The fine folks over at Photo Card Creations have offered to give away 50 free photo cards to a lucky winner here on HIF. The winner will be able to choose from any of their custom cards, from a batch of classic thank you cards to some cute birth announcements. And if you’re not ready for a life changing event, they have tons of party invitations as well.

So how do you enter?

1. Add Hey It’s Free to your RSS reader. If you already have or after you’ve done so, leave a comment saying what reader you added the feed to.
2. Join Hey, It’s Free’s Facebook page. Again, if you already have or after you’ve done so, leave another comment.
3. Follow Hey, It’s Free on Twitter. Like the others, leave a comment after you’ve followed HIF.

So, if you decided only to add HIF to your RSS reader and join HIF’s Facebook group, you’d leave two separate comments and get two entries. Make sense? Good luck!

Contest ends at noon on Monday, March 22 and the winning comment will be randomly selected. Winner will be notified by e-mail and added to HIF’s Winners page.

Here’s a slick Pantene shampoo freebie available on Facebook that I doubt will be available for long. Call it a gut feeling. Or maybe I’m just feeling one of the many bruises I mysteriously acquired last night.

Anyway, here’s how to get the freebie.

1. Become a fan of Pantene on Facebook.
2. Click this link.
3. You’ll now be on your Facebook homepage. Look at the right sidebar and you’ll see a section that says “Sponsored” where a Pantene ad should now be. It looks like this. Click on “get a free sample of Pantene” and you’re all set.

[via Freebies 4 Mom]

You know this free Soooo Sweet Stevia sweetener is sweet because it has four Os in it’s name instead of one. My source tells me they tried to use six, but their lawyers said they couldn’t get away with it. Then again, my source is imaginary and loves to lie, so I’d take whatever he says with a grain of salt.

How exactly does free Pssst Instant Spray shampoo work? You spray it on your head as opposed to squirting shampoo out of a bottle on your head? Oh, well that seems rather…American.

Watch out for accidentally confusing it with spray cheese. I’m not sure what would be worse: eating shampoo or smelling like cheddar all day long.

While on a leisurely stroll today, I swung by my local Walgreens and confirmed that the steps below will score you two free bags of Planters Trail Mix.

1. Become a fan of Planters on Facebook and print two $1.50 coupons. You can hit back on your browser to print the second coupon after the first finishes.
2. Buy two bags of Planters Trail Mix for $1.99 each (they’re on sale).
3. Use the two coupons you printed and then use the $1 Planters coupon found in the March Walgreens coupon booklet.
4. Final cost should be free.

It’s important that you always use the manufacturers coupons before using the Walgreens coupons. Otherwise, the computer gets confused and you end up paying some money. You’d think they could find some old NASA computers from the 60s that helped put guys on the moon to handle the basic math. Heck, I’m pretty sure my watch from the 3rd grade could come through in a pinch.

Target’s Kodak Gallery currently has a deal where you can get a free 5×5.75 Pocket Photo Book for free (normally runs $9.99), but you have to pay a $1.99 shipping fee. All you have to do is:

1. If you’re not a member already, use the link above to get 50 free photo prints.
2. After signing up/logging in, go to Kodak Target page.
3. Create your book and use code TGTFREEBOOK at checkout before Sunday, March 21.

If you don’t want to pay for shipping, there’s a free Mini Photo Book that’s worth $6.99, so shipping would be free after you apply you’re $9.99 credit.

[thanks Freebies 4 Mom]

If you have a Baja Fresh nearby and want to get a free Burrito today, then fan them on Facebook, print out the coupon, and bring it with you to Baja Fresh today only until 8pm while wearing green. Because nothing says Happy St. Patrick’s day like Mexican food!

If your hair is feeling a little out of shape, sign up for this free Dove daily treatment conditioner. So, wait, we’re supposed to be conditioning our hair daily now? Is this the kind of daily like flossing, where nobody actually does it, or the daily like brushing your teeth, which is actually followed?

Well, I should clarify, most people brush their teeth daily. I’ve known a few people who didn’t and…well, I only correspond with them via carrier pigeons now. What? I had to find some way to justify purchasing a bunch of birds last year!

[thanks Erika and Dollie]

I don’t know which oats these are supposedly better than, but you can get a coupon for a free box of Better Oats to judge for yourself. In order to get the sample, click on the “taste test” tab, laugh at the funny picture of a girl eating her spoon, and then sign up. You should receive the coupon via e-mail within a short period.

Seeing as how over 600 people participated in last years March Madness contest, I figured tonight would be as good a time as any to set up this year’s rodeo. After the fiasco with Yahoo last year, I spurned their fancy-pants scoring system and turned to ESPN. Here’s the official HIF group (password is hiffers) and in order to be considered for prizes, join up and make your picks before the first game at noon on Thursday, March 18.

As for the prizes:¹

• First Place: $100 GC
• Second Place: $50 GC
• Third Place: $25 GC

Trust me, you don’t have to have any idea what you’re doing in order to have fun or play. I blindly pick teams and still managed to come in like 9th place last year. I don’t even watch pro basketball, let alone college, but having a bracket gives you the perfect excuse to slack off from working and cheer for a random team you’ve never heard of.

Just don’t pull a Goob, as my friends call it, and routinely cheer for a team that you actually picked to lose. There’s no word for the emotional gut wrench that comes moments after realizing such an idiotic mistake.

1. As usual, you can pick what store you want the gift cards for [↩]