Oxy Clean Review, In 6 Lines Or Less

(In an effort to keep a review to six lines or less, grammar goes to hell; forgive me.)

1. Even though I was confused by OxyClean (Do you use it instead of laundry detergent, or as a supplement?), I bought a bucket of it for out next trip to the laundromat.

2. The flimsy scoop provided broke on the third dip into the powder; I managed to hold it together long enough to scoop OxyClean into the rest of our waiting machines.

3. There was no noticeable difference in the laundry, but I schlepped the bucket along on the next trip to the laundromat, placing the bucket on top of the full laundry basket I was carrying -- from which it fell, onto the pavement, immediately splitting, nearly neatly in two.

4. Now I can't blame OxyClean for my clumsiness, but I can hold them accountable for inferior plastic in their packaging -- a scoop that breaks on the third use and a container that can't handle a single tumble.

5. I didn't leave the broken bucket spewing powder in the parking lot, instead put it back on top of the laundry basket; but since we had no bags or containers with us to pour the remaining powder into, we dumped the remaining product in the laundromat garbage.

6. However, some of the powder did get into the wash -- where it became a wad of goo on several of the sheets.

OxyClean: Epic Fail.

My Coke Rewards: A Lot Of Cardboard Lying About The House

I drink a lot of Diet Coke, and the price of cola sure has increased in the past few years -- even the generic (yuck) cola is expensive. So I gave in and decided to use My Coke Rewards.

Here's my 6 Lines Or Less (Yeah Right) Review:

You enter the codes printed inside the cardboard boxes, which means you have a lot of cardboard lying about the house until you do so, and the site only allows you to enter up to 10 codes per day, which means you have a lot of cardboard lying about the house (until, one imagines, you catch up).

The site is in a I'm-so-cool-I-use-flashy-scripts that I cannot access or use it with my own PC (I am on Linux, with Firefox), so I have to use hubby's; which means I have a lot of cardboard laying about the house while I wait for chances to use his PC.

The great news is that I'm not stuck turning my points into "Coke Collectibles" but rather can redeem them for an "award" of Coke products (100 points for a 12-pack of pop).

But the bad news is that you cannot select multiples of each reward, so with 500 points to redeem for 5 packs of pop I have to go through the same motions 5 times, including finding the item (4-5 clicks depending upon the number of rewards in that category), and the annoying address/post information requiring the manual entry of my phone number each time as the widget doesn't save it -- all of which is is annoying and makes me put off entering the codes and so I have a lot of cardboard lying about the house.

The odd thing, especially for the ultra-slick-flashy-script-site is that Coke sends you the coupon for the free 12-pack via the mail not email, which means you not only have a several week wait for a reward which could easily be emailed & printed, but Coke has the added expense of paying for paper, envelopes and postage (now I know why the prices have increased so much, thank you), which is also not very green.

Perhaps this isn't all that bad and shouldn't warrant the 'bad companies' label... While it's not too annoying to use, it sure could be better.