Freebies and free stuff

The only item still available from last week’s haul is Forbes magazine. Exciting!

Freebies Received

• Crest Complete toothpaste
• Barista Prima Coffeehouse K-Cup varieties. Or as I like to call it, coffee.
• Infusium23 hair moisture replenisher
• Disney princess vitamin gummies
• Dec. 2011 issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine
• Dec. 2011 issue of Maxim magazine
• Dec. 2011 issue of Architectural Digest
• Nov. 23, 2011 issue of Forbes magazine
• Nov. 7 – Nov. 13, 2011 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine
• Nov. 14 – Nov. 20, 2011 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine

I hope y’all had a better week than I did!

EDIT: Well that was a classic case of being Hiffed.

We’ve posted Luna freebies in the past and all of them required you to join their newsletter. We also tell new Hiffers to make a freebie-only email address. Well if you’ve ever signed up for a past Luna offer, now’s the time to log into your email and look around for a free Luna bar link. The subject should be “A Holiday Gift For You From LUNA.”

If you’ve never signed up for a Luna offer in the past, then you can’t get this freebie. However you can join their newsletter to qualify for any future giveaways. You can also join HIF’s newsletter to qualify for being awesome.

It’s nice to see these free Lacoste fragrances never expire. They’re the Twinkies of freebies. No matter what, I know I can always come back for more and more and more with absolutely zero negative consequences. I can spray myself with all the Lacoste freebies or eat all the Twinkies I want and everything will be a-okay.

Ah, ah, ah. Ignorance is bliss. Do not ruin my bliss.

This 5 free Pampers Gifts to Grow code reminded me that I still have to shop for Christmas presents. Pampers has it made. All they have to do is make up codes like HOLIDAYGIFT2011 and their shopping is done.

I tried that last year and everybody kept hounding me with annoying questions. Why did I gave them a random string of 15 characters? Where could they enter it and what would they get? It was almost as if all the time I put into creating fake presents wasn’t worth it.

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!

We’re 40 days away from Christmas. Yep, you read that correctly. I’m going to highlight a few services and websites over the coming weeks that might make your life easier during the holidays (and beyond), but remember that there are tens of thousands of Hiffers out there. Every service isn’t going to be best for you, so I’m only focusing on ones that I use or ones that I think most people would find helpful.

You’ve probably heard of Amazon Prime. For $79, you can get free two-day shipping on pretty much every Amazon purchase. It’s awesome. The problem is when you go to buy something on another site, you’re back to paying $6 for shipping that takes a week if you’re lucky. Enter ShopRunner.

ShopRunner is a yearly $79 membership site in the mold of Prime. But instead of being available for just one store, it’s works on over 50 participating stores (with dozens more on the way) that have banded together to offer free two-day shipping. A membership gets you free shipping from NewEgg, Toys and Baby-R-Us, MLB and NFL.com, American Eagle, PetSmart and tons more. Even better, you get free shipping on any returns as well. Because, let’s be honest, we all occasionally make a regrettable 2am drunk purchase.

Aside from the free shipping for yourself, you can also designate up to four fellow household family members to share your account.

Is this for you? I don’t know. I have no idea what your online shopping habits are. However, if you and your family shop even a handful of times online at participating stores, you’ll make your money back through saved shipping costs rather quickly. In fact, ShopRunner is so confident you’ll love them, they’re giving people a free 30 day trial with no strings attached. If you like the service, you can keep it past the trial. If not, you are free to cancel it.

So if you do as much online shopping as myself, give ShopRunner a shot and see how awesome they are.

Arby’s is giving away free curly fries with no purchase necessary tomorrow, Tuesday, November 15. Just print your coupon and enjoy some french fries for breakfast. Or lunch! Or how about dinner?! Just not all three, because the employees would notice you coming back for more than one freebie. That is unless you wore a fake mustache then fake beard during your second and third trips.

What, am I the only person who carries around emergency fake facial hair?

Also, Arby’s new tag bothers me since Good and Mood don’t rhyme. They share all but the first letter and yet they don’t rhyme?! Who invented this stupid language anyway?

EDIT: We Hiffed it.

The Facebook page for free Saline Soothers nose wipes is experiencing high traffic. Luckily for us, they gave away their secret ingredient. If the site never comes back online, just squirt some saline contact solution on your nose and problem solved. Until it comes time to take your contacts out. Then you just need to … wrap your contacts in a tissue?

Hmm. I feel as if I’m making things worse.

EDIT: It doesn’t seem to let us select an option to pick these up in the store, however Staples have in-store kiosks. So you could go to Staples, make the card there, and then have them print out while you wait.

So if you happened to miss our post card offer for Staples and still need some sort of holiday card? Might I suggest this coupon for 20 free 5×7 Staples photo cards that expires on November 19th? If you pick it up in store, the only thing you’re out is postage for 20 family members.

Unless you ship them all C.O.D., that is. Oh come on, admit it, you know there’s that one uncle you want to try that on…

Oh free Drink Wingman sample, where were you when I really needed you? Like 3 years ago when I was so inebriated that I stiffed the pizza guy his tip after almost getting into a fight at a bar over the spot on the sofa that I was sitting, and then the guy hitting on me?

Wait, this doesn’t prevent those things but just hangovers? Drat…

Gotta love the Facebook freebies that you don’t need a Facebook account for…

Vitamins in a sugar like packet? I would have never guessed something so unique from this free Vplentish sample found on the top right of the page. Then again, noone expects the Spanish Inquisition, so why this?