Free Antivirus Software & More!

I hate paying for antivirus software and spyware protection, so I did my homework and came up with several free options found online. You can read all about them here:

How to Get Free Antivirus & Anti Spyware Software Online

Now that your computer is healthy, here's some free stuff that's good for you:

Sign up to receive a coupon for a Free Attune Probiotic Bar for digestion health

For a cleaner, fresher feeling bum, try a free sample of Cottonelle Toilet Paper & Flushable Moist Wipes from Walmart

Manage your blood sugar with a Free Box of Glucerna Cereal. Call 1-877-879-4857 to request your coupon good for one box of Glucerna Cereal valued up to $5. (I found this product at my local Walmart near the Pharmacy, not in the grocery aisle.)

So stay healthy and virus free - Cheap Cindy

A Wee Bit O'Freebies

Happy St. Patricks Day! I tried to find you all a free pot of gold, but didn't have any luck. Here's some free stuff I did find:

17 Free St. Patricks Day MP3s from Celtic MP3s Music Magazine

Free George Killian's Brewmaster's Tasting Kit: Once you enter the site click on "Begin Journey", go to the Free Brewmaster's tasting Kit offer found in the lower left corner, click on "I don't have my drink kit" and use one of these codes: P3W9L4T or M9N7K3K.

Free BreadBreakthrough Recipe Book from Fleischmann's Yeast

Get ready for Easter with this Free Personalized letter From The Easter bunny

Wishing you all the luck of the Irish - Cheap Cindy



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Lucky You! Free Undies, Cream of Wheat, Oprah eBook and Language Lessons

Happy Friday 13th! Here are some free stuff offers to make you feel lucky:

Everyone needs a lucky pair of underwear, so get some Free Undies : Sign up for the aerie a-list and print your coupon for a free undie, good till 3/18, only at aerie stores

Try Cream of Wheat again FREE : Fill out the online form for your free sample. How is this lucky? Well, if you've never tried Cream of Wheat this is your chance to do it for free, if you don't like it consider yourself lucky you didn't waste money buying it.

Change the way you think and maybe you'll change your luck. Oprah is offering a Free eBook download of The Difference by Jean Chatzky: Must be an Oprah.com member - sign up is easy and free, offer expires 10:59am ET 3/14 so hurry!

Get the luck of the Irish: Rosetta Stone invites consumers to get into the St. Patrick's Day spirit and brush up on their brogue by offering a Free trial of Irish (Gaelic) on RosettaStone.com through 3/19

Haven't had any luck finding a job? Maybe adding a new skill to your resume will help. Learning a new language is a great way to boost your skills, and you can do it for free. See my articles:

Free Language Lessons Online

How to Learn Sign Language Online Free

Have a lucky weekend fellow cheapskates! - Cheap Cindy

Free Socks and Other Goodies!

Here's a few freebies and such:

Free 2-Pack of Training Socks Coupon - Bring to any Lucy Store to redeem, $14 value, Good till 03/22/09 or while supplies last

Free Quaker True Delights - Tell them your True Delight and they'll send you one of theirs

Free Sample Caress Evenly Gorgeous Exfoliating Body Wash

Restaurant.com 80% off by entering the code MENU at checkout, expires 03/15/09

And if your like me and never got any free calendars for this year, see my article How to Get Free Printable Calendars

Free Stuff For Kids

It's Spring Break time, and for parents of younger kids this can mean hearing "I'm sooooo bored, there's nothing to doooooo!" Well here's some fun free stuff to keep your kids busy.

Home Depot offers Free Kids Workshops. These offer useful projects including the creation of toolboxes, fire trucks and mail organizers, as well as more educational projects, such as a window birdhouse, bughouse or Declaration of Independence frame kit.

The workshops teach children do-it-yourself skills and tool safety, while at the same time helping to instill a sense of accomplishment. Additionally, this fun time allows for quality one-on-one time between adults and children.

In addition to the newly constructed project kit, each child receives a kid-sized orange apron, similar to The Home Depot associates' aprons, and an achievement pin. (Those little aprons are too cute!)

Lowe's stores offer their version called Build and Grow Clinics.

If you don't have these stores in your area, there is still plenty of free stuff for kids found online. For hours of coloring enjoyment, see my article with links to hundreds of Free Coloring Pages. No crayons? No problem! Many of these offer online features where you color them online and print them out when your done.

You can also find tons of Free Crafts for Kids Online, such as making puppets, greeting cards, mobiles, bookmarks and other creative projects.

There is obviously not enough time to do all these things over Spring Break, but remember, summer is just around the corner.

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More Free Stuff!

ACUVUE Brand Contacts Free Trial Pair

Restaurant.com 80% off using Promo Code DINE expires 2/28

Kashi Free Frozen Entree

Mimi's Cafe Join the E-CLUB and get a Free Breakfast

American Express cardholders: be on the lookout for a mailing with a RSVP code that entitles you to $300 for paying off your account - no, that's not a typo, but you must receive the offer and it will close your account

Random Freebies!

Here are some random freebies - enjoy!

Another freebie from Jack In The Box: 2 Free Tacos Coupon Valid only on Tuesday Feb. 24

Be prepared for Mother Nature with this free Beinggirl Sample Kit

Free sample Total Cranberry Crunch Cereal

IHOP National Pancake Day Feb. 24 Free Short Stack of Pancakes

Elle Decor Magazine Free 1 Year Subscription (These free mags really do come!)

American Baby Magazine Free Subscription

Pre-Order your Free 2009 Consumer Action Handbook

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Free Starbucks Instant Coffee Sample

Looks like Starbucks is trying to keep their foot in the door. They are now entering the instant coffee market with VIA Ready Brew.

You can get a free sample at StarbucksStore.com

What do you think of this new venture?

Download Some Free Love From Amazon

Amazon.com is spreading the love this Valentine's Day by offering a free MP3 download of Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On".

Want more? Read How to Find Free MP3 Music Downloads - legally of course.

Love, Cheap Cindy

Create a Free Luvicon

Like my Luvicon? You can create your own free Luvicon for Valentines Day, thanks to Paste Magazine's online Webicon.ME series. They also offer the popular Obamicon, which you can use to create your own version of the now famous political "Hope" poster.

Want more free fun things to do online? See my list of The Best Free Online Time Wasters .

Have fun!

Free Curly Fries At Jack In The Box

As part of the new Jack In The Box advertising ploy, er - I mean campaign, you can get Free Medium Size Seasoned Curly Fries on Tuesday Feb 10 with the coupon found here:

Hang In There Jack

Hey, free food. (Does this qualify as real food?)

My First Award!

A big fat thank you to Faith over at the That's Just Freaking Lovely! blog for giving me The Lemonade Award. This award celebrates good attitude and gratitude. (My hubby thought it was because I'm such a sour-puss. Thanks hun.)
I am passing this award along to 10 other bloggers who I think represent good attitude and gratitude, and because I enjoy reading their blogs. Check them out, you'll like 'em too. The award goes to:

1. Motor Mouth Mandi
2. Freebie Fanatics
3. The Trashy Side
4. A Common Street Peddler by Eboni
5. Homestead Recipes
6. Frugal Patti
7. Cheaply Yours
8. All Things Frugal
9. Money Saving Methods
10. I'm Not Cheap...I'm Frugal

Congratulations! Now it's time for you winners to spread the love. Here's what you do:

1. Put the lemonade logo on your blog or post.
2. Nominate 10 other bloggers who you think demonstrate good attitude and/or gratitude.
3. Link to your nominees within your post.
4. Comment on their blog to let them know they have received this award.
5. Link back to this post and the person whom you received this award from.

Free Turbo Tax Online

I know you LOVE doing taxes! Some of you may be able to use this free tax software from Turbo Tax online. Looks like it's for 1040EZ and simple returns:

Turbo Tax Free Edition

Happy tax time!

Eating Out Cheap - Half Price Or Less

I like to eat out at restaurants. If you ever tasted my cooking you'd understand why. Plus I can enjoy not having to clean up the mess afterwords, and I don't have to stare at a drooling dog while eating.

So, being cheap and all, I am always looking for coupons and special restaurant offers. I've found some pretty good deals too. Paying half price or less at a reasonably priced restaurant is a good deal in my book.

Restaurant.com is where I find some of these deals. For example now through Jan. 31st you can get $25 restaurant gift certificates for $3 using the promotional code SUPER at checkout. Each restaurant has it's own terms and conditions about using these gift certificates. The restaurant I like to use this for has a minimum purchase of $35 to use this gift certificate. That means I'll being paying $13 for $35 worth of food (tax and tip not included). I'll get about 3 meals out of this, so I chalk that up to a good deal. See what's in your area here: Restaurant.com

Another way to get discounted restaurant gift certificates is through your local radio and television stations. Seriously. These are usually sold at half of face value, but recently I found some of these were even cheaper. You can find out more about this here:

How to Find Half Price Restaurant Gift Certificates From Local Media

And don't forget about getting free food on your birthday! Sign up for a ton of birthday freebies here:

Free Stuff on Your Birthday from Over 100 Places.

Eat up! - Cheap Cindy

Did Someone Say FREE Coffee?

Must...
have...
more...
cofffeeee...

Is it just me, or is everyone craving more coffee these days? Maybe it's the extra cold weather where I am, or it could just be the caffeine addiction's getting stronger. Whatever it is I've been hunting down free coffee offers to help with my fix and here's what I've found:

Seattle's Best Coffee Purchase a beverage and receive a free pastry or second beverage with coupon

Dunkin' Donuts Sign up to receive a free coffee sample by mail

Peet's Coffee Get your friends to sign up for the Peet's newsletter and they get a free drink (Well I've always heard you should be your own best friend, maybe I can sign myself up)

Tully's Free beverage with purchase of another beverage if you sign up for their email club. Will also send you an email for a free drink on your birthday

Biggby's Sign up for E-wards and they will send you coupons by email each week. They will also give you a special treat on your birthday

Hopefully we can get some free coffee from these offers. I don't know about you, but trying to re-brew using yesterday's coffee grounds just isn't working for me.

Here's more cheap coffee tips:

For those times when you can't afford to go out for fancy coffee but you want to pretend that you can, here are some recipes:

How To Make A Ghetto Latte

How To Make A Poor Man's Mocha

And if you want free coffee everyday maybe you can open your own coffee shop:

How To Start An Independent Coffee Shop

Till next time - Cheap Cindy

Free 3 year subscription to Diet & Nutrition Magazine

Just a quick heads up on an offer for a FREE 3 year subscription to Diet & Nutrition magazine. (Yes, this is a pretty good magazine in my opinion.) Offer ends Jan 24.

No strings attached - just sign up with this link:

Diet & Nutrition

Want to find out how to find more free magazines? See how I find all my free mags by reading my article here:

How to Get Free Magazine Subscriptions In The Mail

Inauguration Day Freebies

Inauguration Day is just around the corner and here comes the free stuff! Here are a few freebies available on Jan. 20.

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is offering a free doughnut of choice to every customer, see the announcement here:

Krispy Kreme Celebrates the Freedom of Choice on Inauguration Day

Can't make it to the big Inauguration party? Maybe you'd like to share the experience with a live viewing at your hometown movie theatre. Participating locations only - see if your town made the list:

MSNBC Events

If all else fails, sign up to get your complimentary copy of The New Yorker January 26 inauguration issue commemorative cover. Supplies are limited:

The New Yorker

Watching Free Movies Online - Legally

In this depressing economy we need all the free entertainment possible, and the internet is full of free entertainment. Yes it is tempting to watch all those newly released movies online, but that little voice in your head keeps telling you that it's wrong and frankly not legal.

Well you can tell the little voice to take a breather. There are hundreds of free movies you can watch online legally. Okay, so you won't see any new releases but there is stuff worth watching. If you're a classic movie buff you'll find a plethora of free flicks. If you're not a classic movie fan maybe you'll become one.

See the link to my article below for more information on this topic and the websites with free legal movies:

How to Find 100's Of Legal Free Movies To Watch Online

Enjoy!

Hey - Gimmie Back My Money!

Does someone owe you money? Yes, you're probably still fretting about that $5 your brother borrowed ten years ago, but did you know you could be owed money that you aren't aware of? Millions of dollars are just waiting to be claimed. This is money owed to people from refunds, unclaimed property, tax refunds, pensions, unpaid wages that "check in the mail" that you never received and more.

A legit way to check for unclaimed money is to use https://www.usa.gov/unclaimed-money

I didn't have any luck, but I did see my brother-in-law has some unclaimed money. I guess it's back to checking under the sofa cushions for me.

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