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Anybody else get the urge to chow down on some strawberries after requesting free Truvia natural sweetener? All I had in my fridge was strawberry daiquiri mix though, but hey, close enough.
[thanks to Hiffer Kim for the reminder on this freebie!]
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As usual, I've put together a list of free Kindle eBooks. Many of these are available to everybody! For the longest time, I thought they were only for Amazon Prime members, however I discovered anybody can read these free eBooks with any number of free Kindle apps. Be it on your phone, computer, or tablet, you can download a Kindle app and get these books for free!
They're split into different categories and were all free as of this morning, though please make sure they're still free when you go to redeem them since sometimes these promos only last for a few hours / days.
Hopefully, you can find something fun to read. 📚 😃 And as usual, please check the price before you download. These free books are often time-based and will go up in price after a certain amount of time, so before you download, make sure the price is $0.00!
See the latest free ebooks here, sorted by category!
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Until the end of the month, new users can get a free share just by completing the signup process within 24 hours! No funding needed whatsoever for your first free stock. Free signup stock will be valued at $2.50 to $250.
However, if you decide to fund your account with any amount of money, you'll then get a second free share with a minimum value of $12!
Webull is a new stock trading app that is giving away a free share of stock valued at $12 to $1400! All you have to do is open a free account, then deposit any amount.
You may remember Robinhood's awesome free stock promotion (which is still active!) where you received a free share of stock that could be worth up to $200. A few Hiffers even got the mega-expensive stock shares for free and were able to cash out within weeks!
Well, you know what they say about success, imitation, and flattery. Enter Webull Financial!
They saw Robinhood blasting off to the moon and thought “hmmm, we could do that too.” But what's a good way to differentiate themselves? Oh, I know, offer free stock shares that could be worth up to $1000! 🤑
If you've never heard of Webull, you're not alone because they're a relatively new company based out of New York City. Just like Robinhood, Webull is a registered broker dealer with the SEC and a member of FINRA and SIPC.
Their main goal is to bring free stock trading to the masses. Gone are the days of paying a $7 commission just to buy or sell stock.
This means you get unlimited free trades, with no minimum balance, along with a boatload of investment and research charts, information, and news – something I found lacking from Robinhood.
So how do they make money while offering free trades? By having a lot of customers! Webull makes tiny amounts of money on cash balances, interest, and premium memberships, so they don't charge crazy-high fees just for selling stock.
Obviously, Webull hopes we become lifelong members. But for our intents and purpose, we just want that sweet, sweet free share of stock!
Get your free share of stock now!
The odds of specific stock allocation is implied as follows:
To get your free share of stock, you need to do the following easy steps within 24 hours! If you take longer than 24 hours to sign up, you won't get your free share!
From the same screen, you can invite any friends and family to Webull for even more free shares.
I managed to score a free share of ABEV, the parent company of Anheuser-Busch, valued at $4.49. Hopefully people keep drinking and drive the price up. 😂
Your stock will be credited to your account within 5 business days. After that, you can do whatever you want with it! You can sell it for cash, keep it for an investment, or even transfer it to Robinhood if you prefer that app. You can also transfer your no-cost Robinhood stock over to Webull if you like this app better.
Some really cool mobile games that normally retail for $4.99 each are now free!
I've personally played both Alto's Adventure and its recent sequel, Alto's Odyssey. They're neat games to “zone out” to without trying incredibly hard. They have amazing soundtracks too, I recommend playing with a pair of headphones. You can obviously get lost in them, but you can also easily play for a solid 5-15 minutes at a time.
I promise the Alto games aren't too difficult either.
I have no idea what Prune is like, as I've never played it. I've drank prune juice though, so I'm sure that counts for something.
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Look, a lot of us are stuck inside right now. We all know what that means. 😏 This classic free Sasmar personal lubricant samples offer is still alive. Sign up today and they'll send you two samples of original silicone lube & classic water-based lubricant.
HIF is primarily a United States freebie site, but this offer also ships to the United Kingdom, Europe (…isn't the UK already covered by this?), and Australia. So feel free to get frisky all over the world with this offer!
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If you partake in smoking dank, chronic reefer bud then you might be interested in some free Boveda “herb” humidity control packets. Place these inside an airtight container with your flower and it helps prevent your tree from quickly drying out.
Samples should ship out in 3-4 weeks, but please keep in mind that coronavirus may potentially delay shipping.
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With the looming threat of covid-19, I foresee a week or two where I'm huddled in my bedroom trying to stay health. I don't know about you, but the idea of days worth of boredom doesn't sound too exciting. It got me wondering if there are TV shows and movies streaming online for free, which resulted in the list below!
Before I get started, let me say I know all about Netflix. 😀 But that costs money! One thing I've noticed is that many “freebie & frugal” sites all push paid options for cutting the cord and ditching cable. Sure, some are great. I split a YouTube TV account with my friends and we love it.
But shouldn't there be … you know, free methods as well? Why do all the other sites push paid-services with their affiliate links? Isn't the point of ditching a monthly cable subscription to actually save money?
Thus, I've compiled all the best ways I've found to watch live, local TV for absolutely free with no subscriptions whatsoever. I've also included a few options with extensive libraries of free TV shows and movies to watch on-demand.
First up, an over-the-air antenna! There's are one-time investments that provide free TV for years to follow.
I'm personally a massive fan of the Mohu Leaf antenna. I have two in my own apartment! They're incredible useful, especially if you already have a TV. After less than 60 seconds setting it up, I was able to get around 50 over-the-air (OTA) channels such as CBS, NBC, FOX, ABC, The CW, PBS, Univision, ION, and many more.
To see what local OTA stations you'll pick up, head to Antenna Web and plug in your address.
However, what if you live in a very rural or mountainous area with spotty coverage? Or how about if your TV breaks?
For starters, there's always SlingTV (which is 40% off your first month right now) and YouTubeTV. Both are paid services that let you stream dozens of live over-the-air (OTA) and cable stations at a lower cost than most cable plans. YouTube even lets you share your account with 2 other people, which means you could split the monthly cost 3 ways!
But what if you don't want to pay anything at all? Fear not, for I've got you covered!
This next group of sites offer a variety of streaming content that mimic traditional channels. You might recognize some channels, while others are a collections of streaming shows.
Together, they provide “channels” that replicate tradition TV through scheduled blocks of programming. However, compared to traditional TV, you typically won't find a 100% full or set weekly schedule. Instead, most channels have a shorter rotation of shows for a few hours, in addition to on-demand content.
There's a mix of classic TV shows and programming from national news outlets, along with a ton of custom, streaming content. By and large, the live channels you get are different from what you'll receive with an OTA antenna, so I suggest a combination of both if you're trying to replace as much content as possible from cable.
For live stations, the majority are news, both local and national, along with sports.
Also, all of these work perfect with a Chromecast. Simply plug this device into your TV and you'll be able to seamlessly stream any of the free TV below directly to your home TV with a simple HDMI cord.
Or, instead, you can simply load any of these on your computer, laptop, tablet, or phone and start watching TV immediately.
Kanopy was a service I initially missed, but thankfully multiple Hiffers pointed out my massive oversight. If you have an active membership with your local library or a university login, then you can use it to stream thousands of movies to your TV, phone, tablet, or computer. You can use this link to check if your library participates or use this link to check your university.
Given that library membership is free across the country, I'd say Kanopy is one of the best options when looking to stream free entertainment.
Pluto TV is an interesting mashup of channels. Owned by Viacom, Pluto is essentially a free, ad-supported VOD (video on demand) service with occasional, outside licensing for their more than 250+ channels.
There are a chunk of stations that are dedicated to specific shows (how about the Adams Family station?), but the majority of stations are more classic versions, like CNN or Comedy Central. Since Viacom owns them, you'll get a lot of Viacom channels.
They also have an eclectic collection of older movies on demand, like all of the classic James Bond films, along with a few award winners and some other random titles. All told, they claim to have “1000s of movies.”
Crackle is a joint venture partially backed by Sony Pictures that consists of both original television shows as well as older favorites, such as Roseanne, Charlie's Angels, 3rd Rock From the Sun, and The Facts of Life.
They also boast a large collection of movies and original docu-series.
XUMO was started in 2011 in part by the parent company of Myspace, so we're already off to a roaring start here.
It currently offers 160+ channels covering news, comedy, kids, sports, and much more.
They also have a collection of on demand
I've previously written about Vudu and how you can watch free TV shows and movies in exchange for viewing a few ads.
There's no live TV though, it's all on-demand shows and movies.
The Roku Channel works on any Roku device or computer and, like Vudu, it's all on-demand based on the show. There aren't any channels, per say.
STIRR is owned by Sinclair, which is already one giant strike against them (*NSFW WARNING!*) in my book.
The one solid point in STIRR's favor is you can watch local stations without being located in the actual area.
If old-school cartoons are more your style, then definitely check out PopcornFlix. Their Family and Kids TV lets your stream older cartoons that even I haven't heard of. I honestly can't tell if these were after or before my time as an 80s kid 😀
Finally, if you're in the market for documentaries, don't overlook Snagfilms. They have one of the most extensive libraries of free documentary movies I could find, all broken down by categories.
So what about simple, local TV online, streaming online without paying a penny?
After all the major networks sued Aereo into bankruptcy, the best option for streaming live, local television is Locast. But don't worry – The Big Four is suing Locast too! 🙄
Locast is designed to stream your local TV channels. That means NY folks get their own channels and shows stations while San Francisco users gets only bay area stations. How is this legal?
Locast is a not-for-profit service offering users access to broadcast television stations over the internet. We stream the signal over the Internet to select US cities. We are trying to help broadcasters reach people just like you over the internet.
Currently, Locast is only in 17 cities. However, that's 36% of the US market and reaches over 41 million homes! They're also expanding rapidly, so I'd keep looking if your home market isn't listed.
When I started writing this post last August, Locast was only in 13 cities and reaching 33 million homes, so they're expanding fairly rapidly.
Next, there's Puffer. This is a free test program run by Stanford University. It seems like they're testing a new encoding or streaming software, but what it means for you and me is we get free TV!
Puffer provides free streams for the most basic channels: ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, and Univision. Sound too good to be true? It's not!
Stream live TV in your browser. There's no charge. You can watch U.S. TV stations affiliated with the NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, FOX, and Univision networks.
Puffer works well in the Chrome, Firefox, and Edge browsers, on a computer or an Android phone or tablet. Puffer does not work on iPhones or iPads or in the Safari browser.
Puffer is a research project in the computer-science department at Stanford University. Please see our FAQ for more information.
I personally like the very clean, simplistic layout. The channels also change faster than any other streaming service I've ever used. I think that's part of the new software Stanford is testing!
One thing to note is that the service is currently capped at 500 users at a time. However, this is a freebie I've yet to see advertised on any other freebie or cord cutting site, so I'm almost certain it'll be 500 Hiffers using this 🙂
The channels are also California channels, since this is broadcast from Stanford.
As I find more totally free options, I'll keep adding to this list! I'd also love to hear from Hiffers in the comments – have you cut cable recently? How do you best watch TV now? Any sites I overlooked?
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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!
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With this latest rebate offer, you can get a free Puracy product from Target worth up to $20!
Here are the full steps to get this great, full-sized freebie in under two weeks.
This rebate offer ends June 30, 2020.
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If you ever eat with them, you should certainly join the free Chick-fil-a rewards club. You earn points with every purchase, which help move you up through higher reward groups. With each group comes increased coupons, samples, and freebies.
Even if you're not a big spender, signing up opts you into the 100% free Chick-fil-A birthday offer!
One cool perk of the apps is they allow you to make orders ahead of time. Hiffer Lauren also had some great tips to share regarding Chick-fil-A freebies and using their app:
Hey! As a CFA employee, let me give you a tip when using your app:
First, make sure you've downloaded and registered/signed in before you get to the window. (Yes, that's happened more times than I can count in the past two days. I dread the rest of the month.) Try and bring up the app before you get to the window because the load times on it are ridiculous!
If you go through the drive-thru, please tell us when you order that you’ve got a free treat to redeem 🙂 They have to ring it up a special way for it to go through, and if you wait until you’re at the window, the cashier has to re-ring everything for you, which slows down the line (and for some reason makes the person who forgot to tell us about their treat very angry…)
When ordering inside, do the same thing! Have a great day, y'all!
Does anyone else kind of wish the Chick-fil-A waffle fries were made from actual waffles? I can't get enough of breakfast food. Mainly because there are rarely any vegetables and I can drown everything in syrup.
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I scream, you scream, we all scream AHH, IS THAT A SNAKE!?
Oh, no, it's just the next free Haagen-Dazs cone day, where we get a free mini cone. That's way better than a snake.
The next free ice cream event occurs on Tuesday, May 12 2020. I bet you didn't know about it already, did you? You did? Well, either somebody already told you or you're a mind-reader. GET OUT OF MY HEAD, YOU WARLOCK!
Don't worry, I've already set this post to republish closer to this freebie event.
Their store locator even shows you the spots that participate in this event! Simply search your area, then click “Get Shop Info” to your local spots. If they participate, “Free Cone Day” will be listed under Additional Shop Details.
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The Chick-fil-A birthday freebie is actually dependent on how much you've spent at the restaurant during the previous year. The free food you see above is the intro-level freebie that everybody gets, regardless of spending.
The base freebies offer might rotate randomly between a cookie, medium waffle fries, and small ice cream cone. I'm honestly not certain, so if you get something different than listed above, share the news in the comments.
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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!
You might find some of the key links on the right helpful as well. They're some of our most popular freebie series along with some helpful guides on how to easily and quickly have tons of freebies and samples sent your way without paying a dime! And you might even laugh (...okay, chuckle) a few times along the way!