So congratulations to Katelyn (kjb222***) and Pat K (patkaneshiro8***)! Both of you should have an email with instructions on how to get your prize, but if you don’t see it, hit me up.

Thanks again to everyone who entered and I’ll be doing another contest shortly!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as Amazon Kindle Winners.

First, the Amazon Kindle Fire giveaway ends on Wednesday. If you haven’t already entered, what the heck are you waiting for, an invitation? Well consider this your official invite. Also, please bring cake.

Next, I hope you entered the Papa John’s Super Bowl coin flip contest, because America called it right. That means those who entered get free pizza and Pepsi! According to their latest statement, we’ll get an email at 4pm EST with a promo code on how to redeem our freebie. And contrary to what some sites reported, the code will be valid through March 4, so there’s no rush to use it.

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as Two Freebie Reminders.

Want to win a Kindle Fire? Sure you do. Why wouldn’t you? They’re portable, fun to use, and great for secretly reading goofy books without others judging you. That’s why I’ve teamed up with nine fellow sites to give away two free Amazon Kindle Fire tablets to our readers!

• Adventures of a Couponista
• I Heart the Mart
• Deal Seeking Mom
• Budget Savvy Diva
• Cuckoo for Coupon Deals
• I Heart Publix
• My Litter
• Wild for Wags
• Coupon Mamacita

In order to enter the contest, simply Like the Facebook pages below then fill out the entry form with your name and email. 30 seconds of work – that’s all it takes to win an awesome prize. Maybe 60, tops, and that’s only if you’re also talking on the phone or holding a baby or wrestling a co-worker.

The contest ends on Feb 8th at 11:59pm EST, but there’s no reason to wait that long.

Don’t forget to “Share” this giveaway with your friends!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as Free Amazon Kindle Fire Giveaway.

As many of you probably inferred, I updated HIF’s newsletter service to the fine folks at Mailchimp. I’ve been working out the kinks over the past few months and now it should be good to go. If you want to join up then check out the box over to the right titled “Join the newsletter!” or use this handy dandy link. Either way gets the job done.

Additionally, if you want to make absolutely sure you get the daily updates, add newsletter@heyitsfree.net to your contacts list. Some email providers have been known to send newsletters straight to the spam folder. I promise I’m not a Nigerian Prince nor am I peddling cheap knockoff prescription drugs.

Why join the newsletter? Well besides being able to send me an “out of office” message every day (seriously, what’s the deal with those?) the newsletter is your one stop freebie dose each and every day. As a bonus, I’ll pick two subscribers at random to win a $50 American Express gift card! I’ll use Random.org to pick the winners on Wednesday, January 12, at 8:00pm est and email them!

If you’ve got any questions about the contest or newsletter, please leave a comment.

EDIT: If you were already a subscriber before today, then you’re already entered into the contest.

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#11 – Mrs. Fields cookie tin – These were downright delicious. I polished the tin off a littler quicker than I should have, but on the bright side I got my months worth of calcium in only a day!

#12 – Amazon Prime Membership – This badboy saved me during the holidays. It’s actually still available through Amazon Mom!

#13 – Picaboo Photo Book – This took me a little while to design, but it was so worth it. It was one of those freebies that was so nice that I would have easily felt comfortable giving it away as a gift or putting on my coffee table.

I’m extremely jealous of everyone who got their Newcastle Brown Ale beer glass too. I’m left drinking my brews out of the free sippy cup I got.

Oh yeah, the contest winner! It was comment #775 authored by Shell H. Thanks to everybody who entered and the next contest starts later today!

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• 1,242 Freebies Posted
• 1,026 Freebies Received (including movie rental codes and online free points)
• 268 Magazines Received
• 1 $50 Gift Card being given away in this post

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.

Top 10 Favorite Freebies of 2010

1. US Postal Office Sample Showcase – This box came with 12 freebies and it was glorious. Coffee, shampoo, steak seasonings, lotions, soap, and more – it was all put to good use!
2. Uniball Super Ink pen – I haven’t used a different pen since the day this baby arrived. I actually lost it a few weeks ago and bought a few packages of them at the store. Anybody who says freebies don’t convert to paying customers should think again.
3. Multi-tool pocket knife – No more opening packages with my teeth!
4. Kraft Sample Pack – Ten food products (including three free full-sized ones) came in the box. I buy Wheat Thins now due to this freebie alone.
5. Kraft Coupon Book – Kraft again? You better believe it. One tiny brochure brought six coupons for free full-sized Kraft products from deli meat to macaroni to a free pizza. I ate well that week.
6. American Apparel thong – Only because I had a heck of a time explaining it to my friends who saw me open it.
7. Tena Adult Underwear – These freebies helped me execute a longterm prank where I convinced my youngest brother that I wasn’t potty trained. It ended when his teachers started sending home notes about the topic he brought up during “Share Time” in class.
8. LED UFO light – Let me paint a picture for you: I’m alone in the mountains in the middle of a monsoon when my car breaks down. I had an idea what the problem was, but both the bulb in my hood and my cell phone were dead. Enter the UFO light, which I had inexplicably thrown into my glove box. Long story short I slept in my bed instead of my truck that night.
9. Extra Dessert Delights gum – I selected the mint ice cream gum and it tasted so genuine that I bought both of the other flavors. I am now addicted to the Key Lime Pie and am begging my friends and family for an intervention.
10. Playboy and Macworld magazine subscriptions – Both of these tie for the final spot as they’re wonderful reads. Seriously. I read them for the articles!

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.

Full Size Freebies

1. Bar of Dove soap
2. Package of Double Stuf Oreos
3. 7 bottles of Excedrin medicine – Did anyone else remember that in addition to the free coupons Excedrin has recently bombarded us with, they also gave away a few in January / February of 2010? I sure didn’t.
4. Bottle of Louisiana hot sauce
5. Package of Heluva Good Dip
6. Package of Borden cheese
7. Bag of Reese’s Pieces
8. Pantene Nature Fusion shampoo
9. 2 bags of Planters Trail Mix
10. Pack of 5 React gum
11. Pack of Stride gum
12. Jar of Enfamil baby formula
13. Bottle of Renu Multi-Purpose contact solution
14. Package of Oscar Mayer turkey bacon
15. Box of Kraft macaroni
16. Package of Oscar Mayer deli meat
17. Package of Uncle Ben’s rice
18. Package of Kraft Cheesy macaroni
19. Jug of Tropicana Pure Premium orange juice
20. Box of Kool-Aid
21. Box of Mac & Cheese
22. One DiGiorno’s pizza
23. Box of 100 calorie cheese bites
24. Package of Oscar Mayer deli meat
25. Box of Ritz Crackerfuls
26. Package of Pilot pens
27. Bottle of Suave Professionals shampoo
28. DiGiorno deep dish pizza
29. Bottle of Pure Scent~sation hair remover
30. Bottle of V8 V-fusion green tea
31. Glade candle
32. EasyGlide Bic pen
33. Mrs. Fields cookie tin
34. 2-liter of refreshe soda
35. Package of Cottonelle flushable moist wipes
36. Two Proforce cleaning kits
37. Bag of Natura Advantage dog food
38. Pack of Extra Dessert Delights gum
39. Can of Pringles Xtreme chips
40. Box of Barilla pasta
41. Bag of Food Should Taste Good chips
42. Bottle of free Dream Water

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!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as 2010 Freebies Review & $50 GC Contest.

Also, Stacey was the winner of the recent $50 gift card. Almost 1,500 people entered!

I love Panettone – a sweet bread with dried fruit. I always eat it at Christmas.

To everyone else, good luck during the next few contests!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as Merry Christmas!.

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.

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as HIF Contest: Free $50 Gift Card.

The fine folks over at Photo Card Creations have offered to give away 50 free photo cards to a lucky winner here on HIF. The winner will be able to choose from any of their custom cards, from a batch of classic thank you cards to some cute birth announcements. And if you’re not ready for a life changing event, they have tons of party invitations as well.

So how do you enter?

1. Add Hey It’s Free to your RSS reader. If you already have or after you’ve done so, leave a comment saying what reader you added the feed to.
2. Join Hey, It’s Free’s Facebook page. Again, if you already have or after you’ve done so, leave another comment.
3. Follow Hey, It’s Free on Twitter. Like the others, leave a comment after you’ve followed HIF.

So, if you decided only to add HIF to your RSS reader and join HIF’s Facebook group, you’d leave two separate comments and get two entries. Make sense? Good luck!

Contest ends at noon on Monday, March 22 and the winning comment will be randomly selected. Winner will be notified by e-mail and added to HIF’s Winners page.

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as Giveaway: 50 Free Photo Card Creations.

As for the prizes:¹

• First Place: $100 GC
• Second Place: $50 GC
• Third Place: $25 GC

Trust me, you don’t have to have any idea what you’re doing in order to have fun or play. I blindly pick teams and still managed to come in like 9th place last year. I don’t even watch pro basketball, let alone college, but having a bracket gives you the perfect excuse to slack off from working and cheer for a random team you’ve never heard of.

Just don’t pull a Goob, as my friends call it, and routinely cheer for a team that you actually picked to lose. There’s no word for the emotional gut wrench that comes moments after realizing such an idiotic mistake.

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as March Madness 2010 Contest.

1. As usual, you can pick what store you want the gift cards for

Overall Standings

Group 1 (ID# 33386) Winner – NCRod, 131 points
Group 2 (ID# 33727) Winner – myway, 131 points
Group 3 (ID# 34409) Winner – johnnywinwin, 135 points
Group 4 (ID# 35625) Winner – flippinfun, 129 points
Group 5 (ID# 37032) Winner – NFL1000, 130 points
Group 6 (ID# 39259) Winner – Spyder, 134 points

Prize Winners
1st Place Winner ($50 giftcard): johnnywinwin
2nd Place Winner ($25 giftcard): Spyder
Random Winner¹ ($25 giftcard): Green and Gold

So congratulations are in order! Unfortunately, johnnywinwin and Green and Gold decided not to show their e-mail addresses to me on Yahoo, so I’ll need you both to comment on your group message board and leave an e-mail that I can contact you at.

Thanks again to everybody who participated and we’ll certainly be doing this again next year!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as 2009 Fall Contest Winner, Part 2.

1. As selected by Random.org from any member that participated every week. Random.org gave me Group 4, Standing 3, which was Green and Gold.

• Jenna K.
• Rhonda A.
• Ashley ?
• Susan C.

So congratulations! You four have e-mails from me in your inbox and I’d like to thank everybody who entered into the contest. If you notice, I called this the first December contest and that’s because the next one will start later this week. If you didn’t win this time, there’s nothing stopping you from winning the next one!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as December 2009 HIF Contest #1 Winners.

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as Reminder: Contest Ends Tonight.

Group 1 (ID# 15744) Winner – Fireup, 143 points
Group 2 (ID# 16111) Winner – tmurray266, 144 points
Group 3 (ID# 17022) Winner – NCAAF #1 Super Awesome picks, 143 points
Group 4 (ID# 18065) Winner – Big J, 145 points

Overall Standings:

1st place: Big J, 145 points
2nd place: tmurray266, 144 points
3rd place: TIED Beach Bum and Fireup, 143 points
5th place: TIED 36201jc1 and gobluejrm, 141 points

Big J and tmurray266, congratulations! You’ve both won a $50 and $25 giftcard to the store of your choice, respectively. As for the 3rd place prize to a random member who participated in every week, Random.org gave me Group 4, Standing 16, which was Karinger. Unfortunately, Big J and Karinger decided not to show their e-mail addresses to me on Yahoo, so I’ll need you both to comment on the group message board and leave an e-mail that I can contact you at.

Thanks again to everybody who participated and we’ll certainly be doing this again next year!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as 2009 Fall Contest Winner, Part 1.

I don’t know about you, but I hate cold weather. It’s too … cold! So, since we’re in the middle of a freebie drought, I thought I’d start a contest and give away four free $25 Starbucks giftcards to warm us up!

You can have up to five different entries into the contest. They are:

• Become a fan of HIF on Facebook.
• Subscribe to our RSS feed.
• Subscribe to our daily newsletter.
• Follow HIF and/or Goob on Twitter. You’ll get one submission for each follow!

Once you’ve completed your entries, fill out the form below and you’ll be set! However, please note that you can only fill out the form once, so make sure you’ve completed all of the entries you wish to make before submitting it.

The contest ends at 11:59 PM EST on Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Winners will be selected at random via Random.org and will be announced on our Freebie Contest Winners page the next day. To enter, fill out the form below! If for some reason, you can’t see the form, here is a direct link. Good luck!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as December 2009 HIF Contest #1.

Pro Football Pick’em
Group ID#: 33386 This group is now full
Group ID#: 33727 This group is now full
Group ID#: 34409 This group is now full
Group ID#: 35625 This group is now full
Group ID#: 37032 This group is now full
Group ID#: 39259
Password: freebies

College Football Pick’em
Group ID#: 15744 This group is now full
Group ID#: 16111 This group is now full
Group ID#: 17022 This group is now full
Group ID#: 18065
Password: freebies

Both leagues will be using the spread and will drop your lowest week’s score. So if you forget to make your picks once or happen to have an especially bad week, you can still possibly win! If you’re still not sure how to play, check out Goob’s Guide to Gambling that I wrote last year.

Oh yeah, prizes! The following applies for both the college and pro leagues, so if you play in both, you double your chances of winning!

1st place: $50 giftcard to your store of choice.
2nd place: $25 giftcard to your store of choice.
Random winner² : $25 giftcard to your store of choice.

And if you feel so inclined, come talk some smack with us on the forums!³

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1. There’s a 50 person limit to each group, so I’ll just keep making more groups as they fill up. Clearly, you should only join one group per league! Cheaters will be deleted!
2. Must participate in all weeks in order to be eligible for the random winner prize
3. Is anybody even reading this fine print?

And with that, thanks goes out to everybody who participated in the Teenormous t-shirts July HIF contest. I had fun going through the comments and reading everybody’s favorite freebie. The winning comment number belonged to Sandy, whose husband will soon be rocking out a wicked Metallica t-shirt.

Thanks again for participating and the next contest shall start shortly!

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as HIF July Contest Winner.

In case you’ve never been to their site, Teenormous is essentially a search engine for t-shirts and with over 70,000 t-shirts in their database, it’s pretty safe to assume anybody would be able to find a t-shirt they liked there!

Also, I’ve put together a HIF Contest Winners page and linked to it down on the sidebar.

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as July HIF Contest.

© Hey, It's Free!™ LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published for Hey, It's Free! as Reminder: June HIF Survey.

The previous survey was focused on improving HIF through certain settings and surfing habits. This survey is more focused on you, the reader. All questions on the second page are optional, but will help in finding new freebie offers. To protect privacy, the only identifying feature needed is an e-mail address (feel free to use your “freebie” e-mail address) and the entire e-mail results field will be deleted altogether once prize winners have been selected. Furthermore, IP addresses are not being logged nor kept in any way.

As for the prizes, I’m giving away two $25 gift cards again! Like before, the winners will be able to choose which store (Walmart, Amazon.com, etc.) the gift cards are for. The survey will close at noon on July 1st, so you have a little over a week to answer a dozen or so questions. Shouldn’t be too hard

So please go take the current HIF user survey and feel free to leave any questions in the comments.

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