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It never ceases to amaze me the number of people and businesses who do NOT know what FREE means.

Do YOU? What do YOU think FREE means?

FREE means FREE. NO NOTHING NEEDED IN RETURN.

For example, a blurb about getting some FREE Advil.

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To get your coupon please provide us with the following information. To learn more about our use of your information and your rights, please consult our Privacy Policy.

Information about you and your family enables us to provide specially tailored offers and health information to your needs.

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1. * First Name
2. * Last Name
3. * Email
4. * Address (ex. 123 Main Street)
5. * Address 2 (Apt/Suite)
6. * Zip (City and State not required.)
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Look at that, the FREE sample is NOT free at all. If it WERE free, all they would need would be street address and zipcode. No name or ANYTHING else needed. In fact, since it IS just a coupon, it could be like any of the 'other' coupons on the Internet that are printable on your printer.

I have used that program before for coupons. It will only let you print the coupon one time, so with the Advil Free sample coupon it could be that SIMPLE. When 500,000 coupon's have been printed, it would stop letting them be printed.

They would NOT know who received any of the coupons or names or addresses. Nothing. The coupons WOULD be FREE.

They aren't now, they wish to know all that PRIVATE information about you, your family, maybe about your dog and cat too. Just a total ripoff. Not free at all.

Anytime you have to give ANYTHING to received something, then it is NOT free.

When you are walking down the street and walk up to someone and give them a dollar bill and walk off, then that WAS free. The INSTANT you ask even their name when you give it to them, it is no longer free. It is that simple. You asked them to repay YOU with something (their name in this case) before giving them the dollar.

Always a scam. Always a ripoff.

This website: http://www.totallyfreestuff.com/ I'll bet, of all the hundreds or thousands of supposed 'FREE' stuff listed on it, that there is not even ONE free item. They will ALL want at least your name or name and address/e-mail before they will send you their stuff. That is NOT free. Think about it, when it the last time YOU received something for free? I can't remember the last time I did. They always want info in exchange. NOT free at all.

Ken

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Look how smart I am!

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One of the owners of a previous place I had worked at for several years died recently.

I had to laugh at the education of people these days. Don't people have any pride in how they look when they don't even know simple grammar and spelling rules? Name changed to protect the person posting the comment. Guest book entry:

"October 05, 2010

Hi Deb very sorry to here about your dad. Lost my dad in april take care. ~ Some Guy, Salem, Oregon"

I would have thought it should read:

"October 05, 2010

Hi, Deb. Very sorry to hear about your dad, I lost mine in April. Take care. ~ Some Guy, Salem, Oregon"

I was under the impression month names were capitalized and hearing with our ears wasn't spelled here, like we were here and not there.

Time for a laugh or two...

Was on a survival site and a member posted a story about doing the laundry back in the old days. The way he posted it, it looked like he was talking about himself back then. WRONG. It was from another site ran by: Bess W. Metcalf and she has some really funny posts to read on her site.

One page is as good of a starting point as another on the site and here is the URL for it:
The Sneaky Kitchen Just the thing to have a person laughing and relaxing at the end of a trying day.

Cordless phone headset

I use a headset on my cordless phones so both my arms are free for typing on the keyboard, working in the kitchen or any other jobs. I have found the Panasonic KX-TCA60 works well and will last several years. Amazon has them with FREE shipping if it is included on an order that totals $25 or more. Seems I always can find stuff on Amazon to make the order total more than that, so, good to go. Do we understand what FREE shipping means? LOL It sells on Amazon for $7.99 each. Or, OR... I can go to Panasonic and get it with FREE shipping also... at Panasonic WITH FREE shipping.... they cost: $22.99 each.

Let's see if I am smart enough to figure that out. On Amazon, four (4) of them are $31.96 total cost... and from Panasonic four (4) of them are $91.96 total cost. That is ONLY a $60 savings buying the same item from Amazon. And I usually buy them five or more at a time, since I have one on the phone in the bedroom, one on the phone by the kitchen table, and one on the phone in the office. That is three with a spare in case I catch the cord on something and and the band gets broken when it is jerked from my head with me hollering dang it because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing.

Now, what can I buy with that 'saved' $60? LOL

I just LOVE to save money, don't you? Sometimes it takes me a while to figure out WHERE I am going to buy something so I can get it for the most reasonable price. Do you do that too?

Ken

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COPD - Is that something you or I may have?

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Was talking to my friend the other night and he listened to me wheezing and coughing and asked me how long that had been going on. A couple weeks I told him. Actually it has been about a month now that I think of it.

Somewhere in our eighty minute talk he brought up something called COPD. I'd never heard of it. So, I looked it up in Google and found:

"COPD stands for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease:

• Chronic means long-term — people live with COPD for many years
• Obstructive means decreased airflow in and out of the lungs
• Pulmonary refers to your lungs — it includes all the tubes that take in air through your mouth and nose and into your lungs
• Disease means illness"

One website about it: COPD http://www.copd.com/# I really find it hard to believe I somehow got COPD.

I am slowly getting better, I think it is a case of the dang flu or cold that I had earlier. But I will keep an eye on it. Seems like it takes a long time to get over stuff that lasted a couple days when I was younger.

So, if you cough and wheeze a lot, click on the above link and see if COPD might be what you have. All the time, something new to worry about. Let us hope neither of us have it!

Ken

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Smoking cigarettes one day - and then... never again.

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So hilarious. Was on a 'health' site about something and one of the questions was:

"Have you smoked ONE cigarette in your WHOLE life."

Are they actually so stupid to believe that smoking ONE cigarette at ANY time in your whole life would make a difference in your health? Do they know something that everyone else doesn't know?
Oh, yes, I smoked just ONE cigarette THIRTY YEARS ago, so please, put me with the other ex-smokers. Put me with the people who smoke two packs a day and have been smoking two packs a day for twenty years.
You are BOTH the same, health wise. Both have the same chance of having cancer, both have the same odds of having ______. (enter whatever you wish in the blank)

What? All at once the body can't or doesn't heal itself over a period of time? Since when? Anyone have more info on this subject I could look at?

I haven't smoked in (as of today, right now at 14:00 hours) 29 years, 6 months and 14 days to the minute. From 18 March 1981 @ 14:00 hours, a Wednesday, until today 02 October 2010 @ 14:00 hours, a Saturday, since @ 14:00 hours was the last time I smoked a cigarette and that was just a half of one at that. A Marlboro, seems I smoked those most of the twenty one (21) years that I smoked. When a person stops smoking, at least with me, I tend to remember dates and times regarding such a thing happening, don't you?

I had TRIED to quit several times, over the years, before that time. Ah, by the second or third day I would dang near take your head off if you even looked at me. I figured out why that was. The part of our brain/mind that controls what we do regarding our body seems to end up being controlled by the subconscious part of our brain/mind. When I was "trying" to quit smoking, I was trying to shove the order to quit smoking through my subconscious. That doesn't seem to work well at all.
But when I finally decided in my subconscious that I didn't desire to smoke anymore, from that instant my body never had a craving for nicotine anymore.
On that day, 29½ years ago, when I lit that last cigarette, it didn't even taste good at all. I had smoked the usual number the day before, smoking right up until I went to bed. But, the next day, when I lit that first cigarette at 14:00 hours (2pm), should have told me something would be different that day. Usually I had smoked one or two cigarettes before I ever left the house in the morning. When I mashed that first cigarette of the day out in the ash tray on the 18th, the urge to smoke wasn't there anymore.

One thing that did happen though, was the fact that I became allergic to cigarette smoke and smell. It got pretty bad over the years. Someone would come into the shop with a lot of cigarette smoke smell on their clothes and within a minute or so if they were standing to close to me, close enough that I smelled the smoke on their clothes, my eyes would get all bloodshot, my nose start running, sneezing, the whole works. I would have to let one of my employees take over talking to them, the smoke on their clothes caused me too many problems, health wise.

Strange things happen sometimes. Have I thought about smoking a cigarette, just one, again to see what it tasted like? Sure, but just as a passing thought. It was never a strong enough thought that I would actually smoke one.

And yes, I AM proud of myself for dumping that filthy, nasty habit of smoking, 29½ years ago.

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