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$50 GC Contest and Red Cross Donation

Goob — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:59:59 +0000

EDIT: This contest has ended.

Social Goodies is a new daily deal site about to launch. In celebration, they are holding a contest where they’ll give away 100 free $50 Target gift cards. In addition, for every person who enters the contest, they’ll make a $1 donation to the American Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Fund.

I was fully prepared to make fun of them because the last thing we need is another Groupon clone. Yet how can I ridicule a site giving away $5,000 in prizes and making donations to the Red Cross? Turns out I actually have some of those “standards” everybody is always talking about!

Free Calls & Texts to Japan

Goob — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:43:36 +0000

This may be the first post for HIF that I wish I didn’t have to write. You’ve seen the pictures and videos by now. I’m barely qualified to make self-deprecating and absurdist jokes, so when it comes to the recent tragedy in Japan, there’s not much I can add that hasn’t already been said. However, there’s actually a freebie related to this calamity.

AT&T and Verizon are both offering free long distance calls and texts to Japan for the next few weeks. AT&T is offering free calls and texts from the US until March 31 while Verizon is doing the same through April 10.

Chances are if you’re making calls and texts to Japan, then you know somebody there. Google has set up a Crisis Response page that includes a free “people tracker” tool for locating missing loved ones. I hope that no Hiffer has to use it, but it’s there if needed.

[thanks Sample Stuff.]

Free $1 From Miller High Life

Goob — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:17:52 +0000

EDIT: Just go ahead and smack me now. Link added.

You can either get a free $1 check from Miller High Life or donate said dollar to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. This is cool, I’ve never been sponsored by a company before. But now I can say HIF is sponsored by Miller High Life!

The fine print says residents of AK, AZ, CA, CO, DE, DC, FL, IA, KS, MT, MS, NE, NV, NH, NM, OK, SC, WI, and WY can also get a $1 off Miller High Life coupon. I don’t know if that means these residents aren’t eligible for the $1 check or if they simply get an extra option on how to get $1. If you live in one of these states, leave a comment and let us know what your choices were!

HIF Contest: Free $50 Gift Card

Goob — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:59:22 +0000

Remember the 100,000 days of free drinking water campaign that P&G Give Health was running? Well I’m proud to announce that they reached their goal weeks before their deadline and that Hiffers alone contributed 7325 days! That’s over 20 years of free drinking water. As a bonus, P&G will add an additional day to their 100,000 count for each new fan they receive on Facebook through January 31, 2011.

I can’t tell you how proud I am of our little community. For years we’ve been getting freebies for ourselves and yet when it came time to help out those in need, so many of y’all stepped up and took just a few minutes out of your day to make a difference. Rock the eff on!

Now for the even better part. P&G gave me a $50 prepaid American Express gift card for every 1,000 people I got to participate. For the math dunces out there, that means I now have seven $50 gift cards! While some webmasters might pocket a few, I’ll be giving them all away to Hiffers because y’all deserve them way more than I do.

So for today’s gift card, leave a comment on this post and let me know what your favorite holiday treat is. For instance, mine is anything that’s 90% sugar. I’ll use Random.org to pick a comment on Friday, December 24, at 8:00pm est and email the winner! And seriously, thanks again to everyone who helped make a free donation.

Did You Hear The One About Free Drinking Water?

Goob — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:40:45 +0000

It’s that time again! P&G Give Health want to give away 100,000 days of clean drinking water by the end of 2010 and by now we all know how this works. I’ve already received the three $50 gift cards we earned in November, so I’ll probably start giving those away this weekend

Remember, you can donate once per day! When you donate water for the first time, you have to verify your email address by clicking a link they send you. However, every day after that you can simply come here and enter in your same address again without going through any more verification steps!

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?

Free Drinking Water, Do You Donate It?!

Goob — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:40:16 +0000

The freebies are dried up today, so while I slog through my pile of drafts and possible posts, I figured I’m mention the P&G Give Health offer again. They’re trying to give away 100,000 days of clean drinking water by the end of 2010 and 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 enter their email below, P&G will give me a $50 gift card to give away. We’re almost at the 6k mark, so that’s six $50 gift cards for sure!

Donated Free Clean Drinking Water Yet?

Goob — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:47:09 +0000

Just a handy reminder about the P&G Give Health offer. They’re trying to give away 100,000 days of clean drinking water by the end of 2010 and 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 enter their email below, P&G will give me a $50 gift card to give away. We’re over the 4k mark, so that’s four gift cards for sure!

Reminder: Donate Free Clean Drinking Water

Goob — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:18:54 +0000

Just a handy reminder about the P&G Give Health offer. For anyone who missed it last month, 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. We’re over the 3k mark, so that’s three gift cards for sure!

New Feature: When you donate water for the first time, you have to verify your email address by clicking a link they send you. However, every day after that you can simply come here and enter in your same address again without going through any more verification steps!

Reminder: Donate Free Clean Drinking Water

Goob — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:56:01 +0000

Just a handy reminder about the P&G Give Health offer. For anyone who missed it last week, 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. We recently crossed the 1k mark, so that’s one gift card for sure! What say we make it a few more?

Donate: Free Clean Drinking Water

Goob — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:01:39 +0000

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.

Free Paper Mate Pen or Pencil

Goob — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:41:03 +0000

Friend Paper Mate on Facebook, then upload a picture of you with your favorite Paper Mate pen, and you’ll get a free pen. If you just like them, they’ll donate $1 worth of products to Kids in Need Foundation.

I don’t have a Paper Mate pen lying around, so I just covered up the logo on a random pen and took a snapshot of that. It’s kind of silly that in order to get a freebie, you have to already have one of said freebies!

[thanks Gordon!]

Free Tomato Seeds from Campbells

Goob — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:50:38 +0000

Remember the free tomato seeds from Campbell’s that we posted back in March? Well the offer is still available! Hopefully by now your tomato plant is full of delicious fresh produce, but if you missed the initial offer, feel free to sign up now and try your luck.

In order to get the seeds, you have to vote for which barn you’d like to save. Campbell’s will donate up to $250,000 and each vote is worth $1, so you’ll not only be getting a freebie, but helping a charity. After voting, you’ll need to enter a code off the bottom of your Campbell’s soup can. In case you don’t have any in the cupboard, here are a few previous codes that worked last time around.

P8039 – U6 – Cheddar Cheese
P5 – 25 – Chicken Noodle
P5 – 03 – Cream of Chicken
EST4C – 29 – Bean with Bacon
EST4C – 11 – Beef w/vegetables

[via Jan - thanks!]

Free Hasbro Card Games at Kroger / Target

Goob — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:39:01 +0000

EDIT: Barnacles. As Jennifer pointed out in the comment, some folks are saying their local Kroger isn’t carrying this deal. Instead, the two card games ring up for $2.50 total. Not a bad deal, but not quite free.

Story time! It should come as no surprise that I was a goofball in college and took every opportunity to procrastinate. One year my roommate was studying to be a lawyer and our favorite game was imaging the worst name for his future law firm. The best I came up with involved a local auditorium (The Koger Center), one of my favorite Seinfeld characters (Mr. Kruger), and our nearby grocery store (Kroger). The end result was Koger, Kruger, and Kroger! I can’t even say it once without laughing, but then again, I’m an idiot.

Speaking of Kroger, they currently have a deal where you can get two free Hasbro card games! You’ll need a copy of yesterday’s (Nov. 15) USA Weekend, where you’ll find a BOGO Hasbro coupon on page 3. Then head to Kroger, where they also have BOGO Hasbro sale (no coupon needed). If you then buy two Hasbro games for $6.99 and use the coupon from USA Weekend, you’ll get both free during checkout. This could make for an excellent donation to Toys For Tots or for a Christmas gift!

The Target Coupon Generator also has a BOGO coupon available for the Hasbro Monopoly Deal or Scrabble Slam card games, so you could use the USA Weekend coupon there as well!

[via Coupon Cravings - thanks!]

Free Admission to Disney for Volunteering

Goob — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:09:35 +0000

Disney announced on Good Morning America yesterday that if you spend a day volunteering with a participating organization, then starting on January 1, 2010 you can get a free one-day admission to Disney World or Disneyland. They haven’t released a list of the participating groups yet, but if you think you might want to take part in the offer, they suggest signing up for e-mail alerts which will let you know when pre-registration starts since ticket quantities are limited.

A maximum of 8 family member can participate and children must be at least 6 years old to qualify. So you could theoretically get a free day of admission for the entire family during your next vacation. Not too shabby! Although I’m not too sure I ever want to ride It’s A Small World again. It creeped me out when I was 4, it somehow got even creepier when I was 10, and I don’t want to risk seeing what’s it’s become now!

Free Lemonade Stand Kit

Goob — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:04:16 +0000

Alex’s Lemonade Stand is a non-profit dedicated to fighting cancer in children and now they’re offering a free lemonade stand kit to ideally be used during Lemonade Days on June 12th to June 14th. In addition, they have printable resources for how best to run a lemonade stand and help donate the money to worthy causes. I forwarded this to my little sister and she’s already signed up and looking forward to helping raise some money, so you might want to consider using this as a fun summertime activity!

For more information on the freebie and the charity in general, check out this page.

Free Music For Soldiers

Goob — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:27:21 +0000

EDIT: This is no longer available.

This is actually a pretty cool freebie where Billboard will donate two free songs to any soldier for each person who wishes to do so. You unfortunately can’t designate which soldier gets the tunes, but it’s still a small and easy gesture that might help out in some minuscule way. We’re pretty good at Hiffing big freebies, now let’s see how many free songs we can donate to those who truly deserve them!

[via Meri and Matador Pulse]

Coupon: Free Brunswick Bowling

Goob — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:22:31 +0000

EDIT: I’ve talked to some folks at Brunswick and they tell me this coupon is no longer accepted. Sorry guys! I’d suggest joining their Bonus Zone, where they’ll send you free coupons via e-mail.

I first thought this was far too good to be true, but all my sources confirm that this free Brunswick bowling coupon is legit. It includes two hours of bowling, shoe rentals for up to six people, and a pitcher of coke. You can check here to see if you have a location near you and I’d still call ahead to make sure they accept this, but I plan on trying to use it with my family next month. There isn’t even an expiration date on the coupon, so you could theoretically save it for a party or something!

An easy way to donate to the Red Cross

Adam — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:06:06 +0000

Well folks, I’ve settled in and finally able to post, and I have to say that my first freebee since returning that I’m putting here? Well, this isn’t really a freebee since you will be donating $5.

Yes, my freebee loving friends, I’m going to pander a cause. The American Red Cross.

I received a text message this afternoon about an easy way to donate $5 to help out with the Hurricane Relief funds this go round. You see, if you text the word “GIVE” to 24357, you can give that donation by just adding it on to your cell phone bill. Simple as that!

Yes, yes, standard text messaging rates apply and again, this isn’t a freebee because you’re paying the $5 in the end. But, it saves you finding a stamp and your checkbook or logging onto a website to do all of this. Yup, all you do is text and its applied to your cell phone bill like one of those Jamster ringtones.

And hey, with all of these freebees we’re getting? $5 extra on our cell phones doesn’t sound too bad…

Back later with more from the wonderful world of America’s Midwest.

[via the forums]

Kiva.org

Goob — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:08:15 +0000

EDIT: The button below should be working now.

So there’s been a section on the freebie forums called Hey, It’s Free…To Help People! for months now, which I have yet to do a darn thing with. But I decided to change that today.

A few days ago I heard about Kiva.org, which is a non-profit website that specializes in helping aspiring entrepreneurs in third world nations. Using microfinancing, they are given small loans to be used to improve their daily lives before they ultimately pay the loan back to us lenders. To idea is to enable people to help themselves individually instead of simply throwing billions of dollars in aide to a foreign government and hoping it trickles down to the people. In fact, Muhammad Yunus recently won the Nobel Peace Prize for his research into microfinancing and wrote a book called Banker To The Poor, where he details how effective the method is.

Just to give you an example, JosÃ© Medina lives in Paraguay and is trying to raise $600 to purchase supplies for his handcrafts business. In 12 months time, he would have made enough money to repay the loan in full . They have had 2171 loans paid back in full and only 7 which have defaulted! Those are some darn good odds if you ask me.

Now, Kiva lets anybody loan money, but the minimum amount is $25. But I thought if anybody out there wanted to simply donate $5 or $10, that we could put our money together in a HIF pool or something and then pick a person to “sponsor” and help! It’d be kinda cool to think that all of us here at HIF specifically helped one person out there in the third world better their life!

So the basic plan of action is this: Donations of any amount can be sent to me, where I add them all together. No matter how much or little money we actually raise here, come September 12th, I’ll post two or three different potential people that we can “invest” in to help them out. We’ll take a day to pick a person and then I’ll invest all the money I collected into their venture. We’ll all be able to follow their progress along via Kiva.org I’ll even post a progress bar here on HIF or something. Then when they ultimately (and hopefully!) succeed in their business, they’ll pay me back. At which point, I’ll announce that we need to pick a new person and start the process all over again!

The beauty of this is that your one time donation doesn’t just help one person, but multiple people time and time again. If this is something nobody’s interested in, no worries, but I thought since we all get so many freebies all the time, maybe we could muster up a little support and pass the baton to those who could really use it.

So if you want to donate something to this cause, you can send it to my Paypal address, which is shyzer@shyzer.com or you can just click the donation button below. (Shyzer.com is my personal website that I owned years before HIF, hence when my Paypal account isn’t a HIF e-mail ) You can donate money using a debit or credit card or if you already have a Paypal account, you can donate through that.

Thanks for taking part in this and here’s to actually making a difference in the world!

Free Mammograms & Many Other Free Donations

Goob — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 23:00:42 +0000

For all the freebies we get, it’s always important to remember about those people who can’t afford the basic necessities, much less enjoy the freebies that we are privileged to get. With that in mind, Sherri sent in this site that funds free mammograms for women who can’t afford it. All you have to do is click one single button once a day and the site will thus in turn donate all ad revenue and sponsorship money it gets to the cause. In fact, they have additional sections on the site where you can click and earn money for animal shelters, hunger victims, endangered species protection, and many more. It’s a wonderful cause and a great site!