i blog for free stuff
So i signed up for this thing where i basically agreed to blog everyday for the month of november. I'm 6 days into it and i've run out of steam. Seeing as i generally blog once a week or when something interesting happens, i've fulfilled my usual quota for at least 2 months. But no, i've got this guiltish feeling hanging over my head that if i don't blog i'm letting myself down.
What happens if i fail in this task you might ask?
Nothing really. But, if i do end up posting every day this month, i'm in the running for prizes. While most of the prizes really aren't all that exciting and the chances are probably slimmer than guessing all five numbers of the lotto that i'll win, i'll do anything for free stuff.
There's something inside me that clicks into overdrive whenever there's free stuff involved. I think i inherited this from my older sister. When we were little she would go on to the internet (when neither of us really knew how it worked) and search for 'free stuff.' This was back in the day when we didn't have our own email addresses and used our family email account, which very shortly became cluttered with junk when we signed up for aforementioned 'free stuff.' We professed ignorance.
Now, most of this free stuff was complete garbage in retrospect. The majority of it ended up in a box under the bed to be thrown out reluctantly when we were older and realized we honestly had no need for a bag of stickers from jimmy dean sausages or paperweights from hammermill. But it was free. And that's all that mattered.
So, if you became irritated with my frequent blogging this month, blame it on my sister.
What happens if i fail in this task you might ask?
Nothing really. But, if i do end up posting every day this month, i'm in the running for prizes. While most of the prizes really aren't all that exciting and the chances are probably slimmer than guessing all five numbers of the lotto that i'll win, i'll do anything for free stuff.
There's something inside me that clicks into overdrive whenever there's free stuff involved. I think i inherited this from my older sister. When we were little she would go on to the internet (when neither of us really knew how it worked) and search for 'free stuff.' This was back in the day when we didn't have our own email addresses and used our family email account, which very shortly became cluttered with junk when we signed up for aforementioned 'free stuff.' We professed ignorance.
Now, most of this free stuff was complete garbage in retrospect. The majority of it ended up in a box under the bed to be thrown out reluctantly when we were older and realized we honestly had no need for a bag of stickers from jimmy dean sausages or paperweights from hammermill. But it was free. And that's all that mattered.
So, if you became irritated with my frequent blogging this month, blame it on my sister.
posted by schaffner at 10:01 PM
4 Comments:
I sympathize with the running out of steam. On Friday, I sat at my computer with absolutely nothing to say, clutching my forehead and thinking "do I really have to do this THIRTY TIMES?"
Hey. Some of it is semi-exciting stuff.
Good luck keeping up.
I support Free Stuff.
Do you remember the book she had titled "how to get free stuff"? it was a book full of addresses of companies that you could write to and ask them for free stuff and they would send it to you. I just wanted you to know that this obsession that our sister has started way before we even had internet. I still think she suffers from the disease of craving free stuff.
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