Completely Free Hershey Park Tickets!

My husband one-upped me this morning. While I am going through back flips trying to secure four free passes to Hershey park at Giant for the least amount possible, he looks at me and says...


You own a Pontiac, so we can free.

Just follow the link and make sure you have your VIN number handy if you own a Chevy, Pontiac, of GM vehicle.

Looks like we will be going twice this year.

Deal of the Week.

Our local Chick-Fil-A is offering free dinner Thursday night, August 26th for everyone in the family!

They are also offering free breakfast every day till the end of August...This morning we got four chicken biscuits for free!

We also found just the right blue in the mistint section of the local Walmart for 8 dollars a gallon, for our bedroom ceiling, and one of the bathrooms. Counting down, nine days to the big move, and six to the big yard sale that will hopefully offset the growing cost of the move!

Swagbucks Troubles

I have come to a difficult time in my swagbucks conquest. I've gotten four amazon gift cards and several other trinkets in my swagbucking, with relatively little work and follow up. I had to follow up once, but my credits were rewarded promptly as soon as I filled out the customer service complaint form.

Then, I had a particularly good day yesterday and today, completing five free offers and a survey, for what should have been a total of over 600 hundred swagbucks, which equals about 6.00 in prizes.

Nothing.

I duly filled out the complaint. Two of the offers simply required you to view a page... I did that, and then, customer service requested a confirmation email. The fact that the status said "viewed" should have been enough, but no, they want confirmation. I know, every website sends out a confirmation to your email every time you click a page, right? Expect yours from me in 5...4...3...

I argued this. Of course. I received word that I would hear from a customer service agent in three business days.

Another offer I went straight to the company that made the offer, to find that SuperRewards had misquoted their offer, and I should have my swagbucks already. I forwarded this to SuperRewards... to hear that I would hear from them in... three business days.

A final offer was particurly trying... you had to take a quiz, and then dodge seemingly endless offers and requests for your cell phone number while staying on till the end to get your score... which I did, and.... nothing. I emailed customer service with my score... and you guessed it! They want a confirmation email! I responded that the company doesn't send emails with your score... well, let's just say they'll get back to me in...
any guesses?

I have every intention of following through with this. It's ridiculous to think that I wasted my time filling out these offers to not receive my prize. A host of complaints is visible on the Swagbucks Facebook page, but an email directly to swagbucks simply referred me back to SuperRewards.

So frustrating.

Update: all but two items have been awarded. I did at one point threaten to call both the better business bureau and the PA attorney general, but eventually they saw to reason.

Samples worth mentioning...

     Everyone knows how I love samples... little packages of frugal goodness that make me happy and stretch my budget just a little further than it already is. I spend a couple of minutes every day scoping out all the latest freebies, and have gotten more than my share of free lunches and mini bottles of shampoo suitable for travel. Everyone once in a while, I'll get a company's offering and think it wasn't worth the postage they paid for it. Brawny sent me *A* paper towel. One towel, folded neatly in a package with a coupon. That one towel wasn't enough to convince me to buy anything. I did buy the product, one time on sale with the coupon, and at the end of the day, even a whole roll of them wasn't enough to convince me that they are anything but over priced. It was waste of their, and infinitely worse, my time.

    Now today's sample of taster's choice coffee was an absolute gift. (See photo, above.) Six little packages of instant coffee in different flavors, including a decaf.

   Well, we've been having a rough kind of day at Casa De Angels, and a little cup of coffee sounded, well, truly fabulous. And here's the kicker... it WAS truly fabulous! What a happy thing! In a world where instant coffee has the bitter metallic quality of a mouth full of seaweed, this was an absolute delight. I was shocked.

   Compared with the Starbucks VIA I received a sample of last month (one single serving envelope), it was absolute heaven. The VIA has that pretentious bitterness that I've come to expect from Starbucks products.

Evidently price doesn't account for quality. Or taste.

I'm offering my first giveaway!

It's time to establish some followers. I've been going at this thing for a couple of weeks, and I have, well, four. I want more. Everyone knows the best way to accomplish this is to offer something for free...

I'm not exactly going after Ellen's dream of world domination, but I have a goal in mind, and let's just say it has more than one digit.

I'm offering a Soap and Glory bath set for this giveaway. It contains their mist you madly flirty floral body spray, and their clean girls body wash.

To Enter, you must:
Click the follow button to the right of the screen,
And leave a comment below with your name.

Winner will be announced here on 6/30.
Tell a friend!
Inessa wone this giveaway, pending response

Swagbucks- my latest and greatest addiction.

If you're looking to save money and get free stuff, and you are skipping out on the swagbucks, you are truly missing out.

Look to the right of you- see the swidget? Click sign up. Complete the registration.
Begin the madness.

I've been "swaggering" for a little over a week, and have already earned enough for two father's day cards, a coupon book, and a five dollar amazon gift card.

An amazon gift card...hmmmmmm, that gives me an idea. A new and secondary challenge for your humble blogger. What if I could pay for Christmas with Swagbucks? Can it be done? My Christmas budget eeks over $700 every year. To be fair, I have purchased several gifts already...(does seven hundred dollars crawl out of YOUR budget in one month? I don't think so.)

I have to admit, the searches are a gateway drug. I've taken surveys, I've completed offers, and I've searched for codes. It's all found money.

Think I can do it? I do! 4 dollars down, 696 to go.

Busy, Busy, Busy!

This week I've decided to take my decision to make money off this move seriously. I've posted on ebay, and craigslist, and have more to put up. The yard sale is tentatively scheduled for the end of July, and I can say, I just can't wait. I'm seriously considering having a pre- Yard sale, so we can cart less across town to a better location.

Mail call this week was phenominal, I got two father's day cards just in time with my swagbucks, samples of pantene for curly hair, dove, and aveeno shampoo and conditioner, a Shrek poster evidently Mr. Lovinangels won in my name, a sample of crackerfuls, my free collage from snapfish, along with my 50 free prints and free 8X10, and have finished testing about half of my free sunscreen.(Which is a really great product by the way)

Today I'm ordering a free snikkekidy kids pack, here. I find most of my freebies, here.

Well, wish me high ebay auctions, I'm off to sell more stuff! Moving balance is currently -140 dollars!

ah, the perils (and perks!!!) of blogging!

So...my email account got hacked this week. I'm sure it was the result of my forages into the world of "free stuff". Think about it, FREEEE STUFFFFF! Every shampoo sample saves me real money. Each little tube of lotion is one more dose I don't have to buy. I faithfully fill out the surveys they send me, of course, because I want them to continue to send me that FREEEEE STUFFFFF. Love it.

So, this week I learned about posting negativity online, without back up or proof. I had signed up for a four week review of neutragena sunscreen here and authorized use of my email to share. The next day, my dear father asks me what he should do with the five dozen viagra he ordered from the site I sent him. His wasn't the worst. Throughout the day, many of my male friends assured me that they didn't have a problem that required said drug, and a couple insuated that they'd prove it. It's all in good fun.

Ugh. No more email sharing.

Well, Matt from Tidal Labs was nice enough to email me and let me know the spammage wasn't them. *hangs head. That's what I get for ASS-uming. I still can't wait to review my sunscreen sample!

I also learned NOT to give my email address out to perfect strangers promising coupons. I did this on the site www.retailmenot.com. Someone posted that they would send you a link to a site that would give you two free boxes of a certain coffee for a certain maker I received for a certain holiday. After I read the offer he sent me, I realized it wouldn't work for me, so I just responded "thankyou" and moved on with my life. Evidently he didn't.

I received four emails from this individual. FOUR. The last one after he called the company AND RECEIVED INFORMATION ABOUT MY ACCOUNT from them. This is creeping me out beyond belief. I will post more information gladly, once the company responds to my email. WAAAAAYYYYYY TOO CREEPY.

So, my lessons learned this week may not be monetary in value, but they are treasured nonetheless.

Tomorrow we resume packing after box pick-up. For now, free stuff a-hunting and off to work I go!