by Linda L Kinyon

Created on: November 06, 2007   Last Updated: October 31, 2008

No, I don't mean the stuff in a can that sits in your cupboard till Uncle Earl comes over and says, "hey, lets fry up some Spam and chew the fat...." I mean the kind that inevitably comes in your in box, cluttering it up and clogging its arteries.

Have you ever really stopped and read some of the titles? I mean you can get rid of unwanted hair, have a DNA test (I wonder if that is to find out if you are related to Sasquatch prior to your unwanted hair removal?) all in the comfort of your new home in Costa Rica. Then you can travel the world on a cruise and take a vacation after you sign up and fill out 25 pages worth of yes/no answers, spend thousands of dollars on the required offers and wonder why you need to grab the Spam that says you can restore your credit just by clicking here. After you restore your credit the next Spam gives you another credit card with a limit of up to $100,000 and a loan for a house and your dream car. Don't forget you also have a house in Costa Rica while you are living this rich and ritzy lifestyle!

Can you imagine a life without Spam? Where you would open your e-mail and have only your business or e-mails from friends and family? What a shock! A clean in box. So much for that new vacuum you just won via that latest Spam! You won't need to suck all of it out of your in box so you won't be needing the vacuum!

If you are lucky you will get something great to eat to go along with your great vacation or that new bar b que package you just won! I mean I won an entire truckload of soda and have yet to receive it. I hope I didn't miss the delivery truck while I was on my cruise!

Then, after all of this rich lifestyle and living, they give you the diet ads. You know the ones....where you can eat all the chocolate you want and still lose weight (I may actually check this one out...any diet with chocolate in it sounds like a great diet to me). Or you can order those dinky little meals in a box that fit right in your microwave and if you order before midnight tonight you can get an entire 7 days free. Don't forget to read the fine print...that is after you are on it for 3 to 6 months and find out the food tastes like cardboard and you are gaining not loosing weight, but of course you still want to get the free 7 days after all you have invested into the program.

Yup, a virtual tour of your in box. You've just been waxed, polished and hung out to dry right in the comfort of your own home in front of your very own computer. The computer you just won is a whole different story.

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