Hey, It’s Free!

Fellow Hiffer Mersida sent in this coupon for a pair of free Jockey underwear at Macy’s from May 31-June 6. You can never have too many pairs of underwear!

I’ve got some bad news for the makers of this free coffee mug. Let me preface this by saying I’m no zoologist, but I have BEEN to a zoo and I’ve also seen a few shows on Animal Planet before, so I feel I’m qualified to point this out: that animal looks like the bad guy from Terminator 2. I know he’s supposed to represent the product they sell, but in my mind, he looks not only like a lethal wild animal, but also one I couldn’t kill. Call me crazy, but that scares me, even if the creature is only on a coffee mug. For all I know, he could pounce off of it and eat me at any second.

I’ll be the first to say that I doubt this freebie will come, too. I answered truthfully that I have no idea what they’re trying to sell me and that I won’t buy it even if I did. You might want to fib and say otherwise. Then we’ll see which of us receives the futuristic animal coffee mug.

Whoever designed the page for this free Clean & Clear Absorbing Sheets forgot the small rule of thumb that people usually can’t read tiny freaking text. I almost had to find my magnifying glass while filling out the form. I did figure out that you don’t have to bother with the survey on the second page, so woo hoo to that. Just click next and it’ll take you straight to the confirmation page.

EDIT: Looks to be dead, but I’ve changed the link below to their “Dentek Nation” club. If you sign up, they say they’ll send you freebies as soon as they become available.

I always used to think flossing was for losers who got tricked into thinking it was important. Then one day I went to the dentist for a routine checkup and proceeded to spend the equivalent of Japan’s GDP on drillings, fillings, and a whole lot of laughing gas. After that, I started flossing every day and thus I’m pretty excited about this free DenTek $20 gift pack. These little things are awesome, as you don’t have to worry about wrapping the floss around your fingers and cutting off your circulation (even if watching your finger tips turn purple is kinda awesome).

I’m not sure how they’re going to give away $20 worth of stuff, but you’ll get 50 free flossers, a few coupons, and some other cool stuff.

[via cara]

I bet my little sister will love these free Betty Crocker Warm Delight Minis (geez that’s an ironically long name for a “mini” product). She’s at that age where she loves to cook and bake things for the family, which is a-ok with me, but unfortunately she’s still learning. Take for instance the last time she tried to make brownies. Somewhere along the line the recipe got confusing and long store short, she used so much olive oil it was basically a brownie soup.

I still ate it though.

[via omegafemale]

I happy this free Gillette body wash doesn’t try to pass itself off as a shampoo as well. I’ve never trusted a product that tries to say it’s both a soap AND a shampoo crammed into one bottle. It’s like that product that came out a while ago with peanut butter and jelly mixed together inside - it’s just not natural! Before you know it, we’ll be eating entire meals out of a single tube and using one type of soap to wash not just our bodies, but our dishes, clothes, and pets as well.

Ah dang it, now I’ve got the mental image of my dogs jumping into the shower with me and making me smell like a wet dog. Thanks a lot, Gillette.

[via cara]

I’m sure this free Lubriderm lotion is a good freebie and all, but it got me thinking - what’s the deal with all the anti-Canadian freebies lately? I feel bad for anybody living up there, because I haven’t found many decent freebies being sent across the border. Maybe it’s yet another one of the side effects of the bad economy or maybe there’s a recent Freebie Conspiracy brewing.

I don’t care what anybody says, I’m going with the latter. It’s time for Goob to don his investigator hat, grab a notepad, and start running around making wild and unfounded accusations!

[via missysloan]

EDIT: Dead now

This coupon for some free Yoplait yogurt looks promising, but only if you don’t live in California, Idaho, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota and Tennessee. Why? Because apparently Yoplait doesn’t like giving away free stuff to residence in those states. I’m not sure how big HIF is up in North Dakota or Idaho, but hopefully it’s minimal.

Hey Everyone! Happy May (I know I’m late lol)

Anyway, I’m here to give you my first freebie review of the month. Today we are reviewing a very very old freebie, Crayola Twistables. This was posted way back in the beginning of 2007. We received ours in March I believe. I shouldn’t say us, Abby received them. Awhile back I was talking to Goob and I mentioned that she had gotten a bunch more of these in the past weeks, so he said I should let her review them and then just edit it into a review. So what you are getting is a mix of 2 reviews, Abby’s being first followed by mine. Enjoy!

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This is the first time I’ve found some free Purex detergent being given away on a site other than Wal Mart. Which in my book is awesome, because that means this shouldn’t die 10 seconds after I post it.

I don’t really have anything witty to say about laundry anymore, but this does kind of relate to drying machines and this weekend, my brother didn’t know how to empty a lint tray. Or better yet, he didn’t know it even existed. He’s also about to be in the 11th grade and have his drivers license. But don’t ask him to dry anything.

Hooray for never ceasing to be amazed!

[via Moose]

Apparently I’m not finished learning my lessons in regards to contests, as all my planning, tests, and retests were thrown out of the window tonight. I’ve been alerted to the fact that Wordpress is randomly eating some people’s submissions, something I never encountered in any of my tests and for reasons far beyond my limited knowledge of computers.

So screw this, forget registering and messing with Wordpress. I’m sorry for ever making people do that in the first place.

I’ve uploaded a text document with all the items on it that you can download by right clicking and hitting “save as.” Then copy all the links you find into that text file and send it to me as an attachment by June 3rd. My e-mail is heyitsfree(AT)gmail(DOT)com without the parenthesis.

Remember, even if you don’t find everything, you can still win a cash prize, so submit whatever links you DO find!

Also, if you already saved some links into wordpress, you can either copy them over into the text document or not. I’ll check and make sure all your links are counted as an “I’m sorry for not knowing how to properly operate a halfway decent contest.”

In the future, I’m not going to bother with registrations and complex plugins and websites. From now on, it’s the path of least resistance and most basic.

Also, 100 trillion thanks go out to PB and Froggie on the forums for helping me discover and troubleshoot the problem. You girls rock.

This free Fizzion concentrated cleaner enjoys resizing your browser for some reason, but other than that it looks like a solid freebie. If I’m not mistaken, this is a new cleaning product for carpet stains and the like. Which, going hand in hand with the last freebie I posted below, is something my family needs. If there’s any way for them to send my mom a 50 gallon drum of this stuff, I promise you she’d use it all by the end of the month.

[via Moose]

Yeah, that title doesn’t make much sense to me either. I didn’t even know there was a Pfizer Animal Heath division, but it turns out there is. And they want to send us a free pen! Um….ok.

I put that I look after 1095 pigs a year, which is 3 (younger siblings) multiplied by 365 days. If anything, I think looking after that many pigs a year would actually be easier than cleaning up after my family.

[via Moose]

The May 2008 Contest is now officially open with 50 items to find. If you still want to play, no worries! Just download the list of items you need to find and have at it. Be sure to save all the links you find to that document before e-mailing it back to me as an attachment.

The deadline for submissions is June 3rd!

I’ve been asked a few times what happens if somebody sends in their list and a few items are wrong. If the link is broken, I’ll give you a chance or two to re-find the item. But if you link to something that clearly isn’t correct, you can’t resubmit that link!

A few of the items are vague (ie, “Something you’d like as a freebie” or “the biggest house” etc.) and that’s intentional. It lets people get a little creative. There are also a few randomly hard items, which again is intentional. If anybody can find everything, more power to ya! Remember, we’re using Google Maps. Simply go there, click the “street view” button, and start hunting for the items. Still having trouble? Maybe this photo will help.

Oh yeah, the prizes!

1st place - $50
2nd place - $25
Random winner - $25

The winners will be determined as follows: The two people who find the most items will get first and second. If only two people find every item, then whoever completed the hunt first will win first. If three or more people find every item, we’ll have a short “playoff” style hunt that I’ll explain later on.

And finally, there’s one hunt item that’s secretly marked as the “random winner” item. Everybody who finds it will be entered into a drawing for the random winner prize.

So good hunting, folks, and have fun! At the least, come over to the forums and chat with us about the hunt

All I seem to do is sit in front of my computer recently. If its not reading the forums, putzing around on Facebook or MySpace, listening to music and reading reviews, reading my news feeds, or messing around with my site and blog, well, its staring blankly at instant messages. Or job hunting, but that’s always a pain and with the situation that I’m…

Enough.

That’s why I like Excedrin. And this free sample of Excedrin from Wal*Mart not only is bound to be good? But its bound to go fast.

[via the forums]

I missed the free Dunkin Donuts coffee and free McDonald’s chicken sandwich offers that were given away yesterday (stupid me!), so I wanted to post this free Walmart ice cream sundae a few days early. This Sunday, May 18, Walmart will give away free ice cream sundaes at each of their 2,532 Walmart Supercenters. Woooo!

To find your nearest Supercenter, use this link and don’t forget to enjoy your free ice cream sundae this weekend!

[via Cara]

I always loved those paper towel commercials where they’d do a “test” to see how strong such and such towels were. First it was how much water they could absorb, then how tough they were, and then we somehow got to the bowling ball commercials.

I haven’t the slightest clue if these free Viva paper towels have any similar commercials, but I’m still going to try it nonetheless. When these babies come in the mail, I’m going to stack up all the individual sheets in my back yard, jump off my deck, and hope that they act as a trampoline / springboard. Then I’m probably going to call 911 and request an ambulance.

[via the forums]

Growing up I remember Koala Yummys. Remember those? Cracker/cookies with the chocolate filling? And then came along Teddy Grahams and instead of having a bear that would bleed chocolate when you bit its head off, you just had a shaped graham cracker. But it was a bear! And you could bit its head off without it being messy. Talk about innovations!

So when I saw this free sample of Teddy Grahams, I couldn’t pass it up. I mean come on: bears and cookies! In one box! That’s better than sliced bread!

[via the forums]

I feel old even contemplating signing up for this free Berry Metamucil. If I sign up for this, I’m only a year or two away from screaming at the neighborhood kids to get off my lawn. Wait, on second thought, I do that already. Oh screw it, I like anything berry flavored. Metamucil, here I come!

[via Kimmy]

EDIT: Of course, this is dead now…

It’s been a while since I’ve posted something for Fido, so feel free to sign up for these free Pet-Aloe Crumbles. This can actually be attributed to having caused me to waste the better portion of my morning. When I saw it, I immediately thought of the old Stephen Colbert skit where he talks about Crumbelievable non-stop. Then I started going through the video archives on Comedy Central and….well, let’s just say I’ve yet to shower today.

[via the forums]