Written by: Patti DiVincenzo

Patti is Clark Howard's producer and every Friday she is going to tell you about a great, free deal.

Friday, May, 2009th

I'm giving you plenty of notice, so you don't miss out. If you don't have plans for the first weekend in June, I have a great idea for you! It comes from Bank of America. BOA wants you to use your debit card or credit card......but for once, it won't cost you anything. Instead, your card is a free ticket to get into museums! The promotion is good for the first weekend of every month! In Atlanta, you can get into the Atlanta History Center, Atlanta Botanical Garden, and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History. If you're going out of town, Bank of America may offer a deal at museums at your destination.

click here

And don't forget, if you live in Fulton County, you can get in to the High Museum of Art for free on the first Saturday of every month, from 10am to noon.

(FYI-The picture i used for this story doesn't come from the Botanical Gardens, but from viewer Brittni Sowers. It was so pretty, I just had to use it!)

See you next Friday!

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Friday, April 11, 2008

My apologies. For the last 2 Fridays I have been on vacation, taking my daughter, Rosie, on college visits. This spring break we have visited 5 schools! Can you believe it, not a SINGLE on has offered us a free ride! (Unless you're talking about campus transportation.) Here's the lowdown on the freebies there: Georgia College and State University gives you a free lunch when you go on a campus tour, and it was very good. East Carolina University gave us two free soda fountain drinks. And since my daughter wants to major in theatre, the University of Okahoma gave us tickets to see "Lend Me A Tenor" on campus, which was fantastic! I'd write more about it, but we're off to tour another college. See you next Friday!

Friday, March 28, 2008

SAT prep classes can cost a thousand bucks in the Atlanta area, and far more if you use a private tutor. But there's plenty of free help out there for motivated students. Here are a few:

The College Board administers the SAT test, and it's a good first place to look for free help. You can get the "question of the day" e-mailed to you, and take a free practice test. click here

A couple of for-profit companies offer some free help: The Princeton Review has 13 free events coming up in the Atlanta area. My daughter took a free SAT practice test with this group and the detailed results were very helpful. Here's the website: princetonreview.com

Kaplan also has some free help: kaplan.com

If you're looking for on-line help, this website is fantastic:number2.com

There are tons of free SAT vocabulary lists on the internet, just google "SAT Vocab" and you’ll find a bunch. If you get bored with memorization, here's a fun way to learn vocabulary with a mix-and-match quiz: quizhub

If you need help with math, here's a site with a new math problem every day:click here

See you next Friday!

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Friday, March 21, 2008

The new free samples are here! The new free samples are here!

We'll start with heartburn relief: This new type of heartburn relief from Zicam looks like yogurt-but how does it taste? Would you take the chance and buy it? You don't have to, here's a chance to try it for free: click here.

If you suffer from hair loss, rogaine is giving out free samples. Of course, to get any results, rogaine says you need to do it long term, so keeping it up could be costly. Here's the link to try it.

rogaine free sample.

If you smoke, STOP! If you need free help, Nicoderm will send you a free sample and a coupon: Nicoderm free sample.

And if you want a free head-start on a "tan" from a bottle, try this:

Jergens.

Warning: Be careful putting it on! I tried this last year and the color is pretty, but if you're not careful with your application, your tan could look streaked!

Happy Friday, and I'll see you next week!

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Friday, March 14, 2008

When it comes to watching TV, my first love is TIVO. I love curling up on the couch and watching what I want WHEN I want. But HULU has me re-thinking WHERE I watch TV.

For the past couple weeks, I've been testing HULU, an Internet video site. And it's nothing like youtube. HULU just went public this week and now everyone can watch new (and not so new) TV shows, as well as movie clips and some full-length movies. It's all free, but there is a catch. You have to watch some ads. Still, the ads are short and the quality is great. I had no trouble watching it at home through a Comcast Cable Internet connection. Don't try this in dial-up, a high speed Internet connection is necessary.

The downside? It's not exactly one-stop shopping. ABC and CBS aren't on the site, but you can find their shows through HULU, which is pretty amazing. I popped the word "Lost" into the search engine on HULU and it showed several Lost episodes with links to the show on the ABC. Now, if only I could pull up a couch to my PC at the house!

Check it out yourself.

Check it out: www.hulu.com.

And if you have time, you can see the (IMHO) best clip on the entire site: The Shield-Making a Scene.

The Shield is a show on the FX network, and my baby brother is the second guy in this "making of a scene" video. He's the one who "leapt from the couch". (And Walt Goggins, who's also in the clip, is a Georgia native!) Unfortunately, full episodes of the shield aren't on HULU, at least not yet. But I'll keep my fingers crossed!

See you next Friday!

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Friday, March 7, 2008

I love the biggest loser. Okay, I know it's not on ABC, but it's so good, it should be! So when I heard trainer Jillian Michaels has a radio show out in LA, I started listening to her show on KFI AM. (Hint: It's better to listen to past broadcasts so you can avoid the commercials.) In one of her shows, she talked about the best free nutrition websites around. I checked them out and they're great, so I'm completely ripping her off and posting her favorite free sites. If you want to hear her podcasts for yourself, go to www.kfiam640.com.

Here are Jillians favorite free nutrition sites:

www.caloriesperhour.com

www.fitmusic.com

www.hungry-girl.com

www.fitday.com

www.beginnertriathelete.com

www.strollerfit.com

www.collagevideo.com

www.aol.body.com

www.3fatchicks.com

If you're not into nutrition, here’s some more free stuff:

Free redkin product for men: click here

Free tote bag:click here

Free body lotion: click here

See you next Friday!

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Friday, February 15, 2008

I love my mutt, but I just can't imagine sending her off to a spa. Now, I don't have to! Thanks to www.happytailsspa.com, I can buy all kinds of at home "spa products for the dog about town". You can drop some serious money here, so if you want to try something from this website for free, here's a link to pamper your pooch.

Also, an update now on free magazines. Back in December, I wrote about a company called adperk.com. On this site, you can watch ads online and "earn" a free magazine subscription. At the time, I signed up for Good Housekeeping and recently received my first free magazine. Now, the website has added another choice: skiing magazine. Here is the website: www.adperks.com.

See you next Friday!

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Friday, February 8, 2008

This morning, before I came to work, I started reading Emma by Jane Austen....on my BLACKBERRY!

I love reading. I love technology. I am having a fabulous Freebie Friday moment!

Here's how you get the free books: Go to dailylit.com.

Several books on the website are 100% free. These are the books in the public domain. Copyrighted books are also on the website, but there's a small charge.

The co-founders of the website are husband and wife. Here's what they say about it on their website:

"We got the idea for DailyLit after the New York Times serialized a few classic works in special supplements a few summers ago. We wound up reading books that we had always meant to simply by virtue of making them part of our daily routine of reading the newspaper. The only thing we do more consistently than read the paper is read email. Bingo! We put together a first version and began reading "War of the Worlds" and "Pride and Prejudice". We showed it to friends, added more books and features at their request, and presto, DailyLit was born."

The books are sent in short emails that will take about 5 minutes to read. The book Emma comes in 191 emails, so if I get one a day, it'll take me about 6 months to read. But since I have wanted to read this for years, and never got around to it, 6 months doesn't seem that bad. And there's an option to speed up the emails if you choose.

Now, if you're a big reader, and you want to get rid of some books, you might want to try cash4books.net. This website will buy your old books. I haven't tried it yet, but it is a member of the Oregon BBB.

See you next Friday!

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Friday, February 1, 2008

It's no surprise that the people in our newsroom are ultra-competitive. But let me tell you, that competitive spirit is not just limited to getting the best news stories to you, the viewer.

I learned this the hard way when we started a 10-week weight loss competition. We were a couple days into it when my executive producer, Brad Stone, started e-mailing everyone pictures of fattening food. Before you know it, people were sneaking candy onto other people's desks, and one photographer brought in some sinfully delicious brownies. I succumbed. And I'm already at the bottom of the pack in the competition.

So with that in mind, I offer up today's Freebie Friday!

If you buy a dozen donuts, you can get another dozen for FREE! Here's the link. Just click on the flashing pink "free dozen with purchase" sign.

Fill out a simple form and Betty Crocker will send you a free sample of Chocolate turtle chex mix: Click here.

If you really feel like filling up, you can use a buy one meal get another free coupon at Ryan's. It's a buffet type restaurant.

Click here.

And for those in the newsroom reading this: It's best to eat all this right before our Monday weigh-ins!

See you next Friday!

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Friday, January 25, 2008

First up, a free razor. This won't last long, so click here.

Once you get the free razor, Clark Howard has a great tip to make it last a long time. Clark got a call on his radio show from a man who, after using his razor, dries it with a blow dryer! Sure enough, the blades didn't corrode. Clark decided to try the drying trick, but he did it a little bit differently. Clark got a cheap 17 cent razor and when he finished shaving, he would blot the razor dry on a towel. Clark says the razor lasted a whole year!

If you're not a morning person and you need a little coffee to get you going, here's a free sample from Dunkin' Donuts.

One last freebie to put you in a mellow morning mood: Counting Crows has a free download of two songs. Click here. The song "When I dream of Michelangelo" is sweet, but the flip side "1492" is best saved for after you've had a couple cups of free coffee.

See you next Friday!

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Friday, January 18, 2008

This is a Freebie Friday that won't cost you money, but it could cost you some serious time. I'm talking about an internet golf game so new, it's only in beta right now. The people behind the website have partnered with Kiawah Island Golf Resort, taken tons of professional photos and used them to make a golf game you can play on the internet.

The makers of the game say it's the most authentic online golf game out there. Since it's the only online golf game I've ever played, I can't speak to that, but I recently read a column about this game in fortune magazine. The columnist goes so far as to predict that when the game goes live in June, business productivity in offices around the country will drop precipitously.

Since the game is in beta, the only game you can play right now is a "closest to the pin" competition, but this summer you can play the entire course against your friends on the internet. Kiawah Island is first, Pinehurst is going to be on the website later.

For the website, click here

See you next Friday!

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Friday, January 11, 2008

First Iowa, then New Hampshire, and before you know it, Super Tuesday will be here! Georgia is one of more than 20 states holding a primary that day, which makes it the largest Super Tuesday ever. Before you exercise your right to vote, shouldn't you brush up on the issues?

It's easy, and fun, too, I promise! Lots of websites have presidential-match up games, and here are my favorites-

VAJoe.com is a website I'd never heard of before, but apparently it's pretty popular with military vets. It has a great candidate calculator. click here

USA Today and ABC News also teamed up to make a candidate match game.

Another fun quiz can be found at Minnesota Public Radio's website. When I first clicked on the "select a candidate" survey, I thought it was a joke. Think about Public Radio's reputation for leaning to the left, then read the multiple choice answers for question #1 and you will know what I mean. Turns out, this is a real survey though! click here

And there's one last match up game from selectsmart.com, which has a quiz for everything from choosing a candidate to picking a puppy. click here

How seriously should you take these interactive websites? I took the quiz on all four websites and I was matched up with four different candidates!

But here's the good news: At selectsmart.com, I learned that my next puppy should be a French bulldog!

Before I go, here's one more cool website from the LA times. If you like to follow politics, you'll like the 2008 primary tracker

See you next Friday!

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Friday, January 4, 2008

If you want to get more exercise in 2008, one of the easiest (and one of the cheapest) way to do it is to walk more! Researchers at two universities in the United Kingdom tested how pedometers influence exercise and found people who wear a pedometer walk more than people who don't wear one. The Journal of the American Medical Association published another study that shows the use of a pedometer is associated with increases in physical activity and decreases in body mass index and blood pressure.

You can buy a pedometer for $10 or $15, but why spend any money when you can get one for free? This pedometer won't have a lot of bells and whistles, but it will keep track of your steps, which, after all, is the point!

The offer comes from Slim Fast. You have to register on the sight, and then sign up for their "starter kit", which includes the free pedometer. Sign up here.

Lots of experts say your goal should be 10,000 steps, which is about 5 miles. It's important to track your walking, so here's a free place to do that: This website is great! click here.

Happy New Year and see you next Friday!

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Friday, December 28, 2007

This is a perfect day to stay indoors and watch the rain from the comfort of your home. There are two great sites where you can order free samples and have them mailed to your home.

The first is from Wal-Mart: The offers here change on a regular basis. Over the past few months, I have received free lotion, free Dunkin Donuts coffee, and a free greeting card. click here

Kroger recently started offering free samples as well: click here

While you are already on the internet, check out this freebie! A free one year subscription to Shape magazine! click here

And if you have time to do some research, check out this email I just received from a viewer:

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Hi Patti,

My name is Kesha Aycock and my children call me the "Queen of Free Stuff." I can get you stuff for FREE!!!!!! Here how it works:

(1) You must take a few hours to do this and I promise it will pay off.

(2) Think of all the places you like to go such as: Stores (ex: Wal-Mart, Kroger, Macy's) Restaurants (ex: O'charley's, Sonic) Entertainment (Monkey Joes, Maxx Fun) It could be anywhere you go or want to go, just think!!!

(3) Go to their website and join the email club.

(4) If they want you to fill out a survey, by all means do it!

(5) If they ask you to send comments or feedback to their web site, do it!

(6) They will ask you for your email address and birthday. Some of them send you special gifts to be used the month of your birthday. Now that’s great!

(7) Sit back and wait for the freebies to hit your email.

(8) Special Note: If everyone in your household has different email addresses, sign them all up and rake in the freebies.

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Thanks, Kesha! One note, though. Once you start signing up for samples and free stuff, don’t use your regular email address. Open an account in Yahoo or Google for free and use that one for all your freebies. That way, if you get a bunch of junk email, it won’t go in your regular account. I use Gmail and have found it does a great job of weeding out spam.

And before I go, one more freebie, but this one requires you to leave the house. You can put it off until Sunday, when the coupon expires. It's free makeup from Ulta! click here

If you know of great freebies and want to share the word, email me

See you next Friday!

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Friday, December 21, 2007

UPDATE AT 12 NOON

What a day! I just finished my Freebie Friday for the week, but I have to update it to include this one day only special. I found it, courtesy of Stephanie Nelson from couponmom.com

Go to Walgreens online and you can get a free 8 by 10 photo! Information is on the Walgreens home page. Upload one photo and when it comes time to check out, chose one 8 by 10 and use the coupon code VERYNICE. What was $2.99 will now be free. Offer ends at midnight tonight!

9AM:

How much is your time worth? Spend a half hour watching ads on the internet and you can get a free one year subscription to Popular Science or Good Housekeeping. No need to enter your credit card number, just your name and address. Here is the link:www.adperks.com

One more freebie: I just found it this morning. The South Beach Diet people are giving out sample kits, which include a package of granola clusters and a drink mix. You also get $2 in coupons. This offer is only good while supplies last, so hurry!click here

And it is not completely free, but here is a way to get ultra cheap batteries this holiday season. CVS has a coupon for $5 off certain batteries. I used the coupon and bought an eight pack of AAA batteries. The net cost was just 29 cents! Coupon expires Sunday Dec. 23rd.cvs coupon

See you next Friday!

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Friday, December 7, 2007

When it comes to finances, I'm a bit of a nerd. I started with a simple spreadsheet. Now I have a couple years of finances broken down by month, then by week, with enough color-coding and categories to make my husband's eyes roll back in his head if he gets within 50 feet of the computer when I'm working on the budget.

I have created a monster. It shouldn't be this complicated.

Now, it's not. Free websites will watch your money!

www.mint.com, www.geezeo.com and www.wesabe.com can pull data from your checking account and your credit card accounts.

I gave www.mint.com a test drive and it's impressive. In fact, it recently won the U.S. prize at this year's techcrunch conference, where techies go to check out the hottest internet startups.

Here's the best part: Once you enter your information, the website shows you how to save money.

Have your money in a bank account that earns no interest? Mint can show you one that will give you interest. Does your credit card have a 15% interest rate? Mint will show you an offer that will reduce your rate. It's how Mint makes money to run the site, and it'll save you money too.

The biggest concern is security. Lots of bloggers have been talking about whether it's safe to put your personal financial information with a third party. Some bloggers love mint, others are skeptical. No surprise, the CEO of Mint, Aaron Patzer says it's safe. Here's what he had to say in an online blog about the subject:

"I'll make a bold statement: You're safer on Mint then with online banking. On Mint, you're completely anonymous. We never ask for a name, address, or SSN - just an email. We know about your finances, but not about you. We're also independently verified by Verisign, TrustE, and several outside agencies. "

I can't find any instance of these personal finance websites being hacked yet, but before you decide whether to use one of these sites, do your own due diligence!

See you next Friday!

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Friday, November 30

This holiday season, Pay Pal and Google Checkout are in a war to get our business, and we come out the winner! Both are offering special deals for internet shoppers, but the best deal I've found so far is on www.buy.com , where you can get stuff completely free!

Here's how you do it: Go to www.buy.com and chose a $10 item that offers free shipping. (Not all of them have free shipping, and shipping costs on some items at buy.com can be pricey.)

Add your item to the cart and then sign up for Google Checkout. This gives you $10 off your order. If you get a $10 item with free shipping, you pay nothing.

A couple warnings: Make sure you change the shipping method to budget, so you get free shipping. The default is standard and you need to change it to "budget". Also, you must sign up for Google Checkout when you're on the Buy.com website. Otherwise you won't get the $10 off. And lastly, this is only good for new Google Checkout accounts.

Granted, there aren't tons of free deals, but there are a few good ones. Here are a few:

* Kingston 1GB Data Traveler USB 2.0 Flash Drive

* Mini Digital Keychain Camera w/USB

* USRobotics USB hands-free Internet Speakerphone

* 31pc Screwdriver, Bit Driver & Precision Screwdriver Set

Happy shopping and I'll see you next Friday!

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Friday, November 23

We’re shopping till we drop and crowding into each others houses for holiday visits, so what better time than now to step out and have a free laugh?

Jamie Bendall, the owner of the Punchline Comedy Club is offering WSB viewers a very special freebie! Free tickets to this weekend’s Friday night 10 pm show, the 7pm or 9PM Saturday show or the 8pm Sunday show, which I hear is going to be streamed over the web to our men and women serving overseas.

The headliner is Atlanta's own Jerry Farber! Normally, the tickets cost $19.50 for the Friday and Saturday show, and the Sunday night show is 15 bucks. But not for you!

Just order your tickets and then in the code box when you check out, put the word “freebie”. Then print out your tickets and you’re ready to go. There are a limited number of tickets and when they’re out, they’re out, so get to it now!

The website is www.punchline.com>

The Punchline is located at 280 Hildebrand Drive in Atlanta. That’s less than a mile from 285 off Roswell Road.

So have a laugh on the Punchline and I’ll see you next Friday!

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Friday, November 16

Gift cards may be convenient to purchase as a gift, but stats don't lie. They're not always easy for the recipient. If they were, why would billions of gift cards go unused?

Consumer Reports did a survey and found 27% of people who received gift cards last holiday season have still not used them!

Want further proof that gift cards can be a huge gift for retailers? Check out page 30 of Best Buy's 2006 annual report. It says 43 million dollars of its net earnings will come from “gift card breakage”. That’s retail-speak for gift cards that are unlikely to be redeemed.

WSB Web Content Manager Mark Bauer spent $300 on gift cards last year. He bought 15 gift cards for his nieces and nephews. He recently asked who actually used their cards. The answer? Three!

Clark Howard has the answer. It's cash! And to go along with it, you can print out Clark's free message to your gift recipient. Here's the link:

clarkhoward.com/ads/clark/nogiftcards

Before you give another gift card, find out who used them last Christmas!

See you next Friday!

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Friday, November 9

I need to face the facts. My wallet is overweight. And, trust me, it's not the cash that causes a problem, it's all the club cards!

There's Loehmanns, DSW, Kroger, CVS, and the list goes on.

Now Greg Pinero of Silver Spring, Maryland has solved the wallet obesity problem, and it's free!

Greg says he noticed his girlfriend could never remember her club cards. Then he realized the pertinent information on the cards are simple bar codes. So he went to work, and designed a program that puts up to 8 loyalty card bar codes on one little card that you make yourself.

All you need to do is log onto www.justoneclubcard.com and follow the instructions.

It's as easy as entering your bar code number for each card, and hitting the print button. The program does the rest.

If you use your loyalty cards often, you might want to have the card laminated. Also, it's a good idea to print out the paper sleeve for your card. This way a bar code scanner will scan the correct club card. It's easy to figure out how to put together, here's the link:

www.justonecludcard.com/JOCC%20SLEEVE

See you next Friday!

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Friday, November 2

For my first post, I thought I'd start with my first freebie find: It's from Quik Trip.

You may already know consumer advisor Clark Howard named one of his dogs QT, so it's no surprise he's a fan. I like Quik Trip because you can still get air for your tires there for free. But what I didn't know, until recently, is this: QT also gives away food and drinks!

All you have to do is join the QT web group. As soon as you do, you'll get a coupon for a free hot dog and 32 oz. drink.

I joined in September and used my hot dog coupon right away. Then last month, I got a coupon for a free Freezoni. The freezoni cup sells for $3.99, so free is a real deal!

Here's the link to sign up: www.qtwebgroup.com/QTMktPlus_OnlineRegistrationForm.aspx.

See you next Friday!