Freebies and free stuff

EDIT: This is no longer available.

Four weeks ago, I’d never heard of Aveda. Today they’re my favorite shampoo, thanks to all the freebies they’ve released over the past month. My only concern with this free Aveda Black Malva Pure Plant shampoo offer is that I’m not sure black Malva flowers exist. My Google Images search provided plenty of Malva pictures, but none of them seem to be black. Furthermore, are we sure flowers are the best items to be washing our hair with? Shouldn’t we be using a soap-based substance? Something seems a bit off here and I’m not talking about my meds.

[via Jan - thanks!]

I’ve heard a lot of things called “art,” but this freebie perplexes me. This free Art of Ironing DVD from Rowenta just makes me think of feng shui or something? As if we’re supposed to have some zen moment with our irons as we coast and glide their heated surfaces across our fabric, attempting carefully not to remove the shirt logos or to add additional pleats or creases into our slacks or shirts. To find some inner peace between the heat, cloth, water, and steel. Just to exist as one in a fluid and swift motion…

What? Its not like “art” with “ironing” would be your iron doing a paint by numbers now, would it?

[via the forums]

Another Wednesday in the month of March and another Redbox rental code: JBG123. Just like the other ones that Goob’s thrown up, its good for today only.

I know one movie they probably won’t have, though: the original Batman and Robin movie with Adam West! Good thing I’ve got a copy around here somewhere…

[via the forums]

When I initially saw this free Rouge magazine subscription, my brain read it as Rogue and I got excited at the prospects of a magazine about scoundrels. I clicked the link, was greeted by a page full of models, and started to get confused. “o…kay,” I though, “maybe these vagabonds enjoy the occasional evening of dressing in drag?” It wasn’t until I clicked the link to preview the latest issue that my brain finally kicked into gear and alerted me that the magazine was named after a type of makeup.

It’s really only a matter of time before Natural Selection does away with me. I think Vegas has the over/under on eight months, which I feel is quite generous.

If you’ve got an Aveda store near you, then make sure you go sign up for SELF magazine’s 2009 Challenge and then download the Aveda coupon on the second page, which gives you the following:

• Free Aroma Sensory Journey
• Free cup of comforting tea
• Free stress-relieving hand ritual
• Free stress-relieving neck and shoulder massage
• Free makeup finishing touch
• Plus one extra free Aveda sample

Hopefully they don’t give this to you all at once, because I think it’d be hard to drink a cup of tea while getting a shoulder massage. (edit: If you’re having trouble finding the coupon, you’re welcome.)

In addition, I updated our Birthday Freebies post to include yet another Aveda freebie. Seems if you sign up at least 28 days before your birthday, they’ll give you a free perfume or body care product worth up to $25. My birthday was back in February, but I just signed up Mr. Goob Freebies who just so happens to have a birthday in 29 days! What a coincidence!

In theory, you could use this free Caress Evenly Gorgeous Exfoliating Body Wash only on your face in order to concentrate all the gorgeous benefits to one area. Call me crazy, but why would I want to make my entire body evenly gorgeous? It’s not like anybody’s looking at my kneecaps or big toes. Unless that’s what people are attracted to these days… Great, now I’m all self conscious about random body parts! That’s it, where’s my emergency Hazmat suit?

Good grief, that title is a massive jumble of words. What I was trying to say is that if you sign up in advance (like, today) then you can get a coupon e-mailed to you for a free taco at Taco Del Mar. They’re tying it into tax season, so the coupon is good only on April 15th. Speaking of taxes, I really need to get on mine. I still think there should be some way I can write off my dogs as dependents, but my lousy accountant keeps mentioning the words “tax fraud” quickly followed by “huge fine.” What a Debby Downer.

I love how their map of locations breaks down certain states. I wonder what the southwest corner of Colorado did to tick them off. Freaking Guam has a chain, but that corner of the Rockies is SOL.

I’ve never heard of these Lucy Stores, and from what I can see there are none around me, but what I do know is that this free sock coupon, good for a free 2 pair pack now through March 22, is perfect. I mean, you can never have enough socks, right?

And this is coming from a guy who wore white Reebok athletic socks with logo and all with his tux on his wedding day… Darn tootin’!

[via the forums]

I remember when I was hunting for a job after my move. To say that I used a lot of paper and had a lot of leftover paper airplanes would be a misnomer. I probably had a fleet or a whole regatta of textual aircraft, ready to fly at a whim. And on nice stock resume paper too.

Kinko’s has taken note of this and they’re doing something about this economic situation. Bring in your resume in digital or print form? They’ll make 25 free copies of it on high quality resume paper tomorrow, March 10th.

Be sure to hurry and to get there during normal business hours! If not? Well, I’m sure we could create another fleet of aircraft for a reenactment of WWII dog-fights!

[via the forums]

Does anybody ever share their free Redbox rental code (which is F3T9L6 for today only) whenever they go to use it? My kiosk always has three or four people lined up and I always have fun trying to think of goofy ways to announce the code to everybody. Take last week for instance. I actually printed out that goofy poem I wrote and read it aloud while waiting in line. Then I remembered that nowhere in the poem did I actually announce the code, so I ended up just telling everybody. Yet another one of my plans ruined by ineptitude!