Freebies and free stuff

Amazon has updated their free Price Check app for your iPhone or your Android. Long story short, it lets you scan a product while shopping to see what the price is on Amazon.

For today only, Saturday December 10, you can get up to $15 on Amazon for free. You get a a 5% discount, up to $5 and on up to three items, just by checking a price. So let’s say you’re planning to buy a digital camera for a Christmas gift. If you’re going shopping today, swing by Best Buy or whoever else sells the camera, scan it with your Price Check app, then place the camera in your shopping cart on Amazon. If you then decide to purchase the camera on Amazon within the next 24 hours, you’ll get a 5% discount (up to $5) on it for free. And then you can do that again for two more additional items.

It’s kind of weird and complicated, but I know people are buying larger items this time of year and $15 is $15. The hardest part of all this for me is getting dressed and actually venturing out into the real world. *shudders*

I bought a Kindle last summer and promptly let it gather dust in my desk for a few months. Flash forward to January. I get snowed in, the power goes out, and I discover my impulse buy while rooting around for candles. I haven’t put it down since. I’m the only person who gets addicted to an electronic device during a power outage.

Luckily I’m not lacking for stuff to read thanks to all the free Kindle books that are available. They add a few dozen every week and it can honestly get overwhelming to go through them all. You can check out the top 100 Best Selling free Kindle books, but make sure you’re looking at the ones in the right column.

And remember, you don’t actually have to own a Kindle. You can download the free app to your PC, Mac, iPhone, and Android, among others.

EDIT: I called AT&T twice to verify this. The first rep said this is only for iPhone users while the second said it only supposed to be for iPhone users but will work for anyone, so YMMV.

If you’ve watched 10 minutes of broadcast television lately then you know the iPhone is now on Verizon’s network. It used to be only available for AT&T users so you had bajillions of people using their network despite hating the company’s horrendous service. Well now as a “thank you” to people not jumping ship over to Verizon, AT&T users can text yes to 11113020 and have their account credited with 1,000 free bonus rollover minutes.

Yep, today’s pretty slow…

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 …

Watches, sunglasses, and computers are the hardest *bleeping* things to clean absent a free Yema microfiber cleaning cloth. I’m always scared I’ll scratch them and forever be reminded of my moment of stupidity. Let’s get one thing straight, Universe, I don’t need any extra reminders from you. I’m the guy who wakes up at least 10 times a month and thinks “Dinner! That’s what I forgot to do yesterday!”

Skype is awesome. Their Skype-to-Skype calls are always free, but now they’re giving away 30 free Skype minutes for Skype-to-phone calls. Now I just need to trick my family into accepting my calls whenever I’m away. They always seem to be “out” ever since they got caller ID.

It seems like I’m always asked about free glucose meters, so here’s an offer for a free Contour or Breeze 2 Glucose meter that qualifying users can receive. A family member of mine has diabetes and his information passed the hurdle, so I’m guessing “qualifying users” means having the disease.

And no, I didn’t have the meter sent to me, I sent it to him! I’m not that evil. Just a little evil.

EDIT: They’re now out of cameras.

If you have family or a friend overseas, Charter’s trying to take care of you and let you keep up and in contact with them. Just head on over to their site for a free webcam, but you have to be able to provide where your family is stationed to receive it.

So, what a great way to keep in touch with those who are so far away! Too bad my best friend who’s in the Navy is back in Tennessee…

EDIT: Looks like this one died pretty quick.

Napster just posted on their Facebook page that anybody can get a free 1GB Creative Zen MP3 player by commenting of their status about the first concert you ever saw. You have to mention who it was, what year it occurred, and where it was held. After you’ve done so, send an email to blogger@napster.com with your name and address and make sure to put EWW 7/7 in the subject line.

They’re also offering this through their Twitter page. Simple follow them, tweet the same info as requested above, and then email your info.

A 1 gig MP3 player isn’t that big, but it should be more than enough to hold all of my High School Musical soundtrack CDs! What can I say, I like to rock out while I’m working.

[thanks Michael!]

I have absolutely no idea what this free Nuclear Tipping Point DVD is, but this is right up my alley. I have an unhealthy addiction to anything “end of the world” related. I always order nuclear flavored hot wings simply because of their name and then am shocked by how hot they are. Every. Single. Time.

Based on that little nugget alone, I don’t like my odds of surviving a nuclear war.