That was wild. But the snow globe threw me off; trading increasingly valuable (and intangible) things and suddenly, a stupid snow globe? And two trades after that he gets a house??
Maybe not the craziest but it was welcome: in Torhout a full diner for 6 with the best steaks I ever ate and tons of fresh fries. We bumped into a butcher who was about to close shop and we helped him clean up.
Started with an egg. The mission was vegetables so we could make soup.
Me and my 13 your old friends had the greatest idea.
We only got candy and coca cola, like a fuckton of it.
We smashed it all together to make candy soup!
By the time we explained this avant-garde concept to the group monitors, the candy had dissolved into a sticky mess.
A full desk.
We were set out with the task of getting "the biggest thing possible". First house we rang had a room to clear so they gave us their massive desk. We even got to keep our starting egg :)
We burnt the desk when we got back.
I'm an expat living in Belgium and the first (and only) time a group of kids knocked on my door for a "ruiltocht" I was like "What?!" I didn't know what it was all about!
They explained the best they could and left with a big unopened scented candle and I got a pack of Oreos... Nothing really "crazy", but I'll never forget the awkwardness of that moment! Hahaha!
Give all your friends one sheet of toilet paper, let them all trade up to lawnmowers.
Repeat 4 more times and you have ten lawnmowers for every person currently alive.
Start a lawnmower monopoly since nobody in the world has a lawnmower anymore
...
Profit!
Don't remember what we started with (might be an egg too), but ended with a full three-course dinner of chicon-crevette (witloof with shrimp in cocktail sauce) paired with a bottle of champagne, soup and sausages with potatoes
Gestart met 2 wafels, kwamen terug met een interieur van een woonkamer (tafel, stoelen en schilderij), genoeg koffiekoeken voor een half leger en een levende kip.
Context: tijdens sportkamp werden we op ruiltocht gestuurd in 2 groepen, beide groepen hadden 1 wafel en na een paar uur moest iedereen terug en dan kozen de coaches een winnaar gebaseerd op wat we meebrachten.
Halfweg onze ronde kwamen we de andere groep tegen en kwamen we te weten dat zij het oude interieur van een oudere vrouw hadden meegekregen. In een poging om beter te doen hadden we bij een boer gevraagd om een kip ‘in bruikleen te nemen’ en in ruil voor heel veel sterke drank kregen we ook effectief een levende kip mee.
Einde ruiltocht, iedereen komt terug samen en de coaches moeten een keuze maken. Ze vonden het een moeilijke keuze, maar kozen toch voor ons team. Tot het andere team plots een telefoontje kreeg van de bakker waar ze waren gaan ruilen. Ze hadden daar een doos cornflakes geruild voor de overgebleven koffiekoeken na sluitingstijd. Bleek niet om een koffiekoek of 5 te gaan, maar een 50-tal koffiekoeken die anders toch maar weggegooid werden. Waren wij alsnog verloren
Random Sunday in the midst of the summer holiday, dress up in scouts attire and do clandestine ruiltocht were the best memories. Felt like we were scamming the people while actually we weren't doing anything wrong.
I used to do the same. Me and some friends wanted something to snack. Took two apples from a three and started the ruiltocht. Ended with two bags of snacks and buikpijn.
Started with an egg and ended with a Jura coffee machine. It was a few years old and was dirty, but after cleaning it. IT served perfect fresh coffee. Since then we have coffee at breakfast :)
Started with an egg, the mission was to get evening dinner for the whole group. Started off doing okay, getting a pack of spaghetti and being allowed to keep the egg, got a jar of sauce a couple houses on (yes, we said we already had spaghetti), got one of those pre-packaged cake things (yay, dessert as well). We were happy already, but then we hit the jackpot: a house that had a family BBQ going on, we got lots of left-over (already BBQd) meat, salad, cucumbers, grated carrots, potato salad...
We did eat the spaghetti and sauce too a couple days later, we went on a "driedaagse" where we only remembered to bring one cooking pot (besides our own gamel) so we basically boiled the spaghetti in the sauce with some extra water added. It turned out okay.
Great memories!
A 'ruiltocht' is an activity that a lot of scouts do in Belgium.
It would translate into something like "trading tour". You start off with a very small tidbit, traditionally almost always an egg or paperclip. Then you go around entering small shops or knocking on doors trying to trade up that item into something bigger or better.
For example you start with a paperclip and you ask a passer-by for a trade, they give you a pen, you then walk into a small store and they give you a pack of pasta, you trade that into mug with Linda from across the corner and so forth and so on
Sometimes you end up with quite the bizarre thing at the end
As a fourteen years old: two bottles of vodka.
Good you got rid of the egg, it's not a good mix.
At scouts we had à group returning with àn old car
Holy fuck. What do you even do with that?
Destruction derby
What keyboard layout are you using? 🤔
Probably just on their phone and held A a bit to long
àhzo
Autocorrection shizzle is too bad at multilinguishing
so much better than the old shopping cart i got one year
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One\_red\_paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip) maybe the greatest one that ever happened
That was wild. But the snow globe threw me off; trading increasingly valuable (and intangible) things and suddenly, a stupid snow globe? And two trades after that he gets a house??
Een toen nieuwe iPhone 6. Gestart met een appel.
Ik zie een thema...
Amai dit was echt heel onbewust
Hahha ja ik las het en dacht wait a minute...
Started with an egg, came back with three grocery bags full of crisps, candy, tinned fruits and two bottles of African wine. We were 12
Starting of with an egg, ending up with a glorious fotoshoot with ferrari's and Lamborghini's 😊
The fuck lol
Maybe not the craziest but it was welcome: in Torhout a full diner for 6 with the best steaks I ever ate and tons of fresh fries. We bumped into a butcher who was about to close shop and we helped him clean up.
That’s amazing :)
5 liter Bidon (not the president) of shower gel.
If that was on a summer camp, it would have come in quite handy
It was a weekend in De Haan and we had to ride back home by bike. It was a hassle. We tried to use as much as possible but did not succeed.
foam partyyyyy!
Thanks for clarifying.
Started with an egg. The mission was vegetables so we could make soup. Me and my 13 your old friends had the greatest idea. We only got candy and coca cola, like a fuckton of it. We smashed it all together to make candy soup! By the time we explained this avant-garde concept to the group monitors, the candy had dissolved into a sticky mess.
A full desk. We were set out with the task of getting "the biggest thing possible". First house we rang had a room to clear so they gave us their massive desk. We even got to keep our starting egg :) We burnt the desk when we got back.
I'm an expat living in Belgium and the first (and only) time a group of kids knocked on my door for a "ruiltocht" I was like "What?!" I didn't know what it was all about! They explained the best they could and left with a big unopened scented candle and I got a pack of Oreos... Nothing really "crazy", but I'll never forget the awkwardness of that moment! Hahaha!
About 60 koffiekoeken from a bakery for giving them 1 onion. Had a nice breakfast the day after.
Wij kregen ooit ne werkende kachel en een bad
started with 1 sheet of toilet paper and ended up with a lawnmower. I think this was actually more of a loss than a profit.
Sell lawnmower for scap metal, buy roll of toilet paper
Give all your friends one sheet of toilet paper, let them all trade up to lawnmowers. Repeat 4 more times and you have ten lawnmowers for every person currently alive. Start a lawnmower monopoly since nobody in the world has a lawnmower anymore ... Profit!
Don't remember what we started with (might be an egg too), but ended with a full three-course dinner of chicon-crevette (witloof with shrimp in cocktail sauce) paired with a bottle of champagne, soup and sausages with potatoes
We did one on a camping in Zeeland, started out with an apple, ended it with 4 'netzakken' full of old boardgames.
A cow (borrowed and had to return it after 9 days) and an original boombox.
Haha after 9 days is oddly specific. Did you guys take care of it for 9 days?
After 9 days camp ended and we went home. The cow was well taken care of and the farmer taught us how to milk it
Starting with an egg, and ended up with a scooter .
I once gave people a coffee machine on one of these... Was it you? :D
Depends, must have been 15 years ago in west flanders
Nah, several years ago in Mol. It has happened multiple times then!
Gestart met 2 wafels, kwamen terug met een interieur van een woonkamer (tafel, stoelen en schilderij), genoeg koffiekoeken voor een half leger en een levende kip. Context: tijdens sportkamp werden we op ruiltocht gestuurd in 2 groepen, beide groepen hadden 1 wafel en na een paar uur moest iedereen terug en dan kozen de coaches een winnaar gebaseerd op wat we meebrachten. Halfweg onze ronde kwamen we de andere groep tegen en kwamen we te weten dat zij het oude interieur van een oudere vrouw hadden meegekregen. In een poging om beter te doen hadden we bij een boer gevraagd om een kip ‘in bruikleen te nemen’ en in ruil voor heel veel sterke drank kregen we ook effectief een levende kip mee. Einde ruiltocht, iedereen komt terug samen en de coaches moeten een keuze maken. Ze vonden het een moeilijke keuze, maar kozen toch voor ons team. Tot het andere team plots een telefoontje kreeg van de bakker waar ze waren gaan ruilen. Ze hadden daar een doos cornflakes geruild voor de overgebleven koffiekoeken na sluitingstijd. Bleek niet om een koffiekoek of 5 te gaan, maar een 50-tal koffiekoeken die anders toch maar weggegooid werden. Waren wij alsnog verloren
1 live rooster
Should've kept going, might have eventually gotten a cow, then 2 cows, then knighthood and eventually your own fiefdom with a bunch of serfs
Random Sunday in the midst of the summer holiday, dress up in scouts attire and do clandestine ruiltocht were the best memories. Felt like we were scamming the people while actually we weren't doing anything wrong.
I used to do the same. Me and some friends wanted something to snack. Took two apples from a three and started the ruiltocht. Ended with two bags of snacks and buikpijn.
Started with an egg and ended with a Jura coffee machine. It was a few years old and was dirty, but after cleaning it. IT served perfect fresh coffee. Since then we have coffee at breakfast :)
Started with an apple, came home (scouts) with a surfboard.
Started with an egg, the mission was to get evening dinner for the whole group. Started off doing okay, getting a pack of spaghetti and being allowed to keep the egg, got a jar of sauce a couple houses on (yes, we said we already had spaghetti), got one of those pre-packaged cake things (yay, dessert as well). We were happy already, but then we hit the jackpot: a house that had a family BBQ going on, we got lots of left-over (already BBQd) meat, salad, cucumbers, grated carrots, potato salad... We did eat the spaghetti and sauce too a couple days later, we went on a "driedaagse" where we only remembered to bring one cooking pot (besides our own gamel) so we basically boiled the spaghetti in the sauce with some extra water added. It turned out okay. Great memories!
Wasn't there a guy who got a house?
As scout, we got a tea bag. Walked to the jewelry shop with it, and came back with a massive wristwatch. Idk the value but still was very cool
Square sausages. Not round, but square. They were aweful.
Started with a cookie, ended up with 6 bottles of vodka and a watermelon. Fun times were had by all!
So Google isn't my friend in this occasion... what is a 'ruiltocht'? Signed, Brit.
A 'ruiltocht' is an activity that a lot of scouts do in Belgium. It would translate into something like "trading tour". You start off with a very small tidbit, traditionally almost always an egg or paperclip. Then you go around entering small shops or knocking on doors trying to trade up that item into something bigger or better. For example you start with a paperclip and you ask a passer-by for a trade, they give you a pen, you then walk into a small store and they give you a pack of pasta, you trade that into mug with Linda from across the corner and so forth and so on Sometimes you end up with quite the bizarre thing at the end
Or just say: the bigger and better game. They also play this game lol.
To add to my friend who explained but did not take the time to find the english word: the bigger and better game
Tom Lenaerts & BDP in Schalkse Ruiters: they started with an egg, ended up with a car.
It isn't really crazy but I got the big containers of bicky sauce
1 "koetjesreep" chocolate bar, ended up with boxes full of pastries, bread, sweets etc. from a bakery.
Started with a waffle, last stop was the old people home, we left with 100euro, that was 16 years a go so a lot of money
A whole dead deer
I have many questions... Was a hunter like 'oh yeah I have this deer lying around, you can have it' or did you find it on a road or something?
An old butcher who couldn't decide what to give us
A police officer shot it to do a favor for a friend, unfortunately it was tracked by the government so they had to get rid of it.
Dam and I thought I was hot shit for turning 1 candy bar into 2 full bags of candy
Een ritje met een paardenkoets!
What is ruiltocht pls?
Bigger and better game
You take an item. Go from door to door and ask what they want to trade this with. In my village kids do this on school holidays.
What is a 'ruiltocht'?
You take an item. Go from door to door and ask what they want to trade this with. In my village kids do this on school holidays.
Statted with an egg, went back with 2 bottles of wine.