Freebies and free stuff

When I saw this free Art in a Box button offer, I first thought of a cat in a hat, then I got hungry for some green eggs and ham…

My mind works like that.

EDIT: This offer is now dead.

DailySteals is offering a free stainless steel money clip to anybody who likes them on Facebook today. Thank goodness this freebie will be alive for another 10 hours instead of dying immediately after I hit the Publish button. It’s nice peace of mind while I shake this hangover and figure out why this keyboard is so freaking loud. (Thanks for all the kind words yesterday as well!)

If you signed up for the Colgate mini-brushes the other week, then you shouldn’t even have to go through the Facebook part. Just log into your DailySteals account, confirm your address, then try to find a $20 bill to cover up the stack of ones you have.

[thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

EDIT: They’ve run out of DVDs.

I’d say that I signed up to get this free African conservation DVD because I want the real wildlife experience, but I that would be a lie. Every morning I get that when I wake up with my fat cat on my chest, staring me in the face, waiting for me to get him some more food…

I don’t know who Rick Steves is, but I figure he’s some long lost relative of Rick James. You know, the whole “two first name” thing.

So maybe when I get this free Rick Steves DVD and 2012 Tour Calendar, I’ll know who he is and where to find him. And if he wrote that song “Superfreak” after-all…

EDIT: You can download a .pdf file, but they’ve run out of traditional samples.

Sometimes, I can’t believe the freebies that are out there. Take these free zombie posters from the CDC. Yes. THE CDC. I don’t know what’s cooler: the fact that our government has created and released these posters, or the fact that they have a whole page of their website dedicated to the zombie apocalypse.

The only downside to this freebie, other than the fact of our own government acknowledging the upcoming zombie apocalypse and declaring subtly to beware? The fact that it’ll take 4-6 weeks to arrive, so it won’t be here in time for Halloween. I mean, sure, I can download and print them, but that wouldn’t be my tax dollars at work!

There would have been a time that I would have really wanted this free “How Do I Become President?” poster. Now? I’m looking for the “How Do I Become Supreme Dictator of the World?” poster.

What can I say? I’ve grown up and just simply stopped underachieving.

I hate jumping through hoops. Seriously. I prefer freebies that are one-click and done. I’m impatient like that. Next, I’d prefer they anti-matter transport the freebies so that I don’t have to wait for the postman.

So when I found this free Aeroshot energy sample freebie, I was first elated. Then, after submitting myself for a code request, I had to wait 4 hours for that code, and then after that? I had to receive ANOTHER e-mail and click to confirm this freebie.

At this point, they’d better beam me my sample. Come on, Scotty, you can do it!

So while some people might wonder why we’d ever need a free horse training DVD, I can only smugly reply that when the zombie apocalypse takes out all forms of life and we have noone to work our refineries for fuel for our cars, I’ll already be a step ahead and able to ride off into the sunset! Or maybe I’ll just teach my horse to stomp his foot to count all of the zombies…

A buddy of mine in Florida interviewed for what would have been my dream job about 6 years ago in education. Now? Well, a job in education would give me a place to hang up some of these free teaching history posters. That, and hopefully an endless supply of free apples.

You know, Goob and I don’t post many books. That’s not to say we don’t read, but most of these book freebies nowadays are for eBooks or downloadable content that’s a dime a dozen. Sometimes, however, I come across something like this free pdf book on negotiation that’s just way too good to pass up. Maybe I could use what I learn in this book to e-mail the site and negotiate getting a print copy of the book? Or maybe I’ll just negotiate a bigger slice of the pie. Mmm… pie…