The Wrath of Coca-Cola Points
So, there I was, dutifully racking up the Coca-Cola points.
Only, it seemed to be in vain, because all I seemed to manage to collect was enough points to get a free magazine subscription to some magazine I’d have no interest in, largely because (as I recall) most of the magazines seemed geared to women. Maybe they had some of the “men’s” magazines, but those didn’t interest me either.
You know, I used to subscribe to a ton of magazines. Now, I only get one on gardening.
Anyway, so I had these Coke points but not enough to do anything with. Or, to rephrase that, not enough to get anything genuinely interesting with. You need like a gazillion points to get something like your own Coca-Cola vending machine. But, you can only key in ten codes per day. And, with a bottle being one point, you just know you’re never going to get a gazillion points in your lifetime.
It all seems so pointless.
But then, and this was 2008 mind you, I heard that you could donate your points to some organization that would use the points to get Coca-Cola toys for kids for Christmas. That seemed like a good idea. I can’t get anything useful with my points and I’m pretty sure it would be cheaper to buy my own Coca-Cola vending machine than to buy enough pop to earn one with points. So, why not give those points to the kids? They add all those points up, and they can probably get lots of Coca-Cola polar bears (or whatever) for the kids.
Did you know that your points expire if you don’t log in often enough?
So, no points for the kiddies because they were all gone.
Still, I collected bottles, figuring I’d key in the codes and pass those along to the kiddies.
After a while, I had a number of empty bottles scattered around. Now, since you’re limited to entering 10 codes a day and (last time I checked) you could only enter them through some pain in the neck Flash monstrosity that doesn’t make doing it easy or efficient, I decided I’d just enter the codes in a text file, so I’d have them to enter them on the site at a later date.
How much nicer it could be if I could just enter them on the site all on one day. I work in spurts. Sorry, but I’m just not going to log into Coke’s website on a daily basis. Maybe if I was still a teenager and amused by Flash animations and stuff, but I’m not.
So, the codes go into a text file. That way, I can enter them 10 at a time at a later date.
Except I never do that.
Because (a) I would have to stop after 10 codes and (b) by the time I logged in again to enter another 10 codes, the first 10 would probably have expired.
A vicious cycle.
Sure, I could perhaps donate the points right after entering them. That’d be a possibility, but still doesn’t resolve (a).
And, so now I have a text file with a number of codes, and I also (again) have a number of empty bottles scattered about.
I would feel bad throwing them away, knowing there are points being wasted if I do that. Kids are starving for Coke toys, you know? Especially this past Christmas when the recession probably had a big impact for a lot of families.
So, I have this clutter of bottles. I’d throw them away but it seems wasteful. I’d enter the codes into a text file, but it seems pointless. I’d enter the codes into the Coke website, but it’s such a pain in the neck.
I should have never registered for the Coke website to begin with. Then, I wouldn’t have worried about points. I wouldn’t have known I could have donated those points to kids, because if I saw something about Coke points, I wouldn’t have read it. And then I wouldn’t feel guilty about it.
You know, maybe I should just toss the bottles and send ten bucks to some kids’ charity.
Seems like it would be a lot less hassle. My time is worth more than 10 points a day anyway.
But then it still seems like I’m throwing away something of value…
I don’t know anything about Coca-Cola points - but Coca-Cola Classic is my FAVORITE of all sodas in the whole wide world!
What are you like some type of Hoarder?
DCR is a HOARDER !!!!
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