Anyway, almost every morning in my email I get a couple of notices from the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes. They have four or five mailings they can do that will earn you an entry, but I'm self-limited to the main sales pitch and a search engine. The only one of the others I tried seemed to take about five minutes to finish, which is more time than I want to spend on an infinitesimal chance to win a jackpot.
The two I do take about three minutes. The search engine has a "matching number" type game the entrant plays four times (by which I mean makes one click apiece and watches a 30-second commercial), after which the entrant types something into the search window. I usually type in "(current president's name) worthless," and I have done so since I began entering sometime in 2009. If you're thinking that I, as a conservative person, might have changed my entry between January 2017 to January 2021, you did not read some of the posts before my hiatus.
Anyway, two things before I close: Awhile, I noticed a distinct change in the main entry, which is a chance to buy items from the PCH catalogue. Formerly, when one completed the three pages of stuff-you-could-get-cheaper-anywhere-else, it was somewhat implied that one must also navigate three pages of magazine subscription offers in order to make one's entry. But sometime around six weeks ago, the page that popped up when the entrant finished the merch pages said that there was no need to click anywhere else. My guess is someone reported the company, but I have no idea when because I can't find any news stories anywhere. Whatever, it shortens my entry time by about 90 seconds.
I am also an actual PCH winner. About three years ago, they mailed me a check for ten dollars. Not much? I quote the sage Geddy Lee -- "Ten bucks is ten bucks."
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