Free Kashi Sample

kashi free sample Free Kashi SampleKashi wants you to trade in your unhealthy snack for one of their free samples during its TLC Snack Drive. You can choose from TLC Cereal Bar Ripe Strawberry, TLC Chewy Granola Bar Trail Mix or TLC Crackers Original 7 Grain. Or kibble. No wait, that’s for fat head dogs only.

Free Music to ‘Pump Up the Jam’…

levis pioneer sessions Free Music to Pump Up the Jam...Check out Levi’s Pioneer Sessions, which is offering free music downloads of classic cover songs by popular artists such as:

  • Nas covering Slick Rick’s “Hey Young World”
  • Colbie Caillat covering Blondie’s “Maria”
  • Jason Mraz covering Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky”
  • Passion Pit covering Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight”
  • John Legend with The Roots covering Ernie Hines’ “Our Generation”
  • Bomba Estera (haven’t heard of her but love this:) covering Technotronic’s “Pump Up the Jam”

So, get your booty on the floor tonight. It’ll make my day.

Free Snapfish Cards

snapfish save date Free Snapfish Cards Snapfish is offering new customers 20 FREE Save the Date cards with offer code SAVEDATE (expires 8/31). These personalized photo cards are great for weddings, party invitations and various bridal or baby showers.

How to get your FREE cards:

  • Register for a Snapfish account (you’ll also get 50 FREE prints for a new account)
  • Create your custom 4×8 or 5×7 photo card and add to your cart
  • Checkout using coupon code SAVEDATE
  • You’ll pay only for shipping.

While you’re at it, you can get free shipping on orders of $30 or more with code 30FREESHIP.

Add Mommy Cards to My List of Nerdy Things

Kodak calling card Add Mommy Cards to My List of Nerdy ThingsI’m about to reorder my free Mommy Cards from the Kodak Gallery, so figured I’d share this post again. This time, though, I finally became an “affiliate” for Kodak Gallery, so they gave me this referral link for FatHeadDog readers–50 free Mommy Contact Cards Add Mommy Cards to My List of Nerdy Things plus $3.99 for shipping.

Maybe I’m a nerd for business cards, but I’m excited to order a few different sets of these for different purposes–freelance writing, FatHeadDog stuff and Mommy cards for my kiddo’s friend’s moms. Oh, and one for my secret Wonderwoman identity. Dang it, “secret” was operative word.

Trade Frederick’s of Hollywood for Home Depot…

 Trade Fredericks of Hollywood for Home Depot... If that gift card to Frederick’s of Hollywood just isn’t your speed, try selling it for cash or Amazon.com credit. You can buy, sell and trade gift cards at PlasticJungle.com. Trade Fredericks of Hollywood for Home Depot... I’ve been following Plastic Jungle for a while and intrigued, but just haven’t pulled the trigger. A nerd for research, here’s what I’ve found:

The Rundown:

  • Sell gift cards for up to 85% of the cash value.
  • Example: Sell a Home Depot $50 gift card for $42 cash or $44.10 Amazon.com gift card
  • Buy gift cards for up to 25% off the face value.
  • Example: Purchase a Frederick’s of Hollywood $50 gift card for $39

It’s a great idea when you get stuck with a retail gift card that you know you’ll never use. The site offers a guarantee for both gift card buyers and sellers in the event the gift card is invalid or the balance is less than what was advertised.

I’m gonna give it a shot with a Jiffy Lube gift card I have (yeah, Jiffy Lube) and trade for an Amazon.com gift card, so I’ll report the results. Any one else have experience with Plastic Jungle or similar sites? Leave a comment here on FatHeadDog.

Free Shutterfly Cards

shutterfly Free Shutterfly CardsFor fellow thank you note slackers, you might score 12 FREE photo, stationery, or folded greeting cards when you use coupon code PICKONE.

Plus, if you haven’t already ordered your 3 FREE folded greeting cards with coupon code SUMMERCARDS, you can order an additional 3 FREE cards (expires Sept. 1).

Here’s how it works:

  • Register with Shutterfly (or log-in to your existing account) – new customers get 50 FREE 4×6 prints
  • Go to My Account and scroll down to Enter Special Code Offer
  • Enter PICKONE to see if your account is eligible for 12 free cards. If not, enter SUMMERCARDS for 3 three cards.
  • Select 12 cards – view all eligible items in the “Cards & Stationery” category.
  • Shipping for the cards ranges from $2.49 to $5.99.
  • Enjoy!

Now, on to my thank you notes. “Dear Liam, thank you for the Yo Gabba Gabba magnets and MagnaDoodle…”

Snag a CVS gift card with Pampers codes

gifts to grow Snag a CVS gift card with Pampers codesThis one will probably go quick. On Pampers Gifts to Grow, you can snag a $20 gift card to CVS for 2,200 points (Edit 8/25: gift cards are gone now.) I know that’s like 10,000 million diapers worth of points, but that’s one of the best rewards I’ve seen on there to date. If you’re new to the program, here’s a quick guide.

How to Earn Points:

  • Generic codes are released occasionally for public consumption, often around holidays.
  • One-time codes are found on Pampers products, for which points correspond with the size of the product purchased. A Jumbo pack offers less points than a larger, Mega pack, for example. And the giant 277-diaper box that showed up at my door from Amazon.com–the one that was bigger than my child–that one is worth a few more points.

Review: Swagbucks

SwagBucks23 BTS Review: SwagbucksUntil now, FatHeadDog has been on the fence about the search and win site Swagbucks. I never seemed to “win” any points on searches, never entered the bonus “Swag Codes” in time and generally just failed at returning the investment of my time.

But now that I’ve gotten the hang of Swagbucks and figured out my best strategy for winning, I’m a big fan and tickled with the dozens of free Amazon.com gift cards I’ve scored from the site.

First off, here’s the premise of the site. You earn “Swagbucks” for searches performed on their site (as opposed to searching on Google). Points range from 7 to 50 “bucks” earned. You can redeem these points for thousands of prizes, but the best value, by far, is the $5 Amazon.com gift card for 450 bucks.

Here are a few pointers for winning:

Search Early, Search Often

1. Perform your searches approximately three to four times a day, several hours apart. I search first thing in the morning, after lunch, late afternoon and in the evening.

Once You Win, Walk Away

2. Once you win bucks from a search, its fairly unlikely you’ll hit it again, so you can save your next search for a few hours later.

Search Deep, Not Shallow

3. When searching, try related terms to the original you searched, and click through all the pages of results. Also, you can try searching photos or videos for the same term. To me at least, it seems searching “deep” wins better results than searching “shallow” with dozens of unrelated terms (which, by the way, can penalize you if Swagbucks thinks you’re not performing “natural searches”).


Win free My Coke Rewards bonus points

diet coke Win free My Coke Rewards bonus pointsIf you’ve got a stash of unentered MyCokeRewards codes, grab the 12-pack flaps and read this. And if you’re like my husband who hates–with a capital H–all the Diet Coke flaps and caps laying around the house, tell ‘em you’ll buy him a magazine subscription for his troubles.

Earn a chance to snag free bonus points when you enter MyCokeRewards codes from 12-packs of Coca-Cola products with the Million Point Giveaway.You can win 10, 50, even 1,000 bonus points daily during the promotion period now until Sept. 30.

The cool part (after I did some digging around the site) is from Sept. 21-30, you can enter the bonus game for free, without entering any MCR codes. To get the free entry, go to the bonus game page and click on Rules. Scroll down to Rule #5-b-ii and click on the link for “Click here for a free code”. The link’s not live yet so just check back on Sept. 21. Cheers!

Review: RewardsGold for free magazines

Maxim magazine Review: RewardsGold for free magazinesRewards Gold is a great website for obtaining free one-year subscriptions to magazines such as Wired, U.S. News & World Report, Town and Country, Forbes, Working Mother and more. Right now, they’re offering a 1-yr free subscription to Maxim magazine while supplies last. (By the way, I know you didn’t read any of the words above because your eyes wandered over to Jessica Simpson’s boobies. It’s ok. Go ahead and look… now back to the post.)

Recently posted: Here’s a current link (still valid as of Aug. 9) to sign up for Rewards Gold and get a free subscription to Car and Driver magazine.

Through various sample and sponsored subscription sites, you can pick up some great finds of free magazine subscriptions. How does it work? The simple answer is free “sample” equals more exposure to new audiences who may convert their sample into a paid subscription.

Pretty simple process, just fill out a few questions about yourself and interests–you can ignore the part about referring friends–and select your free subscription. For offers from Rewards Gold, its ok to give them your real email address because they don’t send many emails and the ones they do consist of more free magazine subscription offers to popular consumer magazines.

More free Emergen-C

emergenc free sample More free Emergen CAfter you’ve shared the free Emergen-C love with your Facebook friends, visit their site to pick up a free sample of Emergen-C Blue.

This special “blue” flavor (I’m not really sure what “blue” tastes like) benefits the Surfrider Foundation and its efforts to protect the oceans and aid the clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. Then, according to Emergen-C’s handy illustration here, the ocean’s fish will be clean enough to kiss. Smooches!