"Round ONE: Never have I ever ...gone to EVERY pony carrying store in my vicinity to find the pony I wanted."
This is a good one! Unfortunately for my area, we don't have a lot of Targets and Walmarts around... my closest Walmart is a 30 minute drive! BUT, there is a shopping center with a Target, Walmart, JoAnn's and Michaels in the same area... but it's a bit spread out! So on the day I found out that the Basic Fun ponies were hitting clearance at $2 each at Walmart, and the new rainbows were just being sighted, I knew I had to begin ... The Hunt! I packed up a backpack instead of a purse to make it easier to schlepp my purchases from store to store, and I began walking!
I hit Target first, found some cute CMCs and some great toy stuff on clearance, including a fluffy Valentine's day unicorn! No sign of the rainbows, so I continued to Michael's, for general crafts and the hope for pony clearance. (They still carry the Funko superhero G4 minis, remember those?!) Not much luck there, although I found some cute stuff on clearance anyway, you know how it is! Then I breezed through JoAnn's and got a bottle of dye that Michael's didn't have (and searched for cute pony fabric, of course! No luck!), and tightened the straps on my backpack. Although Target, JoAnn's and Michael's are all connected by a sidewalk, Walmart is across several parking lots, and uphill both ways! In the snow!
Once I'd made my way through the geography-defying Double Uphill Snowy Path, I found out the tragic news: my Walmart never even got in the Basic Fun ponies to begin with, so they didn't have any on clearance! Why, Walmart, why!? Why would you do this to me, personally?!
... but then I found an Equestria Girls figure for $2, and I swung by another Target on the way home and found the Basic Fun Twilight I'd spent several months searching for! So, it all worked out in the end! ;]