Freebies and free stuff

I’m sadistically looking forward to my 12+ hour shift on Friday at my day job. Yup. When you don’t see me on here, just know that I’ll be cradling a 24oz Monster Energy Drink in each arm, laughing like a maniac, loving every moment of working in retail. But, maybe I’ll find extra joy in knowing that I can head across the street when my shift ends with this free slice of pumpkin pie at Bob Evans coupon for this weekend. I don’t think I’d be able to smile any wider…

While Goob is surrounded by the family, here my wife and I are with our cats, making a late late night vegetable lasagna for our Thanksgiving. And of all places that I ended up? Walgreens. This year I’m thankful they’re open up late, so we could get aluminum foil to cover our lasagnas. And while I was there, the clerk asked me an important question: “Are you having fun yet?”

So for Brenden who asked me that, no, I wasn’t until I found that I could use either the code THANKSGIVING or BFCOLLAGE and choose “In Store Pickup” to get a free 8×10 photo collage from Walgreens. Of course, while Goob will have plenty of incriminating drunken photos? I don’t have the type of beer my cat likes, so my Thanksgiving will be a sober one…

Oh no, they’re back! The whole Goob family tree has now surrounded me and I won’t lie … I feel threatened. I actually have a bottle of free Vaseline Intensive Rescue lotion within arm’s reach, but how do I use it to rescue myself? Squirt it in their eyes? Use it as a blunt object? Maybe … Wait a minute.

They have pie! Check that, pies. Plural! As in more than one pie! I am so outta here.

Something tells me I shouldn’t be up at 2am on Thanksgiving writing about free Starbucks Natural Fusions coffee. That something is my family. It’s always “why don’t you love us” this and “somebody hide his laptop” that. At one point they even tried shutting off the power to the entire house so that my computer would die. Luckily I always travel with a giant Honda generator. It comes in handy during zombie apocalypses and avoiding candlelit Monopoly games.

As part of a Black Friday deal, you can get $3 worth of free Amazon.com mp3 credit by entering code GET3MP3S. You have to redeem the credits by Nov. 29th, so don’t eat too much this week and pass out in a turkey coma.

If you’re having trouble deciding what to “buy,” you might want to start out on Amazon’s mp3 music page.

[thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

Pampers Gifts to Grow is so thankful for their members that they’re giving us five free points via code NovemberThanks5. Geez, is Thanksgiving really in two days? I guess I should finalize my plans. Anybody have some extra turkey? I can trade an afternoon of sarcastic comments for a seat at the table.

If you’re already a member of Pamper’s site, then use this link to head straight to the log-in page. Otherwise, use the first link to sign up!

[thanks Nicole!]

One of my many side projects is a site where people can make free charity donations. It’s still in development, but the general premise is that there are ways we can make donations to legit charities for free. I figure if we’re already taking 10 minutes a day to get freebies, why not spend a few more minutes to make sure others less fortunate get some as well?

But in the mean time, P&G Give Health has a current offer where they’re trying to give away 100,000 days of clean drinking water by the end of 2010. For every person who enters their email in the widget below, one donation will be added. To sweeten the pot, for every 1000 Hiffers who give a day, P&G will give me a $50 gift card to give away.

If you enter your email above and “Click to Donate Water,” then you just gave 2 liters of drinking water to somebody in a developing country through P&G’s Children’s Safe Drinking Water Program. Feels pretty good, huh?

The next time you’re grocery shopping (with a handful of coupons, of course) be on the lookout for General Mills cereal boxes that have a blue “Free Movie!” banner on them. All you have to do is buy two boxes, enter the box codes here, and you’ll then get a movie ticket valued at up to $12 for participating theaters. I’ll give you bonus points if you try to then sneak the boxes of cereal into the theater for a snack.

Participating brands are Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Reese’s Puffs, and Trix. I currently see the following coupons that will make this deal even more thrifty:

$1/2 Cinnamon Toast Crunch on Coupons.com or
$1/2 Cinnamon Toast Crunch on SmartSource

EDIT: This is no longer available.

I always dreamed of becoming a robber baron, so I look forward to the many enlightening articles I’m sure to read thanks to my free six month Barron’s magazine subscription.

You have to take the short survey on the second page and then confirm your address on the third page.

When I saw this free o.b. tampon sample, my first thought was that maybe I could find some other use for the little discrete case that it comes with. I mean a playing card case, marble tin, stylish Altoid’s tin sleeve, or maybe a cat treat hider.

Though, when the day ends? Its still just a tampon holder, huh?