Time To Get Real

Useless Things

This is my list of useless things arranged in no particular order:

1. Gift card holders. Ranging anywhere from $2.50 to $10.00 these useless pieces of aluminum or colorful paper are yet another way to part you from your pocket change. Ways around using a gift card holder? Just put the gift card in the birthday/wedding/christmas/whatever holiday/ card and hand it to the person you're giving it to. Problem solved.

2. Over the top packing from specialty stores It's one thing if a purchase is fragile. It's quite another if you buy two air fresheners from Bath and Body Works and they get wrapped up in paper and handed to you in a huge gift bag.

3. Scheduling to have a package delivered I'm surprised UPS and FedEx even have this option on their site, because they never follow instructions.

4. The little flag on the mail box Apparently postal workers can't take misdirected mail back anymore. Go figure.

5. Customer Support For Any Microsoft Program From Microsoft Corporation