Freebies and free stuff

RewardsGold has a new offer available that casual drinkers will love – a free one year Wine Spectator magazine subscription! I’m not sure why anybody would want to watch wine, especially when they could be drinking it, but to each their own. I’m personally a Shiraz fan and I don’t know about you, but all this talk about wine is making me thirsty. But it’s not even noon yet… don’t ever let somebody tell you working from home doesn’t have its perils!

I’ve never heard of Successful Living magazine, but I’m a fan of both succeeding and living, so I’m game for a free subscription. To be honest, I probably shouldn’t sign up for any more free magazines. I already have a stack of unread ones sitting next to my desk that is at least a foot high. At its current rate of growth, it will be large enough to topple upon me within weeks. There are some interesting ways to die, but being crushed under a mountain of freebies doesn’t sound like my cup of tea.

EDIT: Multiple Hiffers are now reporting that this offer is no longer available

This free Baseball Digest subscription is just in time as my old subscription just expired. Speaking of baseball, we’re at a fairly precarious point in the sporting season. We’re mere weeks away from the long wait until spring training and unless your football team is any good, there’s nothing to watch during the winter. I’m serious, I think hibernation is the way of the future. Just imagine it: the World Series ends, you go to sleep, and you wake up just before opening day. You skip all of the cold months and you don’t have to pretend to be interested in hockey or basketball!

EDIT: The Travel & Leisure is no longer available, but many of the ones listed below still are.

Just thinking about this free two year subscription to Travel & Leisure magazine makes me want to kick back and relax for the rest of the afternoon. Then again, just about anything makes me want that. In fact, why shouldn’t I?! It’s not like I missed most of last week or anythi… oh, right.

The offer is through the magnificent RewardsGold. They’ve also got a few other offers that are still available from this summer:

• free Business Week subscription
• free Golf Digest subscription
• free Town & Country subscription
• free Out subscription
• free The Advocate subscription

Know of any others that are still working? Then please share in the comments!

Que Rica Vida is a Hispanic magazine of General Mills and it comes with free General Mills coupons! I’m guessing all of them will be in Spanish, but they can’t be that hard to decipher and if they are, it’ll give me the perfect conversation starter with the cute checkout girl.

My last attempt didn’t go so well. Come on, how was I supposed to know that she wouldn’t be interested in the funny looking rash on my chest? It looked like The Fonz!

These free Kotex Ultra Thin Overnight Pads show up every few weeks at a different site. Geez, talk about narcissistic. Somebody needs a little love and attention, no? If this freebie were a member of the opposite sex, you’d make sure to lock your doors at night and change cell phone numbers every few weeks.

Make sure you select not to receive a free magazine trial of All You since you’ll probably get billed after the trial. However, if you’re interested in getting a subscription, Amazon sells a one-year subscription for $19.95, which is only $1.66/issue. Since each magazine has dozens of coupons in it, you end up getting the issue for free after using only one or two coupons.

EDIT: This is no longer available.

I’ve never heard of RewardsCountry before, but they look exactly like RewardsGold, are on the same server as them, and by all accounts are owned by the same folks. As my dad always said, if it look like a bear, smells like a bear, and sounds like a bear, then you’re screwed. He wasn’t the best advice giver.

Anyway, RewardsCountry is giving away a free Metropolitan Home magazine subscription. Their survey’s aren’t even that random as they’re looking for info on how your style your bedroom. Unfortunately “with way too much geeky memorabilia” wasn’t an option.

So there are a ton of magazine offers floating around the freebie blogs right now, many of which are repeat offers, but this free Town&Country 3 year magazine subscription from RewardsGold is new to me. In order to get it, you have to take two short surveys about…watches and bottled water?

You know what, it’s Friday. My brain has officially checked out and I’m giving up trying to understand freebie requirements.

EDIT: This is no longer available.

Eight freebies have died on me today and I’m not talking about ones I already posted. No, eight freebies have died while I was typing something up about them. Eight! Does Guinness have a world record category that I can apply for?

Whatever, here’s a free Shape magazine subscription from RewardsGold that we posted back in June, but which looks to be working again. I’ll be thrilled if it stays up past noon.

RewardsGold is giving away a free one-year subscription to The Advocate and I’m pretty sure HIF has a gremlin infestation. I wanted to make sure this wasn’t the same link I had already posted, but then the site told me I’d never posted The Advocate in the first place. Bullocks! I think she’s hilarious, but I also think their cartoon picture of Ellen DeGeneres is beyond creepy. I distinctly remember seeing it many moons ago and writing about it. So then where did it go? Hmmm?

*waves fist angrily at computer* GREMLINS!!!

Even though the site says it’s a free issue of Baseball America magazine, I’ve been getting a free subscription for over a year now. Maybe there was a technical glitch or a clerical error, but there’s only one way to find out of you too will get a free subscription. Call your local psychic!

No wait, that’s not right. I always mess these things up!

This free Spin magazine subscription is being given away by lollapalooza.com and don’t look now, but I’m about to annoying the heck out of anybody within earshot for the next three days. Lollapalooza has to be one of the five funnest words to say, hands down. Lollapalooza. It’s got to be the only five syllable word that still rolls off the tongue. Lollapalooza. Lollapalooza.

Oh man, this weekend is going to rock!

EDIT: Welp, they’re out of supplies!

The free Popular Science magazine subscription form is working again. This went super fast last time, so good luck.

I posted this free Dog’s Life magazine offer back on July 9th, but I wanted to post it once more to mention that it comes with coupons! I received my issue in the mail today and in the back are the following coupons, all of which don’t expire until 6/11/10:

• But one 10 oz. package of Purina Beneful brand dog food Prepared Meals and get one free, up to $2.39 value.
• Save $2.00 on one bag of Purina Beneful brand dog food, any size / variety.
• Save $1.00 on one package of Purina Beneful Snackin Slices brand dog snacks, any size.

Three guesses as to who sponsors the magazine.

Thankfully when my wife and I were planning our wedding, she didn’t buy the twenty magazines and cut and paste and scrapbook everywhere. But, after working with my store’s bridal consultant for as long as I have, I’ve seen plenty of brides who come in with the unabridged dictionary stack of magazines.

So for the future grooms, beware and hide this free Get Married magazine from her. It’ll only be another thick magazine that won’t have anything good in it for you. Stay as far away from it as you can and wait for the handheld scanners and cake testings, because next to the honeymoon? That’s as good as it gets…