Freebies and free stuff

Bethany from Centsible Shopper just alerted me to the fact that Walgreens is now officially having their Jane Week, which is a week where you can use this $2 off for each Jane makeup product you purchase.

This in and of itself isn’t that huge of a deal, but when combined with other products and coupons, you can suddenly get a lot of products for practically nothing. Here are a few scenarios that Bethany came up with showing how you can get $30 worth of stuff for less than $2. Pretty nifty. Makes me glad I have a Walgreens within walking distance!

I have a sinking feeling this free History Meets Hollywood DVD is going to be far too similar to that stupid Last Best Chance DVD that HBO gave away a year ago. Man, that thing was horrible! I almost feel like I should be punished for having ever put a link to it on this site. So you can understand why I’m a little hesitant to want to sign up and watch this free DVD…

But by golly, somebody needs to watch this and make fun of it and so I guess I’ll step up to the plate and take one for the team! I think I’m more excited about making another video trashing a bad DVD, like I did with the 4th Freebie Review, than I am about actually watching this thing. And I was a history major in college!

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EDIT: I think this is dead.

You can get a free LED keychain flashlight by agreeing to let your e-mail inbox get a few messages about printer ink toner or something or other. I wasn’t really paying attention though, because my interest was focused on the fact that I might soon have yet another shiny thing to flash at people. You know the little kid who is always entertained for hours on end by a simple set of jiggling car keys? Yeah, that was me growing up. Looks like I haven’t outgrown it, either!

EDIT: This freebie is dead now.

I’m not sure if I should get this free Jergens Natural Glow Express body moisturizer because it says it works best on people with medium skin tones. How the heck do I tell what my skin tone is? I’m looking at my fingers right now as I type this and they’re, um…white. Wait, I see some red areas around my knuckles. So, my current expert opinion puts me at peppermint candy tone. Fantastic. Hey Jergens, do you make a body moisturizer for freaks like me!?

[via the forums]

EDIT: I think it’s pretty safe to say this isn’t ever coming.

This free CubeBix.com t-shirt looks kinda neat seeing as how they send you a little package that you then soak in water before it transforms into a t-shirt. See, this is the kind of technology that scientists need to be working on. I want a pill that, once soaked in water, will transform into a new computer or car. Is this really too much to expect?

[via the forums]

I don’t know about anyone else in school or anyone who might have kids in school, but I can tell you that I go through pens, paper, and notebooks like four hippos go through marbles!

Needless to say, on the forums we’ve had folks hard hard at work finding tons of freebees for many of these necessary items… Pens, paper, folders, envelopes, mousepads–you name it!

Instead of picking one or two and featuring them here, I think it’s about time that you head over to the forums and sign up for all of them that you feel like!

Thank you Froggie and Moose for the phenomenal work!

[via the forums]

Despite wearing contacts for much of my life, I’ve been lucky enough not to suffer from dry, itchy eyes. So I probably won’t have any use for these free Alaway eye drops from Bausch & Lomb. Or course, the whole problem about not being able to see without contacts kinda even things out, if you ask me. I thought about getting Lasik a while back, but put it off once I realized how expensive it was. I tried shining the laser of one of those red pointer thingies in my eye to see if I could perform the operation myself, but it should come as no shock that I failed miserably.

What I lack in common sense, I more than make up for in stupidity!

[via the forums]

I’m posting this a day early so that more people will be alerted to Tuesday, February 12th being National Pancake Day! Why should they care? Because tomorrow you can get some free pancakes from IHOP! From 7 a.m. to 10p.m., you can get a free short stack (three) of buttermilk pancakes and in exchange, you’ll simply be asked to consider making a donation to Children’s Miracle Network. However, do note that making a donation is not required to get the free pancakes. It’s kinda like pants, you’re not required to wear them whenever you go outside to get the mail…but you know what? It might be a good idea to do so anyways.

[via the forums]

Good Day everyone! Shaynon here with a freebie review just for you! Today’s freebie for review is the Chick-fil-A Calendar and the goodies that come with it. This was posted back on December 31st, 2007 and I received mine on February 2nd, 2008.

This is a great freebie to me because it holds a surprise. Along with your calendar you also get a coupon for a free chicken biscuit. Great, I thought. Upon receiving the calendar I found the Chick-fil-A card which is like a food gift card. 2000 of the cards were going to have money on them. I called when I got mine and of course mine was blank…that’s ok. Back to the calendar for a minute. At the bottom of each calendar page is a coupon also. Examples range from, Free Chick-fil-A chicken salad sandwich, Free Chick-n-strips (with purchase of a medium Iced tea, ect…not a bad deal.) You don’t get many freebies with normal calendars.

So back to the card. I have been to Chick-fil-A once in my life. There isn’t one near where I live so it’s not something that I would remember if I was out. My uncle up in Pittsburgh, however, goes there everyday in the summer. It’s his hang out after golfing. I loaded the card up with some money and I’m giving it and the coupons to him for his birthday next month. I’m putting it all in the MasterCard check presenter that was posted as a freebie a few months back. Gotta love it when you can combine your freebies!

The promotion for the Chick-fil-A coupons and calendar is over, but if you check out their website, you can sign up to receive notice when there are promotions in the future. For those of you who signed up and received this I hope you enjoyed it!

My rating out of (1-5)

Edit by Goob: I just got an e-mail from fellow hiffer Jaime that she got $100 on her giftcard! So make sure you check your cards out, folks!

Imagine, you’re reading a book about Smucker’s Jelly but you start feeling hungry for a sandwich, so what better thing to hold your place than a George Washington Carver bookmark? Or how about this one: a book about the WNBA and you decide you’d rather go outside and play some basketball so you reach for your Susan B. Anthony bookmark. Or your book on Edison and Tesla’s feud, so you zap your Ben Franklin bookmark into place.

The possibilities are seemingly endless for historical humor with these free historical figure bookmarks… Just think of taking Eisenhower with you to to the beach, Jefferson on the plane with you when you fly in for Mardi Gras at the Big Easy, or Roosevelt with you to your finance class!

[via the forums]