Outdoors

Request free outdoor samples and freebies for your garden, hike, or next trip to the park. Common freebies include sunscreen, seeds, park admission, and more!

Free Proven Winners Gardener's Idea Book

Free 2022 Proven Winners Gardener’s Idea Book

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Signups are now open for the free 2022 Proven Winners Gardener's Idea book. I feel like a fraud requesting this freebie since I don't have much of a green thumb. I swear the last time I went to buy a plant, a few of them verbally shouted “nooooo, don't let him pick us!” while inching their pots deeper onto the shelf.

However, if you're not a plant serial-killer like me, then this freebie will contain tips & ideas on great way to get ready to garden this spring.

These booklets are set to ship in late March 2022, but supplies are limited so you should signup today. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.


Free Tree from Arbor Day Foundation

Possible Free Tree for Your Yard!

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The Arbor Day Foundation has teamed up with utility companies around the country to offer free trees for your yard! This is a promotion aimed at lowering your summer energy bill while helping make your area a little greener.

By planting trees, you can save up to 20% on your summer energy bills and clean the air & water in your community.

To see if any are available in your area, head here and enter your address. For a full list of participating companies and areas, see this page.


Free SocialNature Product Samples

Free Product Trials from SocialNature

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SocialNature currently has 35+ 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 freebies!

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. But with so many freebies being offered, you're bound to get lucky in many of them! Plus you'll move to the top of the list if the brand is looking for your specific demographic. So mom's who buy stuff for their families are almost always offered freebies 🙂

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!


Free Ducks Unlimited Decal

Free Ducks Unlimited Decal

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I'm not much of an animal hunter. I have, however, participated in many a human hunts as my teams main “Seeker” during late night games of Manhunt and Capture the Flag, so I think I'll get myself this free Ducks Unlimited decal for my window. Decals should arrive within 2-4 weeks.

This freebie has been around since 2007! It's not every day I find a freebie in our archives that's been active since the Bush Administration.


Free Vegetable & Food Seeds

Free Vegetable & Food Seeds

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Alpha Foods is running a “grow your own meat” campaign where they'll send us free packets of food & vegetable seeds! There are three packages of seeds and I think they're going to send us all three!

GROW YOUR OWN POT PIE

  • Green Pepper Seeds
  • Onion Seeds
  • Garlic Cloves
  • Sunflower Seeds
  • Soy Seeds
  • Wheat Seeds
  • Tomato Seeds

GROW YOUR OWN BURRITO

  • Sunflower Seeds
  • Corn Seeds
  • Onion Seeds
  • Soy Seeds
  • Wheat Seeds
  • Green Pepper Seeds
  • Cayenne Pepper Seeds

GROW YOUR OWN CHIK’N NUGGETS

  • Corn Seeds
  • Onion Seeds
  • Sunflower Seeds
  • Soy Seeds
  • Wheat Seeds
  • Garlic Cloves

I can't wait to plant a few of these in my windowsill. I've got the cutest little potting plants that my cat will love to knock on the floor at 2am!


Free NASA Astronaut Autograph

Free NASA Autographed Astronaut Photo

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According to NASA's Kennedy Space Center FAQ page, you can get a free autographed picture of an astronaut simply by asking!

Q. How can I obtain an autographed picture of an astronaut?
A. You may write or fax your request to the following address for astronaut autographed pictures:

NASA Johnson Space Center
CB/Astronaut Office
Houston, TX 77058

Here's an official list of active astronauts with direct links to their social media pages. Who knows, maybe you're about to discover your newest favorite spacefaring human!


Free Seed Card

Free Wildflower Seed Card

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Arm & Hammer is giving away a free wildflower seed card to the first 155,000 people to sign up. They're only at 85,000 right now, so you've got a little time.

Seed cards are basically biodegradable business cards with little seeds in them. You then plant the card, the paper breaks down into plant nourishment through a complicated process that one scientist referred to as “no comment Goob, stop calling my home phone,” and then a few months later you've got a free plant!

You might have to copy and paste the link for it to work, so here ya go.

https://www.armandhammer.com/en/earthdaygiveaway

Your free seed card should arrive in 4-6 weeks.


Free Lowe's Garden-to-Go Kits

Free Lowe’s Garden-to-Go Kits – Free Tree Sapling this week!

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In addition to their free monthly kid's DIY kit, Lowe's is also offering free Garden-to-Go kits during the month of April. Each week at midnight ET Thursday, you can reserve a kit. Then you'll pick it up curbside at your local store.

Beginning April 1, customers can register on Lowes.com for free Garden-to-Go kits. The first curbside event will be held on April 8 and then occur each Thursday through the rest of the month. These family-friendly activity kits can be reserved on Lowes.com starting one week before each event and kits include:

April 8: Garden-to-Go kit sponsored by Miracle-Gro with exclusive recipes from professional cook and food stylist Amanda Frederickson.
April 15: Lowe's Mystery Garden Pinata with mystery seed packets.
April 22: 500,000 tree saplings given out in honor of Earth Day. ⏪ This week's freebie! Registration opens on Thursday, April 15 at 12am ET. You'll need to pick up your free sapling curbside on Thursday, April 22, between 5-7 p.m.
April 29: Lowe's Butterfly Quest which helps families create a butterfly garden.

My brain initially read “sponsored by Miracle-Gro” as “sponsored by Miracle Whip” and BOY'd Crowder was I confused for a hot minute.


Free Yellowstone Trip Planner

Free National Park Trip Planning Kits

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Today I found these free National Park trip planners for places like Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Grand Canyon, Black Hills, and more! These are great freebies to pair with your next free National Parks Admission day trips!

These guides include trip planner publications, park maps, email newsletters, and travel information and deals from their preferred travel partners. Some of the parks offer unique travel guides on road tripping to visit them. For instance, the Yellowstone guide includes places to check out while driving from Salt Lake City, Chicago, or Denver.

According to National Park Trips, each guide should include the following:

  • Our favorite road trips to the parks launching from cities with major airports and other popular launching points. Some road trips include itineraries for multiple parks.
  • Overview of national park entrances and their closest gateway towns.
  • Basic national park maps so you can get your bearings.
  • Guides to lodging inside the parks
  • Wildlife-watching field guides.
  • Itineraries of the best things to do in the parks.
  • A packing list
  • Park entrance fees
  • And more

Ohhh, I love “and more!”


NASA send name to Mars for free

Send Your Name to Mars

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This cool offer from NASA has returned!

You can now sign up to have your name sent to Mars on the next robotic rover. According to their FAQs, our names will fly on a future NASA mission to Mars in the mid-2020's.

Some Hiffers sent our names on the 2017 InSight rover and/or the Mars 2020 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.