Freebies and free stuff

EDIT: The signup form is still working, but they’re sending out emails saying the offer is dead. That’s just dirty.

American Family is offering another freebie this week – a free Good Housekeeping magazine subscription. After you submit your info on the first page, you’ll want to close the window/tab. The “free offers” that pop up on the 2nd+ pages are pointless and not necessary. Kinda like my degree in History. Or pants.

Seriously, don’t even bother skipping through the offers. Just submit your info, let the next page load, and then bounce out.

EDIT: Looks like they’ve run out of freebies.

Everybody I know already has a free Redbook magazine subscription. It’s one of those magazines that never stops coming, so I started signing up my friends and family. I have so many unread issue lying around that I’m just going to glue them to my body and go as a giant Redbook magazine for Halloween.

You don’t have to do anything else beyond submitting your info on the first page. There are a bunch of “offers” that show up on the confirmation page – you can just skip those and close the window.

Reason #4,632 why I love my day job: We have an executive chef on staff, and Friday’s are always cookie day.

I guess that means that I won’t have much use for this free Better Homes and Garden magazine issue and free cookies cookbook. But I think I should invest in a few more pairs of gym shorts…

Its getting close to Christmas cookie time. Yup. Even in September. That’s what happens when you work in retail: Christmas becomes a season that starts Week 2 of October.

So I guess its only fair that I get this free Land O’Lakes Holiday Recipe brochure in advance. Maybe I can finally find a recipe for Paula Deen’s Butter Fried Butter?

And even better? I can just download the brochure there now and NOT have to wait for the mail, if I so choose!

I’m often asked why bother racking up free points from places like Pampers or Recyclebank. Well, in this case, how do a ton of free magazine subscriptions sound? First let’s get to the available points though (of course, go log-in first).

• Click here. Take the quiz? Survey? Movie? Whatever it is, take it and earn 25 points.
• Click “Earn Points” and take the Suave “Turn off the Tap & Save” quiz. Earn 25 points.
• Click “Earn Points” then “Pledge to recycle your games”. Earn 10 points.
• If you haven’t already (we posted this a few days ago), do the Green Your School pledge. Earn 110 points.

Now, after you’ve got 170 points banked, click “Get Rewards” then “Music, Books & Magazines.” There you’ll find a free year’s subscription to the following magazines available to you.

• Better Homes & Gardens
• Everyday Food
• Harper’s Bazaar
• Marie Claire
• Mid West Living
• Parents Magazine
• Popular Mechanics
• Redbook
• Seventeen
• Siempre Mujer
• Town and Country
• Whole Living

The only reason HIF’s Twitter has gone from 4,000 to 59,000 followers in the past few months is because of a few mentions in Seventeen magazine, so I know some of you out there enjoy reading that. Of course you can spend your points on other prizes as well. There are a few coupons in the food or health & beauty sections that you might find worthwhile.

Looks like the free 26 week Wall Street Journal subscription is back from RewardsGold. These are great for starting impromptu fires, recycling, and learning you have a mouse problem after discovering a shredded pile in your garage.

[thanks to Roy for sending this in!]

EDIT: This is now dead.

There’s a new free Working Mother magazine subscription available from ValueMags, whose freebies tend to die quickly. Once on the confirmation page, you might see links to more offers. I had Bridal Guide, Islands, and Wood Magazine, among others. Wood magazine wold be infinitely more interesting if each issue was hand carved from an old pirate ship.

I once tried reading an issue of my free Martha Stewart Living magazine subscription. After about 90 pictures of things I can’t even remotely make, I gave up and eat a hotdog.

Wasn’t that an awesome story?

It’s been awhile since I posted a free magazine subscription roundup. Some of the offers below are brand new, like the Muscle & Fitness and Wall Street Journal (which isn’t a magazine, so sue me). Others are old as dirt. Apparently Forbes is so boring they can’t even give them all away.

• Free Muscle & Fitness magazine subscription
• Free Forbes magazine subscription
• Free Entrepreneur magazine subscription
• Free Bloomberg Businessweek magazine subscription
• Free Ebony magazine subscription
• Free Wall Street Journal newspaper subscription

There are some others out there, but I’ve grown to only trust magazine freebies from RewardsGold.

EDIT: Now they’re all dead.

RewardsGold has three current magazine subscription offers:

• Free Men’s Fitness magazine subscription.
• Free Muscle & Fitness magazine subscription.
• Free Shape magazine subscription.

I think they’re trying to tell us something.