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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Think You Might Be Pregnant? Broke?

Posted by on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:08 PM

There are plenty of old and beat-up looking home pregnancy tests on the discontinued rack at the QFC on 15th...

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Urgutha Forka 1
Hmmm... when an item's been discontinued that kinda says something about its effectiveness.

I wouldn't buy a discounted, discontinued parachute either.
Posted by Urgutha Forka on September 22, 2009 at 12:18 PM
The Amazing Jim 2
Could just be they were making room for the "new & improved" version. Those things ain't cheap!
Posted by The Amazing Jim http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=100000076496291&ref=profile on September 22, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Rob in Baltimore 3
Krusty Brand Home Pregnancy Test (warning: may cause birth defects!)
Posted by Rob in Baltimore http://www.wishbookweb.com/ on September 22, 2009 at 12:22 PM
douchus 4
I may just buy these to give as a joke to my many one night stands. After saying that, I'm only going to need one.
Posted by douchus on September 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM
madelinear 5
i love the discount baskets! there was one at the broadway qfc full of adult diapers, laxatives and those "twister" condoms... i did the same as you and totally took pictures.
Posted by madelinear http://facebook.com/madelinear on September 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM
6
I buy store brand for a lot of stuff, but you'd think it would be worth the extra dollar for the brand-name pregnancy test.
Posted by doceb on September 22, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Fifty-Two-Eighty 7
If people would just stick to butt-fucking, they wouldn't have to worry about things like this.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on September 22, 2009 at 1:14 PM
8
Most Dollar Tree stores also carry pregnancy tests which are just as effective as name brands.
Posted by fay on September 22, 2009 at 1:19 PM
9
slow news day?
Posted by pretty shiny colors! on September 22, 2009 at 1:19 PM
Aislinn 10
@6: The only difference between cheap pregnancy tests and expensive pregnancy tests is the expensive ones are for women too stupid to tell the difference between one line and two lines. They need the test to actually say "pregnant" or "not pregnant," otherwise it's just so confusing!

Discounted pregnancy tests (provided they are not expired) are ALWAYS the way to go.
Posted by Aislinn on September 22, 2009 at 2:31 PM
TVDinner 11
@10: Hey, that second line can be pretty faint. And if you send your spouse out to the store after midnight in a panic with orders to buy fifty more tests so you can be sure, this post is a public service.

Also, if you drink a lot of water so you can pee more to take another test, the line just gets fainter. You know, in case anyone needs to know that.
Posted by TVDinner http:// on September 22, 2009 at 3:11 PM
12
#10 how many have you taken in your life? 1000? 2000? no seriously though, it must be in the low hundreds, right?
Posted by har har har! on September 22, 2009 at 3:38 PM
Uriel-238 13
A friend of mine got two negatives, but intuitively knew she was pregnant. Got two false negatives. The third confirmed her suspicions.

That was the early nineties. I don't know if pregnancy tests have gotten any better since then.
Posted by Uriel-238 on September 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM
TVDinner 14
@13: They have.
Posted by TVDinner http:// on September 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM
emma's bee 15
A little-anticipated result of the election of Obama (and reinstitution of sex ed in schools)?
Posted by emma's bee on September 22, 2009 at 4:14 PM
anal_angel 16
Or you can be me and paying urine based pregnancy tests can be a waste of your money. I had 3 girls and none of them ever showed up on a urine test. Even at 9 months when my doctor did it just to see if it would show me as pregnant.
Posted by anal_angel on September 22, 2009 at 5:34 PM
17
Buying pregnancy tests online is the way to go! You can get them much, much cheaper, and you can read reviews of their sensitivity and reliability. www.peeonastick.com told me everything I ever needed to know about pregnancy tests.
Posted by lymerae on September 22, 2009 at 9:06 PM
18
If items on that rack are only priced as marked, how are other things in the store priced? (How the elephant peed on my urine test, I'll never know.)
Posted by CP on September 22, 2009 at 9:18 PM
19
I was just at that QFC, hilarious!

@7 or just gay sex in general.

lesbian sex rocks.

I'm just sayin.
Posted by Scarlet on September 23, 2009 at 4:24 PM

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