In my quest to find some free non-Christmas music earlier this week, I first stumbled across NPR’s All Songs Considered blog, which has tunes you can both listen to and download for free.

Next up, I found free music from Parachute Festival, which lets you download the following songs.

• Falling Up – Streams of Woe at Acheron
• Family Force 5 – Dance or Die (The Secret Handshake Remix)
• Hillsong United – No Reason to Hide
• Leeland – Count Me In
• Parachute Band – Shout It Out
• Rapture Ruckus – One
• Switchfoot – Mess of Me
• Underoath – Writing On The Walls

And finally, you can pick up a free live Sara Bareilles album by joining her mailing list. The only downside is that the file is one, giant 31 minute long track with all of the songs included on it. So that’s kind of weird. But hey, it’s free, and it’ll keep me entertained for a while, so I’m not complaining!

The next free Lowe’s Build & Grow Clinic is this Saturday, December 19, and it looks like they’ll be building a little pet treat keeper¹, which looks kind of cool. Hiffer Ruth is even planning on using it as part of a Christmas present, which sounds like a great idea.

Just make sure you don’t fill it with anything that resembles human food. I once ate three dog treats before somebody told me they weren’t beef jerky. So in all, I ate five.

[via the freebie calendar]

1. on Jan. 9, they’re making a coin bank, which looks AWESOME! [↩]

Well here’s a first. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a plum, let alone free Mariani dried plums via Sam’s Club. Hopefully these don’t try to kill me. The only plum I’ve ever encountered was a professor and he was always trying to beat me over the head with a candlestick in the kitchen.

Make sure you enter the code SUPERFRUIT when prompted.

This free personalized video from Santa isn’t a typical freebie in that it’s just a video that plays online and includes some info that you input. However, it’s at least a few minutes long, so that should buy you enough time to take one of the world’s shortest naps!

[via tons of Hiffers - thanks!]

EDIT: Looks like that only lasted for a few hours. Sorry!

You can download four free songs from Disney’s new Princess and the Frog movie by using code RK4F3TM. I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I don’t know how it ends, but I’m gonna guess everybody lives happily ever after. Call it a hunch.

EDIT: This is no longer available. It stayed up for a whole hour though!

The free Excedrin Extra Strength medicine I posted two weeks ago is available again. Let’s see if it stay’s up longer than 20 minutes this time.

As with other Sam’s Club freebies, you don’t need a membership number – just skip that field and the form should submit just fine. If you signed up for this freebie earlier, you won’t be able to get it this time around.

Tomorrow, Thursday, December 17, is Free Shipping Day. Over 700 retailers are offering free shipping on any purchase with the added guarantee that it’ll arrive by Christmas Eve. This is perfect for stragglers who have only bought one or two presents so far

Hey, why is everyone looking at me? I’ll have you know I haven’t bought a single present yet, so ha! Oh, wait…

I spent ten minutes trying to decide what joke to make about this free Golf Digest magazine subscription. My gut reaction was to make fun of how poor my golf skills are, but I’ve done that a million times already. I could go for the topical Tiger Woods joke, but that’s a bit too easy at this point. How about a pun on how digesting food is more entertaining than reading Golf Digest?

As you can see, I took the easy way out and chose none of them! Huzzah!

[via Free Snatcher - thanks!]

One of the queries for free Bubbles n’ Beads pet shampoo is “what’s your dog’s biggest problem?” The final option is “tear stains,” which leads me ask this: what in the world are people doing that’s causing their pet’s faces to be stained with tears? Take it from a guy who cries at least three hours a day – it takes a lot of crying in order to stain your face!

[via Zachay - thanks!]

If you have a nearby Safeway or any of their affiliated stores, then you can get one free item every day between now and the 24th as part of their 12 Days of Freebies event. In order to get the freebies, simply print out the coupon for whichever item you want and use it on the corresponding day. The downside is that you have to make a $20 purchase, so it might be best to plan your next shopping trip (or two) around the freebie that you most want.

Here are Safeway’s affiliate stores and what each day’s freebies are.

• Dominick’s
• Genuardi’s
• Randalls
• Tom Thumb

12/16: Hillshire Farm Lit’l Smokies
12/17: Safeway Brown & Powdered Sugar
12/18: 2-liter 7UP
12/19: 5 lb bag of Russet Potatoes
12/20: Breakfast Sausage Links
12/21: Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips
12/22: Mini Muffins
12/23: Brown n Serve Dinner Rolls
12/24: 2-liter Safeway Mixer

[via Mommy's Wish List - thanks!]