Freebies and free stuff

Its Saturday morning and its snowing outside. What a perfect time to sit down and help the kids with their homework. But quick, you can’t think of the flag of the country of Nigeria! Or how about the current head of state for Tajikistan? Do you even know how many peoples providences are in China?

Well have no fear because you can once again be superparent with this free download of the CIA World Factbook. Yes, I know, who really needs to know those things? But if you start now, I’m sure you could have them on college Jeopardy when they get to their sophomore year away from home… Or at least an A on that paper with a reputable source better than Wikipedia!

[via the forums]

Hey, guys! Sorry I’ve been out of the loop for a couple of weeks with various and sundry life events, but I’m back with some deals for you. If you have a CVS near you, love washing your face and making money, boy, have I got a deal for you. For the rest of this week all Neutrogena sun care and facial products are Buy 2, get $10 Extra Care bucks. Here’s how you can use this to make some extra cash:

Currently, CVS is selling Neutrogena Fragrance Free Facial Bars for $2.99. Buy ‘em, get the CVS $10 bucks and earn around $4 that can be used on any future CVS purchase. (Goob: I’m actually working on a video that totally explains how the CVS Extra Care Bucks work in relation to the freebie world.)

As we all know, getting freebies is almost as good as getting cash. But this week Walgreens has the next best thing – A bunch of free-after-rebate offers.

• Zucol Cold Care Lozenges
• Revlon Age-Defying Spa Concealer or Spa Foundation
• Thermacare Trial Size Neck, Shoulder and Wrist Heat Wrap
• Garnier Fructis Wonder Waves Shampoo, Conditioner or Stylers, 6.8 to 13 oz.
• Walgreens No Rub Multi-Purpose Solution for Soft Contact Lenses

All of these can be purchased on-line or in store, so enjoy!

The buzzword of our times seems to be “stimulus.” Be it economic, coffee from Starbucks, or uh, other forms that involve various married governors, everyone is doing whatever they can to get stimulated. And here is where we enter with Officer Roseland.

Officer Roseland had a pretty cool idea with their latest album, Stimulus Package. And with that, you can head to a website they set up just for that and download it for free and get a buck for doing so. You can donate that buck to the Mr. Hollands Opus foundation or take that buck right to your PayPal.

One way or another, head to their myspace and check them out. I’d say even without the buck? You’re getting 11 tracks of aural stimulus.

[via the forums and Zachary]

We try and keep things fresh around here, but sometimes it’s good to revisit a trustworthy freebie that just keeps coming and coming. Adam wrote about this free Dunkin’ Donuts coffee last October and yet here we are four months later and it’s still up and running. Most freebies don’t even last four days!

If you already signed up for this with your home address, then you should be able to sign up again with a separate address: work, friend, abandoned home down the street, tree house, boathouse, doghouse, converted missile silo, box taped to the side of your real mailbox for mole people. I’m not even sure what that last one means, but if it gets me more freebies, then let’s do it!

Hiffer Susana just dropped me a note (okay, that sounds like we’re in grade school together) letter me know that Walgreens is giving away 20 free 4×6 photo prints until midnight CST today. All you have to do is enter the coupon code ONEDAY when you check out and you should be all set. I’ll finally be able to finish my scrapbook of butterflies, rainbows, and unicorns now!

Goob here. Looks like this wasn’t a legit freebie folks. Massive apologies for any confusion or headaches we caused by posting it.

I’m getting a lot of worried e-mails from people asking if this company now has access to their e-mail or credit card information and the answer is no! I signed up for the “freebie” like everybody else and the only information they have is our mailing address and e-mail address. That’s it. Which means, we’ll most likely see an increase of junk mail going directly to our spam folder.

The confirmation e-mail that they sent out had a link in it, which I also clicked. Some of you were worried that this might give them access to your e-mail account, but I can assure you they don’t! In order to have access to your e-mail, you would have had to give them your password and nowhere did they ask for that.

Please don’t worry folks. This is simply a fake freebie set up with the sole purpose of collecting our e-mails. As long as you have a spam filter (and 99% of emails do), then you’re fine. There are hundreds of these set up every day and we here at HIF do our best to identify them and kick them to the curb. This is the first one that’s slipped past us in a long while, but I can assure you nothing catastrophic will come of it

Now back to the freebies!

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EDIT: Dead now

I nearly forgot today on my way back from work that I was out of shampoo and conditioner for today in the shower. And in actuality? I did forget until I saw this freebie for free Selsun Blue shampoo. Then again, it seems like I have dozens upon dozens of shampoos. Why can’t we just get some samples that are only conditioners? I go through those like I go through toilet paper…

[via the forums]

I watch a lot of TV, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I enjoy watching the Outdoor Channel too. Sure, I watch Style Network and E!, but sometimes you need to watch someone fishing or a good bow and arrow, right?

That’s what I think makes this free Outdoor Channel new gear pack even sweeter. I mean, they don’t tell you what it is, so maybe its a graphite compound crossbow or a deer skull with their logo slapped on it! The possibilities are endless!

[via the forums]

Speaking of Manwiches and other free ground beef type foods, Jack-in-the-Box is at it again. You can print up this coupon for two free tacos at Jack-in-the-Box on 2/24.

With all of this food that I’ve come across this morning, I should just go back to the kitchen and make me a bigger breakfast, because lord knows I’m feeling it…

[via the forums]

EDIT: Hope you got beautiful already, because they’ve deleted this freebie offer.

I have large pores. Or so my wife says. To me, I don’t see any craters on my face or any holes other than my nose and mouth. And even then, I see my Guy Smiley veneers. Yes, I went there…

Still, maybe I’m not seeing it because I don’t know what to look for. Maybe this free Become Beauty Weekender Kit will have some ruler for me to measure my pores with?

And why oh why would I care about my pore size anyways? Is it Friday yet?

[via the forums]