My Free Birthday – Birthday Freebies Year #3

2021 was my third year of hunting down “birthday freebies,” and I’ve been learning that birthday freebies aren’t always free. In fact, they can be costly. On September 1st, I start getting lots of emails promoting birthday gifts. Several of them wanted me to download an app, which I didn’t want to do. Out of…

How to Stop Automated Calls from CVS

The CVS robot calls me every time I have a prescription. Then I get reminders about every prescription that has ever expired since the beginning of time. I only have one regular prescription, but I think I get more calls from CVS than all other calls combined. The voice of the CVS robot is annoying,…

Chocolate Avocado

I wrote a poem about avochocolate when I was 19 years old (I had to open a word-perfect document to access it!) I didn’t get chocolate avocado dip at Dollar Tree, but it did cost $0.99 at a local grocery store! Avochocolate What if Rather than the beloved Cocoa plant, Avocado was our exploited delicacy,…