My house smells

 My house smells like a cross between a dentist's office, an embalming lab, and a BBQ joint.

Allow me to explain.

One of the things I do is house cleanouts. I bring home whatever chemicals and soaps I find. For instance, last week at a job, my worker was about to toss out an old, dirty bottle of mouthwash lying in the garage. I said Oh, I want that. He thought I was nuts. See, I use whatever I find. I use the old shampoo as hand soap for when I work outside or even to kill weeds.

Anyway, you get the picture, back to the mouthwash… I used it alongside my drive to kill some weeds, and poured this green bottle of who-knows-what around my house, especially heavy around the basement windows, to hopefully keep the stray cats away.

Well, the smoke from my BBQ entered my house, that is good, then the winds shifted, the mouthwash odor entered, it started to smell like a dentist's office, that is bad, and the green bottle of WHAT IS THAT entered, and there you have a night of odor trauma.

My neighbor called and said my house smells from that Cat Be Gone you used! My other friend thought I had a gas leak.

I know one thing: I will never use anything in a green bottle again.

Have a safe Memorial Day, I know this is one I won’t forget.

Carey On....

If someone recognizes this bottle let me know.

A little dab'll do ya, well in this case, a little drop'll do a whole neighborhood.

Energy Scam

 

Please read! I’ve been scammed.

I received a phone call from the illuminating company telling me that if I don’t  pay my past-due bill, my electric service will be cut off.

I was confused; surely I paid my bill. So I went through my checkbook ledger, and lo and behold, I didn’t see any entry for the Illuminating company after November. OK, before you say WHAT!, keep in mind I am constantly going, involved with too many things, and when a bill is due, I write a check immediately. Yes, checks, I do not like online payments unless ordering something where I am forced to. So this had to be a complete oversight.

Anyway, I called the Illuminating company. Indeed, I was 4 months behind. I said, “To be honest, I don’t see any checks written after November, but thinking about it, I don’t remember receiving any bill.” “Sir, you are signed up for e-billing.”  “E-billing, I never do e-billing!”  They checked the email address, but it was not mine.

Cutting this story down, I was scammed by an energy marketer/consultant.

Here is what we surmised: Either this scammer somehow got hold of my electric bill account number, or, which I don’t remember, I supplied my electric bill for a door-to-door marketer to compare rates. The end result was this: my supplier was changed, e-billing set up, a dummy email address used, and the scammer received a commission for this illegal switch from the company he represented.

Realizing I was legitimately scammed, the Illuminating Company removed the cancellation date and late fees and returned me to paper billing. Now you know why I don’t like e-billing. I know many of you do, and soon there will be no option, but until then, I want paper billings. Paper billing equals far less fraud and scams.

Note: Not all energy marketers/consultants are scammers. I was one, but they are out there. Be careful. Or to be sure, compare rates online and make a choice that way.

Carey On…