Freebies and free stuff

EDIT: This is no longer available.

This free Science and Technology of WWII poster is only available for teachers, but it’s the best freebie I’ve found so far today. You might be able to request one even if you’re not a teacher though and then maybe send it with your kid to school in the fall? Hopefully they have a picture of a Spitfire on here because it’s by far one of the coolest plane ever. How can you not love a plane with a name as awesome as that? In fact, I don’t care what my future wife says, I’ve just decided on the name of my first born. Aren’t I a catch, ladies?

Growing up, I probably spent 50% of my free time playing with LEGOs. The other half was equally divided between Micro Machines, Ninja Turtles, and Ghostbusters. But LEGOs reigned supreme in my life, which is why I got quite excited when I saw this free LEGO education kit offer. It looks like a bag of random pieces and yet I just spent twenty minutes squinting at them and trying to image what I’ll build.

At the very least, you can stack all the pieces together and throw it at people. I like to call that creation an AOP – Attention Obtaining Projectile.

EDIT: This is no longer available.

From what I can tell, this free Post-It pop-up notes offer is over a year old, but it doesn’t expire until June so there’s hope. I’m actually in dire need of some more post-it notes because I used my last one this morning. I wonder what I wrote on it…I should probably put up another note to check that out. *reaches for post-it* Ah, dang it!

When signing up, use the code n8r4ry and you should be good to go.

Also, I’ve noticed that most comments are going straight to moderation instead of being posted to HIF. I’m looking into the reason why and should have it fixed shortly.

EDIT: Wow, we Hiffed the living daylights out of that one. I don’t know whether to be proud or sad.

Well I’ve already botched posting one freebie today, so let’s see if I can get one of these right. Phaidon Press is giving away a free Nicholas Club membership packet, which is basically a small pencil case with a few items in it (pencil, ruler, eraser, stickers, etc.) To get the freebie, click on the “How to join my club” balloon near the upper left on their site.

I like the drawings all over the site, especially the ones on the main page of the little character. One of the drawings has a massive frown on his face and is looking right at the balloon leading to the freebie. I’m guessing he’s the guy in charge of finances. The dude with the top hat is easily the smart one and the guy crying is me after mistakenly posting a freebie this morning that wasn’t going to come. Whoops!

Speaking of my childhood and thinking back on last night, I never was much of a runner. I just couldn’t bring myself to do the mile run for the President’s fitness challenge very fast at all. Probably that was because I didn’t have something like this free Hershey’s Track and Field kit to motivate me with its all-star trading cards and DVD.

That, but probably also because I was too young to worry about the zombie apocalypse.

[via the forums]

Inspiration and creativity is something that I don’t really think we’re lacking here around the HIF crew. Between Goob’s evil geniusness, Shaynon’s craft and baking skills, and the musical ground that I cover, we’re fairly well endowed… artistically speaking.

But the National Endowment for the Arts want to help future kids grow up to be artistically inclined and are offering this free Introducing Children to the Arts booklet. And there’s a nice bonus to this freebie: if you’re too impatient to wait on your arts endowment? You can just download the PDF right from their site today and get started!

[via the forums]

The Heritage Foundation is giving away free pocket constitutions in bulk, which would make a great addition to any classroom, or simply to any individual who wants one. I actually already have one on my desk and I use it quite frequently for reference. I’ve been burned too many times by Wikipedia to trust it anymore. Did you know there ISN’T a 28th Amendment that guarantees a $1 million annual payment by the federal government to anybody named Goob? I was quite disappointed to find out this wasn’t true, despite it clearly being listed on the page. I’m telling ya, they really shouldn’t let just anybody edit that thing.

[via Heather - thanks!]

Is it just me or do pencil erasers suck now? They’re always those semi-plastic kind that are obviously cheaper then the old-school erasers that actually…um…oh yeah, ERASED LEAD! Try and erase something now and all that happens is the lead will just smear around on the page. Soon you’ve got 10 lines of text and 15 homemade Rorschach tests scattered amongst them. Let’s hope this free erasers set are a throwback to the days of yore when erasers actually erased things. (note: once you submit the form for the erasers, a new page to Eversave.com will load. Don’t worry about filling any of that crap out, just close it.)

[via Moose]

EDIT: Looks like they need to recycle some more freebies for us!

I can’t remember the last time I bought office supplies, thanks to freebies like these free recycled post-it notes. My desk is littered with stationary with random company logos, pens tattooed in a variety of 800 numbers and a glittering array of wrappers that once contained all the free snacks I’ve received.

I’m running out of room for these post-it notes though. I already have a good 100 or so on my wall and desk, many of which read “GOOB! Go through all these darn post-its!” My parents must be proud, I don’t even listen to myself.

EDIT: I’ve got a sinking feeling this one’s dead!

I felt bad not posting anything yesterday, as Monday is when I usually try to get the most fresh freebies up here. The problem was there wasn’t anything worth posting! So thank the Freebie Gods for this free 12-color oil pastel set, which looks freaking awesome! I just signed my little sister up for these and will probably demand that she use it to paint me a few pictures I can hang on my wall. It’ll be like a double freebie for me then!

Oh, you’ll need the promo code as well. It’s SA2008.

[via Kristie]

In high school, I was a history and geography buff. Well, more of the history buff. I loved studying the trends and the facts related to it. Little obscure things like Appomattox Courthouse, FDR’s New Deal, and the Bay of Pigs (which means I know more than Dana Perino). In knowing all of these random facts, I was killer on my high school’s academic team. Yeah, I was one of those nerds too. But, it got our high school a county-wide win over the other two, two years in a row, and it got me a place my senior year to go to Disney and the Florida Academic Team Showdowns. Yeah, we sucked horribly and got eliminated after two rounds, but we had a free trip to Disney! Can’t complain about that.

I do think that something like this free State of the States Publication PDF would have helped out a lot. See, if you read past years publications, you can see how chock full of facts they are about the changing trends in America. Heck, save 20 to 30 years worth of these and you can have your own kids made into academic geniuses.

They do come in magazines as well, but our dear own Pru found out that the supply is already gone of those, so request 2009’s early, and you won’t be downloading and printing your PDFs at Kinkos this year…

[via the forums]

EDIT: Looks like they’ve stopped giving away the free posters.

This free “It’s Cool To Care” Earth poster would be great for any classroom or kid’s room. When I was a kid, my walls were decked out in posters of my favorite sports players. Ok, so maybe there was a poster or two of My Little Pony. And in the corner, there was that one of the Cabbage Patch Kids. But I swear, those weren’t mine! I was, uh, you know, holding them for my sister. So what if she wasn’t even born at the time, I knew she’d be around eventually. Ok, fine, I admit, they were mine. But I just liked the colors, that’s all!

Today, I feel like I wish I was a kid all over again. I had a craving for some flannel, I turned on some Foo Fighters, and if I didn’t have a test today, I’d make myself chocolate chip pancakes and watch cartoons all day. That, or the cheesy $1 DVD that I found at Wal*Mart with four “classic” sci-fi films on it. Alas, I can’t even watch the episodes of Torchwood that I have saved up on my DVR because of that test.

But, I can still pretend to be a kid and call up the American Cancer Society at 1-800-227-2345 and request a free Spiderman vs. SmokeScreen comic book. Heck, we all can now that I’ve posted this number, and we can all spend a day sitting in, reading our comic books with Cheerios in our chocolate milk and cuddling up on the couch with comfy pillows.

Hmmmm… Cheerios. I think I’m going to have to get another bowl of cereal…

[via the forums]

When I was in high school, I waited for the day that my teacher would bring out the frogs. I just waited and waited, and it never happened. My biology teacher was a cool guy. He also taugh anatomy and physiology, so I knew he knew how, and we were the honors class. Heck, my teacher even had a pony tail and the cool classroom demeanor. He could have been the Fonz or something.

But when we walked into the room near the end of the year, we smelled something sort of funny. After asking him what it was, he told us that it was the preservative that they were keeping the cats in for his anatomy class. Cats? Later that week, we saw the heavy duty aluminum foil surroundings around them when he set them out in the room for them, and I think we heard some of his students naming them.

Thankfully it wasn’t our scapel in hand with Fluffy and Mr. Meow, and it makes me wonder what they would have done if they had this free copy of Digital Frog 2 dissection software. Instead of taking a formaldehyde soaked feline, he could have set up a few laptops and let people have less of a clean-up in the end.

Of course, there was also that smell from down the hall from the marine biology lab and whatever it was they were dicing too…

Authors Note: No animals were harmed in the making of this board post.

[via the forums]

EDIT: This is now dead.

I use to be a hidden nerd in school. I say “hidden” because I hung out with the group of kids who had a little bit of everybody in our group. A few band geeks, some drama people, a jock or two, you get the idea. And I was our token smart guy masquerading as a normal dude. I kept my worrying about making B’s instead of A’s to myself and I didn’t like to let people know that I studied more than I probably should have. That said, had I found these free pocket folder insert back then, I would have gone crazy. “OHHHH, look! A way for me to somehow become even more anal retentive in my note keeping skills! Hooray!”

On a sidenote, I have a feeling I’ve already shared this little anecdote with y’all. After posting 1,090 freebies so far, it’s hard to keep track of what stories I’ve already told

[via the forums]