Free Dinner
By oldbuddy
@StartFlatBoke (222)
Portland, Oregon
October 13, 2018 9:45am CST
Have you received mail that invites you and your spouse to a free dinner to hear a presentation that tries to sell you something?
I have had some very good meals and a few of the presentations were entertaining and worthwhile, but do you take them up on those offers?
Some have been on homeowner improvements, retirement funding, how to get rich from nothing and usually have some kind of training to buy.
I think it's a great free night out when you are retired.
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4 responses
@StartFlatBoke (222)
• Portland, Oregon
13 Oct 18
I will be doing a LOT more of them, believe me.
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@sallypup (61336)
• Centralia, Washington
13 Oct 18
In my neck of the woods, those free dinners are usually not the good stuff served in the restaurant. Its 'special' food for that occasion.
@StartFlatBoke (222)
• Portland, Oregon
14 Oct 18
A recent one I attended was for investing advice at McCormick & Schmick's where I had a nice steak and my wife had salmon and it definitely was good stuff. However the last one was on real estate flipping and all we had was a box lunch with a turkey sandwich, so you take your chances.
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@sallypup (61336)
• Centralia, Washington
14 Oct 18
@StartFlatBoke I just noticed that you live in Portland. In a few years my husband and I will be living a 90 minute train ride away from that city.
@amadeo (111938)
• United States
13 Oct 18
this is still going on.Remember this way back in the eighties.Wow.
