Hey, It's Free!Best Freebies, Samples, & Daily Deals
Marlboro isn't the only tobacco company giving away freebies! American Spirit is offering free cigarette butt pouches to help keep from littering the Earth with your used butts.
Annnnnnd now I'm giggling like an 8 year old.
If you're having trouble, log into American Spirits, then click the link above and click the “REQUEST BUTT POUCHES” link.
[thanks to Hiffer Holly for letting us know these were back!]
In 2016, Bayer ran a campaign giving away flower seeds so we could help our local bees. That offer has long since expired, but luckily I found a new offer today for free wildflower seeds aiming to help both bees and butterflies!
Choose from either Black-Eyed Susans (whoa…is she okay?) and Butterfly Milkweed seeds and plant them in your yard. Once grown, they'll help keep your local bees & butterflies find pollinator-friendly plants. It's a tough world out there for bees. First they have to deal with colony collapse disorder, then there was that whole weird Seinfeld movie, and yet now their worst nightmare has come true as they can't find flowers to pollinate!
This video is a little old, but it's cute and has upbeat music and isn't that all we really need right now?
SocialNature currently has 17 free trials you can apply for. After creating an account, simply head to their Products page and make sure to select United States on the left sidebar. You should then be able to click “Apple to Try” on a huge variety of free samples!
As you can see from the items already listed, there are tens of thousands of people applying for these samples, so you're not guaranteed to get each item.
I had the option to trial these items:
As somebody who recently bought herb and vegetable seeds to grow in a window garden, I really hope I get a few of those Back to Roots freebies. Worst case, I end up killing my plants, but use the freebie on my hair roots!
The next free National Parks admission day is right around the corner!
So get out there, breathe in some fresh air, and report back to me how relaxing and peaceful it is. Just don't take your family! I went with mine last year and long story short, they left me behind. Unfortunately for them, I'm like one of those cool dogs from a Reader's Digest story and I walked all the way home in just under a week.
I've written about these free National Park Admission days since they debuted in 2009 and the numbers are finally in. Hiffers love them! Maybe you could even end up like Mikah Meyer and visit all 419 National Parks! It only took him 3 years. 😂
If you can't make it out to your local National Park, you can do the next best thing and read up on some parks! Sure, it's not the same as actually visiting, but it has significantly fewer mosquitoes and poison ivy patches.
The WWF is giving away a free reusable straw kit that comes with a free metal straw and a carrying pouch.
I think there's only 70,000 of these left, so get yours quickly!
Whoa! You don't see a free Sharpdraw carpenter pencil every day. Unless you work in a factory that makes them. Then I imagine you see them quite regularly.
This freebie is being offered by the tobacco company Copenhagen. After logging in, scroll down to “CHOOSE THE WINNER” and vote at the bottom of the page. You'll then be offered a free Sharpdraw carpenter pencil below.
They only have a limited supply each day, so check back again later before July 21. This freebie should ship within 1-2 weeks.
Take the Butterfly Hero pledge and you'll get a free butterfly garden starter kit. Now I'm no lepidopterist, but I know a butterfly starter kit involves two butterflies who realllly like each other and a few milkweed flowers. Thankfully this freebie includes the seeds to start growing those flowers!
It turns out the monarch butterflies are in trouble and need more milkweed. So, pledge to grow the plants and help save the butterflies. In exchange, you'll get a free starter kit from the National Wildlife Federation. They're like the Federation in Star Trek, just without all the space ships!
This was previously offered in March 2018 and died extremely fast. I wouldn't put off signing up this time.
If you have a nearby Phantom Fireworks Showroom and plan on celebrating our nation's birthday by blowing stuff up, then be sure to check out this freebie! Simply use this coupon good for 6 free Gold Sparklers and light up the night during the 4th of July this week.
The free fishing days have been announced for 2020 in all 50 states and DC! On these specific days, unique to each state, you are allowed to fish without a fishing license. Most of the 2020 dates seem to fall around early June, but there are plenty of May, July, and August dates on there as well.
While the Take Me Fishing website helpfully provides the dates, they don't have any corresponding links to back them up. So I went out and found them all! Below are all 50 states free fishing dates along with links for proof!
On a related note, I learned about the existence of fishing licenses the hard way. I was grateful the game warden took pity on me when he saw I not only failed catching a single fish, but was also tangled in the fishing line when he pulled up.
Saved by my own ineptitude!
| State | Free Days |
|---|---|
| Alabama | Saturday, June 13 |
| Alaska | 🤷♂️ |
| Arizona | Saturday, June 6 |
| Arkansas | Friday, June 12 - Sunday, June 14 |
| California | Saturday, July 4 Saturday, September 5 |
| Colorado | Saturday & Sunday, June 6-7 |
| Connecticut | Saturday, May 11 Sunday, June 16 (must get free one day license) Saturday, Aug 10 (must get free one day license) |
| Delaware | Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 |
| District of Columbia | Saturday, June 1 - Sunday, June 9 |
| Florida | Saturday & Sunday, April 6-7 (freshwater) Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 (saltwater) Saturday & Sunday, June 8-9 (freshwater) Saturday, September 7 (saltwater) Saturday, November 30 (saltwater) |
| Georgia | Saturday, June 1 Saturday, June 8 Saturday, September 28 |
| Hawaii | All 365 days a year! |
| Idaho | Saturday, June 8 |
| Illinois | Friday, June 14 - Monday, June 17 |
| Indiana | Saturday, April 20 Saturday, May 18 Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 |
| Iowa | Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 9 |
| Kansas | Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 |
| Kentucky | Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 |
| Louisiana | Saturday & Sunday, June 8-9 |
| Maine | Saturday & Sunday, February 16-17 Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 |
| Maryland | Saturday, June 1 Saturday, June 8 Thursday, July 4 |
| Massachusetts | Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 (freshwater) Saturday & Sunday, June 15-16 (saltwater) |
| Michigan | Saturday & Sunday, February 16-17 Saturday & Sunday, June 8-9 |
| Minnesota | All year at most locations for state residents |
| Mississippi | Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 Thursday, July 4 |
| Missouri | Saturday & Sunday, June 8-9 |
| Montana | Saturday & Sunday, June 15-16 |
| Nebraska | Saturday, May 18 |
| Nevada | Saturday, June 8 |
| New Hampshire | Saturday, January 19 Saturday, June 1 |
| New Jersey | Saturday, June 8 Saturday, October 19 |
| New Mexico | Saturday, June 1 |
| New York | Saturday & Sunday, June 29-30 Saturday, September 28 Monday, November 11 |
| North Dakota | Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 Saturday & Sunday, December 28-29 (ice fishing) |
| North Carolina | Thursday, July 4 |
| Ohio | Saturday & Sunday, May 4-5 |
| Oklahoma | Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 |
| Oregon | Saturday & Sunday, February 16-17 Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 Saturday & Sunday, August 17-18 Friday & Saturday, November 29-30 |
| Pennsylvania | Sunday, May 26 Thursday, July 4 |
| Rhode Island | Saturday & Sunday, May 4-5 (freshwater only) |
| South Carolina | >Monday, May 27 (freshwater only) Thursday, July 4 (freshwater only) |
| South Dakota | Friday, May 17 - Sunday, May 19 |
| Tennessee | Saturday, June 8 |
| Texas | Saturday, June 1 All Year, limited State Parks |
| Utah | Saturday, June 8 |
| Virginia | Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 9 |
| Vermont | Saturday, January 26 Saturday, June 8 |
| Washington | Saturday-Sunday, June 8-9 |
| West Virginia | Saturday-Sunday, June 8-9 |
| Wisconsin | Saturday & Sunday, January 19-20 (ice fishing) Saturday & Sunday, June 1-2 |
| Wyoming | Saturday, June 1 |
Have fun out there, folks!
This cool offer from NASA has returned!
If you sign up before 9/30/19, your name will be sent to Mars on the next rover. The Mars 2020 Rover is a robotic Mars lander that will launch in July 2020 and arrive on Mars in February 2021, carrying all of our names.
Some Hiffers sent our names on the 2017 InSight rover. According to my Galactic Law Degree, that means we already have squatters rights on Mars. I call dibs on that hill over there!
While this is cool and all, I hope to be making posts for free trips to Mars before all is said and done.
Lime, one of the new rent-a-scooter companies popping up everywhere, is giving away 250,000 free helmets if you pledge to wear them. I don't ride that many scooters, but I do fall down all the time. Think Lime will be cool with me just wearing my helmet around the house?
You should get a confirmation email saying all 25,000 helmets have been given away. But that was the previous free helmet promo Lime ran in November 2018, this is a new offer that launched today with 10x the amount of freebies. It looks like they forgot to update their email.
Take a load off and visit a National Park for free on Veteran's Day!
On Sunday, November 11, these National Parks will waive their entrance fee. I quickly scanned the list and counted around 40 states with a participating park.
Pair your trip with a free state map, maybe tell a restaurant it's your birthday on the way, and you've got the making of a true freebie vacation.
I hope you were able to find some cool or useful freebies on Hey, It’s Free! If you still have any questions or ideas, feel free to contact me!
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