s crap. Instead of addressing each of those complaints individually, let me just say that I am aware of the issues and have the power to make changes where changes need to be made.
I am here to make sure that the items being shipped are more diverse, interesting, bizarre, broken, weird and worthy of blog banter. I am also here to make sure that every package has, at least, the minimum amount of crap and that the crap gets shipped in a timely manner. I am here to make sure that communication about the shipped crap is distributed so that everyone can start getting battle-ready to receive their crap.
I know that there is more to address, but a plan doesn’t work if it never gets started. I am sure that this plan will work and make this a mean, lean, crapping machine. See you in the trenches.
ColonelCrap

Welcome aboard, Colonel.. I do indeed hope you can bring righteousness (yes, I spell checked that) back to woot! and the fabled bags of crap of yore... There are no problems: only solutions, and I hope you are it!

My household was lucky enough to snag two of these treasures this time around (one for me and one for the boyfriend). The boyfriend’s arrived two days before mine and we did the unboxing together (1.8 pds: 2 black washclothes, small frilly hand-towel, red duffel bag, and some tea).

My 5.9lber arrived today and I rushed home from work thinking what a great Friday surprise this would be. When I got home the box was sitting in the hallway and I rushed it into the living room and gave the box a prime seating area where my bf would be able to see the unveiling. These were the contents:
1x red duffel bag
1x new 2003 desk calendar
1x slightly bent hardcover gardening book
1x new breadbasket
1x new kitchen timer
4x Texas Air
….and in the bottom corner of the box wrapped in tissue paper was my own favorite pair of purple plaid underwear.

Apparently my bf repurposed his own empty woot box, texas air, and “bag”….he totally had me going until the very end when I saw my own undies at the bottom. He just dug up forgotten junk from one of our closets and put it in the woot box….the sad part is that he totally had me fooled (he even carefully transferred the mailing label from the bocnapped box to his own). After much laughter he finally turned over my still-sealed real box…which contained:

1x green cloth bag with purple flower
1x black washcloth
1xdiva face mitt
1x foot flush
5x XL tees
7x texas air

Thanks Woot, I guess I can sort of say that I had twice the fun this time around :-)

Thanks, Woot! I was tempted to buy one of these mice a while back but I'm glad I held out.

Finally got to open our craps!

My 2.6 lbs:
6 bags of Texas air (one deflated)
1 brown hand towel (matches my bathroom)
1 Kids' Night Out Bingo
1 RC Color Bug (I shall terrorize the cat)
2 Cupcake Lip Gloss
1 Red duffel bag

Husband's 2.2 lbs:
0 Bags of Texas air
1 blue hand towel (matches his bathroom)
2 Tabletop Tripod
2 Earl Gray Flowering Tea (He could not be more excited to have these. You'd think he found gold bars)
1 Red duffel bag

Overall I'm pretty happy with this haul, thanks woot for the fun!


To other people who have the Tabletop Tripod - is that a same sex couple snuggled on the packaging or a really mannish looking woman? I don't think I've seen any products featuring a same sex couple before, that would be pretty awesome.