{"id":7131,"date":"2010-08-09T00:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T10:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=7131"},"modified":"2020-12-11T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T03:31:00","slug":"the-impulsive-buy-turns-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/09\/the-impulsive-buy-turns-six\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impulsive Buy Turns Six!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;padding-left:10px;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/images\/6thday.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is The Impulsive Buy&#8217;s sixth birthday.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about shutting down TIB forever today because ending it on 8\/9\/10 at 11:12 am seemed pretty cool.  But it shall live on since I just spent a few hundred dollars to renew TIB&#8217;s hosting fees for another two years.  It shall also live on because even though I&#8217;ve written over 700 reviews, I still enjoy eating stuff I shouldn&#8217;t and then writing about it.  <\/p>\n<p>Each review I&#8217;ve created is like one of my illegitimate children.  The companies provide the products and I fertilize it with my creativitity and ability to put words together.  Soon after that happens, a new review is brought out into the world.  Just like the illegitimate children of NBA players, the reviews I&#8217;ve written are all a little different, but you can tell who the father is.  Yes, I&#8217;ve knocked up my fair share of companies over the years, and I&#8217;ll keep doing it as long as they&#8217;re willing to put out&#8230;products.<\/p>\n<p>Or until I die from their products.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, over the past few years it hasn&#8217;t been just me knocking up companies and spawning illegitimate reviews.  TIB has had a number of wonderful reviewers contributing their thoughts on products that I either couldn&#8217;t get my hands on or was too scared to try.  So I&#8217;d like to thank former and current reviewers Ace, Reprobate, Kayla, Stacey and Kelley for helping TIB become what it is today.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I would like to thank all of you &#8212; the readers of this quasi-product review blog.<\/p>\n<p>Without you folks, TIB wouldn&#8217;t be where it&#8217;s at today, which I&#8217;m sure is somewhere towards the bottom of the Top 1,000,000 websites on the internet list.  We&#8217;re way below YouTube and any porn website, but I&#8217;m pretty sure we&#8217;re slightly ahead of a Tumblr page that shows nothing but pictures of turtle asses.  I truly appreciate you taking the time to stop by this small parcel of the World Wide Web to read product reviews that contain either profanity, fart jokes, slightly obscure geeky references, sexual innuendo, celebrity drug use\/alcoholism\/promiscuity references or a Brach&#8217;s pick-a-mix of any of the things I just listed.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, thank you for reading The Impulsive Buy<\/p>\n<p>Marvo<br \/>\nEditor<br \/>\nThe Impulsive Buy<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; If you&#8217;re a regular reader of TIB, you know we hold a prize drawing to celebrate TIB&#8217;s birthday.  This year, those who enter will have a change to win one of six mystery boxes which contains products that TIB has reviewed over the years. <\/p>\n<p>PPS &#8211; If you would like to enter the drawing, leave a comment with this post.  You can say whatever you like, except the phrase &#8220;whatever you like.&#8221;  If &#8220;whatever you like&#8221; is in your comment, your entry could be disqualified.  However, the only instance when &#8220;whatever you like&#8221; will be accepted is if it&#8217;s immediately followed by the words, &#8220;Big Boy.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>PPPS &#8211; Please fill out the email field, because we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be emailing the winners for their mailing address.<\/p>\n<p>PPPPS &#8211; We will stop accepting entries on Sunday, August 15, 2010 (11:59 Hawaii Standard Time). Only one entry allowed per person. The drawing is open to EVERYONE AROUND THE WORLD.<\/p>\n<p>PPPPPS &#8211; The Impulsive Buy promises your email address will not be used to send you spam about how to unlock your hidden potential in bed. The Impulsive Buy also promises your mailing address will not be used to send you information about a used car dealership&#8217;s Slasher Sale. Bribes will not be accepted. 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