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Friday, April 29, 2011

Amazon.com Giftcard Giveaway

If I can get 250 fans of my facebook page, Foraging For Bargains, by 9 a.m. Central Time tomorrow, I will be giving away a $5 Amazon.com Giftcard code I got from Swag Bucks. Right now I'm at 130 fans, so 120 to go.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Upcoming Facebook Freebies

Tomorrow, Wednesday April 27th, Scrubbing Bubbles AND Downy will be having freebies on their facebook page. If I remember correctly, Downy is at 12 p.m. EST, 11 a.m. Central.... Scrubbing Bubbles generally doesn't announce the time until it's actually happening. And they never specified that tomorrow is the date, a lot of us are just basing this on their status hints about "27 reasons". Downy is giving away 5,400 sun blossom samples. And due to the fact Downy has 200,000+ fans which will definitely increase as the giveaway draws near, this is one of those you better be quick type of giveaways. Scrubbing Bubbles, no word on how many they'll be giving away, but last time it wasn't a whole lot and they were gone almost immediately.
To keep up to date on this, "Like" my facebook page Foraging For Bargains. I'm at 65 likes, I believe. As soon as I get to 100, I might have a mini coupon giveaway. I kind of have various fan landmarks in my mind for when to host giveaways and what to giveaway.

Monday, April 18, 2011

CoverGirl Natureluxe BzzCampaign Review


I'm a BzzAgent on the site www.bzzagent.com
It's a site that you can join to review some of your favorite products and occasionally get offers to test out/try/review new products. Sometimes you'll get full size products, sometimes samples, and sometimes coupons.

This is my first Campaign, which is the CoverGirl Natureluxe Campaign. I received full products- 1 foundation (flax) and 1 lip balm (Hibiscus). I also received coupons for $2.00 off of the foundation. In stores the foundation averages $9.74 and the lip balm goes for $6.48.


First off the lip balm is not my color. It's a bit dark, and I prefer more natural colors, but we get whatever they give us to try out. I like that it has an SPF of 15, not a whole lot of lip items have SPF. The balm goes on smoothly which is also nice, considering that with many other lip colors I usually have to apply chapstick first..
At first you laugh a bit to yourself when you realize the foundation was the full size product. It appears to be quite small, but after using it you realize you don't need a lot of it. The foundation is incredibly lightweight and applies smoothly. My main foundation before trying this was another CoverGirl foundation which was the best I could find at the time and I still wasn't happy with it because it would definitely show if I had dry skin and I would always have to use some sort of lotion before applying it. With this, I don't need to. I'm 99% positive that this will be the only foundation I use for quite some time unless something better comes out.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Freebies to Watch for On Facebook

Since I started signing up for freebies/giveaways..... not a day goes by when there isn't at least ONE on facebook. Hence my freebie binder with lists inside detailing what I should be getting continues to grow only though I've been doing this for 12 days so far.

So what is currently known to be coming up on Facebook?

Well, Degree Women is going to do another giveaway on April 13th. If you've already entered this one, you cannot enter again.

Duck Tape is continue it's giveaway of sample sheets on April 11th at 6 p.m. ET. That's 5:00 p.m. for those of us in Central Time.

All You magazine is still running it's daily freebies. I have found that they generally post their freebie of the day around 9:00 a.m. Central Time. Some are repeats and some may be ones you've already signed up for if you're fast on finding these things and know where to look. I know there have been quite a few days I check on the freebie item as soon as it was posted, only to be disappointed that I had already got that item the night before because I'm well informed.

Allure still has 2 things going on. The rest of this week you need to fill out the request form at 12:00 p.m. ET and the first 500 people get the item free. You don't find out if you were one of the first, until the item arrives at your door.

There are still free coffee samples left.

"Like" my page, Foraging For Bargains, on Facebook and I'll keep you up-to-date on the freebies/giveaways/sweepstakes/coupons I find. Depending on whether or not I'm in a class at the time, I'd say I'm still one of the faster pages out of others I pay attention to, when it comes to posting the freebies deals.

What I've Noticed about Facebook Freebie Pages

A lot of them are more interested in updating their blog than posting the information on facebook. And a lot of them don't even have that many followers on their blog compared to facebook.
I would only post freebie info here if A. a lot of people followed this blog and/or B. the freebie or giveaway had a lot of items and would probably be open for a few hours. What's the point making a blog post if the people aren't going to see it in time?
I also dislike certain pages that when they finally inform you on facebook, the link they provide is to their blog and then you have to click on a link IN their blog to get to where you're supposed to be and perhaps even hit a few more links. Waste of time and an annoyance.
I compared timing to some of these people, and I posted freebies at least 30 minutes before they did. And I never link it to here. Relatives that follow me don't want to deal with that crap, they want the stuff and they want it fast. Because hey, you sometimes have thousands of other people to beat to it.

Monday, April 4, 2011

I'm on Facebook

LINK BELOW

I decided to make my own Facebook Fan Page dedicated to finding freebies/samples/giveaways and sometimes coupons. This is because I have been helping out friends and relatives and sending links to them was flooding my profile and theirs as well. This way I only have to make one post and it's all in one place.
Also, being a fan of multiple freebie fan pages, I realized that in some cases I'm faster than they are at finding the deals. Or that they were offering a lot of stuff I wasn't into..... weird company stickers, baby items..... so I wanted a place for my friends and relatives who didn't want all of that. I post things I know that I would want or I think someone I know would want. But mainly the facebook decision was so I wouldn't have so many links/pages/comments on my facebook wall.
So check me out--- "Foraging For Bargains"

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Tide Giveaway and Sample Showcase Box TOMORROW!


Are you ready?

Tide is redoing their GIVEAWAY of a 10 count pack of Tide Stain Release Tablets, tomorrow at 9 p.m. Eastern Time on their Facebook Page. So go ahead, get over their and "Like" their page. I would suggest being on the page 5-10 minutes before it's starts... because hey, sometimes your clock is a few minutes ahead or behind. So keep refreshing it and HAVE PATIENCE. Last time they suffered technological difficulties possibly due to the large amount of people on their site. I don't have to be as worried about this one because my form managed to go through. Although I will be going for another one for a relative.

There is a Sample Showcase box being released around 11:15 a.m. Central Time. (I say around because I estimated it out.... it only gives us a countdown timer on the main page.) I believe the picture should link you to the website. I'm not sure, I'm just starting out trying to post links to pictures. So what you have to do is join the website, fill out some information, and then wait to request the box. You may not get it depending on the amount of boxes, and based on the type of people they're looking for. Each box contains a variety of samples and sometimes coupons.
*IT DOESN'T WORK SO HERE IS THE LINK---- http://www.startsampling.com/showcase/

Also the free coupon book being offered by Home Made Simple is still available. https://www.thepromotionaloffer.com/hmsdrtv/?source=mrclean

READ Your Coupons

This just disgusts me. There's a woman on youtube who told her 2 thousand or so subscribers that if they had a coupon and it had a limited amount (size-wise), I believe it was for Tide?, to just go ahead and use it on a larger size because sometimes the register will take it. Someone explained to her that it isn't right to do that or tell others to do that, and now she's acting like a child in her responding comments. Swearing, keeping the caps locks on, and getting her ignorant friends to back her up.
This is one of the reasons that policies are changing- misuse of coupons. So make sure you read yours over to know what the limits are. And make sure you abide by them and don't try to screw over a store.