Mail Call

Wednesday's Mail Freebies:
-7X7 San Francisco mag
-Carefree bag to hold liners
-a Luvs diaper w/ coupon
-Head & Shoulders shampoo/conditioner samples
-Charmin wipes

Thursday's Mail Freebies:
-Rohto redness relief eye drops
-MotorTrend mag

Also today I went to Walgreens and got some hair clips that are free with rebate plus I had $1 coupon so they will pay me in the end... hehehe...

Free Movie!

This morning I took the boys to a free movie. Its called the Family Film Festival or something like that... every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday @ 10 they show an older film for free! We saw Horton Hear a Who which was really cute. I was using this as a test for Mark to see how he would do at the movies and he did very well. I took the candy I got for free yesterday so he had that to munch on and kept him busy :) I also took them to the free lunch, but I think they were still full from the candy cause they brought most of it home for later.

In the mail I got free Kotex - 2 overnight pads, and one liner. I also got a special discount card for work to use in August. We get an extra 10% off Target brand, and all clothes, shoes, accessory's... yeah!

Extra Care Bucks

The boys had free breakfast this morning then we headed to the library. We went back for lunch, but the place was PACKED! They had run out of lunches and poor Mark was devastated, crying for milk. Poor baby.

So we went to CVS instead. I bought push pins for .99 cents - got .99 cents in 'Extra Care Bucks'.
A toothbrush that was $2.88 with $2 back in ECB and a .75cent coupon, finally, Herbal Essence hair spray that was $2.99 with $1 back in ECB and I had a coupon for buy one get one free so I got 2 hairsprays. All this came to about $5 after tax and I got $3.99 in ECB's.

We went straight to the candy aisle to get goodies for the movies tomorrow. We got three packages that totaled $2.99 but it was free thanks to the ECB's and I still have $1 left :)

In the mail I got a cute little bottle of Natures Source Scrubbing Bubbles All-Purpose cleaner, a thermometer, and a coupon for a free box of Rice Krispies

Today

I went to Blockbuster to redeem my free movie coupons. I decided on two movies for the kids: Marley & Me and Wall-e. There were two movies I would've liked for myself (The Dark Knight & The Departed) but I figured if I got those I couldn't watch them when the kids were awake so I would rarely watch them...

Then I went to Walgreen's and bought a 2 pack of my favorite pens that was on sale for a dollar, then they gave me a dollar in 'register rewards' so it was 'like' getting it for free. I guess.

The only freebie in the mail today was a Maxim mag - but it had a coupon for free Axe shampoo or conditioner in it! I also got an invite to a luncheon for bone marrow donors @ Neptune's Palace in SF... not sure if I will go yet.

I Scream, You Scream...

I went to the store today and got my free pint of Starbucks ice cream. I cant figure out why anyone would pay $4.50 for two bites of ice cream, but whatever, it was free to me!

Fed Ex dropped off my free quart of paint this morning!!! I cant wait to test it out tomorrow. It must have cost the company a small fortune to ship all those free quarts via Fed Ex.

In the mail I got a rebate check from Rite Aid and two coupons for previously viewed movies @ Blockbuster (from doing surveys).

I also got a $15 Amazon GC (via email) for doing a survey and I used it to pre-order the Cake Wrecks book. It doesn't come out till fall so I have to wait a while, but it should be good!

So far this week...

has been pretty lame in the freebie department. Mail has been mostly junk... I think we got a few free mags, some tampons, a pen and that's all I remember :) Wednesday we went to the zoo, which was mostly free thanks to the membership we received as a gift. All we paid for was the $3 to get into the park and the gas. The boys had free breakfast today, but we had missed it the last couple of days. Here's hoping for a good mail day today!

Update: Not too shabby of a mail day! I got a full roll of Scott toilet paper with a sample pack of wipes and a coupon for a free pint of Starbucks ice cream - yum! Also got a free mag too.

Monday

Normally Mondays tend to be good mail days... all I got today was junk. There was a free Lego magazine and free 'Cars' decals for the boys. The Cars stickers were really quite nice - 4 pages of BIG decals. The boys also got their free lunch. I did use $3.50 worth of 'Extra Care Bucks' @ CVS to help buy cough syrup. Didn't make it free though!

Sunday I got a free poster after the Counting Crows concert. I paid $40 for the ticket so it doesn't seem all that exciting :)

Blah end to the week...

I swear something is up with the mail. This has been the worst mail week in long time. Today the only sample was a granola bar. And there were no other freebies today either... I got some deals at Target but that's it. Hopefully next week will be better.

Good breakfast freebie

A few weeks back they gave us a coupon at work for Marie Calendars. It wasn't completely free, but if you bought a beverage you got a free breakfast entree. So since Jesse had a doctors appointment this morning out that way went there first. I ordered a coffee and got the country fried steak meal for free! It was so much food the 3 of us couldn't finish it! There was eggs and hash browns and two huge pancakes! So anyways not completely free, but one heck of a deal.

The boys also went to free lunch and the mail sucked - all junk. I'm thinking the mailman is taking my samples cause this week has sucked mail-wise.

The Last two days...

Tuesday morning the boys had their free breakfast. For lunch we headed to Long John Silvers to get our free fish tacos. Apparently, only stand alone LJS's had fish tacos. All the combo restaurants were offering free Taco Bell tacos instead. So we had 3 reg tacos... still free still good! The boys had the free lunches too...

For dinner we went to Wienerschnitzel (they were offering either free chili dogs or free cones). Chris got a chili dog, the rest of us had cones! Yum!

The mail wasn't great that day.


Today we went to the lake and all we paid for was gas and $5 to get into the day use area. Cheap thrill for a lovely day :) In the mail I got 2 free mags: Seventeen and Prevention... so far its been a slow mail week.

Morning of Freebies

A few weeks ago I read an article in the paper about the summer free lunch program. Basically its just an extension of the free lunch program in the schools, but it is open to anyone 18 and under and they give the lunches away at schools, parks and churches. I had heard of this program before and thought about checking it out but never did. This article, however, mentioned they had low turnout for the free lunches and were in danger of losing the federal funding. So I figure its my civic duty to take my kids down to park and check it out :) It doesn't look like great food ( we are talking 'school lunches' here ) but the boys seem to like it so we have been going to lunch and now breakfast too for a couple of weeks...

So anyways, that leads into the free morning outing we had:

Free breakfast for the boys @ the park (cereal, milk, apple juice)
Free sample of McDonald's Iced Mocha ( which wasn't iced - it was luke warm, yum)
Free sausage muffin and free cheeseburger from Burger King (instant wins from contest)
Free books from library

and then back to the park for
Free lunch (sandwich, milk, crackers, fruit, and veggie)


In the mail I got two free magazines: Family Fun and Parents, a Carefree liner, and a test strip to see if you have hard water.

My mom got the free quart of paint I had sent to her house... still haven't gotten mine :(