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The link to the free sample is here

From their website:

• Nasal congestion relief due to the common cold or allergies
• Better breathing for people with a deviated septum
• Snoring relief to sleep better

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If you’re looking for a way to spice up your love life a little, not because you need to but just becuase it’s more fun like that,  then you might want to sign up for a free sample of Play Time lubricant from the makers of Durex condoms.

Sign up for your free sample HERE

From their website:

Play is a new line of fun, sexy, exciting lubricants, for partners that will enhance the dance of romance. These aren’t some medical ointments or clinical creams. Ohhh no. Play is for fun. Hey, why do you think we named it Play?

Remember our tips from previous freebies – DON’T USE YOUR PRIMARY EMAIL ADDRESS!! If you haven’t done so then make an account only for receiving and signing up for free samples.

Although we have extremely good success in receiving the free samples and offers we post here there is just sooo much spam that comes to that email address it’s uncanny.

Because it’s one of the most popular things that Frugal Daters want, we went out looking and found more free condoms samples for you to sign up and receive.  These samples always go fast (and supplies are always limited) though so you might want to click on the link and fill out your info. No post office boxes are allowed for this one either, so you have to put in yours (or someone else’s) physical address .

Envy is trying to get their name out there on the love glove marketplace and to do that they’re offering to send you a free sample and let you take a test drive. Simply click on the link HERE fill out your information and then wait the normal 4-6 weeks. We’ll have to see what they’re all about.

One of my ex-coworkers used to tell me about how they swore by Tylonal PM to get to sleep at night. I never went that far, or never felt the need for sleeping aids, but I do know that lots of people rely on the. According to their website, Don’t Disturb Me claims to be all natural – if that matters to you.

Sometimes after a night on the town and a big meeting in the morning, you just cant seem to fall asleep though and I’ve even wished that I’ve had a little something so that I could just shut my eyes and wind up in dreamland sooner then later.

If you’ve visited us at all before then you know the drill:

The official link for the sample is HERE

Fill out the form

Hit the Submit button.

Wait about 4 – 6 weeks or so, the sample should appear in your mailbox.

A while back I had read some other cheapskate blogs and they were talking about how they were getting all these great free things just by entering in the cap codes into mycokerewards.com. I’ve been saving my rewards for about a year now, and although I don’t drink absorbent amounts of coke products (and I’m not 100% brand loyal, becuase sometimes it’s a little hard to lay down $5 for a 12 pack, after all that turns into .42 cents a can at the grocery store)

Now previously there was a lady at the previous place that I used to work that used to collect them from all the employees for her grandkids. I could see how this could work, because if you get a bag of them at one time, or on a regular basis then could could actually accumulate a decent amount of points. I had to hand them 25-40 points every other month. A handful of other people did the same thing so add that to their own personal points they could actually get something decent in a relatively short amount of time.

The other problem I’m having is just the flash heavy content of mycokerewards.com (actually it might be FLEX because of all the back end database calls) but there’s a lot of times that it will hang and spin looking up your codes and login information.

Someone on the User Interface Engineering blog described the experience like this:

This is just barely scratching the surface. If you end up actually using the flash app (I do – I drink a lot of soda) to get rewards it’s a usability hell.

The whole UI is dog slow. You will spend most of your time watching windows flip around, fade in fade out. It’s the most overanimated site I’ve ever seen.

You will be bombarded with a worthless survey every time you login.

Be careful what you click on, you made get the sound of a screaming crowd in some commercial.

You are only allowed to enter 10 codes per day. You are only told this AFTER you enter the 10th code *correctly*. There is no counter, no warning on the 9th code. Woe is the person who accumulated a huge mass of caps and codes and expects to enter them infrequently.

Someone also did make an iPhone app as well (found here ), but then again what hasn’t been made into an iPhone app yet?

On a positive side though they do offer free movie tickets with large drink, and at fifteen bucks a pop for a prime time weekend showing and add another 4 or 5 dollars for the drink, that’s alright. Some of the most obtainable rewards are Magazine Subscriptions. Maybe I’m just another insensitive man, but I’m not interested in a subscription to O magazine by Oprah.  (I have a feeling more that I’m not the target demographic that coke was looking for with that one. Reading through some of the blogs that do though the Coke Rewards program did have some users that had problems redeeming the subscription to GoodHousekeeping, but other free subscriptions seemed to work fine.

Magazine	Smart Money	WIRED	Esquire	The O mag
Points Needed	158 pts	142 pts	115 pts	275 pts

Here’s the real question that I’m pondering here: For how bad of free stuff am I ready to give away my marking information and jump on another electronic or snail mail junk list?

I recently attended a free concert fest sponsored by Virgin and while there they where giving away free MP3 ringtones of the bands that were playing, What you want to is is look on the chart below and find the song(s) you want to have sent to your cellphone, find that code and then send it as a message to 75555. Carriers that this is said to work with include AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, Alltell, Virgin Mobile, Cellular One, and Cincinati Bell. (and although there’s no mention of Metro PCS, Boost, or Cricket, I haven’t been able to find anyone with this type of service so that we could try it or not. It worked on my carrier which is one of the big 3.)

One of the important things to watch for with these ringtones is that a few minutes after you receive your free MP3 ringtone, you’ll get a text message telling you that you’ve been subscribed for a monthly service on your cellphone, look for what to text back (I think it was STOP) to cancel the service immediately, this way there’s no hidden charges on your bill come next month.

I have a favorite 4 letter word, and it’s the F word, but probably not the F word that you’re thinking of right off the bat. The word is FREE. (Although running a close second is the word DEAL, but that’s not anywhere as sexy as the word FREE).

On the other side of that coin however is the label of cheap (as in cheapskate).  So the real balancing act is in

With the winds of uncertainty still blowing around everyone is trying to save at least a little more then they were in the past.

Now if you haven’t signed up for any free samples yet, then you might be missing out on some great free giveaways – sometimes the stuff doesn’t exactly fit a single person, but if you take a little creative look at things then you can come up with some “crafty” items (and this comes from a non-crafty person)

First let’s take a look at where to find the free stuff:
We post some of the free items here on the Frugal Dater, but there’s quite a few freebies blogs out there dedicated to finding the samples and give aways.

Second, you want to set up a separate FREE email account for all the free samples that you sign up for. Why? Simply stated, when you sign up for these free samples then you’re opting in to their email lists (and the ability for those companies to sell your email to their partners. And free email addresses are everywhere, Gmail, Yahoo mail, Hotmail are the most popular.

Third is to sign up for some of the offers, and then wait. With most offers you can only sign up with one per household, so if you have a roommate then both of you might not be able to get the same offer since the mailing address would be the same. Most free items come in the mail in the time range of 4-8 weeks. (keep note of this fact as planning can be key to what plans we have for some of the freebies later).

Now what can you do with some of these things? Start to think 4-5 months down the road to the gift giving season (Sears already is after rolling out their christmas specials in July). When I saw some of the items, I though gift bags / baskets.

Here’s what I got going for one bag (for my friend the new mother)

Now I’ve already got some of my gifts in order so I’ll be able to give to more people this year.  Plus as a bonus, less of my expendable cash is tied up in gifts and so my dating budget can get expanded just a litte.

There’s some great sites (besides this one) that go out there and find all the good free stuff for you, here’s just a partial list:

High Class Living on a Middle Class Budget

Seriously Free Stuff

Free Sample Forager

And if you sign up for a few freebies per week after about 4 weeks you start sitting back and watching your mailbox start seeing the booty flowing into the mailbox.

So it’s Sunday and you might have had a weekend full of hitting the bars and are feeling like a bus just ran over you.  (Especially if you’ve taken advantage of our newly updated Happy Hour Guide). Maybe you have the luxery of just sleeping it off, but maybe you have things to do and / or have to go to work.

Well from the Free stuff for Singles dept we’ve tracked down a sample of Drinkin’ Mate Tabs.

The Process is pretty simple – CLICK HERE

Fill out the form – (they will ask a few questions to get some demographic information)

Submit and wait.

Once you get yours and use it there’s an opportunity to write a testimonial and win a $100 Walmart gift card so you might be in for that extra bonus.

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It’s friday and that means that it’s FREE choclate day. Even though they say flowers are a girl’s best friend, chocolate is a very close runner up.

Mars M&M candy company has their own “stimuls” package (doesn’t almost everyone these days, but hey you take advantage of it while they last.) Every Friday Mars is giving away 250,000 free candy bars, so whether you need that pick up at work, a sugar rush to help you on your job hunt, or a piece of candy for that someone that loves it – there’s no sweeter candy then FREE candy.

CLICK HERE to go to the special offer and get your free candy bar while they last.

We knew that just 2 free condoms wern’t going to be enough for everyone, so we went searching and found MORE.

Beyond Seven Condoms is giving away free samples to increase their brand recognition and

Here’s the Details

Click here for the FREE signup page

Fill out the short survey

Wait (they say 8-10 weeks – we’ll see)