Free in the Sunday paper (June 29 to July 5)

Welcome to a new edition of the Free After Rebate in the Sunday Paper! We have some nice goodies this week, so be sure to pay attention!


Two freebies at RiteAid
And they are nice deals too! Both qualify for the Single Check Rebate program, so you can submit them online, without needing to mail-in receipts or anything else. Nice! A new rebate-month starts today at RiteAid so be sure to remember to process your June 2008 rebates as well.

The two free items are the Giovanni Shampoo and Conditioner, priced at $7 before the rebate. This is a sleek-looking bottle, and looks like something you would get at a hair products store. These are 8.5oz bottles. Do note that this is a three-day rebate, so you have until 7/1/08 to get it. It won't last for the whole week!

Next up something for men, $6 before the rebate, either a 6oz Oxy Face Wash or a 5.2oz Oxy Shave Cream. This is a brand new item, and it's good for the whole week, but don't sleep on it, because they may run out of store. The better the deal usually, the faster they run out of stock!


Free Software after rebate at Staples
If you don't mind mail-in rebates and such, you can get the Norton Antivirus 2008 free after rebate at Staples. Do note that this requires mail-in rebates through Norton, and it's not necessarily going through the nice EasyRebates program of Staples. Be sure to check their website and circular ad for more details!

This software package is good for one-PC. Some other packages may be good of up to three PCs. Oh these crazy software peoplez are confusing us!


Free at Walgreens
A new rebate-month starts at Walgreens today, so be sure to remember to process your June 2008 EasySaver catalog rebates. Walgreens only gives us one week, they expect them to be postmarked by Saturday July 5, 2008, and with the 4th of July holiday, you'd better get them out of the way on Monday!

Anyway, back to this week's freebies, Walgreens has a 99c rebate that makes the Hebert's Fully Loaded Bar free after rebate. They have two flavors, Dark Turtle or Rocky Road. The packaging is colorful and rather unique, so it's hard to miss. These are candy with an attitude! No more generic wrappers :) The bars are 2.75oz. Dark Turtle as the name suggests has dark chocolate so you can consider that a nutriotional supplement :)

Also free after mail-in rebate using the rebate on the package (not the EasySaver catalog) is the FreeStyle Lite glucose monitoring system. Limit one rebate. The price you pay is $10, and after you submit and receive the $10 mail-in rebate on the box, the item becomes FREE. Of course none of the rebates refund sales tax, but hey, they help build schools and such :)

Last day for $10 free with $50 purchase at Mervyn's!

Attention Mervyn's shoppers! Today, Sunday June 29, 2008 is the last day to participate in the promotion that gets you $10 free with purchases over $50 at Mervyn's stores! Note that the reward is not unconditional, you will receive a reward for $10 off a purchase of $25 or more during July 2nd to 9th 2008. Prices before sales tax of course.

And what's even better, this can be combined with the 15% off discount when opening a new Mervny's credit account, according to the fineprint found on the last page of this week's Mervyn's circular which you can find in the Sunday paper.

The Sunday circular ad mentions that there is storewide clearance this week of up to 70% off orginal prices, so shop early and often!

Strategy Session: How to make the best bang for the buck
If you are planning a shopping spree, at Mervyn's or at a competitor's store, here is what to do: Pick up the stuff that you need this week and make sure they are at least $50, or more, before sales tax. Then mark a few items to shop for next week (7/2/08 to 7/9/08) and make sure they will be worth $25 or more. For example a pair of Levis jeans or Dockers slacks, or a pair of shoes or a coffee machine or a watch. Since the promotion period starts on 7/2/08, you can buy items from this week's circular, since it is good until Saturday July 5, 2008.

This way not only you get the $10 off coupon, you have also planned out what to buy next week in order to spend the $25 coupon!

Free Nine Inch Nails "The Slip" download DRM-FREE in mp3, FLAC or high-def audio!

Nine Inch Nails fans, grab your internet browsers and run to NIN.com, the official website of Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails!

There you will find a free download of their new album "The Slip", complete with the artwork in PDF format, along with the music, and the music is DRM-free!

The process for downloading NIN's "The Slip" is simple:

1. You enter your email address at the appropriate place at nin.com
   
2. NIN sends you an email with a link for the download
   
3. You receive the email, click the token, and voila...
   
4. The download page is there for you, and you can download the album in MP3, FLAC (lossless), FLAC high definition, M4A Apple lossless for those with iTunes, and high-definition wave!

Thank you NINE INCH NAILS!

The file sizes range from 87MB for the mp3 to 1.5 gigabytes for the high-def WAVE! Oh my!

And if you enjoy the free downloads, and want to buy Nine Inch Nails gear and music, be sure to visit NIN.com or Amazon.com

New Discover credit card promotions in the Sunday paper coupon books!

Discover Card has two new promotions found in the Sunday paper coupon books. This promotions promise even bigger initial bonus for new cardmembers!


Discover More Card promotion
This promotion is for a traditional Discover credit card and has the following special benefits:

• $100 Cashback bonus after you make $500+ in purchases with your new credit card. This is HUGE! That's a great temptation on its own.
  
• 0% APR on balance transfers until July 2008. Be sure to read the terms and conditions of balance transfers, and know that any subsequent purchases will be charges the full APR, as long as you have lower balances. Ideally if you plan to use this card for a balance transfer, don't use it for anything else, until you pay off the balance transfer
  
• 5% Cashback bonus on select categories that change every three motnhs. Do note that these are not uncapped. There is usually a cap of how much you can earn every three months on the special 5% cashback bonus categories
  
• And a negative, the standard cashback bonus on all other purchases is not a flat 1%, but rather starts at a pathetically miserable 0.25% and goes up the more you spend. The 5% cashback bonus purchases may not count towards this amount. But considering the $100 initial bonus and 0% APR until July 2009, we can forgive them this time :)
  
• Platinum benefits (whatever that means)

For more credit specials from a variety of credit card companies, be sure to click on the CreditCards.com banner below!




Discover Motiva Credit Card
This is a little bit of a different credit card in that it pays you back a full month's interest every time you make six on-time payments in a row. The other benefits include:

• $100 Cashback Bonus, just as explained above
  
• 3.99% APR on balance transfers until the year 2012 (yes, twenty-twelve, the year the world may end?)
  
• Up to 1% standard cashhback bonus (starts at 0.25% and increases as you spend more)
  
• No special category 5% cashback bonus like the card above
  
• Platinum benefits (whatever that means)
  

Free after rebate in the Sunday paper ads!

It's Sunday again, so let's take a quick look at all the freebies in the Sunday paper! We start with Rite Aid where we find your choice of either a Crest ProHealth Night toothpaste (6oz) or Night Rinse (250ml) for FREE after a $3 single check rebate. Rite Aid rebates can be submitted online, so there is no need to mail receipts or collect and submit UPC codes. That is so last century! This is good for the whole week.

Good only for three days (Sunday, Monday and Tuesday) is the CharlesWorthington of london Big Hair Texturizing Sea Salt spray. Wow what a name! Yours for free after a $5 single-check-rebate at Rite Aid! Remember, this is only good for three days so don't sleep on it!

The last free item from Rite Aid is a traditional mail-in rebate, which you will find on the box of the next item. This is separate from the RiteAid Single checks rebate, so be sure to read the instructions! The item is the Freestyle Lite or Freedom Lite blood glucose monitor, for free after a $10 mail-in rebate.

Now off to Walgreens, where we have one free item, the AccuCheck Aviva blood glucose monitor, free after a $20 mail-in rebate. The rebate is in the product box, this is not part of the monthly Walgreens Easy Saver catalog program, so be sure to read the rebate instructions and follow the necessary steps. You have to mail it in separately and to a different address.

We haven't checked Longs Drugs yet, but if we do find any freebies there, we'll update this post!

The OfficeMax 15% off Everything you can fit in this bag sale is back!

The OfficeMax 15% off Everything you can fit in this bag sale is back! Grab your Sunday paper, or buy extra Sunday papers! The grocery-sized paper bag discount promotion is back!!! This is a decent size bag, you can jam a lot of stuff in there. Ideal if you want to buy small items. If you are a writing instruments and supplies junkie, yon can stuff hundrds of pens and Shapries inside :)

The special lasts from Sunday June 22 to Saturday June 28, 2008! This is their Summer StockUp Event! You can find your nearest store at OfficeMax.com.



But Office Max is not dumb, they do have restrictions on this promotion! You can't rob them blind by putting all the expensinve stuff in the bag. Here are the restrictions:

• All merchandise must fit inside the bag
  
• Excluded from this promotion are gift cards, phone cards and OfficeMax ImPress
  
• Merchandise must be in its original packaging. Stop opening them up and jamming them in the bag ;-)
  
• Only good for in-stock items only!
  
• No discounts for special orders
  
• Bag must be surrendered at the time of purchase (wink-wink: you can buy more Sunday papers)
  
• Not valid with coupons or any other orders (but you can use your Office Max rewards accounts to accumulat points!)
  
• One bag per customer
  
• No rainchecks given with the discount :(
  
• Valid in-store only!
  
• The bag does not restrict technology items!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Coldplay's Parachutes only $2 MP3 album on Amazon! Today only!

If you love Coldplay's more famous albums, but never got around to owning their debut album "Parachutes" you can get it today only for $2 at Amazon, in DRM-free MP3 album format at Amazon! The $2 price is for the mp3 album. If you want the CD album, the price is $8, or it drops to $6 if you buy it together with their just released album Viva La Vida.

This is part of Amazon's Daily MP3 deal! Check back tomorrow for another great deal. And don't forget to check weekly as Amazon has usually at least a couple of free full-size mp3 songs. To see all the free MP3 scroll to the bottom of this page under the heading of "FREE MP3 Songs". These are free full-size mp3 songs, not 30-second preview clips, and they are yours to download and use on your computers and portable music players!

And all the songs Amazon sells are DRM-free, they are mp3 files, so you don't have to worry about compatibility and some stupid program or device telling you you can't play the song you just bought.

Free stuff in the Sunday Newspaper (June 15)

This is a good week for freebies in the Sunday paper! Both Rite Aid and Walgreens are offering a number of good freebies, including a trio of items for people living with diabetes. So, let us take a quick look!


Free after rebate at Rite Aid
Rite Aid rebates can be submitted online, so there is no need to mail-in receipts or cut UPC codes. These are rebates for people who hate traditional rebates.

Free after a $3 rebate is the Herbal Essences Long Term Relationship Shampoo or conditioner. I kid you not, I couldn't even make up that name even if I tried. An LTR with a shampoo? How AOLish :) Limit one per household. Do note that this is only good on the LTR shampoos only, not the whole Herbal Essences line-up!

More hair product, the Organix Shampoo or Conditioner can be yours for free after a $5.49 rebate. This is a 13oz container, and it's good for three days only, June 15 to 17. So don't sleep on this one. Only good for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday!

And now something for parents of young ones, Diapermate Disposable diaper bags, 75 count, for free after a $2.49 rebate. Limit one per, as our most of the Rite Aid rebates.

If you like one-time use film cameras, then cheer! You can get the Fuji QuickSnap for free after a $10.99 rebate. This is 400 speed, with 27 exposures. Limit one rebate. Remember, this is a one time use film camera, not a digital camera!


Free with Register Rewards at Walgreens
Walgreens has two type of freebies, the traditional free after rebate, and the newer free after Register Rewards. Register Rewards are instant rebates that you can use towards your next purchase at Walgreens. If you are a regular Walgreens customer, these are as good as cash. There is a small list of items that you cannot buy with Register Rewards (alcohol, etc), but they are good for most of the stuff in store.

And with that out of the way, you can get the Oral B Cross Action power toothbrush, or replacement brush head, for free after $5.50 in Register Rewards.


Free after mail-in rebate at Walgreens
Walgreens has a trio of products for people living with diabetes. The first two rebates are part of the monthly Walgreens EasySaver catalog rebate program. A 60-ct of Multibetic vitamins is offered for free after a $10 MIR, and a 2oz shot of GlucoShot, available in assorted flavors is offered for free after a $2 MIR. Limit one rebate per item.

The next item has the mail-io rebate on the box, it is not part of the Easysaver Walgreens rebate. You have to submit it separately. It is the Freestyle Lit or Freedom Lite blood glucose system, for free after a $10 separate MIR. MIR being mail-in rebate.

And as a bonus, you will get $4.49 in Register Rewards when you purchase the Freestyle or Freedom Lite, and you can use those on your next in-store purchase of Glucerna cereal (9.5oz or 11.1oz). See store or website for more details!

Sony Ericsson 580i today only: Pay 1 penny and get $100 cash back by mail!

Amazon has a crazy deal on the Sony Ericsson 580i cellphone which is on the AT&T network. You can buy it for just 1 penny today, and you will also receive $100 cash in the mail via a mail-in rebate! Includes free two-day shipping. You can buy up to five cell-phones under this promotion.

The cell phone is available in five colors, pink, black, green, silver and white! Your choice! Of course you do have to sign up for new service as part of this promotion. For all the details check the Amazon page linked in this post.




But wait there's more! You can also get free Sony Ericsson MPS-60 portable speakers with the purchase of this phone from Amazon.com. Just add both items to your Shopping Cart and the savings will be deducted from your order total. Offer valid while supplies last. (Applies only to products sold by Amazon.com. Limit one per customer. Does not apply to products sold on our site by third-party merchants or through third-party areas such as Amazon.com Marketplace, Auctions, or zShops.)

And now to the offer fineprint, as provided by Amazon itself:

The Price listed above for this phone includes an instant $250 discount from Amazon.com. You agree to repay this $250 discount to Amazon.com if, during the six-month period following the activation date or renewal date of your existing contract, you: (1) fail to pay your balance due each month on time; (2) fail to maintain your account in good standing; (3) disconnect the line of service; (4) transfer the phone to another line of service; (5) change your service rate plan, including canceling or removing required PDA, BlackBerry, or smartphone features after your product has shipped; or (6) use this line of service to replace an existing account with the carrier. The discount is available only if you are activating a new non-substitute line of service or extending an existing line of service. If you do not follow these rules, you authorize Amazon.com to charge your credit card $250 as reimbursement of the discount without need for further approval. Third-party resellers are prohibited from purchasing cell phones on behalf of customers. **Purchase limit five (5) cell phones per household.**

Bank of America $10 off Lowe's purchase of $25 coupon!

Coupon fans check your emails! Bank of America has a new promotion for its World Points credit card members. In their email sent today, they include a link to a promotion for $10 off a Lowes purchase of $25 or more.

This is how the promotion looks. Note that the following is not the coupon!



If you are a regular Lowe's customer or need something that is worth at least $25, then you can't go wrong with this deal! If you buy a $25 item, it's an effective 40% discount! If you buy a $50 item, it's an effective 20% discount. If you buy a $100 item, it's an effective 10% discount!

We could go on for ever with the math, but as you can see, this is a good deal!

One word of caution if you have a balance transfer or other low interest rate promotion on your credit card: be sure to know that this purchase would accrue interest at the standard APR rate (20% or more?), while you are carrying the low interest promotional balance.