What the heck am I supposed to do with a free 4-pack of Hearing Aid batteries? 10-year-old Goob would have secretly used Dad’s soldering iron to melt them onto an old motherboard in an attempt to make a time machine, but 27-year-old Goob knows better. Right? I mean, that’s not gonna work, will it?
No? *heavy sigh* Okay …
EDIT: This offer has expired.
I’ve been wondering what magazine would kick off the new year with the first free subscription. I had my money on Obscure Sports Quarterly, but it looks like RewardsGold thought it best to offer a free Newsweek magazine subscription. Whatever. I guess global and national news is slightly more important than dodgeball and squirrel skiing.
What can I say about these free DenTek Comfort Clean floss picks other than they’re being offered by starsampling and they … uh … help clean your gums? At least I think they do. I’ve been told no fewer than a hundred time why I should floss and yet it still seems like one of the most alien activity possible.
So, let’s see. 2010 for HIF saw:
These stats don’t count anything I got in January 2010 since I didn’t start the Freebies Received series until February. It also doesn’t count freebies that were posted in the past few weeks that I’ll receive in the future, so I have to be ecstatic with those numbers.
One thing I noticed while going over the past year was the number of food items given away this year. Granola bars, oatmeal, cookies, tea, coffee, cereal, crackers, popcorn, candy, gum, deli meat, bacon, macaroni, Bisquick, chips, energy bars. I’ve always food is one of the three most common freebies, but geez, you don’t realize how much we got until you add it all up.
But what about my absolute favorite freebies? I thought for a bit, looked around to see what freebies I still use to this day, and came up with the following.
Another realization I had while going through the archives was the number of full sized freebies that I received, be it through the mail, coupon, or rebate. For the list below, I didn’t include anything that could (or should I say, should) be used or consumed in one sitting. Doing so would have more than tripled the list as there were plenty of drinks and travel sized toiletries handed out.
Forty-two full sized freebies! How can anybody hate on that?!
So what was your favorite freebie of 2010? Share it with us in the comments below and you’ll be entered to win one of the $50 prepaid American Express gift cards given to me by P&G last month!
If you’re reading this via Facebook, email, or an RSS feed, then please click here to comment and enter. I’ll use Random.org to pick a comment on Wednesday, January 5, at 8:00pm est and email the winner!
It’s the final Freebies Received post of 2010 (hey, this one counts for last year!) and thus I’ll be including these in tomorrow’s 2010 In Review post.
Anybody else close out the year with some good freebies? I think I’ll end up using each of those freebies above, which isn’t typically the case for me.
If you’ve been banking the free RecycleBank points that I’ve posted over the past few years, then you should check out their rewards section. You can get a free one year subscription to the following magazines for only 115 points:
There are some others as well but these are the most popular. You can also get two free cans of Friskies or Fancy Feast for 75 points if magazines aren’t your cup of tea.
If you’re sober enough to copy and paste this free 10 point Pampers Gifts to Grow code (F9779FYAHFJRYCN), then you didn’t party hard enough during NYE.
There are also 50 free Disney Movie Rewards points available with code D11M20R01NY.
[thanks to everyone who sent these in very quietly.]
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