The frugal tribe has spoken. According to the results of yesterday’s poll, asking if you were interested in a new feature called “Free Stuff Friday,” an overwhelming 93% of you would like to see regular posts on freebies. I mean, freebies and frugal go hand in hand, right?
That said (drum roll, please)…
Welcome to the debut edition of Free Stuff Friday, which will be your guide to freebies and giveaways going on in the next 7 days. As long as I can continue to track down information on free stuff, I’ll continue to keep these posts coming on Fridays. Enjoy.
Free Food
- Carvel is offering guests a free Iceberg, Carvel’s newest blended treat, on April 30 from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. at its 500 locations nationwide. (Visit Carvel’s website to find a location near to you.) This freebie is part of the chain’s 75th anniversary celebration. In case you don’t know, an Iceberg blends Carvel’s soft-serve vanilla ice cream with Fanta Orange, Barq’s Root Beet or Coke-a-cola and ice. It’s the Carvel interpretation of the ice cream float.
- Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC is getting on the healthy food bandwagon with the introduction of its Kentucky Grilled Chicken (does that make it KGC?). This Monday, April 27th, you can received a free piece of Kentucky Grilled Chicken when you visit a KFC location. I’d call that finger-licking good!
- Did you know there’s such a thing as National Pretzel Day? It’s this Sunday, April 26th. In celebration of that yummy day, Pretzelmaker is giving customers a free soft pretzel. (Use the store locator page on the Pretzelmaker website to find a location near you.) Thanks to Cities on the Cheap for the heads up about this freebie.
- El Pollo Loco, a Mexican restaurant with 413 locations, is pretty much giving away an entire meal on Tuesday, April 28th. If you visit El Pollo Loco (that’s crazy chicken in Spanish) and ask, you’ll get two free pieces of chicken, plus tortillas and salsa. (There are El Pollo Loco restaurants in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.)
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Hi Leah, I love the Free Stuff Friday concept – great job! This week’s list was so great that I passed it on to my co-workers. Keep up the good work!
Carrie, thanks so much for your enthusiastic response and for sharing the post with your co-workers.
Leah
You are a goldmine of freebies! Gave you a big shout-out just now on misspinkslip.com!
Thanks! I’m already working on next Friday’s lineup.
This is great, I’m sending it on to my family. I can’t wait to get some free chicken.
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Great blog. Thanks for the tips.
I love the Freebie Friday stuff! I went and got my husband some free lunch meals since he’s a teacher and he had great free meals for a few days! I’m looking forward to this next Friday already! I was also just wondering, how do you find out about these things? I’ve been trying to google stuff to find out info on other places, but no such luck!? How do you do it? Just wondering because I had some friends tell me about another freebie today that you didn’t have listed. Thanks!
I’ve been finding out about items to include in Free Stuff Fridays through references, Google Alerts, networking with PR people that represent the brands and the like. Now don’t you go stealing my idea!
Just thought I’d mention a freebie coming up this Saturday, May 2nd. Red Mango is offering a free frozen yogurt with one topping, to celebrate the release of a new flavor.
Also thought I would mention the Hallmark.com is giving away free mother’s day cards (1 per customer) with the promo codes card4mom or freecard.
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