New Hobby
Well, Joy has told me that she prefers this new habit of mine (writing for the blog) over my old habits of writing to magazines, newspapers, columnists, and companies, so I guess I’m doing something that makes her happier. Woohoo!
Yes, it’s true… I used to write e-mails (or if you go way back – U.S. mail) to companies suggesting things such as new product ideas, marketing campaigns, product improvements, etc. To the media outlets I’d write to tell the columnist that he or she wrote a good piece. Occasionally, I would also write to disagree with a piece, but that is fairly rare. I think it is nicer send support, y’know? Actually, I think that the only times I would ever send in disagreements would be when I read magazines targeted at women, because I think that they might actually care about my opinion I guess.
The letters and e-mails I liked the most were for new product ideas or product improvements. Some people like to dream about winning the lottery, but I always thought it would be cool if the M&M/Mars company would just make some marshmallow M&Ms. This grew into other things like a desire for Strawberry Kiwi Gatorade, pizza box recycling, a number of Ben & Jerry’s flavors, and my latest – more almonds in the new Almond Snickers (there’s ole M&M/Mars again.)
Actually, I pretty much stopped that practice when I learned that most companies would never read the letters anyway, because they often feel like they might be liable if they did use the idea. I don’t understand that at all, but I will believe it for now because I am pretty ignorant when it comes to law.
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