When was this? It might have been harder to find and contact a manufacturer in the mid-nineties.
Perhaps the era of a condom keychain in every pocket has finally come.
(probably not)
2006 or so. Maybe we just git "lucky".
> But a few thousand remained in my basement and I learnt: there's nothing sadder than a thousand expired condoms.
+1
I was once given a few thousand spare condoms after the G&L Mardi Gras in Sydney. By given, I mean they suddenly appeared in my house. Many were used in ways other than intended, like being filled with nitrous oxide :)
probably could have donated them e.g. to a homeless shelter.
Re:How my startup failed (1999)
by disposablezero on Saturday December 10, 2016 @09:24PM
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The Olympics uses 150k in a week.
> took most of the load of our hands
Hehehehe, that's what condoms are for right?
> But a few thousand remained in my basement and I learnt: there's nothing sadder than a thousand expired condoms.
So you had several thousand at first and are sad that only 1000 is left when they expired? Sounds like you got laid a lot and I would not be sad about that ;)
I once helped organize a student conference and asked a manufacturer to donate 5,000 condoms, about one per day per participant. Yes, we were aiming high.
I noticed something was wrong when the truck driver started unloaded three pallets worth of condoms. They had sent us 5,000 boxes with 25 condoms each = 125,000.
During the next two years, we did manage to find a few events that gratefully took most of the load of our hands. But a few thousand remained in my basement and I learnt: there's nothing sadder than a thousand expired condoms.