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This blog is 99% humor with a dash of 1% serious. Go ahead, sit back, relax and enjoy the funnier side of everyday life. Whatever you do, DON'T forget to read the older posts. Each one is an animal all of it's own, REALLY! ***********ALSO... In each "FRUGAL FIX" post I give out awesome coupon codes and freebies. WEEEEE!! Stay tuned to consume!

Saturday

FREE Soooo Sweet! Stevia Sweetener

Soooo Sweet The Best Tasting All Natural Stevia by the makers of Solo Slim Advanced


I am very excited about this free sample!  I use stevia all the time and have never tasted a brand that was not a little bitter.  BUT this brand claims to have NO bitter aftertaste - I'm all over that!!  Plus, it's organic!!!  If you want to give it a try, while supplies last, here is the link.

Friday

FREE John Frieda Root Awakening

John Frieda Root Awakening Shampoo - Strength Restoring

Get your free sample of a Root Awakening product by John Frieda.  You know what they say, "It's your wake-up call for tired, weak hair"... I guess we better answer it while supplies last HERE!
John Frieda Root Awakening Nourishing Moisture Conditioner for Dry Hair 11 Fl Oz (325 mL)

Thursday

FREE Breathe Right sample

Breathe Right Advanced Nasal Strips, 26-Count


Do you snore?  Are you sure?  Hmmm, I guess you wouldn't know anyway... you better ask the person you sleep with!  Either way, grab your free sample of Breathe Right Advanced for yourself, your bed partner or that occasional annoying guest.   Here is the link!

Wednesday

FREE Arm & Hammer Toothpaste

Arm & Hammer Advanced White Toothpaste, Dental Baking Soda & Peroxide, 4.3-Ounce Tubes, Packaging May Vary, (Pack of 6)


You can look like a million bucks but it will all be for naught if your breath is bad.  One breath and you'll scare off man, woman, child and wild animal.  So get a free sample of Arm & Hammer® Advanced White Toothpaste and make sure that doesn't happen.  Here is your fresh breath link!

Tuesday

FREE Chili's Kid's Meals TODAY ONLY!

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Hey gang, Chili's is serving up free food again!  Yippee!!!  You will need to print the coupon and take it with you to Chili's in order to get your free kid(s) meal(s).  Enjoy!

Monday

FREE o.b. Trial Pack

Free o.b. Trial Pack





Here's another one!!!!  Free o.b. Trial Pack.  By now, Ladies, I think you know you can count on me.  Yippee Yi Yay, we'll have every brand known to woman in our poky of free pads and tampons before I'm all done!!  Here's the link...
o.b. Trial Pack


By the way, I found these little gems below on Amazon.com and thought they were hilarious!  They aren't free but every woman needs these little suckers!


Saturday

FREE Lacoste Fragrance

  
Touch Of Pink By Lacoste For Women. Eau De Toilette Spray 3 Ounces
Free Lacoste Fragrance!!  Here's the link... LACOSTE.  I love the Lacoste label so this was a real treat for ME but I hope you all enjoy it as well!
JOY OF PINK by Lacoste for WOMEN: EDT SPRAY 3 OZ

Wednesday

FREE U by Kotex

Free U by Kotex Sample




Hey, what did I say Ladies?!  That's right, I'm working for you! 
I love U by Kotex - no joke.  In fact my very first post on this blog was about U by Kotex.  It was called Kudos Kotex.  That link really does take you to my post, not to the dark side, so it's safe to click on!
U by Kotex is offering a free sample of their pads and tampons plus a money saving coupon, here's the link...
http://www.ubykotex.com/samples/overview

Monday

Kids Eat FREE ( today only) at CHILI'S


Just thought you all would like to know this is going on today!

FREE Lactaid Supplement

Free Lactaid Fast Act Dietary Supplements Sample



Get your free sample of Lactaid while supplies last at the following link...
https://www.lactaid.com/freesamplesoffer/Dietary+Supplements
After you fill out the form for your sample you can also get coupons for a few of their products.

Sunday

FREE Chili's Chips and Queso

Chili's®



You can get free chips and queso from Chili's when you sign up for their email club. The great thing is, you can print off the voucher as soon as you join so you don't have to wait! Plus you'll get a couple other freebies throughout the year as well. Eating for free is fun!!


Here's the link:  http://assets.fbmta.com/clt/chlscrp/lp/join/join.asp

Saturday

FREE Gold Bond Deep Moisture Body Wash

Gold Bond Ultimate Healing Body WashGold Bond Ultimate Sensitive Skin Body Wash
Get your free sample of Gold Bond Ultimate Deep Moisture Body Wash  HERE.  It is via the WalMart site.  After clicking the link, wait for the page to load and there will be a "Get Your Sample" button to click which is located right in front of the woman washing herself.  Keep in mind these samples go quick! 
They are offering a coupon to print as well.

Friday

FREE Arby's Curly Fries - Today ONLY!

Free Arby's Curly Fries


TODAY ONLY!  When you go to Arby's Facebook page and "Like" them, you can instantly print off a coupon for free curly fries.  Hurry up it's almost lunch time!!!!

FREE Flix Dental Sticks

Free Sample of FLIX Dental Sticks 


Who hasn't wished they had a Flix stick on them a time or two?  Like when you enjoyed that bag of popcorn and ended up with a kernel husk jammed firmly between your tooth and gum.   Or how about  the time you finished a snack of mixed nuts only to realize you had more nut particles stuck between your teeth than an Autumn squirrel getting ready for Winter.
You know the drill... here's the link to clean teeth nirvana (in other words, your FREE sample) 

FREE Reusable Target Bag


On April 17, 2011, head to Target for a FREE Reusable Bag.  Target will be giving a bag to the first one million guests. Limit one per guest. Last year, most stores ran out within a few hours. So get yours while
supplies last.

Thursday

FREE eos Hand Lotion

EOS eos cucumber hand lotion purse pack - 1.5oz


eos is giving away 5,000 hand lotion samples every Monday through May 2nd for a total of 20,000, so if you don't receive one today you will automatically be entered into next week's giveaway.  You will first need to "Like" eos on Facebook and it'll guide you through the rest.  Here's the link to the eos Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/eos?sk=app_192409920782694

FREE Fiber Choice

Free Fiber Choice Sample



Ever feel like there's just a little somethin' somethin' missing from your diet?  Well, this just might be it.  Hey you never know.  Free Fiber Choice while supplies last (they are offering a printable coupon as well on the same link) https://www.fiberchoice.com/fcsample.promo?sessioncheck=true

Wednesday

Ice Cold Coca Cola

     When I think back over the days that have flowed past since I first started forming memories, there are certain times that just pop into the front line of my mental vision.  Times when I felt especially happy or times that I felt completely content.  For me a lot of those moments were made special because of family and mealtimes.  That combination is usually a perfect recipe for enjoyment and for making fond memories.  One of the things that was ever present during these moments of mine was Coca Cola.  Coca Cola, alone, has the power to generate the warm 'n' fuzzy.  A lot of you have seen the Coca Cola commercials at Christmas time, right?  I mean, those commercials make the most skeptical man, woman and child believe in Santa!  Yes, I think you know where I'm coming from.  So with that said, let me share with you a memory that always puts a smile on my face. 
    
     My dad, who has always been a "MASTER GRILLER", loved to grill on the weekends.  He always mixed his own barbecue sauce.  It was a special secret barbecue sauce recipe that he invented himself and it included Coca Cola.  I can still see him now.  He would start out with just a normal "hum drum" bottle of store bought barbecue sauce, dump it in a bowl and start his process.  A little bit of this and a little bit of that, a little more of this and a little more of that.  Mix, taste, mix, taste.  Finally it would be ready for the final crowning ingredient.  You could almost feel his giddiness as he got the bottle opener out (back then the soda pop came in glass bottles that had real bottle caps on them that you had to open with a bottle opener - they weren't twist off).  It was like watching Willy Wonka in his chocolate factory!  He would pop the cap off the bottle of Coca Cola and gingerly pour it in the sauce mixture.  After mixing it in, he would taste it one last time and always exclaim, "Perfect!"  To this day Dad's barbecue sauce is the best I have ever tasted. 
    
     Finally, Dad would proceed to the grill and faithfully baste each piece of chicken over and over again until it was grilled and ready to eat.  When I was a kid we were only allowed to drink pop on occasion.  Dad's weekend grilling was one of those occasions.  So it would be with huge anticipation that we would sit down for the meal as a family.  As we ate and drank ice cold coke, we would talk about the ups or downs, or both, of the day.  There were six of us total at the table.  With four of us being kids, sometimes there was a little jockeying for position to be heard above the other to be sure but it was a great time!
    
     You can see now why Coca Cola is a little sweet spot for me.  Someone once said, or maybe I read it on a train stop wall, that it's the little things that add up to one big ball of wonderful!  In the long run each detail weaves together to make for very fond memories of when I was a kid.  And some of the same details, including drinking ice cold Coke and eating Grandpa's secret recipe BBQ, are now making new sweet memories for my own children.           





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FREE Miracle Whip

Free Sample of Miracle Whip


Whether you like to use Miracle Whip in your handed down secret chicken salad family recipe, spread it on your roast beef sandwich or smear it in your hair for a heavy duty moisture treatment, you can snag a couple packets for free here...
http://www.startsampling.com/sm/mw101655/captureAddress.iphtml?item=101655&source=ba%2DYouTube&ss_id=&key=753840185261ae1e0cf1e9f29629e9d1
Keep in mind, as with all free offers, it goes fast!

FREE Playtex Sport Tampons

Free Playtex Sport



ANOTHER free sample for that dreaded time of the month (don't forget the other FREE Always Pads offer I posted below).  Hey, I'm looking out for you ladies!  Before I'm all done, we'll have a pretty impressive stock pile of free pads and tampons WOOWOOO!!!!
SAMPLE INCLUDES: 2 regular unscented, 1 super unscented, and a coupon for $1.00 off!  Your sample will arrive in 4 to 6 weeks.  Samples available while supplies last  http://playtexsport.com/Demand-It.aspx

Tuesday

FREE Purex Complete with Zout

Purex Complete with Zout


As much as I hate doing laundry I still recognize the fact that it still MUST be done.  Plus the longer I leave it, it's like mold spores, it grows to epic proportions.  And then I have to deal with silly little comments from the family like, "Honey, this is the 17th day I've worn these socks." OR "After our shower do we have to dry off with paper towel again, or did you do a load of towels?"   So to the laundry grind stone I return. 
You have your choice of getting a free sample of Purex Complete with Zout OR cutting to the chase and printing a $1.00 off coupon from this link here>> http://www.freesamplepurex.com/freesample/  Good luck with your own mountain of laundry.

Monday

FREE Always Pads & Tampons


Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't need these???  But since we do, we might as well take advantage of getting some of the goods for free.  It may not curb the cramps but it always (no pun intended) makes us feel good to get something we actually HAVE to HAVE for FREE! 
The free sample kit includes 3 Tampax Pearl Tampons (1 Regular, 1 Light, 1 Compak Light), 2 Always Ultra Thin Pads (1 Regular, 1 Long/Super) & 2 Always Thin Liners. 
Just follow this link:
https://www.beinggirl.com/en_US/sampling_teen.jsp?sourcetype=ygirl&source=BeinggirlHAHP

Sunday

Free Aveda Pure-Formance Aftershave

Free Sephora Mascara





Aveda is offering a sample of their Pure-Formance Men's Aftershave.  Get the printable certificate for your free sample here: http://www.avedathanksman.com/ 
If the ladies out there are anything like me, they believe snuggling up to their man with a freshly shaven face rivals even the other most wonderful thing on earth... eating homemade bread straight out of the oven with a fresh stick of butter.

FREE Emergen-C Fizzy Vitamin C Drink

Emergen-C Feel The Good



My whole family loves this stuff, including my very particular children!!  It's a yummy way to fit a few more vitamins and minerals into your undernourished daily routine. 
Here's the link to click for your free samples:
http://www.emergenc.com/free-samples

Saturday

FREE Quaker Oatmeal Squares

Quaker Oatmeal Squares



Quaker Oats is offering free Oatmeal Squares cereal.  When you fill out the form for your own free sample you can also send the offer to up to 10 of your friends as well. 
Now you don't have to think about what you're going to make for breakfast at least for one morning.  OR you can plan to snarf your free sample right out of the mailbox when it comes, that's MY plan - why take chances of it going stale?!

FREE COFFEE with Frugal Fix

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Right now Taster's Choice coffee is offering free samples of their 6 varieties of coffee.  Just click on this link http://smartchoice.tasterschoice.com/#/Try_It_On_Us/ and fill out the info and the free samples are yours.  The way I look at it, a person can never be too awake during the day.  And then to top it all off, to get a few cups of Joe for free is like finding NOT a penny BUT a QUARTER caught in the crack of a sidewalk!!!!!

Friday

GROUPON with Frugal Fix

Groupon

Here is one of my all time favorite money saving sites that I buy from often...  Groupon.com.    Groupon.com offers vouchers for local businesses in your area at DEEP discounts - as in 50%, 75% and I have even bought vouchers for 80% off!!!!!!!  It makes going out to eat as a family reasonable again and actually FUN.  No longer do you have to order just one steak burger and split it six ways just to afford a night out with the family.  No longer do you have to pretend the rest of the family isn't sharing the one Coke that you ordered, even though their ice water is still full at the end of the meal and you just so happen to be on your 11th free refill. 
Each deal is offered for just one day and one day only so you can't dilly dally.  Groupon.com doesn't just deal with restaurants but other businesses as well.  Popular clothing stores such as GAP has been featured in the past (50% off).  Also, such things as cooking classes, spas, photography, pottery classes, you name it, it has probably been offered on  Groupon.com.  In fact, today's offer, in my area, is a $23 oil change, tire rotation and break inspection package (that's a 54% savings). 
And if you think your city, state, or even country isn't participating, THINK AGAIN!  All you have to do is type in your zip code on Groupon.com or search for your country and BANG! you can view the deals in your area.  Don't forget, if your planning a vacation, to search for the deals in the area where you will be vacationing - you'll save a bundle!!