Freebies and free stuff

Do you like skiing, snowboarding, or other winter sports? The exhilarating thrill of all that action in the freezing weather?

Yeah, me neither. The first and last time I tried a winter sport(snowboarding), I ended up crashing into the intructor. And the small child he was helping… needless to say(but being said anyways), I’m not a huge fan of winter, sports, or any combination of the two words.

However, I do like to have posters, papers, drawings, and other fun things to plaster on my walls to make them a little less boring. So this free poster from Snowmass Village seems like it would be a pretty awesome addition to a boring wall.

There’s honestly nothing at all like an early morning shower to wake up. And yes, this is coming from the guy who admitted to almost never showering a few months ago. I learned that was a stress induced sort of syndrome.

Thankfully on winter break now, I found I could almost live in the shower. And hey, because I’m in Florida, I might as well! Today’s high is only 67, so its not too bad. If only I had this sample of Head and Shoulders with me as well. Just think of how that’d make my shower.

Oh, I was thinking of the Herbal Essences commercial. Oh well, I guess only my head and shoulders will be happy after this one…

[via the forums]

EDIT: Insert horrible “I’ll be back” joke here to indicate that this freebie is no longer available.

Back when I was in high school, I worked at the local Blockbuster for a year or so and absolutely loved it. I got to rent new movies before they were “released,” I got five free rentals per week, and my entire job consisted of standing around talking about movies. It was the perfect job for a lazy teenager. But the best part about the job was the movie posters. Every week, they’d change the giant posters in the window to reflect the new releases and throw the old posters out. That changed as soon as I got there. I used to trip over myself in a mad race to the window to claim the ones I wanted, oblivious to the fact that nobody else seemed to desire them. I’d plaster them all over my room, give them away to friends, even use them as decorations in my car. So you can see why this free Sarah Conner Chronicles poster gets me all excited! It’s like reliving my younger days all over again.

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Normally you have to shell out $20 for this, but for a limited time you can download this free DivX Pro software and use it as if you had paid for it all along. While this may not seem exciting to most people, chances are if you’ve ever downloaded a video from the Internet, it was compressed with DivX. What does this mean for you and me? Well, now we can compress our home movies using DivX! So instead of that 30 second clip of Billy blowing out his birthday candles being 100 MB, it can now be a much more manageable 2 or 3 MB without losing any quality. For all of us tech nerds out there, this is cool. The rest of you can commence laughing at us….right….about….now!

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Good morning, HIFers! I can’t believe I’m this wide awake and I still haven’t had breakfast in the 2 hours I’ve been up. Needless to say, that requires doing dishes, and I don’t want to tackle that task…

But what is always simple to make is a cup of tea or coffee. Especially if you have a Senso machine. Sadly, I don’t, so this free Senso Tea Pods offer doesn’t do me much good. It also doesn’t do me much good to know that the coupon code for it is 8288-8781588 either, I guess. But maybe, just maybe, when these come I can put it in the bottom of a mug and put some boiling water in it and hope it works.

Or if not, well, I’m sure they’d make good disc air freshners to hide around my apartment to keep it smelling tea fresh… One could only hope…

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In high school, I was a history and geography buff. Well, more of the history buff. I loved studying the trends and the facts related to it. Little obscure things like Appomattox Courthouse, FDR’s New Deal, and the Bay of Pigs (which means I know more than Dana Perino). In knowing all of these random facts, I was killer on my high school’s academic team. Yeah, I was one of those nerds too. But, it got our high school a county-wide win over the other two, two years in a row, and it got me a place my senior year to go to Disney and the Florida Academic Team Showdowns. Yeah, we sucked horribly and got eliminated after two rounds, but we had a free trip to Disney! Can’t complain about that.

I do think that something like this free State of the States Publication PDF would have helped out a lot. See, if you read past years publications, you can see how chock full of facts they are about the changing trends in America. Heck, save 20 to 30 years worth of these and you can have your own kids made into academic geniuses.

They do come in magazines as well, but our dear own Pru found out that the supply is already gone of those, so request 2009’s early, and you won’t be downloading and printing your PDFs at Kinkos this year…

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Hey folks, happy tuesday for y’all! And for anyone like me celebrating the last night of Hanukkah without giving your parents or a younger sibling a gift, well, here’s a good quick freebee for y’all with only a few hours left till sundown.

Step 1: Head to the forums and this thread and pick out a design you like.
Step 2: Print out one you like, or add one to the thread if you find another one yourself. Cut the shape down appropriately.
Step 3: Get some packing tape and lay it out flat. Then lay the printed out bookmark on the packing tape and “laminate” the book mark on both sides.
Step 4: Print out this post and tell them that I said that this will make up for all of the gifts that they never got you, even when they asked for a Pretty Pretty Pirate Pony for your 5th birthday and they gave you those packs of socks.
Step 5: Hope that they don’t ground you for life for my sass.

And step 6: Have a happy last night of Hanukkah and will be back with much cooler freebees that don’t require much work tomorrow sometime.

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Call me demanding, but I think this free magic trick should just appear instantly on my desk without me having to input my shipping information or having to wait for it to be send through the regular mail. Now that would be a pretty cool magic trick! Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to stare in the mirror for a few more hours. I’ve still yet to figure out how my grandpa always finds a giant quarter behind my ear!

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There are all sorts of links to stupid, pointless programs on this free keystrap offer page, so make sure you just click on the button that says “3: Select FREE Keystrap & Color.” I actually have some fond memories of these things. My college used to give them out every year with people’s dorm keys, but that practice ended after my sophomore year. A bunch of kids went around wacking people and using them as weapons with the keys on the end. Of course, by “a bunch of kids,” I mean “my friends and I.” What?! Come on, it’s fun hitting your unsuspecting friend’s kneecap with a batch of metal going 50 MPH!

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It should come as no surprise that I have a cat. If folks haven’t seen any of my freebee reviews where Wooster’s made an appearance, well, then you should be following up on the site more often. But see, Wooster’s just the one that everyone sees. The dude craves attention. There’s also his sisters: Isabella (a white cat) and Cassandra (a grey tabby). Bella and Cassie are the smart ones, always sleeping and avoiding the cameras. Or pooping.

And speaking of pooping, this is a freebee for them. This free sample of a two week supply of cat litter will really help out around here. For anyone who has a cat, you know how often one poops. Now think of three of those suckers running around…

Oh, and with this one, if you get some form asking you for credit card information? Just erase your cookies and reload the page. I’ll help you out. And besides, I don’t think your cat has a credit card to pay for their own poop box.

Although, Wooster did get a letter in the mail the other day… But I think it was from the v-e-t. Yes, he knows how to spell now too…

EDIT: Now no matter what, folks, you have to pay $.95 for shipping. Sorry. We tried, honestly.

[via the forums]