Hey, who doesn’t love to get free stuff?

I know I do, so even though I’m not a pop drinker and haven’t personally had an ice cold Coca Cola since I was 14, when I learned that I could get free stuff at www.mycokerewards.com just by entering the numbers inside the bottle caps, I was on it like Sherlock on Watson.

Everyone else in family drinks Coke of course, and so do all the people around me at work. Do they save their bottle caps so they can get the free stuff at the My Coke Rewards website? No they do not. They are busy people. I’m a busy person too, but come on, FREE STUFF! We’re talking F-R-E-E here, just for entering some numbers at a soft drink website.

So now, guess who volunteers to dispose of everyone’s pesky bottle caps? You got it: that little old tea drinker, Me! I don’t feel guilty either, because like I said, I buy tanker truckloads of this fizzy stuff for my loved ones, and have for years.

It’s kind of like when you don’t have kids and you go to all the wedding showers and then baby showers for the kids of people you know, and then finally, after many years of being bored out of your mind and never winning the door prize, it’s your kid’s turn. So even though you think showers were invented by God as a punishment for women’s descent from Eve (and a harsh punishment too) you invite every single person whose shower you ever attended and all their relatives too. It’s your right. It’s your turn. And they damn well better show up!

But wait, you say, maybe you don’t want to have free stuff all over your house that has the words Coca Cola plastered all over it. Maybe you don’t want red Coke pants and a white Coke T-shirt with red lettering and a red Coke gym bag to carry with your red Coke sneakers, and so on, and so forth.

No problem!

You can use your reward points to enter sweepstakes at www.mycokerewards.com for everything from tickets to Six Flags to Nascar events. You can also save up your rewards points to earn discounts at other cool retailers like Best Buy, use your points for music downloads for your phone or I-Pod, save your points for coupons for free Blockbuster movie rentals, or you can donate your rewards points to your favorite school.

Best of all, you don’t have to only drink Coke to qualify for the rewards points. You can find these points on the inside of the caps of all Coca Cola soft drink products, including Dasani bottled water, Barq’s Root Beer, Vault Energy Drinks, Powerade, Fanta and Faygo drinks.

So, drink pop, or don’t. But do register at My Coke Rewards and enter those bottle cap numbers whenever you have a few spare minutes. They add up really fast, and you know what that means…

FREE STUFF!!