It’s not really that simple, because the cork can’t be harvested until the tree is about 25 years old: Quercus suber - Wikipedia
My first (late) husband believed in all of Edgar Cayce’s prophecies, and also believed that he could get rid of warts (and clouds) by concentrating on them.
Just found out that my father-in-law is ordering his medications from some company in India. :smack: Well, he says it’s a “Canadian pharmacy that gets some of their supplies from India” - yeah, sure, whatever. And he’s calling my husband because the meds supposedly shipped on February 29th… Well, checking the tracking number, it got ready for shipment that day, and was scanned as arriving in Germany two days ago, and god knows when it’ll show up here. And of course now he’s all pissed because his cut-rate maybe-not-real meds are slow to show up.
I don’t even know how they got the address for this place - they don’t have a computer and tend to come here for anything online, which is rare and they usually end up not doing anything via online anyway.
Yep. Mom’s into that crap, too.
Just remembered something I haven’t thought about in years. Remember when crystals and their magical powers were all the rage in the 80’s? I was talking to a guy I didn’t know very well who was explaining in depth all the different healing properties of various crystals. I thought he was kidding around and I chuckled. He then said in a very ominous tone “Do not laugh at what you do not understand.” That made me really guffaw. We did not become close friends.
I know way too many people who are. I sympathize. 
One of my best friends fell for a pyramid scheme way late in the game (Women Helping Women or some such “club”). Worse yet, she convinced a mutual friend to “invest” as well. I tried my damnedest to warn them but they wouldn’t believe me since they knew people who got paid off. Needless to say, they lost a couple grand.
The same friend fell for one of those “no money down” real estate seminar scams. I didn’t even bother trying that time.
Anyone else ever known a family that sells Shackle vitamins?
They will swear to you that Shaklee vitamins are better than store brand, but it is more or less a super-high-priced scam.
Oh, and always remember this: the fact that a lot of people die in hospitals proves that it’s dangerous to go to a hospital.
Let’s hope you never have to cross paths with Medicaid.
Yep, the scam’s in the marketing; the products are basic vitamin products but Shaklee tells folks they’ll become millionaire heroes to the masses once they embrace the wonder of Shaklee vitamins. Big pharma keeps them down! Fight the power…w/ vitamins!