Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Monday, December 26, 2011

Searchers finding my blog over Christmas

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

I hope no one found any Amway shit under their Christmas tree!

I checked my search stats for the past couple of days and I've had some interesting searches.

Starting with Christmas Eve day in the morning. Somebody types in "Amway Kosage fucking asshole". Hmmm, I'm going out on a limb here and suggesting this is somebody who did NOT get an invitation to Dean Kosage's Christmas party! That searcher ended up at my June 2011 archive page so someone must have left a comment relating to Kosage and there are plenty of references in my posts to Amway IBO's being fucking assholes so no big surprise that my blog is number 1 if anyone is typing in that search criteria.

Then it got a little sadder later in the day, actually closer to midnight where a searcher typed in that their daughter is involved in the Amway cult. Its always sad whenever a family member gets involved in this horrible cult and is brainwashed and loses their money and separates themselves from their family and friends. This unhappy parent spent a couple of hours on Christmas Eve into early Christmas morning reading a lot of my posts. I hope it brought this person some comfort knowing they aren't alone in the pain they're going through watching someone they love having their life destroyed by Amway. I know people get a lot of pleasure living vicariously through my blog and how I curse out my upline. I am cursing out everyone's upline! Apparently this person's daughter blew them off on Christmas to devote more time to the great Amway cult and their beloved cult leaders. Very sad.

And then oddly enough on Christmas Day I get a huge amount of searchers looking for information on how to quit Amway and a couple for how to cancel Communikate! Woo hoo! Some ambots are giving their family the BEST Christmas present ever by quitting the horrible evil Amway cult!

And then this morning I get some Amway employee from Alticor in Grand Rapids going through some of my posts: the youtube Amway neighbor video, the post about how our Platinum screws over Amway, worst Amway items to find under the Christmas tree, and a couple of other posts that are about search criteria people use who end up at my blog.

Nothing too unusual about this because quite often I get Amway employees from Grand Rapids or Ada or Buena Park screwing around on the job and surfing on the Internet when one would presume they should actually be getting some work done.

What really sucks is that they are working today. When Christmas falls on a Sunday, businesses who are not normally open on Sundays (banks, offices, government employees, etc) take Monday off. Around here all the chain stores are open and the gas stations and grocery stores but everything else is pretty much shut down.

It takes a really shitty employer to make their employees come in to work on Monday December 26 when Christmas Day fell on a Sunday. That pretty much sums up the attitude of a former Amway employee who showed up to my blog and basically said Amway the employer treats their employees like shit. The fact that I can verify an Amway employee is working today is all the proof we need about how Amway treats their employees.

A lump of coal to those lousy bosses who pull the same shit as Amway and have their employers come in to work today!

Friday, December 23, 2011

The Ambot Who Stole Christmas

Even though it was Christmas time unhappiness existed all over the world because of a horrible evil cult named Amway.

 
The cult followers were known as ambots and they got together to put up a Christmas tree.


And they put ornaments on it.


They hung mistletoe.


The problem they quickly learned was that no one wanted to kiss an ambot under the mistletoe! Yuck gross!


 
Poor Tommy was a nasty Amway cult follower. He used to spend Christmas with his family.


Then last year he made the mistake of putting up an Amway Christmas tree.


He gave his relatives shitty Amway products for Christmas.



Tommy made the fatal mistake of giving his wife Artistry cosmetics for Christmas even though he knew she liked reasonably priced Avon products much better.

 
He gave his little girl an Amway doll for Christmas.


  
The Amway products he had so lovingly gone into credit card debt to buy all ended up in the trash.



Except for the Nutrilite vitamins that were flushed down the toilet. THE
BEST PLACE
FOR SHITTY AMWAY PRODUCTS TO END UP!!!


 
So poor Tommy ended up hanging out with ambot buddies at Christmas because his family had left him - just one of the pitfalls of being involved in Amway.


Tommy even met the ambot of his dreams at the cult follower’s Christmas gathering.



All those unoriginal ambots! They all duplicated each other and gave the same Christmas present to everyone else and put it under the ambot Christmas tree.



To show no hard feelings Tommy’s ex-wife even sent along a Christmas present for their Platinum cult leader.

After getting high on XS the ambots put on Santa suits and went to the Amway Center and punched out the snowman.



The police showed up and gave the ambots sobriety tests which they all failed but oddly enough when they blew into the breathalizer no one showed any alcohol levels. Seeing as how the cops don’t like Amway or ambots they decided to toss them all in jail anyway for snowman assault.



And one final warning for anyone thinking of spending Christmas with an ambot.



I hope no one finds any Amway shit under their Christmas tree!

Wishing everyone happy holidays and Merry Christmas!


Sunday, December 18, 2011

Spend More and Save Less in Amway

The following is a repost of a blog I wrote last December.

I saw this advice on the news this morning while watching a story about Christmas spending, though this advice could certainly apply to Amway too.

So here's a rare blog where I don’t curse out my upline, a little off topic but seeing as how its the Christmas season sort of fits with this time of year.

I hate seeing stories about budgeting for Christmas especially when its 2 weeks away its pretty much a lost cause for most people. One financial expert that was interviewed said to budget 1.5% of your income for Christmas. That would include presents, baking extra meals, or any other spending that happens this time of year. He said if the annual income was $50,000 then that’s a budget of $750. He also said to save first, spend later and then totally glossed over that and moved on to saying spend only cash at Christmas. Like I said could be advice a little too late for some people who are whipping out the credit card and then regretting it when the January bill arrives in the mail.

Years ago I read something about figuring out how much money you spend for Christmas. Divide that amount by 12 and then put aside the cash every month. By the time Christmas shopping arrives you’ll have the cash on hand. Good advice. Every month Ambot and I put $80 into an envelope. By the time October or November rolls around we’ll top off the envelope for the rest of the year. So who’s good at math? By the time we start Christmas shopping we’ve got $960 sitting in an envelope. When we first started doing this we put in $60/month. Ambot suggested today that next year we should increase it to $100/month.

I’m a saver and Ambot is a spender which is what got him in trouble with the Amway cult and feeding into the scam. He pulled out his credit card for everything including buying his precious upline meals thinking that he’s tracking all his business expenses with a credit card not really comprehending that eventually he has to pay it back.

Using the same philosophy figure out how much you spend on Amway each month and set that cash aside, not use a credit card. Well actually most of the time you have to use a credit card cause its Internet purchases. So lets say cash that’s set aside to immediately pay back the credit card. Factor in at least $300/month on purchasing Amway products so you can earn a bonus check of just under $10. Ambot wanted to earn more money. The lowest amount he spent in a month was $468. Most months were between $950 and $1050 purchasing Amway products with the highest spending two months after joining - $1,358.

Here’s where I want to SCREAM! My food budget is $600 and that includes groceries and eating out, about half/half. What the fuck was he buying? OK, I’ve mentioned hyper consuming XS Energy Drinks before. How does this possibly come close to we buy from Amway products we normally buy when we’re grocery shopping? I’ve never come close when grocery shopping.

Saying you’re going el cheapo on buying CD’s so add another $20/month but the sky’s the limit. The most CD's Ambot purchased one month was $150 but most of the time it was closer to $40/month.

Gotta have your premier membership to WWDB $49.95. Don’t forget Communikate if you’re a “serious business builder” $36.95/month.

Various monthly seminars - tickets and parking - $70.

That’s $476.90 a month doing just the basics to earn a less than $10 bonus check from Amway and prove you’re a serious business owner. It goes up and up and up from there depending on how much room you have on your credit card and how much you want to impress your upline with your spending.

There are 4 major functions each year usually in another state. Transportation, meals, hotel, tickets - plan at least $500 and it could go higher depending on your circumstances (how far you’re travelling).

So lets do it like we’re putting cash aside for Christmas and dividing by 12. You need to set aside cash close to $700 (or more) each month!

Yikes!

Does anyone think that could be a mortgage payment? Does anyone think that could be invested in stocks or a 401k? How about a pretty big blow out for Christmas?

That’s a lot of cash to set aside each month for a business that has over a 99% failure rate.

I still like the advice from the financial expert today: “Save first, spend later.”

Apply that to your Amway business before you go nuts on your credit card to impress your upline.

Friday, December 16, 2011

15 Worst Amway Items to Find Under the Christmas Tree

I read an article obviously written by someone with a sense of humor who has a list of the 15 worst items for the holiday wish list from Amazon. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/technology/1112/gallery.weird-amazon/index.html

Oddly enough all of those Amazon items I can absolutely see Amway wanting to get on board and offer the same things to the ambots. Oh sure. IBOFB is going to show up here and claim that Amway already offers cremation services and bags of bones!

So seeing as how every Amway meeting I attended the cult leader would be comparing Amway and Amazon (Amazon rules!) I have taken the opportunity by choosing the 15 worst Amway items to find under the Christmas tree.

What?! Only 15?! I have to stop at 15???!!!!  Shit! How do I narrow it down? Amway has so many shitty overpriced products I’d hate to find any of them under the Christmas tree. So here is my 15 in no particular order and like I say I hate to stop at only 15.

  1. XS (Piss Water) Energy Drinks
  2. Perfect Water
  3. Any kind of Nutrilite vitamin
  4. SA8 Laundry Soap
  5. Amway Dish Drops dishwasher detergent
  6. Amway Trim Advantage
  7. Glister toothpaste
  8. Satinique shampoo
  9. Amway Debut tampons
  10. Any kind of Nutrilite food bars
  11. Artistry lipstick
  12. Nutripet dog food
  13. Artistry eye shadow
  14. Artistry time defiance cream
  15. Any Amway CD
The really scary thing is that when we were in the Amway cult can see my Ambot going out and buying those shitty Amway products to give to me or others as Christmas presents.

Talk about a really fucking nasty surprise when you get up on Christmas morning and see what's under the tree!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Buying a Christmas Tree from Amway?

Some ambot showed up at my blog searching for how to buy a Christmas tree from Amway.

My first thought is why the hell would you want to do that?

Then I got to wondering are these artificial trees or real trees?

Either way if Amway is selling them they have got to cost a bundle!

Then I got to thinking what a great idea to screw up somebody’s search criteria by ending up at my blog yet again! Oh Christmas Tree, oh Amway Christmas Tree, how shitty to have you in my house!

Probably IBOFB will show up to say that Amway has partnered with some farmer in Vermont to buy Christmas trees of his farm for $500 each. Plus shipping! Just like he told us about that market Amway is affiliated with where we can buy 3 pounds of potatoes for $12.95 plus the cost of shipping to our house. Now there’s a shitty deal!

No matter who is selling Christmas trees they’re going to be a real joy to ship and probably cost a few bucks. Cheaper to buy locally.

If its an artificial Christmas tree there is plenty of mail order competition for that one. I’ve seen artificial trees for sale on eBay, JC Penny, Walmart, etc. You buy them and they’re shipped to your house.

So I did a Google search for buying a live Christmas tree to have shipped to your house and was surprised to find such beasts do exist! They cost more than going to your Christmas tree lot but not all that much more. I couldn’t find how much to ship the suckers though. I wouldn’t want to be the guy having to sweep out his UPS truck after delivering one. Pine needles everywhere!

There are enough nurseries and organizations selling live Christmas trees where you can go and pick out one that you like rather than waiting for the UPS to deliver an overpriced Christmas tree that shows up with smushed branches and missing foliage and an unfortunate decomposing odor.

Boycott Amway! No overpriced Amway Christmas trees allowed in the house! No shitty overpriced Amway products allowed under our tree!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Another Way to Lose Money in Amway - Selling Amway Products for Christmas

I wrote this last year but seeing as how Christmas is creeping closer and Amway is just creepy I’m bringing it out for any new readers who might not have seen this. This was just another way to waste a perfectly good Saturday doing Amway shit not to mention losing some money too. But then that’s what Amway’s all about. Losing time and money.

Our upline booked a community hall and turned it into Amway Christmas shopping central and all IBO’s were told to invite friends and family to attend and purchase Amway products as Christmas presents.

Most of the products out on display were the edibles - nasty food bars, disgusting XS energy drinks, vitamins, Perfect Water. You know - the type of stuff every kid wants to find under the Christmas tree.

Each IBO had to pay $10 towards the rental of the community hall. There were about 40 IBO’s at this event. You guessed it. The IBO’s outnumbered the shoppers.

The old community hall is on a fairly quiet street about 2 blocks from a busier street. There was a sign on the door advertising to come in for Christmas shopping. Perhaps they would have got more buyers if they’d gone a couple of blocks away and put a sign on the corner of the more travelled road. Or maybe not. First Saturday in December is the biggest shopping day of the year at the malls. Let’s weigh this out. Mall with lots of shops. Lots of variety. Good selection of products. Decently priced. Compare to Amway shopping central at a small mice-infested community hall. Overpriced products. Limited selection.

Five friends of ours showed up. The IBO’s pounced on them thinking they’d get some good sales. One of our friends actually purchased a few products. The pity purchaser who only bought the items to help out Ambot. Decent sale too over $100. I don’t recall the actual amount. May have been closer to $200.

Now here’s the crazy part. Our friend was the only person who purchased anything that day. Out of all the IBO’s there Ambot had the only sale. At the meeting at the end of the day when we were packing up the Platinum berated the group on the lack of sales. Now here’s where you’d think the pompous sack of shit would have some kind words for Ambot because his friend made purchases. Nope. He tore into Ambot saying he had five friends show up and only one of them bought something. I mean really laid into him about how those weren’t real friends because they didn’t support his business and about his general lack of success even though he was the only IBO who made a sale that day. After the verbal lashing ended, like the good cult leader he is, he assured Ambot that they still loved him and they would always be his only true friends unlike the phoney friends who don’t support his business.

Despite all those proclaims of never-ending love and friendship, when Ambot stopped going to Amway meetings and buying products those phonies cut off their love and friendship. Boo hoo. I can’t tell you how much it breaks my heart that those liars don’t want anything to do with us anymore.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Top Amway Dreads this Christmas Season (or Year Round)

Consumer Reports has listed American’s Top Dreads this Christmas season:

1. Crowds and long lines: 68 percent
2. Gaining weight: 37 percent
3. Getting into debt: 37 percent
4. Gift shopping: 28 percent
5. Traveling: 25 percent
6. Seeing certain relatives: 24 percent
7. Seasonal music: 23 percent
8. Disappointing gifts: 19 percent
9. Having to attend holiday parties or events: 16 percent
10. Having to be nice: 15 percent
11. Holiday tipping: 12 percent


I looked at that list and realized how it also applies to Amway and the things I dread about Amway.

  1. Crowds - that would be the Amway functions we had to attend. Ambot alert! Brainwashed ambots everywhere! Lining up at the arena doors hours before the function was to begin! Fucking losers!
  2. Weight gain? Hmmm I had a little trouble blaming Amway for this one other than a lot of ambots eat on the run and stop at the drive thru window for fast food because when you’re in Amway and the upline monopolizing all your time and attending Amway events there is no time to shop and prepare decent meals.
  3. Debt - absolutely this will happen in Amway!
  4. Gift giving - yup, having to give away unwanted Amway shit to people you know at Christmas. “Shop from your own store!”
  5. Traveling - gotta bust your ass getting to long distance Amway functions and all the expenses that go along with getting there.
  6. Seeing relatives - you know one big happy Amway family. Amway WWDB Family Reunion sucks! Fuck I hated seeing those Amway “relatives”.
  7. Music - let’s just blame the Goad’s lame ass Amway music.
  8. Disappointing gifts - everything we bought from Amway was disappointing - low quality and high priced.
  9. Attending events - I hated going to Amway meetings, Amway functions, Amway rallies, Amway product launches, etc, etc, etc
  10. Being nice - all those fucking ambots pretending to be nicey nice to everyone when they didn’t really give a shit. I might not have been overly rude to anyone other than our arrogant prick sponsor but I’ve been rude to that fucking asshole for many years but I wasn’t going around being all fakey nicey nice either. I just didn’t like ambots. Liars are not my kind of people.
  11. Tipping - that’s a year round event in Amway and its called buying Amway tools. A big tip goes to the upline when you invest in that scam!
I followed the pattern of the Consumer Reports list when creating my list. But how do I really feel in the order of these particular Amway dreads? Here it is and yes weight gain comes last because that wasn’t something I personally dreaded when it came to Amway but kept it in because I followed the CORE list. Ha ha! Get it?

Amway Christmas dreads in Anna Banana’s order:

  1. Debt
  2. Disappointing gifts (Amway products)
  3. Tipping (the upline)
  4. Attending events
  5. Seeing (Amway) relatives
  6. Being nice
  7. Gift giving (no one wants Amway shit)
  8. Crowds of ambots
  9. Traveling
  10. Music
  11. Weight gain
Those are actually Amway year round dreads but I’m keeping with the holiday season!

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Save First, Spend Later

I saw this advice on the news this morning while watching a story about Christmas spending, though this advice could certainly apply to Amway too.

So here's a rare blog where I don’t curse out my upline, a little off topic but seeing as how its the Christmas season sort of fits with this time of year.

I hate seeing stories about budgeting for Christmas especially when its 2 weeks away its pretty much a lost cause for most people. One financial expert that was interviewed said to budget 1.5% of your income for Christmas. That would include presents, baking extra meals, or any other spending that happens this time of year. He said if the annual income was $50,000 then that’s a budget of $750. He also said to save first, spend later and then totally glossed over that and moved on to saying spend only cash at Christmas. Like I said could be advice a little too late for some people who are whipping out the credit card and then regretting it when the January bill arrives in the mail.

Years ago I read something about figuring out how much money you spend for Christmas. Divide that amount by 12 and then put aside the cash every month. By the time Christmas shopping arrives you’ll have the cash on hand. Good advice. Every month Ambot and I put $80 into an envelope. By the time October or November rolls around we’ll top off the envelope for the rest of the year. So who’s good at math? By the time we start Christmas shopping we’ve got $960 sitting in an envelope. When we first started doing this we put in $60/month. Ambot suggested today that next year we should increase it to $100/month.

I’m a saver and Ambot is a spender which is what got him in trouble with the Amway cult and feeding into the scam. He pulled out his credit card for everything including buying his precious upline meals thinking that he’s tracking all his business expenses with a credit card not really comprehending that eventually he has to pay it back.

Using the same philosophy figure out how much you spend on Amway each month and set that cash aside, not use a credit card. Well actually most of the time you have to use a credit card cause its Internet purchases. So lets say cash that’s set aside to immediately pay back the credit card. Factor in at least $300/month on purchasing Amway products so you can earn a bonus check of just under $10. Ambot wanted to earn more money. The lowest amount he spent in a month was $468. Most months were between $950 and $1050 purchasing Amway products with the highest spending two months after joining - $1,358.

Here’s where I want to SCREAM! My food budget is $600 and that includes groceries and eating out, about half/half. What the fuck was he buying? OK, I’ve mentioned hyper consuming XS Energy Drinks before. How does this possibly come close to we buy from Amway products we normally buy when we’re grocery shopping? I’ve never come close when grocery shopping.

Saying you’re going el cheapo on buying CD’s so add another $20/month but the sky’s the limit. The most CD's Ambot purchased one month was $150 but most of the time it was closer to $40/month.

Gotta have your premier membership to WWDB $49.95. Don’t forget Communikate if you’re a “serious business builder” $36.95/month.

Various monthly seminars - tickets and parking - $70.

That’s $476.90 a month doing just the basics to earn a less than $10 bonus check from Amway and prove you’re a serious business owner. It goes up and up and up from there depending on how much room you have on your credit card and how much you want to impress your upline with your spending.

There are 4 major functions each year usually in another state. Transportation, meals, hotel, tickets - plan at least $500 and it could go higher depending on your circumstances (how far you’re travelling).

So lets do it like we’re putting cash aside for Christmas and dividing by 12. You need to set aside cash close to $700 (or more) each month!

Yikes!

Does anyone think that could be a mortgage payment? Does anyone think that could be invested in stocks or a 401k? How about a pretty big blow out for Christmas?

That’s a lot of cash to set aside each month for a business that has over a 99% failure rate.

I still like the advice from the financial expert today: “Save first, spend later.”

Apply that to your Amway business before you go nuts on your credit card to impress your upline.

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Selling Amway products for Christmas

Our upline booked a community hall and turned it into Amway Christmas shopping central and all IBO’s were told to invite friends and family to attend and purchase Amway products as Christmas presents.

Most of the products out on display were the edibles - nasty food bars, disgusting XS energy drinks, vitamins, Perfect Water. You know - the type of stuff every kid wants to find under the Christmas tree.

Each IBO had to pay $10 towards the rental of the community hall. There were about 40 IBO’s at this event. You guessed it. The IBO’s outnumbered the shoppers.

The old community hall is on a fairly quiet street about 2 blocks from a busier street. There was a sign on the door advertising to come in for Christmas shopping. Perhaps they would have got more buyers if they’d gone a couple of blocks away and put a sign on the corner of the more travelled road. Or maybe not. First Saturday in December is the biggest shopping day of the year at the malls. Let’s weigh this out. Mall with lots of shops. Lots of variety. Good selection of products. Decently priced. Compare to Amway shopping central at a small mice-infested community hall. Overpriced products. Limited selection.

Five friends of ours showed up. The IBO’s pounced on them thinking they’d get some good sales. One of our friends actually purchased a few products. The pity purchaser who only bought the items to help out Ambot. Decent sale too over $100. I don’t recall the actual amount. May have been closer to $200.

Now here’s the crazy part. Our friend was the only person who purchased anything that day. Out of all the IBO’s there Ambot had the only sale. At the meeting at the end of the day when we were packing up the Platinum berated the group on the lack of sales. Now here’s where you’d think the pompous sack of shit would have some kind words for Ambot because his friend made purchases. Nope. He tore into Ambot saying he had five friends show up and only one of them bought something. I mean really laid into him about how those weren’t real friends because they didn’t support his business and about his general lack of success even though he was the only IBO who made a sale that day. After the verbal lashing ended, like the good cult leader he is, he assured Ambot that they still loved him and they would always be his only true friends unlike the phoney friends who don’t support his business.

Despite all those proclaims of never-ending love and friendship, when Ambot stopped going to Amway meetings and buying products those phonies cut off their love and friendship. Boo hoo. I can’t tell you how much it breaks my heart that those liars don’t want anything to do with us anymore.