Freebies and free stuff

These free Sundiwear stickers are pretty darn cool. You wear them outside and then they turn red after a certain amount of sunlight has hit them, thus letting you know it’s probably time to seek out shade or sunscreen. Too bad these things weren’t around when I was kid as I have a feeling they’re a bit more helpful than the method I always used. I’d spend a day outside playing with my friends and then wake up the next morning and go “huh, I got sunburned!”

[via Laurie - thanks!]

Last summer, a few forum users and myself put the finishing touches on our massive free Museum Admissions page. Look at that sucker! It literally took us a few months to put together and I was in no hurry to start another list soon thereafter, but I recently decided to start another project. After thinking it over, I settled on compiling a list of the 244 National Parks that offer free admission on a regular basis. Yet as luck would have it, today I read that the National Park Service is throwing open the gates to the other 147 National Parks that charge money, thus giving free admission to all 391 parks on June 20-21, July 18-19, and August 15-16.

Talk about making my job obsolete. It’s only a matter of time before a company in Japan develops a freebie-finding robot who can do my job 24/7 and for half the price. And I work for free!

Alex’s Lemonade Stand is a non-profit dedicated to fighting cancer in children and now they’re offering a free lemonade stand kit to ideally be used during Lemonade Days on June 12th to June 14th. In addition, they have printable resources for how best to run a lemonade stand and help donate the money to worthy causes. I forwarded this to my little sister and she’s already signed up and looking forward to helping raise some money, so you might want to consider using this as a fun summertime activity!

For more information on the freebie and the charity in general, check out this page.

I have a feeling this free golf putter grip will do absolutely nothing to improve my game. Some might argue that’s because my golf skills are on par with a drunken monkey’s, but those people only see the glass as being half empty. I like to instead focus on all the improvements I’ve made over the years. For instance, I no longer try to run over my friends with the golf cart and I can now say “who invented this fraking sport” in twelve different languages!

Progress is a beautiful thing, my friends.

EDIT: I just realized that Adam posted this a few weeks back. My bad! I know today was kind of crummy freebie-wise, but I’ve got a post in the works for later tonight that should make up for it!

Campbell’s soup is giving away free tomato seeds to anybody who has purchased some condensed soup recently. All you have to do is type in the code on the bottom of the can and they’ll send you the seeds. If you don’t have any Campbell’s lying around, try the codes below as they might work. I found the site to be a tad glitchy – I had to type in my code two or three times before it was finally accepted.

• Code1: XD Code2: 01 Type: Tomato
• Code1: CU Code2: 01 Type: Tomato
• Code1: CT Code2: 26 Type: Cream of Mushroom
• Code1: P5 Code2: 03 Type: Cream of Chicken

If none of the codes above work, you might want to pick up a can the next time you’re at the store and have a look at the code since this offer is valid for a few more months Also, note that the codes are case sensitive. These darn seeds better be worth it!

[via Michele - thanks!]

EDIT: Looks like they’re all out!

Any time I’ve ever tried to start a garden, I’ve either A) forgotten about it, B) forgotten about it, or C) What was I talking about again? That won’t stop me from trying to use Earthbound Farm’s free organic lettuce seeds to grow a mini-garden out back.

I really shouldn’t even bother though, I’m about as nourishing as the surface of Pluto. I’m pretty sure there’s a clause buried in Obama’s recent stimulus plan about me being banned from ever having children.

You know what’s going to be here before we even know it? Travel time! I was reminded by this fact when I saw a California state tourism commercial last night and that got me to wondering what each state offers in the way of free state maps and travel guides. Coupled with our free museum admissions list (which is actually fully completed now!), your summer trips might now be a bit more fun and free!

I linked to the official travel guide for each state below. As a fail-safe, I then provided a link to each state’s DOT page if their travel guide didn’t explicitly say it came with a highway map. Here’s to never getting lost again!

Free Alabama State Map – This is the first .travel website I’ve ever seen. Cool.

Free Alaska State Map – Here’s the first case of “so, does this come with a map?” (dot map)

Free Arizona State Map – What exactly is Old West activities? Like riding around on a horse and shooting pistols in the air? Arizona, here I come!

Free Arkansas State Map – They have a plethora of travel guides and kits, including golfing, hiking, and fishing guides, calendar of events, and even a Living in Arkansas guide for those considering moving there. Wait, where are you going?

Free California State Map – I would have been ticked had they not offered some free maps, considering the fact that I see their freaking tourism commercial every 10 minutes.

Free Colorado State Map – Colorado’s official state slogan: Let’s Talk. Aw crap, they’re breaking up with us!

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You know what’s going to be here before we even know it? Travel time! I was reminded by this fact when I saw a California state tourism commercial last night and that got me to wondering what each state offers in the way of free state maps and travel guides. Coupled with our free museum admissions list (which is actually fully completed now!), your summer trips might now be a bit more fun and free!

I linked to the official travel guide for each state below. As a fail-safe, I then provided a link to each state’s DOT page if their travel guide didn’t explicitly say it came with a highway map. Here’s to never getting lost again!

Free Alabama State Map – This is the first .travel website I’ve ever seen. Cool.

Free Alaska State Map – Here’s the first case of “so, does this come with a map?” (dot map)

Free Arizona State Map – What exactly is Old West activities? Like riding around on a horse and shooting pistols in the air? Arizona, here I come!

Free Arkansas State Map – They have a plethora of travel guides and kits, including golfing, hiking, and fishing guides, calendar of events, and even a Living in Arkansas guide for those considering moving there. Wait, where are you going?

Free California State Map – I would have been ticked had they not offered some free maps, considering the fact that I see their freaking tourism commercial every 10 minutes.

Free Colorado State Map – Colorado’s official state slogan: Let’s Talk. Aw crap, they’re breaking up with us!

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EDIT: So I see Adam beat me to this one yesterday. My bad!

This free Hershy’s Fastrack to Sports kit is designed to be used as a motivational tool to get kids up and moving. It comes with a DVD, starter guide, and some legends of Track & Field trading cards that might be helpful to some of you parents or teachers out there. I haven’t the slightest idea how at age 25 I’m about to utter these words, but in my day being active was never a problem! Sure we had home movies and video games too, but easily 90% of my childhood memories are of me and my buddy Alex getting into trouble outside.

In fact, I think I should be the next spokesman for any DVD encouraging kids to play outside. Some of the activities I could demonstrate include throwing water balloons into open bedroom windows, chopping down trees to make bridges across creeks, and my personal favorite of building snowballs so big, they take up the entire road! Hollywood, my agent is awaiting your call.

[via the forums]

This free glow stick is pretty much just a flashlight and a whistle, right? Sweet, I’ve been looking for something new to annoy my siblings with. Don’t be fooled by the “Outdoors” category I’m filing this under – it’ll work great in a little brother’s bedroom at 5am!

EDIT: Looks like we killed it. We need to come up with a verb for this effect. Hiffed to death?

It should come as no surprise that I watch a lot of TV. And while I enjoy Samantha Brown’s Weekends, the one show I can never bring myself to watch is 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. I don’t know what it is about it, but maybe its because I’d actually want to see them and not watch someone else seeing them? Who knows.

Well now, I can get a free copy of the book 1,000 Places To See Before You Die by just putting in the code EMQAGE. And then? When I’m a bazillionaire from all of the money that I’m saving by getting all of these freebies (and not buying shampoo, might I add!)? I’ll have a guidebook for my own TV show.

I’d just need Goob to come along and we could have real life adventures of Goobman and Boy Adam… Even though I’ve got him beat on the age thing by a week…

[via the forums]

I saw this offer for free seeds on a few other freebie sites earlier this week, but I passed over it because I thought it was pretty stupid. Why would I want seeds now when the leaves are already falling off the trees in my front yard? Then on a whim I went to their site and read the fine print strikingly obvious statement that they’ll be sending these out come next spring.

For those of you scoring at home, it’s Goob’s Competency: 8 vs. Goob Not Following Directions and Lacking Basic Reading Skills: 9 bajillion.

EDIT: Hope you got your tree already, because this is now dead!

Yep, you read that headline correctly. In celebration of Arbor Day, you can get a free tree mailed to you to plant in your yard! Despite the website looking like it was built back in the late 90s, some people on the forums can vouch for it as they got trees from them last year. Unfortunately for me, I probably won’t be getting this as there’ll be no room for a tree in my yard. I’m not going to have even a single tree in mine. No grass, either! As a kid, I hated mowing the lawn, so I vowed that when I grew up, I’d get a yard with astroturf and just vacuum it from time to time. You know, on second though, maybe that’s not the smartest idea I’ve ever had.

[via the forums]

So it’s the new year already, which means that most people will be taking down their Christmas lights soon if they haven’t already. Although, if it was up to me, I’d just leave them up year round and just not turn them on. Then again, I think we now know why it’s not up to me So guys, let me paint a picture for you. Back in late November, the misses thought it’s be a great idea to put some lights up on the roof and after almost falling to your death at least seven or eight times, you got the lights up. Kudos! But now, it’s time to take them down and you have to go right back up there. Doh! So you get up on the roof, you pull out a screwdriver to start prying the staples loose, and just like that it falls out of your hands and onto the ground. Now you have to climb back down, probably reposition the ladder after realizing it wasn’t level to begin with, and then climb back up. Sounds like fun, huh? No, no it’s doesn’t. Well if you had this free Werner Tool Lasso, which clips to your belt, you wouldn’t have to worry about this happening to you! Gentlemen, you can thank me later in the form of power tools, beer, or power tools that shoot out beer.

[via the forums]

I go to school at UCF in Orlando, Florida. And there are a few simple rules about our campus. For most of y’all, these won’t make sense, but trust me, if you ever meet me down here, I’ll explain the list:

1) No matter what anyone calls that place in the union, it’ll never be Wack-a-Doos but always Locos.
2) To be in the Reflection Pond any day of the year other than Spirit Splash and not be caught and fined is a badge of honor.
3) They are not Nike and Hercules, they are AV and Phase II.
4) Whatever you do, do not feed the squirrels, they know where you live and will hunt you down and kill you, or at least steal all of your ramen and Easy Mac.

And its with that 4th rule that I have to post my latest solution to making sure the little buggers don’t get all of my cheap starchy goodness of doom–this free 1.5oz sample package of Squirrel Away.

Yes, my freebee loving friends, when this little package comes, I’ll be holding onto it like a 5′2″ skinny blonde tri-Delt holds onto her mace while walking through a parking garage at 10pm on a Thursday night. Possibly tighter, though. Our squirrels are vicious.

Authors note: This ws not meant to insult or harm anyone in any Greek organization or any North American Grey Squirrel. If you find said humor offensive, don’t worry, I didn’t think it was very funny either.

[via the forums]