Jul

27

Birthday Freebies

11:38 pm -"Coupons/In Store deals, gifts, Samples" by hatter

Mom’s been a little jealous of all the freebies I keep getting, so I arranged to take her on a freebie hunt for her birthday yesterday.  I signed her up online at several places over the past few weeks and waited for the birthday coupons to roll in. I called ahead to all the desired locations to verify their participation and then printed out the coupons of her choice.
First she got a free Rooty Tooty Fresh N’ Fruity from IHOP (2 eggs, 2 bacon, 2 sausage, 2 pancakes topped with blueberries and whipped cream $8.50 value), then we hit the mall for a free birthday gift from Sephora (which I saw mentioned here awhile back), and of course tried all the tester makeup and perfumes lol. The current gift was an eye kit with travel/purse sized eyeshadow, liner, and mascara. Mom was impressed… and the girl even threw in 2 samples of Time Arrest face fluid and a sample of DDF wrinkle cream. Considering their prices, I’d say it was a $20 gift. :)
Godiva was conveniently located directly across from Sephora, and thanks to Free Stuff Times I’d already signed mom up for the monthly chocolate thing, so we went there and she got to pick out any chocolate she wanted. She chose a clam shell truffle… it was quite large actually. The woman even gave us all a free square of dark chocolate she had just cut up. :) From there it was onto Cold Stone Creamery, where I signed her up to receive  a free creation for her birthday  (regular sized small, any flavor + 1 topping $3.50 value). We’d never been there before, and it was fun watching them work the ice cream and sprinkles together. A friend who was with us also had a coupon, 2/$5 for the same thing mom got ($2 savings).
She had any number of free bday dinners at her disposal, but by then we were all too full and tired to go on, lol. But I did toss the bodycology lotion sample I had just received in the mail into mom’s goodie bag as well. :)


So over $56 worth of food/merchandise between 3 people was had for a grand total of $20 (not including tip + tax @ IHOP)… just for registering everywhere online. And mom had a blast claiming her free stuff and getting all kinds of well wishes from everyone! I’m looking forward to claiming my freebies in January! Thanks for the ideas, FST!

Comments

5 Responses to “Birthday Freebies”

  1. fredysmama on July 28th, 2010 2:23 am

    Awesome! Thanks for sharing..I have to wait for January too :io:

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  2. Jackie on July 28th, 2010 11:11 am

    Awesome freebies. I have a question for you,how did you get the free Sephora gift in store, I signed up and my birthday is next week. Is there a coupon or do they look it up?
    Thanks :dunno:

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    angelwaters101 Reply:
    July 29th, 2010 at 12:06 am

    Hi Jackie to get the free Sephora birthday gift you need to sign up for their site and just put in your date of birth. Then you get a coupon that can be used two weeks before your birthday and two weeks after for the free birthday item

    this is my second year getting the Sephora gifts and I love it good luck!

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    Jackie Reply:
    July 29th, 2010 at 5:40 am

    Thank you angelwaters,I signed up. But when I log in it shows I have the gift if I order online but I cannot find a coupon to print to take to the store,maybe I am over looking it ? :uh:

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    hatter Reply:
    July 30th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

    Jackie,

    I never received the bday coupon either, so I called my local store and asked. I was told it’s not necessary so long as you’re signed up as a “Beauty Insider” online, and you’re in the system, then all you need is the email addy you signed up with. :)

    As an extra precaution, in case the manager wasn’t in-store when we got there or in case I didn’t sign her up soon enough for the system to recognize her, I printed out ma’s Sephora profile page, as proof that she was indeed a member.

    They were very courteous and gracious… she didn’t even look at the printout really, but she did take it and tear it up (since it had all ma’s personal info on there). All she asked for was ma’s email addy, typed it in and voila!

    Same goes for Godiva… I even had the “necessary” member ID # ….but again, all they wanted was the email addy, that proves you’re signed up and entitles you to your freebie. :) Happy birthday!

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