Free jewelry alert!

Who doesn’t like free jewelry, right? With valentine’s day right around the corner, you might still need a quick gift for your loved ones. Why not browse the selection at this merchant, who will send you free jewely for just the low cost of the postage. This is the perfect way to keep within your budget and still give your sweetheart a nice gift. Quite an extensive selection of semi-precious stones and freshwater pearl gifts.

Find some free stuff

Guys, if you have a few days to plan out your purchases, or can wait for a little while before making a purchase, why not see if you can get it for free? Maybe you can’t get it for free, but some of these tips will help you get the most for your dollar and possibly even some free schwag for your stash.

• Tip One: Use the search engines and search for “free (insert goods or services here)”, and see what you get. Yep, it’s as easy as that. Retailers all over the world are promoting free items, and service providers are doing everything they can to attract new business. Looking for some free potato chips for the next big game? Google it. Need a free gym membership? Yahoo it. Free golf lessons? Ask at ask.com. The point is, you’re not going to know it’s out there until you look.
• Tip Two: If you can’t find it for free, see if you can find a coupon for it so you’d at least get a discount. Coupons are for girls, you say? Pfft. Get that mentality out of your head. Coupons are a smart way to save money, especially when you can couple them with a sale on the items or services you really need. Check your Sunday newspaper, your mailbox, individual stores and searching online for coupons. For example, you need an oil change and normally in your area they run $20. You’ve recieved a $5.00 off coupon in the newspaper or online at your favorite grease monkey garage, and on Tuesdays they have a “ladies day special” in which all ladies that bring their cars in get an oil change for $15. Combine that with the $5.00 off coupon, and suddenly the oil change drops to $10. See? I smell a honey-do.
• Tip Three: Ask for it. When you’re shopping in a store, it doesn’t hurt to ask the manager if you can have something for a discount, if not for free. Always ask for a discount when you’re in a store if you’re going to be buying anything. Let’s say you’re buying a case of fire logs. Grab the case and go ask the manager if they’ll offer you a discount. Tell them that you’d like to purchase them there if they’ll give you a discount, and see if they’ll toss in that lighter and/or kindling for free. Don’t be a wus, it never hurts to ask.

Yes, you heard right. Quiznos are giving away free subs this week. Check out the link here to get your own free quiznos sub. The coupon has to be used by Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009. Click here.

A great way to add to your stash of stuff is to check out the free samples for everyday stuff online. Lots of retailers often have freebies and lost leaders and samples that you can take advantage of. All you have to do is to check around from time to time and you’ll see that there is a world of free stuff out there simply for the asking.

Tip: Set up a free email account with yahoo or google and make it your junk mail account. A lot of companies will make you submit a valid email address to qualify for the freebies and coupons for stuff, so just set up a new simple web based junk email account and avoid clogging up your inbox.

Want some free samples and stuff from Walmart? Click here.

CVS Pharmacy has Neutrogena soaps and products on sale this week that will give you back $10 in ECB’s when you purchase two of them. For those not in the know, ECB’s come with your extra care rewards card free for CVS shoppers (ask at the counter). On select items, they will give you “extra cvs bucks” on your recipt when you purchase items that qualify for ECB’s. You can spend the ECB’s to purchase other items in the store that you need any time before they expire, typically a month and a half after you earn them.

Sometimes you can work it out where, after ECB’s, the items work out to just about free before tax. Sometimes, like on the neutrogena deal this week, CVS will give you MORE ECB’s than the purchase price of the products you’re buying. This is called overage, and overage is good! It’s like CVS is paying you to buy these items and giving you extra bucks on top of that.

Got it? Good. So, let’s make some money at CVS this week. The limit here is one purchase of TWO bars of neutrogena soap. As reported on HCW  Neutrogena Facial Bar soaps 3.5 oz bar (UPC 070501010105) also generates the ECBs for this deal.  They cost $2.99 each. You have to purchase two of them, so a total purchase of $5.98. BUT, since this is a qualifying neutrogena item that gets back $10 in ECB’s, you’ll get back $10 in ECB’s after purchase.

$10 in ECB’s – $5.98 = +$4.02 in overage