Freebies and free stuff

If you check out Coupons.com and go to the “Entertainment” section, you should be able request a few free $10 coupon booklets. Since I’ve already received all four of the booklets, I compiled a list of coupons found in them.

$10 Betty Crocker Coupon Booklet

• $1/2 Betty Crocker cookie mixes 17.5 oz or larger
• $1/2 Betty Crocker frostings
• $1/2 Betty Crocker supreme brownie mixes
• $1/2 Betty Crocker boxes of potatoes
• $1/2 Betty Crocker warm delights bowls or mini bowls
• $1/1 Green Giant frozen bagged vegetables 19-24 oz.
• $1/2 any flavor Cheerios
• $1/2 Bisquick baking mix 40 oz. or larger
• $1/2 Fruit by the Foot (feet?)
• $1/8 Yoplait yogurt cups

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Make sure you’re a fan of the Oreo Facebook page, because they’ll be giving away 150,000 packages of free Double Stuf Oreos beginning at 3pm EST on Monday, January 25 if the Mannings beat the Donalds.

If you were with me right up until the end, join the club. There’s an entire website dedicated to this promotion/challenge, but the more I try to figure it out, the harder my head hurts. It’s like chemistry. I’m told there’s a rhyme and reason to it, but any time I get involved, something blows up.

Corinne Bailey Rae has a new album out and you can download the song “I’d Do It Again” from Walmart for free by using the code CORINNE. You have to have a Walmart account, but they’ve started to give away more and more song recently, so it’s worth the 60 seconds it takes.

I decided to sing along, but halfway through a sheriff showed up and announced that I’d been banned from ever entering the city limits again. It turns out local governments can cut through all the red tape when there’s a danger to public safety.

[via Free Snatcher]

I routinely get e-mails asking why I don’t post weekly sales for this or that store. My response is always that (A) I don’t shop that often, which means I can’t personally check out each deal and (B) there are plenty of other sites that already do a better job than I ever could. The problem was, I could never say exactly what blog was covering what region, because I had no idea.

In comes Bargain Briana, who has just launched the Frugal Map. It’s an interactive map that allows you to click on a state and see a list of frugal bloggers that cover specific cities. That way, you can find a site that should be covering the deals for your local grocery stores.

To make it even better, the map is embeddable, which allows me to place it here on HIF. I’ve also linked to it on each of our coupons page, like Coupons.com and SmartSource. This is a pretty cool resource, especially for people who are just getting into couponing.

I used to love free Cream of Wheat, which terrifies me. Any time I think back on my childhood, I realize I had the worst taste in everything. Case in point: I found a photo of myself wearing a plaid jumpsuit and eating some concoction of peanut butter and maple syrup. Can I truly trust the judgment of a person who once liked either of those, let alone both?

I’m a little light on freebies today because there just isn’t much to be had. These are the times when I dig through posts stuck in the edit queue with the hopes of finding something worthwhile, but I’m coming up empty. However, there’s a free Anti Sampler Fall 2009 CD from Amazon with 12 songs on it, so … yeah!

My incompetence in finding this earlier is paying dividends now. Too bad that’s not how the rest of life works.

[via The Freebie Blogger]

The free State of the States publication will become available in February and “takes a nonpartisan, analytical look at how the recession is changing state government and impacting the 2010 elections for state office.” Yes! Domestic Policy nerds, unite! The only way this could be better is if it came chock full of pie graphs of maybe a poster.

Wait, what’s that? There’s a poster to “help readers keep track of the stakes in gubernatorial and state legislative races?” Score! I’m tearing down my Ichiro Suzuki and Marisa Miller posters¹ today to make room for this bad boy.

1. I don’t really have posters on my wall. I’m not 10. [↩]

If you’re the type to spend many a nights partying it up until the wee hours of the morning, then you might want give some free SOS Night Fever a try. It’s supposed to help you become energized in the morning, but the only thing these pick-me up drinks ever give me is the ability to burp more frequently for an hour or so.

In order to get the freebie, click on the purple tab that says “Try Night Fever Efficiency.” Also turn off your speakers unless you want morph your office into an impromptu rave.

On second thought, blast those speakers and send me a video of the result!

The coupon for Taco Bell’s free Fresco taco has reset, so you should be able to print it out again if your stomach is up for it. I’m no nutritionist, but I eat far more tacos than is recommended by the FDA and I’m having trouble believing that people are losing weight from eating at Taco Bell.

I fully expect a Krispy Kreme diet marketing campaign in the near future. Don’t worry, the jelly filled donuts will cover all your daily fruit servings!

If you want 10 free Pampers Gifts to Grow points, then be sure to use the code JUSTFOROURFANS1 before tomorrow, Jan. 19.

I could have sworn I already posted this. I thought a new year might bring with it a new memory, but I’m told that’s not how it works. Even now, I have a nagging feeling that I’ve been forgetting something important…

Wait, I was supposed to pick up my brother at the airport on New Years Eve!

[via Freebies 4 Mom]