Brainwashed Amway Defenders

Every now and then I get a brainwashed ambot showing up at my blog usually after doing a search for how Amway is awesome or an Amway function. They stick around long enough to read the one post their search pointed them to and write some canned Amway response that came straight from the CD or one of their upline. So far I haven’t had an original response. Just the usual bullshit - quitter, lazy, didn’t try hard enough, loser, keep working your J.O.B.

I’ve already covered in previous posts that my Ambot put in at least 100 hours a month into Amway pretty much to the extent of ignoring and pushing aside everything else in his life, including his own legitimate business. The facts are what they are. Former IBO’s are all over the Internet saying how hard they worked - some reaching pin levels of Eagle, Platinum, and Emerald - and saying the money they were promised they’d get when they reached that level just wasn’t there.

I had one admirer - Jennifer - who posted a bunch of questions like any good little defensive IBO would do. If she’d read some of the other posts on my blog that would give her the answers to the questions she asked.

Uh, who’s the lazy one now? Ha ha!

Then there’s anonymous from Missoula Montana who accuses me of having body parts I do not possess!  The name is Anna. That is a palindrome. Say it backwards or forwards and it still says the same thing. I have never met a man named Anna. Are ambots so brainwashed they can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman anymore?

Typical brainwashed IBO behavior is to ignore the facts and believe only what their upline says because that is always the truth. Other sources are all lies. At least that’s what the Platinum brainwashes the followers into believing.

Brainwashed ambots are welcome to my blog and if they’re a rare breed and actually have something original to say and can say it without being on the attack about me being lazy, unsupportive, unchristian, didn’t try hard enough, and a broke loser who is going to work for someone else for all my life, then post away.

If you’re a respectful ambot I’ll do my best to be nice to you.

For the rest of you brainwashed ambots who show up here accusing me of not supporting my husband all I have to say is fuck you. But then what else do I expect to hear from a brainwashed IBO. Leave me a lazy ass canned Amspeak response and expect a few insults hurled right back at you.

Then come back a few days later and see if you're the subject of a new post!

Recycling IBOmobiles

Colin brought up an interesting point when it comes to cars the IBO’s drive. Do they recycle them within the line of sponsorship and sell them to someone else downline or crossline?

I would say that’s highly likely. The IBO’s we knew drove old clunkers that were forever breaking down. In many cases it would have been cheaper to buy another old clunker for a few hundred bucks that get the current IBOmobile repaired. When an IBO was upgrading to another car the word was likely spread via text, Communikate, or Facebook that a vintage 1970’s BMW was available for sale and any IBO’s in the market would have the opportunity to purchase it. With crossline and downline the message could get out to hundreds of IBO’s.

Now I'm all for recycling but when it comes to cars and safety and when is it time to put a clunker out of its misery, sometimes its easier to call the junk man to take the car to the scrap metal plant. He'll probably give the IBO $50 to remove it. But if the IBO can sell it for $100 to an unsuspecting IBO that would be the more profitable route. Make money! Isn't that why everyone is in Amway?

Someone Ambot knows - an acquaintance of one of his relatives - received a car from one of their parents. My memory is a little sketchy if it was his parents or hers. Either way the parents bought a new car and gave them their old car which was a newer model car. That left the couple with a car about 10 years old still in good shape but no longer needed. They decided to sell it for $500 to get a quick sale.

Ambot makes the mistake of alerting the sack of shit Platinum about this car. It might not be a rust bucket 1981 Cadillac preferred choice of IBO’s but its a good buy for a car that's not falling apart and is in running condition. The sack of shit knows a woman who needs a car and they set up a time for her to come out and see the car. Or maybe she decided to buy it sight unseen and a time was set up to exchange the cash and take the car.

At this point you’d think the transaction should now switch to between the buyer and seller and Ambot and the sack of shit Platinum can step out of the picture.

But no, that would be too easy. The woman selling the car phones Ambot to bitch at him that the buyer didn’t show up. So Ambot phones the Platinum and back and forth it goes with the two of them playing the middlemen. And for them it sucks to be the middleman because there is no commission despite all the grief they’re going through. A new time was set up. And the buyer didn’t show up again. And the seller phones to bitch at Ambot again. This scenario played out several times always in my presence. I told Ambot I’d had enough of hearing about that fucking car and didn’t want to hear nothing more about it no more. If the woman who wanted to buy it wasn’t showing up then the seller should advertise it on Craigslist. First person to show up with the cash gets the car.

No. That would be too easy. And the bitch kept phoning Ambot to complain about the buyer not showing up. I mean how many no shows does it take for the seller to get a clue? Apparently she enjoys tormenting me and phoning Ambot to bitch bitch bitch. I told him to pass me the phone and I’d let her have it about her fucking car but he didn’t want me to curse her out. I figure if I curse her out that will be the last we hear from her and good riddance. These people are weird. They live in a nice subdivision built in the 70’s where the houses and yards are neat and tidy except theirs. Their house was painted an oddball color of orange. The front of the house that is. Maybe they ran out of glow in the dark orange paint? The sides and back of the house were three different colors - white on one side, brown at the back, and I think the other side was a shade of tan. She was a hoarder. Ever watch that TV show about hoarders? She might not have been as bad as what I’ve seen on that show but was well on her way. I had the misfortune of going inside the house. Rooms packed high with junk so you couldn’t walk into them or close the door so visitors couldn’t see into them. The kitchen counters had no space left to put anything on them. The sink was 3 feet high with dirty dishes. Junk spilling out of the house into the backyard and they had really weird tacky yard decorations. Not everyone can pull off the used toilet in the front yard as a flower planter look but it was right at home here with the other junk. A whole army of broken roaming gnomes guarded it. There always has to be one house in a neighborhood that’s an eyesore!

Anyway back to the damn car fiasco that goes on for about a month. Finally the Platinum finds a different buyer and the car sale went through.

What really pissed me off the most was that we were no longer doing anything with Amway so why the hell was Ambot playing used car salesman without a commission?

Must have been the same reason he played at being an Amway businessman with no commission.

No Use for Nutrilite Vitamins

One day Ambot opens his expensive box of shit from Amway and pulls out a bunch of Nutrilite vitamins that his upline has brainwashed him into believing he had to have.

One of the useless vitamins he pulled forth was called Concentrated Fruits and Vegetables.

What the fuck do we need this for? I asked him.

This is to make sure we get our 5 to 10 fruits and vegetables each day he says.

Are you shitting me? I ask.

I mean what is wrong with this picture? Taking 2 vitamins a day because some asshole from the stage says you can take them instead of eating healthy fresh fruit and vegetables. What kind of a fucking moron believes that bullshit? Answer - a brainwashed IBO.

Since when do we have trouble getting our 5 to 10 a day? OK, maybe when we have to attend an Amway function getting in healthy meals might be challenging.

I was brought up to eat an orange or half a grapefruit with my breakfast every day so that is probably the only meal of the day where I might only have one serving of fruit. Sometimes 2 servings if you count juice. I’m not real big on drinking juice and calling it the same thing as a serving of fruit. I guess its the same way I feel about eating a vitamin and calling it the same thing as eating a fruit. I usually have juice in the house but I don’t necessarily drink it at breakfast time. I’m more likely to make a strawberry or banana smoothie to drink at breakfast or mid-morning than drink juice.

For lunch and dinner I usually eat 2 or 3 fruits and/or vegetables. Salads made with either fruits or veggies or sometimes fruit is part of the dessert. Gotta love those banana splits!

I was always told if I was hungry to eat an apple. If I wasn’t hungry enough to eat an apple then I wasn’t hungry. I remember that old saying about how an apple a day keeps the doctor away. I eat at least one apple everyday, usually more. Seems to be working. No health issues. A person like me who shops at least once a week at a produce store has a good selection of fresh fruit and vegetables in the crisper. I also grow my own fruits and vegetables. I have 5 apple trees around the yard and a few other fruit trees. I grow rhubarb, strawberries and raspberries too. Nice going out in the morning when they’re in season and having fresh berries with my cereal. I’m not big on growing vegetables and technically that rhubarb is a vegetable but I have potatoes, onions, lettuce, pumpkins, and tomatoes on the grow right now.

Do I sound like a person who needs to take 2 Nutrilite vitamins daily to get my 5 to 10 servings of fruit and vegetables? Sometimes I can get in my daily intake just be wandering around my garden and snacking!

Nutrilite Fruit and Vegetable vitamins cost $40.99. There are 60 vitamins in a bottle but you gotta take 2 a day so it only lasts a month. Amway was kind enough to break down the amount down on their website - costs $1.37 per day. They are very careful to say 2 vitamins a day = the amount of phytonutrients in over 10 servings of fruit and veggies though it excludes mentioning which 10 fruits and vegetables were part of this study. Hell they exclude who did the survey. Maybe some Amway employees penned it after a night of drinking!

Why don’t we look at a real study? This is from the Center for Science in the Public Interest. This study rates the benefits of 84 vegetables. Hmm. Maybe I need to start eating more kale.....  

I usually spend less than $20/week on fresh fruit and vegetables but lets call it $20 for the sake of rounding up. Divided by 2 people is $10/week for this good stuff. Divide by 7 days = $1.43 a day to get 5 to 10 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables daily. Just pennies a day more than Amway's 2 vitamins. For real food. Good food that you can actually eat and not feel hungry afterwards. I can't say that about vitamins!

The bigger picture is what are people not getting by eating those shitty vitamins instead of fresh fruit and vegetables. The health benefits. Many fruits and vegetables are thought to be cancer fighters, help prevent osteoporosis, and other possible benefits for preventing some illnesses. What about fibre? What about Vitamins A, B, and C? What about Potassium? What about Iron? I could go on and on but I'm sure you get the picture. 

None of that in those Nutrilite concentrated fruit and vegetable vitamins. Or maybe there is but its not listed on Amway's nutritional information on their web page. Could be trace amounts.

There are other options available such as V8 juices and similar juices that equal 2 fruit servings by drinking a glass. Its not my first choice but it would be preferable to gulping back 2 vitamins.

I can not fill up on 2 vitamins a day the way I can by eating an apple, a banana, a cup of grapes, sticking a sweet potato in the microwave, or adding a tomato to my sandwich. I’m already at 5 servings of fruit and vegetables and its probably not even dinnertime. Its not hard to get those servings in. Even the Center for Science in the Public Interest wraps it up quickly.

One more article from the Center for Science in the Public Interest on the 10 Worst and Best Foods you can eat. I look at the 10 best and I eat a lot of those foods frequently though I admit I don’t usually have broccoli in the house. I don’t like preparing it but if someone else prepares it I’ll eat it. I love mangos but I have a problem with choosing them or I take too long to eat them and they go bad. I buy frozen mangos and put them in a bowl to thaw out an hour or two before I want to eat them.

And the point is? Eating frozen fruits and vegetables is still better than eating 2 vitamins.

Nutrilite sucks! So do those assholes that tell you to eat vitamins instead of fresh produce!

And now its time for me to go water my garden!

Trade Show at Puryear Family Reunion 2011

Seeing as how I have such “fond” memories of the trade show at Family Reunion I thought I’d check the WWDB web page and see if there’s any mention of the kind of trade show treats that await the poor bastards going to the Amway WWDB Family Reunion in Boise Idaho in July 2011.

This year’s fakey trade show seems slightly different than the one I attended. They’re calling the Friday night trade show workshops and seminars. It sounds like it might be more or less the same thing as the trade show I went to. Booths and demos. Stingy demos judging by the dixie cup of Perfect Water and packet of one use Artistry face cream that we received.

How’s this for a way to kill a Friday night?

1. Learning about standing orders and digital delivery. Yeah right. I’d rather be learning this bullshit than attending a Friday night Rolling Stones concert.

2. Introducing the new WWDB app. Yeah sucks if you don’t have an iPhone. Expect the cult leaders to be riding their downline’s asses to buy new phones so they can buy this new app. More money flushed down the old Amway tool scam toilet!

3. Demonstrating how Legacy of Clean works. Here’s a news flash for those pompous Amway bastards. Most women learned how to operate a washing machine and dishwasher by the time they were twelve years old. Sorry guys this might have been a skill that took you a little longer to learn! We all know how to use laundry soap and dishwasher soap. We figured it out a long time ago. Through trial and error over the years we figured out which detergents do a good job of getting our clothes/dishes clean. We know the approximate prices of just about every soap out there because we’re good comparison shoppers. We know a good deal and will buy an extra one if its on sale. We all know that Amway’s soap is overpriced and there are better, less expensive options in the market. You can be pretty certain whoever is demonstrating this bullshit had to go to a lot of trouble to find maybe the one soap out there in the world that doesn’t clean as well as Amway.

4. Nutrilite Weight Management. Uh huh. Judging by some of the speakers who hit the stage we all see how good this product works! There’s about a 95% failure rate for people who try diets like this. Almost the same odds as the failure rate of people who don’t earn money in Amway. This is one company that loves to stack the odds against you and design their systems for failure!

5. Fast Track! Make money! Yeah, yeah! I’ve heard it all before! They were calling it Fast Track when we were in too!

6. Artistry will be there again doling out stingy sized sample packets. Avon is more generous with their samples. Less expensive. More variety. Need I say more? Artistry sucks!

So that tells me about 6 exhibitors/snake oil pitchers will be at the trade show. In my previous post I didn’t remember how many though I thought less than 10. We zipped through the trade fair in less than 20 minutes. This time they’re forcing “serious business builders” to stay a little longer by enticing them with “very important” seminars spaced out over a couple of hours. The seminars and demos start at various times between 6:30pm and 8:30pm. Don’t get your undies in a knot. Those seminars last about 5 minutes. There’s only so many ways you can bullshit about a lousy product.

There are more fun ways to spend a hot July weekend in Boise. Waterpark anyone?

Who is Nelsen of the Infamous WWDB Amway Family Reunion?

So who is Nelsen of the infamous WWDB Amway Family Reunion?

In a previous post I mentioned that someone - or perhaps a couple - named “Nelsen” are holding a Nelsen Moving Up on July 14 2011 and the Nelsen Family Reunion July 15 to 17 2011. See this post for the web link where I found out those dates.

I have no idea who “Nelsen” is so I hit good old Google and searched for Nelsen Family Reunion 2011. I got a ton of hits from what appear to be legitimate families with the last name Nelsen who are holding reunions. So that tells me “Nelsen” is either a very busy boy or I better put in some more search criteria. I added Amway after that. The first three links are my blog. OK well that’s not helpful but it is kind of fun because I’m probably misdirecting some Nelsen Amway fanatics who can’t find the information they seek.

The next link is to Amquix’s site, Jane’s Quixtar Amway Story. http://www.amquix.info/jane's_quixtar_story.html

In this story she references executive Diamonds Theron and Darlene Nelsen. Now whether or not they are the same “Nelsen” holding the Amway WWDB Family Reunion from July 15 to 17 2011 I haven’t the slightest idea. You know how it is with Amway and WWDB and classified cult information. They don’t let that information get out there easily. Where’s Wikileaks when you need them?

More compelling is Jane’s story. I’ve said it before. Every Amway widow seems to have pretty much the same horror story. Just the players, the amount of financial losses, and the locations are different. Hers ended sadly because Amway destroyed her marriage. Chalk up another Amway divorce.

I guess we have to wait and see what happens once Puryear Family Reunion has ended in July and if World Wide Dream Builders give some web time to Duncan and Nelsen and any others???? Horror of horrors. Its bad enough to know that I’ve uncovered three WWDB Amway Family Reunions. Could there be others lurking out there?

On behalf of poor old Jane - I’d like to send a big fuck you out there to World Wide Dream Builders, Amway, the Nelsens, and anyone else who played a part in flushing $35,000 of Jane’s money down the toilet and destroying her marriage.

More about the Amway WWDB Puryear Family Reunion 2011

This post serves no purpose other than to say hi to IBO’s searching for information about Amway WWDB Family Reunion 2011. I need some more keywords. That would be World Wide Dream Builders Family Reunion 2011. Also known as the Puryear Family Reunion 2011. Its being held in Boise Idaho from July 8 to 10 2011.

If you do a Google search for Amway Family Reunion 2011 four of my posts are in the top 5. What’s the number one hit? A paid Amway ad. Well if they can’t beat me in the ranks they’ll damn well pay Google for the top spot! If you do a search for WWDB Family Reunion 2011 again four of my posts are in the top 5. The 5th post belongs to Amquix so let’s give them a little boost on my blog. Its a former WWDB Direct talking about the function costs. Some of the prices have gone up but really things haven’t changed too much. http://www.amquix.info/amway_wwdb_direct.html

You’d think those bastards at the World Wide Group would change their password but they don’t. Log in name is guest. Password is dream.

The purpose of this post is that I want to put in this year’s speakers in case someone is specifically doing a search for one of them at Amway Family Reunion 2011. You’ll find them here and they’re really hard to find anywhere else. Amway cult secrets. Keep it quiet. Hush hush.

So here are the Diamond speakers at the Puryear Family Reunion 2011 as listed on the WWDB web page who will be fighting over the admission proceeds the IBO’s coughed up to get in to the event. Those bastards really need to change their password! Ha ha!

Ron and Georgia Lee Puryear

Glen and Joya Baker

Dave and Jan Severn

Mike and Michi Woods

Greg and Laurie Duncan

Jim and Judy Head

Matt and Sandee Tsuruda

Dan and Sandy Yuen

Joe and Norma Foglio

And just because it’ll be fun to screw up a few more IBO’s searching for information on WWDB Amway Puryear Family Reunion lets toss in a few more names that are missing from the list. Notably absent:

Dean Kosage

Brad Wolgamott

David Shores

Brad Duncan

The reasons may have something to do with reports on other blogger’s websites: jumped ship to start their own LOS, bankruptcy, divorce, foreclosure, etc. The Amway bad boy’s club.

Who Cares About Amway WWDB Family Reunion 2011?

Who cares about the Amway WWDB Family Reunion 2011?

To answer that question probably only the Diamonds who will be splitting the profits from the admission fees charged to IBO’s.

And now on to other things that nobody cares about.

A few months ago my blog and a few other blogs had a late night visitor asking us about Paul Tsika and suggesting I write a post about him.

Most of us had similar responses - never heard of him.

A few days after the Paul Tsika posts began some bloggers inadvertently compared notes. A lot of similarities in the postings all around 2 or 3am by someone calling herself or himself I’m A Happy Girl or something like that. All originating from the same IP address and here I’m a little foggy on the town. It may have been Carlsbad or Oceanside or Solana Beach - California. For anyone not familiar with Southern California these are beach communities close together north of San Diego. There are a lot of pretty coastal towns - La Jolla, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Carlsbad, Oceanside - and I just don’t recall which of them the IP address came from.

Most bloggers think the Happy Girl postings are written by either Dean Kosage or his girlfriend because they live in the area and somebody who was either living in their house or a former friend ratted them out. Not sure why either of them has a bee up their ass about Paul Tsika.

Anyway what the hell does this have to do with anything? To quote that Diamond woman: who cares?

I found a website that seems to belong to Paul Tsika and he lists some of the WWDB Amway functions.

So yup you guessed it. Yet another one of my posts to screw up IBO’s looking for legitimate information on Amway WWDB Family Reunion 2011.

Here is what I can see off this website.

Due to Family Reunion not being held on the same dates it would seem likely that the really brainwashed Amway cult followers might be busting their asses to get to all of them.

Puryear Moving Up July 5 to 7 2011

Puryear Family Reunion July 8 to 10 2011

Nelsen Moving Up July 14 2011 - who the hell is Nelsen anyway???

Nelsen Family Reunion July 15 to 17 2011

Duncan Moving Up July 19 to 21 2011

Duncan Family Reunion July 22 to 24 2011

I might not know who the hell Nelsen is but apparently he is more on the ball than the other two. He can get his moving up function done in one day and those other bastards need three days. What does this tell you? Some people take longer than others to spout off their bullshit.

Duncan Family Reunion 2011?

I can see my work is not done yet when it comes to Amway WWDB Family Reunion for 2011. I have a few more IBO’s I need to lure here with promises of information on the Duncan Family Reunion 2011. How many Amway Family Reunions does WWDB need to hold anyway?

And here I’ll say Shit! It is really hard to find out about WWDB  Family Reunion events. Talk about secretive! There’s something wrong with this picture. Most legitimate businesses want to get the word out there for marketing and recruiting opportunities. The Amway cult wants to keep things hush hush.

It is going to be held Friday July 22 until Sunday July 24 2011 in the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.  http://www.oregoncc.org/ Look at the events calendar in July. It is there. I can’t find out how many seats this place holds or how much it costs to rent the place. Hmm... isn’t Former WWDB Lemming good at that? Be interesting to find out if the Oregon Convention Center holds more people than the arena in Boise. If its a bigger venue the Duncan Amway Family Reunion 2011 could potentially put more money in the Duncans bank account than what the Puryears are earning.

Aside from location and date I can not find piss all information about the Duncan Family Reunion 2011. Not even listed on the WWDB web page where all they’re promoting is the Puryear Family Reunion 2011. Doesn’t Puryear own WWDB? That could be why he’s not promoting other WWDB Amway Family Reunion functions. Wants to send as many IBO’s to his Family Reunion as he can. Doesn’t want to take the cash out of his pocket and put it into Duncans!

At least Portland, Oregon makes a whole lot more sense than Boise, Idaho. Again no disrespect to any Idahoans out there but Portland has a better location for access and is not off the beaten path. Portland is on Interstate 5 a major highway between California and Washington and easily accessible from these states. I don’t know that its any easier to fly in to compared to Boise because neither airport is a hub to any airline that I know of. Though I suspect that one can get to Portland from just about anywhere in the US with fewer plane changes than it takes to get to Boise.

I can tell you one thing. This post is probably going to get to the top of Google searches really fast seeing as how there is no other information readily available for IBO’s searching for information on WWDB Amway Duncan Family Reunion 2011!

Trade Show at Amway WWDB Family Reunion

When we arrived at the hotel we stayed at during Amway WWDB Family Reunion we barely checked in and put our bags in the room when Ambot wanted to haul ass over to the convention arena because something was going on - meaning Amway products would be out on display. For lack of anything else to describe it I’d call it a trade show but that is using the term very loosely.

Now I’ve been to real trade shows. They usually revolve around a theme: boats, home & gardening, RV’s, etc. Trade shows are usually held in fairgrounds because there are usually exhibition halls or ice rinks (no ice), etc that can be converted into trade shows and plenty of parking. There are usually a couple of hundred exhibitors, maybe more depending on the venue. Usually the people who rent booths at these events either provide products or services roughly related to the theme of the trade show. However there are always the usual suspects who show up at these events even though what they’re selling has nothing to do with the theme. There will probably be booths selling nuts or fudge or cotton candy, probably some realtors have booths, maybe some tourism bureaus from other towns, and usually some MLM’s like Mary Kay will be flogging their wares. I have never seen Amway represented at any trade show. Whew!

OK so we bust our asses getting to the arena so we can partake of the world’s most awesome Amway trade show. Its a not to be missed extravaganza for serious business builders.

Ha ha! This was the shittiest, sorriest excuse for a trade show I’ve ever seen in my life. Well what else do you expect from Amway? There were only a few booths, maybe 10. One of them had Perfect Water dispensed in dixie cups. Artistry was there and they had little sample packs of face cream. You know the use it once kind. Someone from XS Gear was there with their products. This is where Ambot ran into trouble with getting ripped off by XS Gear. He got the guy’s business card and decided to be their best customer but it didn’t work out so well.

I don’t remember what else was there. I know it took less than 20 minutes to see everything. Pretty shitty. Surprisingly enough there weren’t the hoards of brainwashed ambots you’d expect to see here. There were maybe a hundred people and that includes IBO’s and the exhibitors standing behind the tables. Of course due to the shitty exhibits it only took minutes to see it all so its very possible IBO’s were trailing in and out over the 2 or 3 hours it was open. So there could have been another couple of hundred IBO’s viewing the trade show before and after we got there.

There was the Amway registration desk and we could pick up our “kit” - as I recall a ticket on a string that we hung around our necks. There was also early bird parking passes for the weekend for sale. A real screaming deal at $20. Only available to the poor suckers who showed up at the trade show. And yes Ambot bought one.

Shitty trade show aside going inside that arena brings back another memory.

Prior to our departure I’d been looking around to buy a cappuccino machine with all the bells and whistles and I brought an extra $200 cash with me because I thought I might find one on sale this weekend. I’d seen an ad at JC Penney with a one day Saturday sale and even though we’d be out of town I thought I could still find one while attending Family Reunion. The problem is big mouth Ambot blabs to everyone and anyone that we had extra money with us. Captain Fuck Up’s sponsor - Asshole Eagle - was at the trade show plus a few others in his downline. Like its any of their fucking business how much money we happen to have on hand! I was pissed off at Ambot because these kids in their 20’s probably didn’t even bring enough money to buy meals and would likely hit us up for a loan that they wouldn’t repay.

Apparently one of the people in Asshole Eagle’s downline claimed he bought his Family Reunion ticket online at the last minute. Except when he checked in at the registration desk they had no record of it. So there he was stuck at Family Reunion with no cash, a maxed out credit card, and no ticket. Because Ambot had conveniently blabbed about the extra cash Asshole Eagle asked him to buy the Family Reunion ticket for his downline and he’d get his money back once they got it all straightened out. Because Ambot has been brainwashed to “submit to downline” even though the fucking asshole is about 25 years younger than him he willing to fork over the cash. The problem is the cashola is in my purse so now he has to beg me for the money. I am pissed. I have the cash earmarked for the cappuccino machine. Their problems aren’t my problems. But because I am such a kindhearted soul I finally agree the bastard can borrow the money.

Ended up buying a $30 Mr Coffee machine instead. Brought it into action a few times when we tried to trick people into coming over for coffee klatches when it was really an Amway event in disguise. Nobody every showed up anyway. What? Nobody likes lattes?

Secret Amway Man

This video is kind of funny. Grinning fool hanging out with mobsters. Or maybe those are just former IBO's who jumped ship to join Monavie!

Where’s the damned WWDB Amway Family Reunion hotel?

I remember driving around trying to find the hotel we were staying at during Amway WWDB Family Reunion. We’d made a couple of wrong turns and then spotted the hotel - barely. It was a Howard Johnson’s that was changing its name to something else - I don’t recall what name it became. Or maybe that’s vice versa. Perhaps whatever hotel name was becoming an HJ’s. I remember seeing a tiny sign for the hotel I was looking for and I thought the address was right and pulled into the parking lot.

It was just after 6pm. I was stressed out because of the wrong turns and unable to find the hotel - likely due to lack of signage because of the name change underway. So I was  frazzled as I pulled in.

And then Ambot’s fucking cell phone rings! Shit! Scared the hell out of me! I damn near drove the car into the hotel’s swimming pool!

And who would it be? Could it be the same son of a bitch who has plagued us with about 20 calls in the past 4 hours? You guessed it! His shithead sponsor - Captain Fuck Up!

Oh, I’m mad. I get out of the car with the email confirmation and stomp inside to find out if I’m in the right hotel and if not can the desk clerk tell me how to get to where I want to go. Fortunately I’d found the right hotel and he explained about the hotel being sold and the name change confusion.

Just as I’m finished registering Ambot walks in and asks if we’ve found the right place. Jesus I would have gone back to the car by now if it wasn’t!

As we’re driving around the hotel lot to get a parking spot near our room he asks what my problem is. I tell him my nerves are frazzled and that fucking phone call put me over the edge and what does that bastard want anyway. Has he not got it through his head that we don’t have his fucking money and don’t know where it is?

If you read my previous blog you’d know that Captain Fuck Up lost his money and was stuck at home and didn’t make it to the World Wide Dream Builders Family Reunion.

Hours ago I’d had enough of listening to Ambot’s side of the phone conversation. I didn’t want to hear nothing more about that fucking lost money!

Ooooh I am still getting pissed off at that fucking idiot!

The hotel we stayed at gave me another reason to despise that arrogant prick. They allowed dogs! A fact I did not know until we arrived and saw the “pet friendly” sign.

Because the original plans were to have Captain Fuck Up and his long suffering wife join us for the drive to Family Reunion that meant they would be taking up space in the back seat, we had to put our dog in the kennel. Being high season summertime the kennel required a deposit at time of booking (I think $50) just in case we cancelled or no showed so they had our credit card number. So when Captain Fuck Up announced at 9am they couldn’t leave until the afternoon it was already too late to cancel the kennel. 4 days kennel plus 3 walks a day plus early check in was well over $100 when we picked up our dog on Monday. And yes, charged one day for every day or portion thereof - Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. They were closed by the time we arrived home on Sunday night. As opposed to the dog staying free at the hotel.

Yep, just keep giving me more reasons to despise that fucking asshole!

Like we need any more proof that it is a very BAD idea to sponsor anyone into Amway if their wife has a long history of disliking the sponsor. Dragging them into Amway and the wife will add up every cent that fucking asshole sponsor cost them. I don’t have it broken down piece by piece but I put in Excel that WWDB Family Reunion tickets cost $485. Gas, hotel, food, and dog kennel total $850.

Any IBO’s out there reading this: if your friend’s wife doesn’t like you - don’t sponsor them into Amway! It only gets worse. Never better. She will end up despising you even more than she did before because now you have brought them financial and emotional distress. Leave them alone or you might find yourself featured in her blog one day too!

Dragging Our Asses to Amway WWDB Family Reunion!

The first Amway WWDB function that Ambot attended was Family Reunion. I did not go with him. I don’t remember why not. Doesn’t matter. Anytime I can escape an Amway function its a good thing.

The second Family Reunion I did go. I really don’t remember much about the event itself. The journey and events leading up to Family Reunion was more memorable. The upline were riding our asses to go to Family Reunion. The huge event of the year. Yeah, weren’t they all! It didn’t take much to convince Ambot because the brainwashing was well ingrained.

All serious business builders must attend Family Reunion. This is how the upline knows if you’re a serious business builder or not. If you don’t attend they won’t work with you. We could have stayed at home, saved our money, and those bastards would not have worked with us. Hmm, I’m pretty sure that’s a violation of Amway policy. Somewhere in Amway’s procedures it says purchasing tools and attending functions is voluntary and if you don’t purchase them your upline is still obligated to work with you. Our upline were a bunch of fucking assholes and very comfortable breaking Amway’s rules. I mean what was going to happen to them? Its not like the people at Amway’s head office gives a shit. As long as the money keeps rolling in and the brainwashed ambots keep buying their overpriced shit, they’ll look the other way.

Ambot was all pumped about Family Reunion coming up in July and blabbed about it to everyone. A normal person when they hear the words family reunion thinks of a get together with siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other extended family. Like real blood relatives all coming from the same ancestry. But no. The Amway WWDB Family Reunion was with unrelated people he’d never met before who promised to be his new, better family.

We were set to leave on Friday morning with our sponsor Captain Fuck Up and his wife around 10am. To make a long story short their babysitter was delayed and they couldn’t leave until mid afternoon so Ambot decided to leave without them and they would drive up later in their clunker.

Actually I’m quite happy because I can’t stand Captain Fuck Up and enduring an all day drive with that arrogant prick would be cruel and unusual punishment.

A few hours into our drive Captain Fuck Up phones to say he can't find his money he took out of the bank the day before or whenever. He can’t leave for Family Reunion. Captain Fuck Up must have phoned at least 20 times during the next 4 hours and in one of the calls he suggested he might have left his money at our house. Seeing as how Captain Fuck Up was speaking to Ambot and not me I don't know if he was demanding we turn around and return home to check our house for his money. Or that he would come down if we'd give him money. After all he was our upline which according to Ambot meant we had to lick his asshole and do anything else he asked. If he did order us to drive home Ambot didn’t tell me because he knew I’d be really pissed off. Like I need any more excuses to despise this fucking asshole. Also if I drove home I was staying there!

Captain Fuck Up’s money has never been located, in our house or elsewhere.

Selling Amway Products on Amazon

I was surprised to see Amway products for sale on Amazon - totally discovered that by accident.

First of all I’m pretty sure that Amway has some rule saying you can’t flog your Amway shit online.

That said a lot of former IBO’s got to get rid of that overpriced shit somehow and I’ve seen it sold on eBay and I’m sure IBO’s are hitting Craigslist too.

But Amazon? I know its hard for me to grasp the concept that Amazon sells things but books. Here its important to note that Amazon the company is not selling Amway products but its individual sellers who have accounts with Amazon. But still I thought people with Amazon accounts were selling their used books not household items.

OK so maybe some former IBO’s are trying to flog their inventory. If they’re not active IBO’s they wouldn’t give a shit about breaking Amway’s rules. The problem with selling vitamins and energy drinks is that they all have expiry dates. Who’s to know that date hasn’t come and gone?

Amway shipped us expired protein shakes once. And then refused to refund our money when we complained about it. I ended up chucking them in the garbage.

I’m not so certain that these are inactive IBO’s flogging Amway shit on Amazon. I think active IBO's are loading up on inventory (another violation) to get their PV up there and then selling it on Amazon so they can cover their financial losses. Someone named Totalbeautyzone is currently selling 188 items - most appear to be Amway products. I don’t know. That seems a little excessive stock for an IBO quitting the business. I have to go with professional liar theory on this seller.

I decided to do some comparing. Totalbeautyzone is flogging XS Energy Drinks on Amazon. Cranberry Grape Blast in particular for $38.88. He/she has 4 in stock. Amway’s price is $26.88.

This makes a lot of sense. If someone was really craving the piss water they could buy it from Amway or find an IBO rather than spending an extra $12 to buy it from Totalbeautyzone. Like we need any further proof that IBO’s are out to rip us off!

Then Totalbeautyzone is offering a better deal on the Tropical Blast flavor - $36.88. I checked Amway. $26.88. Only ripping off customers by $10 on that flavor and he/she has 2 cases left in stock.

Now what’s up with the Naranja Blast? Totalbeautyzone has a price tag of $42.88 and 2 in stock. What does Amway say about this flavor? $38.88. Holy fuck I thought all those nasty piss waters had the same price. Rip off! Rip off! Amway sticks a foreign word on the can so it can slap a higher price tag on it? Come on! We all took Spanish in high school. Naranja = orange. Save money and buy the Citrus Blast for $26.88. So one could say Totalbeautyzone is giving a slightly better deal by only ripping off customers by $4 over Amway's price.

I know Amazon charges a commission for items sold through their store so I imagine Totalbeautyzone has tacked on the cost of doing business with Amazon to the prices.

I don’t know why Amazon doesn’t ban Amway products from their website other than it doesn’t cost them anything to let people have a marketplace storefront. Amazon is earning money off Amway.

Interesting when at every board plan meeting Amazon is mentioned as a comparison to Amway - except of course Amazon sucks when compared to Amway - at least in the brainwashed minds of the speakers.

The Lunch Box

Last year - or maybe it was the year before, time flies past so fast for me - some friends gave me a designer lunch box for my birthday. Interesting choice especially since I haven’t worked an outside job for a long time and have no need to pack a lunch anywhere. I’m not sure if it was a joke or maybe they were trying to tell me something? Hmmm. Oh well, its the thought that counts. I pretty much forgot about it.

A few days ago I was going out long enough over mid day and I thought I might get hungry so I decided I’d pack myself a snack and put it in a lunch box. I figured I must still have one or two lunch bags hanging around from my working days but I couldn’t find them. Then I spotted the new one my friends gave me in the cupboard where I keep flashlights and candles. Ah ha! So that’s what happened to it! I clipped off the tag still held on by a zap strap - its called Fit Fresh. Has a website too. http://www.fit-fresh.com/ Big enough to hold an ice pack, a slice of pizza left over from the night before, and a can of 7 Up. Actually had plenty of room left over for more food but that was all I was taking with me.

Off I go around 11:30am with my lunch bag packed like I’m heading off to work!

Then it got me thinking about ambots who leave comments on my blog and on other bloggers pages. In addition to being told we didn’t try hard enough and that we’re quitters and broke losers, we always seem to get accused of holding down a job, working for someone else, having an employee mentality, and similar Amway sneers directed at people who work for living and pack a lunch bag before leaving for the day.

Why do workers pack a lunch bag? The first thing that comes to my mind is that its probably cheaper than eating out. Packing leftovers from the previous night’s dinner or slapping a sandwich together, throwing in yogurt, a piece of fruit, and cookies, and eating in the staff lunchroom is more economical than going to a restaurant.

I bet most ambots don’t even pack a lunch when they go off to their job. Their mentality is they are “business owners” and therefore entitled to buy their lunch each day or at least pretend they can afford to buy their lunch everyday and keep that image up to others of being a successful business person. Yeah! Make those coworkers jealous! Lazy ass broke losers that they are!

Lets estimate $10 a day for lunch and that includes a beverage and tip for the server. $50/week or about $200/month. Egads! That’s already more than the average IBO grosses in a month. Totally ate up the business profits! Ha ha!

Another reason I can think of for people pack a lunch is to make healthy eating choices. Someone heading to McDonald’s or Wendy’s is going to get a greasy meal and likely pay over $5 for it. Both these chains have a dollar menu and you can buy a burger, small fries, and small drink for a buck a piece, maybe even dessert for another buck. Cheaper meal than a sit down restaurant but how healthy is that every day?

But you know what else those ambots are doing? They are holding on to the receipts for the restaurants they go to on the lunch breaks from their job and then write them off as business expenses on their tax return. They’ll claim they talked Amway during their lunch - maybe phoned their upline - and that its a legitimate expense.

Yeah, well good luck with that if you get audited and your boss can prove to the auditor that you were on the clock that day during the lunch hour period.

Occasionally my husband and I eat lunch out because we’ve had to take care of business in another town and were gone longer than expected and got hungry. We have legitimate business receipts to prove we were engaged in business related activities before or after lunch. The last time I can think of that we did that was about 2 months ago so its not like we're doing anything to grab an auditor's attention plus we have invoices to prove we were in that town conducting business if it came down to that.

Can an ambot on lunch break from their day job prove they were engaged in business related activities? I’d say probably not.

Contrary to what the upline brainwashes them into thinking, Ambots won’t be living a life of luxury in 2 to 5 years while residual income rolls in for the rest of their lives.

Save money. Eat healthier. Pack a lunch bag.

When it comes to Amway there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

What Kind of Car Does an Amway Diamond Get?

A recent searcher ended up at my blog after searching on Google for what kind of car does an Amway Diamond get.

Don’t forget to read my post about the clunker brigade.

Many IBO’s in our LOS were driving rust bucket Cadillacs, Lincolns and BMW’s from the 70’s and 80’s for the bragging rights that they own that model of car. Yeah I really want to drive an ugly old car that’s always breaking down.

As far as I know an Amway Diamond doesn’t “get” a car for reaching that level. Its not like Mary Kay where you get a leased pink Cadillac for a year for reaching some level.

I’ve been to enough functions where a video is played showing Diamonds with their fleet of cars and other toys on wheels. You name the high end car, we’ve probably seen it on a video. The thing we don’t know the answer to is how many are leased, how many were purchased with cash, and how many were financed. Or more likely - how many were borrowed or rented for the purpose of shooting the video of the Diamond lifestyle.

There’s a certain image that has to be projected in Amway. The image of success. Fake it till you make it. Our Platinum and Emerald didn’t drive anything that screamed success though they drove newer model cars, probably manufactured within the last 10 years. Might have been financed maybe leased but I don’t know for sure. I know when the Platinum sack of shit got his $20,000 bonus check for being a Platinum he was all talk about buying an SUV, sorry the name escapes me. Does Cadillac manufacture SUV’s? Maybe that. Furthermore he was going to buy it by using the service of a car hunter (?) - I’m not sure what the term is for a person who you give your criteria to and they search for the best deals. Anyway that was all the bastard ever yapped about but he didn’t buy a new - or new to him - car. Probably had to use the money to pay off debt.

So - what kind of car does an Amway Diamond get? Whatever car gives them the most flash for the buck. And that buck came from scamming thousands of IBO’s only too willing to shell out their hard earned cash to make their upline richer.

10 Warning Signs of a Dangerous Amway Leader

This is an excerpt from the Rick Ross web site. The original can be found here. http://culteducation.com/warningsigns.html 

 

This page is worth a read. In addition to warning signs of a leader it includes a list of warning signs that people might be involved with a dangerous leader. Interestingly there is also a list of 10 signs of a safe leader. Ha ha! Nothing on the safe list can be said about our former sack of shit Platinum! He’s the complete opposite!

Anyway Rick Ross’s list is called Ten warning signs of a potentially unsafe group/leader but it could just as aptly be named Ten warning signs of a dangerous Amway leader. The comments in black are Rick Ross’s warning signs. The comments in red are mine. Get it. Red is a color warning of danger.

1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. This was mostly clear to me from our sack of shit Platinum who we heard speak more than we heard any other speaker, Emerald or Diamond. He demanded everyone in his downline to “ask permission” before doing anything. Constantly telling us to “submit to upline” and never question upline.
2. No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. “Never question upline! Who do you think you are asking me something like that! Everything I say is the truth!”
3. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement. The sack of shit never showed us his budget, his profit and loss statement, tax returns, etc. though he wanted to see all of ours.
4. Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions. All the time! What else is out there except Amway? The answer to everyone’s prayers. Financial security for the rest of your life. Everyone else is doomed to have a J.O.B. and work for someone else. Nothing but negativity at Amway meetings with all the talk of doom and gloom and businesses shutting down and social security won’t be there when you retire, etc.
5. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil. The ones who leave are quitters, losers, broke losers, negative, dream stealers, etc. Nothing but insults for those who have quit Amway and current IBO’s are not allowed to associate with them anymore.
6. Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances. Our stories are all over the Internet. They’re all the same story: upline abuse, brainwashing, financial losses, house foreclosures, bankruptcy, emotional distress, destroyed marriages, alienation from friends and family.....
7. There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader. Again all over the Internet are blogs written by former IBO’s. NBC Dateline did an expose. Many former Amway cult followers have written books. Abuse from the upline and lives that have been destroyed by Amway is well documented.
8. Followers feel they can never be "good enough". A good example of this was the attempt our WWDB group made to sell Amway items for Christmas and rented a community hall for the event. Ambot had several friends show up and one person made purchases. Ambot had the only sale there all day and was rather pleased with himself. When it was over the Platinum highlighted Ambot who was expecting praise but instead he was criticized that only one of his friends purchased Amway products and that meant they weren’t his true friends. It was a constant cycle of abuse where the Platinum would punish, scold and berate and then say “but we still love you”.
9. The group/leader is always right. The sack of shit Platinum is always right. Pompous son of a bitch even told us once that his wife never wins an argument with him because he is always right. Oh gee, one of the top criteria for a happy marriage. According to Amway cult leaders that is.
10. The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible. Its all about information control. Our Platinum wanted to control the information the IBO’s received. Cult followers are brainwashed to believe the Platinum is always telling the truth. He gave his version of the news and told IBO’s not to listen to the news or read the Internet because it was wrong and could not be trusted whereas he would always tell the truth. Discrediting an information source is easier for the Platinum than debating the truth. By controlling the information the Platinum removes the IBO’s ability to think for themselves. Sleep deprivation also helps the cult leader in the brainwashing. Keeping IBO’s up to 1 or 2 or 3 in the morning and they are so tired that they’re willing to agree everything they hear at that hour is the truth.

Of course we can see it now. I’d say I saw this within a month of knowing the Platinum and getting involved in Amway. Too bad for the bastard that I wouldn’t drink the kool aid. Like we need any further proof that Amway leaders used cult techniques to brainwash their downline.

And then these same cult leaders claim Amway is not a cult. Deny, deny, deny. Lie, lie, lie. That’s the secret to success in Amway.

I’ll just send out another big old fuck you to everyone in our upline.

Amway Cult Warning Signs

I was trying to find a web site that might help spouses, family, and friends of Amway cult followers.

The Cult Information Center is a British group but they provide a page that has links to groups worldwide that assist people in dealing with cult exit strategies and help for families. http://www.cultinformation.org.uk/help.html

While I was there I clicked on a link for the Cult Clinic and Hotline. They’re in New York and run by the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Service but they’re non denominational and offer assistance to anyone in the United States who requires their help.

Here is their list of signs that an organization has cult characteristics:

1. Has there been strong pressure for me to join or to stay?
2. Am I being pressured to recruit others?
3. Are my doubts and questions discouraged, avoided, or even forbidden?
4. If I’m critical of the group, am I told there’s something wrong with me?
5. Do I not have an opportunity to verify information provided by the group?
6. Am I expected to reveal fears and secrets?
7. Does the group’s leadership dictate how I should act, think, or feel?
8. Do I not get enough sleep now or have enough time to devote to outside pursuits and responsibilities?
9. Am I made to feel fear or guilt when I don’t do exactly as my leader or elders in the group told me?
10. Have I lost my old friends?
11. Have I missed important family occasions because I was encouraged to be with fellow group members instead or given an urgent task to complete?
12. Is there a belief that the leader has special powers?
13. Have I been promised things by the group that have yet to materialize?
14. Was I told that joining this group was my only path to happiness, peace, God, or even prosperity?

Wow! Talk about summarizing our Amway experience!

Here’s my answers:

1. The pressure was on to join. “Now is the time to sign up with Amway. Its about to explode on the Internet. You want to get in now.” Seeing as how we’d already tried Amway once before and I wasn’t interested in losing money again I suggested to Ambot that we wait and see how his friend Captain Fuck Up made out. If that fuck up was doing good after a few months then that might be proof to me that things are different in Amway. Ambot was mad. He’d already been sneaking around meeting the cult leaders and had all the canned responses. We were going to miss out BIG if we didn’t sign up now and get in while the getting in was good. After a few months the pressure was on to stay. “You can’t quit now. Not when success is right around the corner and you’re about to go really BIG!”
2. Ha ha! That goes without saying. That’s what Amway is about. Recruiting other IBO’s and tricking suckers into going to Amway meetings.
3. Absolutely! “Never question upline!”
4. That’s another big yes. “Don’t speak negative!” unless of course you're an unchristian, negative dream stealer who is a loser with a J.O.B. and worse than that a broke loser!
5. “Don’t search on the Internet. Its full of lies and you can’t believe anything you read there.”
6. Yes. Your upline wants to know EVERYTHING so they can use it against you later on.
7. Another big yes! You’re told to dress in business attire, drive high end vehicles, carry cell phones, do whatever it takes to project a successful image. Fake it till you make it!
8. Sleep! Ha! “You’ll have time to sleep when you’re dead!” Amway meetings start at 8pm. Then there are meetings after the meeting. You’ll be lucky to get to bed by 1am but usually later than that. Forget about anything else in your life that doesn’t have anything to do with Amway.
9. Oh yes! You must ask upline’s permission before doing anything! If you don’t you will be the subject of ranting and raging at the next Amway meeting. Plus you’ll be harassed with phone calls, text messages, and emails criticizing you for doing your own thing. The Amway cult leader is a person to be worshipped and feared.
10. Yes, your old friends don’t want nothing to do with you anymore because you’re prospecting them to come to Amway meetings, sign up as an IBO, or buy overpriced Amway shit. They’ll avoid you like the plague!
11. Family occasions? Forget about them if there’s an Amway meeting scheduled or someone upline wants you to drop everything and kiss their ass.
12. Yes. Upline were displayed as having these magical powers to be successful in Amway and if you spent time with them and learned from them and duplicated them you would have these secret magic powers too.
13. Ha, ha. Makes me laugh again! Another big yes. Amway is full of promises (broken ones) and dreams (shattered ones).
14. Yes. We were going to have Amway residual income rolling in for the rest of our lives. And if that didn’t happen we were going to be nicer people!

What to do in Boise during Amway WWDB Family Reunion 2011?

Seeing as how Amway WWDB Puryear Family Reunion 2011 is to be held in Boise, Idaho in July I thought I’d take a look at what tourist attractions are available for people travelling here.

I’m sure IBO’s would be absolutely shocked that there are people out there who are travelling to Boise in July who are not interested in attending this function!

So I did a good old Google search and here’s what I came up with.

Boise Art Museum  Adult admission is $5, slightly less for other age groups. Let’s see if I had no interest in visiting the Louvre then I think I’d have to give this art museum a pass too. I got no culture I guess! Hell! If I was forced to choose between Family Reunion and the art museum I’d be looking at paintings!

The Boise Zoo  Adult admission is $7. Less for other age groups. You know that’s not a bad price for a zoo. I’d probably go. Beats listening to those orangutans from the stage!

Boise Trolley Tours  Admission for a narrated tour around Boise is $18 for adults and less for other age groups. You know, you’ve been on one trolley you’ve been on them all! I think this would be a pass for me. Unless of course I was forced to choose between the trolley and Family Reunion. Clang! Clang! Clang! All aboard!!!

There are free tours at the Idaho Capitol Building.

Roaring Springs Waterpark  Now we’re talking! This is my kind of fun on a hot summer day. Price depends on how tall you are. If you’re over 4’ its $27.99. Unless you’re a senior (over 55!) no height restriction $22.99. Ha! Hey its cheaper and cooler than Family Reunion!

Check out Trip Advisor for top attractions to Boise.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g35394-Activities-Boise_Idaho.html

And just what is the #1 rated tourist attraction in Boise according to Trip Advisor?

The old penitentiary!

Reasonably priced for a tour - $5.

Hey you all know the drill now. I would go there! Absolutely if I had to pick between an Amway function or going to jail - I would go to jail!

So there you have it. All the better stuff to do in Boise Idaho instead of attending the Amway WWDB Family Reunion.

Of course most of you are on to me now. This is just another blog to get to the top of the Google search engines using the key words I need to screw up IBO searchers looking for information on the Amway WWDB Puryear Family Reunion 2011. Also I hope this helps out a wife who has been dragged off the Family Reunion by her brainwashed husband but resists going inside the Idaho Qwest Arena for the brainwashing sessions. There are other things to do in Boise.

I just hope this post doesn’t hurt those poor suckers doing searches who are genuinely interested in Boise tourist attractions!

Wake Up When You’re Done Sleeping

How many times have you heard one of the Amway speakers say something to the effect of “wouldn’t it be great to wake up in the morning when you’re done sleeping”. I know I heard our Platinum say it at every meeting that his wife gets up once she’s done sleeping. Sounds a little irresponsible when you have school age children. Their kids were teenagers - a boy and a girl - I think about 13 and 14 at the time. Does mom not want to make sure the kids are getting themselves out of bed on time, eating a decent breakfast, packing a lunch, and making sure they get out the door? Would Platinum dad be doing all this? Unlikely. He’s a male chauvinist pig and childcare he would put under the category of “woman’s work”. In which case his wife is very likely getting out of bed when she has to and not when she’s done sleeping.

The main reason the Platinum says his wife gets out of bed when she’s done sleeping is to sneer at the downline who have jobs and set their alarm clock daily and get out of bed in time to get to work.

“Wake up when you’re done sleeping” is something I have a hard time getting my head wrapped around. First off most parents who have school age children don’t laze around in bed and get up when they’re done sleeping. Maybe - and that’s a big maybe depending on how mature and responsible the kid is - once the kid is a junior or senior and is capable of getting themselves out of bed on time, dressed, eat breakfast and off to school. Parents who have younger children need to get them out of bed, dressed, prepare breakfast, fix a lunch bag, and walk them to school unless there are older siblings who can walk with the younger child. Its my guess that most stay at home parents wake up at 7am or so. They probably don’t go back to bed once everyone is out the door either.

Unless of course you’re a lazy ass IBO who is damned well following the upline’s advice about not getting out of bed until you’re done sleeping.

I had a friend who after she moved out of Los Angeles decided to home school her son. I wasn’t too sure why she would do that but it became very clear when I remembered she was not a morning person. Ambot and I visited her a few years ago in our motorhome that we parked on their driveway and we slept in our rig. We got up whenever, 7am or so, but it was at least 10am before she got out of bed. Likewise her son was still sleeping until she got around to waking him up. She couldn’t get her act together first thing in the morning to get her kid off to public school. Home schooling worked better for her desire to get out of  bed once she was done sleeping. They are not in Amway. So that blows the old upline’s theory that the only people who are allowed to get out of bed once they are done sleeping are those who have reached a certain level in Amway.

I very rarely set my alarm clock. If I set my alarm its probably because I need to drive someone to the airport at 5am or I have somewhere else to be early. Alarm clock or not I’d say that I very rarely wake up when I’m done sleeping. Often I wake up because someone else in he household is moving around. Once I’m awake I am awake and I can’t get back to sleep again. That’s a real piss off if something or someone wakes me up at 2 in the morning or 4:30. I ain’t done sleeping but I’m woken up. The only thing I can do at that time of day is get up and bake muffins.

Just because Platinums and Diamonds praise the value of staying in bed until you’re done sleeping doesn’t mean its something everyone aspires to do. I guess none of them ever heard of Benjamin Franklin and “early to bed early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.

I wouldn’t say that I necessarily go to bed early though since we’re no longer in Amway I’m able to get to bed before midnight. Calling a 7am wake up “early” is debatable! There are lots of people who wake up earlier than that! Does it make me healthy waking up early? When I get up I walk the dog, have something light to eat, and then I go to the Y where I either swim or do yoga. Healthy enough I suppose.

How many IBO’s lead a healthy lifestyle? It looks like many of them tried the Trim weight loss system and lets just say they’re not walking advertisements that the diet plan actually works! They also promote guzzling vitamins instead of eating a healthy diet that includes fresh fruit and vegetables. In the board plan we see over and over the way to Amway success is to suck back energy drinks and chow down on food bars. They’re too busy following their own advice about lazing around in bed until they’re ready to get up that they’re likely not getting regular exercise.

I’m a busy person. I’ve got places to go, people to see and things to do. I’m not accomplishing anything until I’m out of bed. The quicker I can get everything done is more free time for me. Not being an IBO means I’ve freed up lots of extra time. Getting out of bed somewhat early means I can get just about everything I need to do done before noon. Now I’ve got a good portion of the day ahead of me to enjoy however I want to.

Let’s compare that to an IBO. Say the lazy bastard hauls ass out of bed around noon. The bed needs to be made, go to the kitchen to prepare a meal of an energy drink, food bar, and vitamins - probably not a lot of kitchen clean up required for that! Next will probably be checking email, text messages, and making lots of phone calls. Next thing you know its late in the afternoon and the laundry and housecleaning aren’t done. What about yard work? When was the last time the lawn was mowed or the garden weeded? Who’s got time for that? Now its time for counselling with downline because they’re starting to get off work now and then the 8pm board plan meeting and the night owl. Arrive back home around 2am and do it all over again the next day.

Lying around in bed is a waste of time to many people. I’ve always gone with the philosophy that the quicker I can get things done the quicker I can relax. Even though I can lay around in bed until noon if I wanted I don’t do it because the day is getting away from me. Sometimes there’s a movie I want to see comes on at 8 in the morning and I watch it. The next thing I know I’ve missed the classes I go to at the Y and I’m behind on everything else I want to do.

Waking up when I’m done sleeping does not work for me.