02.21.06
Breast Cancer Site
I know, you get this email every once in a while that tells you that the Breast Cancer Site and click on the “Free Mammogram” button to help fund free mammograms. Half the time, I don’t do it, either because I’m lazy or I’m tired of getting the email.
According to Snopes, my favorite resource for debunking spam: Unlike the way things are explained in the e-mail, one click does not magically provide a mammogram to a needy woman — it takes 45,000 clicks, not just one. Averaging 58,000 clicks a day, The Breast Cancer Site provides funding for approximately 1.3 mammograms a day. Visitors are also not prohibited from clicking more than once; they just can’t do so more than once a day.
Today I clicked. If you click this week and you post a note in my comments letting me know that you clicked, I’ll send you a pink wristband. Yeah, they’re left over from my 3-Day Walk, but you’ll get one for free, and you can have a warm fuzzy that you helped to fund a mammogram, or at least part of one.
One lucky person, chosen at random from the comments, will receive a special prize of my choosing.
I have about 15 bands left, so get clicking!
(P.S. Don’t put your mailing address in the comments, just make sure that you fill in the email part of the contact info, and I’ll be in touch shortly for more information)
Heather said,
February 21, 2006 at 2:10 pm
I clicked. And set it up as my home page so I’ll remember to click every day. My mother might have been much better off had she had her mammogram earlier.
Sarah HB said,
February 21, 2006 at 2:38 pm
I clicked it about 10 times.
Melanie said,
February 21, 2006 at 4:01 pm
Clickety-click! I always wondered how that worked. Thank you for the enlightenment.
Nancy said,
February 21, 2006 at 4:48 pm
I’m a clicker, too!
Dani said,
February 21, 2006 at 5:55 pm
I actually click about 5 or 6 times a week - that and the one for feeding the animals…
Maureen said,
February 22, 2006 at 1:28 pm
Thanks for you comment on my blog. It sure is great news when you can say “cancer survivor”.
PS - I clicked!
kikiluscious said,
February 23, 2006 at 9:57 pm
I clicked, and added it to my favorites to do every day! Thanks so much! Again, you sift through the crap to show me the way (just like Yoda). Wanna ‘nother prize to give out? We have a donation….
k
Lu said,
February 23, 2006 at 10:54 pm
I click every day in memory of a friend who died last year of breast cancer - and I wear my pink bracelet every day in her memory as well.
Eileen G said,
February 27, 2006 at 4:20 pm
I make that site my home page and try to click it daily! As a breast cancer survivor, I like to try to do whatever I can to support other women.
Eileen
Wenche said,
June 6, 2006 at 4:04 pm
I clicked, and added it to my favorites