Freebies and free stuff

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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]

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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]