Freebies and free stuff

I don’t normally post freebies found on Facebook as they usually require you to become a fan of the company before you get the freebie, but there have been a ton of Facebook offers recently. So…here they all are in one convenient post! Oh, and while you’re at it, why not become a fan of Hey, It’s Free on Facebook or follow us on Twitter?!

Free Caribou Coffee Wild Cooler – Become a fan of their Wild It Up application and get a coupon for a free medium Wild Cooler. Coupon expires on July 6th. Thanks goes to Northern Cheapskate for the heads up on this one!

Free Foldable Water Bowl – This is actually a pretty nifty idea. It’s a water bowl that you can fold up and carry with you on hikes or walks when you feel like taking Fido along with you. Then you can whip it out and give him a drink! After you become a fan of Cloud Star, send them an e-mail (facebook@cloudstar.com) with your mailing address.

Free Non-Slip Dash Pad – This is one of those little pads you put on your dash board to keep your cell phone from flying all over the place while you drive like a maniac. I personally could use about a dozen of these as I have way too much junk in my car. Again, after becoming a fan of Nabbit, send them an email (promos@nabbit.com) with your name and mailing address.

Free Coach Pencils? – If you happen to be going to your nearest Coach store anytime soon, fill out the form that was found on their Facebook page, print out the confirmation page, and then take it in with you to receive a “free gift.” I hate it when companies don’t tell you what the freebie is, but the signup page has a pack of pencils on them, so I’m just guessing that’s what it is. If anybody happens to get the freebie though, by all means, let us know what you got.

Free Chick Downtown Friendship Bracelet – You can actually get the bracelet through either Facebook, Twitter, or Myspace. After following/friending them on any of the aforementioned sites, scroll to the bottom of this page and fill out the form.

The exclusive Swagbucks code for Hiffers that I wrote about last week expires tonight at 11:59 PT. If you haven’t signed up yet, what the heck are you waiting for? Go sign up for a free account, then use the code FREECODE (case sensitive), before basking in the glow of your free six Swag Bucks you now have.

If you’re new to the site, here’s the initial review I wrote about Swagbucks back in January.

How many times have we written about Swagbucks here? A gazillion? It probably has something to do with how awesome the site is – in fact, I just cashed out my fourth $5 Amazon giftcard this weekend thanks to them.

For anybody who is new to HIF, Swagbucks is basically Google + prizes. You search with them just as you would with Google, but the key difference occurs randomly when you win swagbucks, which can ultimately be redeemed for gift cards, books, posters, and starting today – video games!

In fact, to promote some of the new changes they’ll be rolling out this week, they’ve given HIF an exclusive code. Signing up for a free account will net you 3 points automatically. Then you can use the code FREECODE to gain an additional 3 points, giving you 6. For reference, a free $5 Amazon giftcard costs 45 points, so you’ll already be 13% of the way towards your first prize. Like I said in my previous Swagbucks post, I average about 2-3 swagbucks a day though my normal search habits, which takes me about 15-20 days to earn my prize of choice. (the code above will expire on June 16 at 11:59pm PST)

Some of their new features this week include a widget that you can place on your blog / website, a newly designed frontpage, and a favorites section in their store. If you were ever wondering why Swagbucks destroyed Blingo and Winzy, I think you now have your answer!

I know it kinda stinks that the Swagbucks code doesn’t work for members who have already registered, but they are holding point giveaways for all users on their Twitter, Facebook, and blog this week. Plus, I’ll be starting another survey tomorrow afternoon with some prizes. So there’s that to look forward to

Today has been beyond slow in terms of freebies. I found this 10 free iTunes summer songs offer yesterday and initially wasn’t going to post it, but geez there’s just nothing out there today. Basically, you have to become a fan of iTunes on Facebook and then they’ll give you a code to download the 10 songs, which happen to be:

• Bat For Lashes – Daniel
• Ben Kweller – Wantin’ Her Again
• Blind Pilot – Go On, Say It
• Dave Matthews Band – Cornbread
• Dave Matthews Band – Dancing Nancies
• The Decemberists – The Rake’s Song
• Elizabeth & The Catapult – Taller Children
• Gomez – Airstream Driver
• Other Lives – Black Tables
• White Rabbits – Percussion Gun

Sweet, music I’ve never heard of!

EDIT: Link updated

Coldplay is giving away a free album download of LeftRightLeftRightLeft, which is really just a live CD of the following songs:

1. Glass of Water
2. 42
3. Clocks
4. Strawberry Swing
5. The Hardest Part/Postcards From Far Away
6. Viva La Vida
7. Death Will Never Conquer
8. Fix You
9. Death And All His Friends

They actually released this yesterday, but I never could get the darn thing to download until now. People like to make fun of Coldplay, but I love their music. I’m also a fan of polka music, so take my musical suggestions with a grain of salt.

Redbox was supposedly doing these Wedesday-only codes during the month of March, but a few people have written in to tell me that MMM401 is new and working for today only. I checked my sources and it appears that they’re right!

If you’re new to Redbox, check out the Redbox Explanation Guide that covers all the basics of how to use the free rental codes as well as some personal tips & tricks I’ve discovered to help maximize your freebie movies.

Just a reminder that the exclusive swagcode for new members, HEYITSFREE, expires tonight at midnight. If you haven’t signed up for Swagbucks already, you’re missing out! A few dozen Hiffers in the last post left comments saying how much they love earning free prizes through Swagbucks and thanks to this code, now’s a great time to sign up.

We’ve written about Swagbucks quick a few times already (tons of forums posts plus this extensive Swagbucks review I made back in January). After two months of using them as my primary search engine, I’d say I’m even more in love with them than I initially was. I’ve already earned enough points for two $5 Amazon giftcards and I’m fairly close to a third. How can you not love free money just for searching?!

If you’re still sitting on the fence about joining Swagbucks, maybe this will help nudge you in the right direction. Starting today, any new member who signs up can use the code HEYITSFREE to earn two free swagbucks, which will be added to the three swagbucks already offered to new members, thus giving you five swagbucks starting out! For reference, a $5 Amazon giftcard costs 45 swagbucks, so you’ll already be 11% of the way to getting your first prize. But that’s just one example, they have hundreds of prizes to choose from and dozens of different gift card options.

I usually average around 2-3 swagbucks a day though my normal search habits, which takes me about 15-20 days to earn a prize. Just think how many giftcards you’d have by now had you signed up when I first wrote about Swagbucks in January!

The code expires at midnight PST on Wednesday, so you’ve got almost two days to sign up and use the code. For people who are already members of Swagbucks, feel free to leave a comment with your opinions on the site. I’m interested in hearing what others think!

All day today its been quiet around HIF. Not because Goob and I aren’t here, but because we were here, but constantly refreshing Swagbucks for codes and trying to boost our totals. I don’t know how much the big guy got today, but I know I shot up about 30 points today amidst my own referrals and some searches and codes…

Despite all of that, I assure you that the freebies are there. Things like this free John Heffron comedy CD that’s a button right under his picture. We’re ready to laugh at this, and needing something seeing neither of us hit the jackpot on Swagbucks.

So I guess that means we’ll be back tomorrow, still searching… and using Swagbucks, of course…

[via the forums]

Its Saturday morning and its snowing outside. What a perfect time to sit down and help the kids with their homework. But quick, you can’t think of the flag of the country of Nigeria! Or how about the current head of state for Tajikistan? Do you even know how many peoples providences are in China?

Well have no fear because you can once again be superparent with this free download of the CIA World Factbook. Yes, I know, who really needs to know those things? But if you start now, I’m sure you could have them on college Jeopardy when they get to their sophomore year away from home… Or at least an A on that paper with a reputable source better than Wikipedia!

[via the forums]

I’ve written about 1-800-FREE-411 and raved over their services before. For those of you out of the loop, it was one of the first free 411 services to crop up and it’s still one of the best in my opinion. I probably use it a dozen times a month to look up a number I’ve long forgotten and the best part is that it’s 100% free.

But to make matters even better, they’re offering a free 10 minute phone call to anywhere in the US on Valentine’s Day this Saturday! Simply call 1-800-Free-411 come February 14th and there will be a prompt for the free call to any landline or mobile number here in the US of A. This is perfect for anybody living far away from friends and family without a long distance plan.

While I’ll admit to being an avid reader, I never really picked up any of these Harlequin books, much less these 16 free eBooks from them for their 60th anniversary celebration.

But seeing they’re not giving away anything I’d read like W.S. Merwin, Wallace Stevens, Dr. Seuss, John Berryman, or Frank O’Hara? Maybe I’ll just download and peruse the pages while I wait for a more suitable reading offer…

[via the forums and my wife]

EDIT: Looks like the code is now expired. It stayed up longer than I’d expected though.

Use the code BeMine to earn a free Swagbuck. For those of you with short term memory loss, I wrote a Swagbucks review yesterday and a bunch of people in the comments section mentioned how much they enjoy the site as well. I have no idea how much longer this code will be active for, but it’s my experience that they die quite fast. So what are you waiting for?!

[via My Good Cents]

A while back I promoted a site called Winzy which basically was a search engine that rewarded you for searching. I’ve been using them for over a year now and have probably won somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 in Amazon giftcards. However, I’ve recently been hearing a lot about a site called Swagbucks and so I thought I’d use it for a week and see which I liked better. Final verdict? Swagbucks absolutely destroys Winzy.

Now before I go any further, let me just say one thing. There’s absolutely no reason why you shouldn’t be using one, if not both, of these sites. If you routinely search for things online via a typical search engine, then you’re searching without the possibility of winning something. Any time you search on Google, your odds of winning a prize is 0%. Even if your odds of winning a prize on these two sites are 0.01%, that’s better than nothing, no? Plus, given the facts that most people make multiple searches a day and that winning percentages are higher than that small number, you’re essentially throwing away money if you’re not using either one of these sites.

(more…)

Since leaving college, its interesting to have a completely different schedule… To have classes that I used to go to, to feel mentally stimulated to learn, and to be socialized with a group of individuals pursuing the same goal? There was structure and organization there.

Sure, going to work on a regular schedule gives me that same structure, but its different. And even with reading the news and the blogosphere, well, I still feel like I’m missing that educational aspect.

Maybe something like these free brain training games will help me out. Motivate me as I see myself learning more. Or maybe, I’ll just bookmark them and pretend they do. Yup, that works too…

[via the forums]