October 5, 2010

  • give hope cup

    "give me a break" is all I can say. It is that time of the month when certain items are marked with a symbol to denote that they support one of those wonderful causes for women when you buy the product at your local supermarket.

     

    They make it seem like you're on a mission to help cure cancer & save the world at the same time. The National Breast Cancer Society must be on crack. You know, the one where they dangle a carrot in front of you, you know you want it, and you kinda run along for a while, but then get tired or just come to the realization that it's a just freakin carrot and stop chasing it.

    But guess what? You don't make a 'donation' once you buy these products with the nice pink logo on it AND the company doesn't even make a donation on your behalf as you would assume.

    Instead you have to open the lid, get the secret code, visit a website, do the secret handshake, then search the site for a non existent entry form and finally come to the conclusion that you've been duped. How do you know this? The website has a 'under construction' banner on top.

    All this wasted effort for a 10 cent donation.

     

    bah humbug.