Freebies and free stuff

Hey, remember when I used to post offers like this Boston Market birthday freebie? Me too. Good times. I still have around 50 drafts left to publish, so I’m going to try and burn through them over the next two months in an effort to wrap up this series.

Signup Freebie: Coupon for $3 off your next purchase of $6 or more.
Birthday Freebie: Free individual dessert with purchase of any create your plate meal.

So this freebie isn’t the greatest, but it’s not bad if you already eat at Boston Market to start with.

Also, I know we have a bunch of new readers recently, so here’s a handy reminder not to print the image above. That’s my coupon, not yours. To get yours for Boston Market or any other restaurant, sign up at their website (we have a full list here) and they’ll email you a coupon sometime around your birthday.

After liking Kudzu.com on Facebook, you can sign up for a free packet of flower seeds. I’m really hoping the mystery flowers aren’t kudzu. As a kid growing up in South Carolina, I used to be terrified of the plant because I thought it was quicksand. Then it started growing on the side of a neighbor’s house and I realized, oh, it’s like quicksand for buildings.

If you have a Tropicana Juicy Rewards account (and if you don’t, make a free one for future freebies), log-in and click the yellow “Redeem Now” button for a free Redbox movie rental. You’ll be instantly given a code that should work for one free rental, but make sure you return the movie by 9pm the next day so that you aren’t charged!

I almost published this free Rachael Ray Nutrish Just 6 dog food offer with a dyslexic spelling of “fog dood.” I have to say, I’d almost rather have the fog dood.

The fine print for these two free mosquito repellent patches is lacking on details. But from what I gather, you’re supposed to like Ben’s Outlet on Facebook and then fill out this form. So do that.

I know after signing up it says something about you having one entry, but Ben’s Outlet posted a status that makes it seem like everybody will win. It’s like 1st grade Field Day all over again.

This free tape measurer from CottonWork.com ensures that I will measure everything in my home and then annoy my friends with the results. “Hey, did you know you’re drinking out of a four inch tall glass? And that chair you’re sitting in has a 10 inch cushion. Oh, look, your two inch fist is headed straight for my face!”

Their site has been going down all day, so you may have to try back later on.

[thanks Melanie!]

We all know there are a million different places to print coupons from the Internet. A while back, Cellfire tried to shake things up by offering to load coupons onto your store loyalty card. It sounded sweet until I saw that their system only worked with a handful of stores, none of which I lived near. But now there’s a new company called SavingStar that offers to do something similar, with a twist, and at pretty much every store – at least near me. And this includes drugstores.

The way SavingStar works is you load the coupons onto your loyalty card and then get paid when you use them. So if you load a $1 Oreo coupon and then buy some Oreos, your shopping bill at the store doesn’t change or lower. Instead, $1 is credited to your SavingStar account. Once you reach $5, you can cash it out via Paypal or a gift card.

Their coupon selection isn’t huge, but hopefully it expands as they grow. For now, I just load everything up onto my card and then if I happen to buy the product before, sweet. It’s almost like free money that I forget about until I remember to login and look at my account.

So has anybody used SavingStar yet? What are your thoughts or opinions on it?

I’ve never heard of the National Shooting Sports Foundation until today. My first thought is that maybe they were an off-shoot of the NRA, but I was too tired to care to look further into that.

So maybe I’ll just get to it tomorrow after submitting the form for a free NSSF 50 year anniversary poster. I’m sure this would make a great poster for a wall of my duck blind, if I were to happen to have a blind duck, that is…

There’s a free Splenda Essentials sugar offer on their Facebook page. You’ll also be entered into a contest where a $1000 Visa giftcard will be given away for every 10,000 samples they send out. In other words, tell your friends to get the freebie but stipulate you have dibs if they win the gift card. If they actually go for that, please let me hang out with them.

EDIT: Looks like this is no longer available.

Walmart’s offer for free Suave shampoo, lotion, and body wash wasn’t working for me earlier this morning but now it looks to be back. In other words, *channels best Jack Bauer impression* WE DON’T HAVE TIME FOR MY STUPID JOKES!

To the freebies before they die again! Click the box in the lower left and you’ll be taken to the signup form.

EDIT: For those having trouble, try copy and pasting the link: http://see.walmart.com/suave/

[thanks My Frugal Adventures!]