Tuesday the 23rd has some great freebies if you happen to have a Ben & Jerry's Scoop Shop or a Starbuck's in your area.

First, Ben & Jerry's is having Free Cone Day. Check out the details at your scoop shop. Our's is closed so no free ice cream in Richmond.

Second, Starbucks is offering a free pastry when you buy a coffee tomorrow. Sounds like a wonderful idea unless you gave up sweets for Lent!

Enjoy!

Let's start this out right! How about a Full Size sample of Pantene Nature Fusion. Just log into your Vocalpoint account and then make your request. If you're not a member of Vocalpoint take a moment to register, it's free - and you get coupons, samples and some cool swag.

They say 3 points make a trend! Woohoo. Wonderful Wednesday is back to being a trend here at What A Cool Idea! I hope there are some great things here for you.

Get your free McCafe from McDonald's every Wednesday. Offer is good until the end of February.

FREE Taco Fresco from Taco Bell.

Well, not a great week but there are a couple of things to keep us until next week and you can't beat free food that is definitely a Cool Idea!

Ready to get started again. Here we go:

FREE UniBall Super Ink Pen - free pens are given away everyday beginning at Noon CDT and will go fast.

Become a fan of Celestial Seasonings of Facebook and get a free sample of green tea

Sample of Gold Bond Santizer and Moisterizer in One

FREE sample of Kotex Ultra Thin Pads and Fresh & Dry Liners

FREE sample of Purex 3-in-1 Complete

Personally, I've missed doing my weekly free samples so I'm adding them back to my weekly blog schedule so that I'll have them in my life again. Here we go:

FREE Sample of Post It Durable Filing Flags

FREE Sample of Barbara's Bakery Organic Cereal

We'll start off slowly so we don't get overwhelmed. Enjoy!

Mercedes at Common Sense with Money has yet another giveaway. Share your favorite pantry organizing tip from mealtime.org and win a $250 grocery gift card! Definite a Cool Idea!

FREE 4x6 film developing at Walgreens today only with this coupon.

FREE sample of Total Blueberry Pomegrante Cereal

Hey, guess what, today really is Wednesday? That's what I get for having a 'free' Monday. So, Here we go:

Mercedes at Common Sense with Money is running another great giveaway. This time it's a great gift card from Hallmark to help encourage our kids as they head back to school.

Erin at $5 Dinners is hosting another great giveaway. Her friend Kate from Stolen Moments Cooking and Stolen Moments Menu Planning is offering a one-year subscription to the basic (dinners only) plan, or a 6 month subscription to the complete (breakfast, lunch & dinner) plan to 1 lucky reader!

FREE Sample of Curel Itch Defense Lotion

FREE Sample of Playtex Gentle Glide Sample Pack

20 FREE 4x6 Prints plus FREE Shipping from Snapfish. Expires 9/13. Use discount code: FREELABOR. New accounts only.

Panera Bread locations are offering FREE tastings of their new menu items tomorrow, Sept 10th! Hop on over to check their locations.

And if you are still doing Back to School preparations, don't forget that tomorrow, Sept 10th is the last day for the discount code 'itscool' for Lovable Labels. We are loving our's more and more every day especially as I find more items that need to be labeled!

Monday, September 7 from 10:30am to close participating Chick-Fil-A restaurants will give out a free Chick-Fil-A sandwich to each person wearing the clothing of a sporting team. Check out Chick-Fil-A for store locations and details. Stop by wearing some fun clothes and get a great - and FREE - chicken sandwich!

Mercedes at Common Sense with Money is hosting a fantastic giveaway. She is giving away a six month supply of Ragu sauce to three readers. Hop on over and check out the ways to enter. This giveaway is open until 9/6/09.

Kids Eat Free at IKEA Sept 5-7, 2009 - not to mention that they have some wonderful things on sale this Labor Day weekend. So, if you need anything for the house this fall and you want to feed the kids a healthy meal head on out to your local IKEA.

Don't forget you can enter The Big Clip sweepstakes daily for a huge chance to win Box Tops for Education for your school.

Don't forget that you can still get a 10% discount on Lovable Labels until Sept 10th using the code itscool.

And in case you haven't noticed yet SWAGBUCKS released a new toolbar yesterday and it is super cool! Not only can you still search from the toolbar if you are an IE user but now Firefox and Safari users can, too! Very Nice! SwagCodes can also be found on the toolbar and you can trade your swagbucks in much easier. Well there are even more things you can do but you'll need to download it to believe it. It's beautiful. Truly.

Another bonus is that they are releasing a free SwagCode every day for the Month of September to celebrate the new toolbar. It will be much easier to catch the codes if you have the new toolbar so grab the button here and hop on over. Swagbucks are definitely a Cool Idea!

And here we go with our weekly freebie list:

FREE greeting card from The Card Store until 9/7

FREE Sample of Bear Naked Cereal or Granola Bars

FREE Sample of Aveeno Nourish+Shampoo and Conditioner

FREE Sample of Kashi Cereal

FREE Sample of Playtex Sport Tampons

Before I get started with this week's listing of great freebies I want to make sure you knew about this great giveaway at $5 Dinners. Erin is celebrating her 1st Anniversary blogging with some great giveaways and this one is for a $250 gift card to the grocery store of your choice! You can enter up to 10 times so run on over and check this out. She's also giving away a Sam's Club Membership and gift card so take care of all of your entries while you're there!



And now here we go:



FREE Sample of Always Thin Flexi Style Liner



FREE Sample of Burt's Bees Natural Acne Solutions



FREE Hallmark Connections Card from WalMart


Also be one of the first 250,000 fans to join the Chick-fil-A Wave and you'll get a coupon for a FREE Chicken sandwich and entries are added in a daily drawing for a $50 gift card. I've posted several times about my love of CFA and their wonderful service so if you live or travel near these restaurants be sure to sign up.

There are some great freebies and giveaways this week so here we go:

FREE Sample of Kotex Ultra Thin Overnight Pads

FREE 1 oz. Sample of PINK Body Lotion from Victoria's Secret

FREE Sample of Emergen-C Multi Vitamin and new flavors!

Jenn at Frugal Upstate is running a Lunch Box giveaway that has so many amazing things in it that I can't even type them all here. There are items sponsored by Motts, Smuckers and Pepperidge Farm and it includes a wopping good number of Box Tops for your school! So, head on over to enter!!

Erin at $5 Dinners is celebrating her 1st Anniversary of her blog by offering several giveaways. Check them out because I'm sure there's got to one that you'll find irresistible.

Enjoy!

Mercedes at Common Sense with Money is running another great giveaway. Head on over and leave a comment letting her know what your favorite Hanes product is and you could win a $50 Hanes Gift Card. You can also get additional entries by twittering or posting about the giveaway on Facebook.

Dana at Frugal in Virginia is also running a great giveaway with a great product. Our family loves YoBaby but Ive not seen the new 3-in-1 meals yet so I am interested in looking into these when we get back from vacation. Head on over to her site to enter a chance to win a reusable YoBaby bag, bowl and cover, an Eric Carle growth chart, and coupons for their new product.

And now we'll get back to our regular free deals of the week:

Get a 10 day sample of Bare Escentuals Matte Foundation at Sephora, Sephora in JC Penney or Ulta Stores

Request a FREE Sample of Somesault Snacks

FREE sample of Carefree Ultra Protection Liners and Coupon

FREE Sample of John Freida Brunette Brilliant Liquid Shine

And in case you haven't seen that the coupons in the Cellfire block have recharged as of yesterday, take a look today. I've seen coupons for Huggies, yogurt, Cherrios, and many, many others that I've loaded to my Kroger card. Load 'em up before you hit the stores!

Just a reminder, in case you didn't see it further down, the $25 certificate for $2 from Restaurant.com has been extended to July 31. Use discount code: Napkin. Grab the blue button a few posts back and enjoy!

FREE Sample of Nivea Touch of Sparkle Body Wash

FREE Sample of Parents Choice Immunce Support Infant Formula

Take a survey and get 2 FREE Sham-WOW Towels

FREE Sample of Total Blueberry Pomegranate Cereal

This morning we enjoyed seeing The Clone Wars at Regal Cinema this morning as part of the Free Family Movie Festival. Comfort's favorite character is Master Soda. Yep, you read that right. LOL.

Join me back here tomorrow when we'll continue the Christmas in July series. See you then.

The Christmas In July Series will resume tomorrow with another great post but since I didn't post a Wonderful Wednesday last week I wanted to get back on track this week. Here we go:




80% Off with every $25 Gift Certificate Order when you use discount code NAPKIN. Pay $2 thru 7/28/09 only at Restaurant.com.

FREE Sample from Stayfree

FREE Playtex Gentle Glide Sample

FREE Sample Playtex Sport

FREE Sample Always Infinity Pad

FREE sample of Vaseline Aloe Fresh

And there you go. Kinda looks like there was a theme, doesn't it. Well, add it to your stockpile or donate the samples to your local women's shelter.

Don't forget to return tomorrow for another installment in my Christmas In July series. It's Definitely a Cool Idea!

Chick-fil-a is offering a free meal to everyone who dresses like a cow on Friday, July 10th for Cow Appreciation Day. I'm posting this a day early because this might take some preparation. Check out their site for a Starter Kit and information on the Photo Contest where you can win free chicken for a YEAR! That would definitely help my meal planning!!

If you are on the road this year and can't pull together a costume you can still enjoy many of the other amenities of Chick-fil-a - like the restaurant locator which offers Trip-style information and let's you know how many miles it is to the next CFA with a playground. And stuff like that which has been a lifesaver for us many times.

So, enjoy your chicken and let me know if you went dressed as a cow!

We're headed out to enjoy some free Summer Fun seeing the kids movie at Regal Cinemas so this post will go up in stages today.

FREE sample Fiber One Cereal, snack bar and $5 in coupons

FREE Ziplock Pack-and-Go Gift Pack to the first 10,000 who sign up

Friend Starbucks Ice Cream on Facebook and get a coupon for a free pint!

FREE sample of Kotex Ultra Thin Overnight Pads

FREE Sample of Viva Paper Towels

3 FREE Pure and Natural Diapers from Huggies

FREE Samples and Coupons from P&G Everyday Solutions

And there you go! Lots of stuff to keep us busy so get started!!

There is a great sale at Bath and Body Works right now. First, Buy 3 Signature Collection bath products and get 3 free. Second, get 20% off All Purchases of $25 or more in stores or on lines [code 9809 until July 5]. And Third, save up to 90% on clearance items in stores only.

I took advantage of the sale in January and bought a bunch of items that I've been using as gifts throughout the year. This may be a good time to begin to remind us all that it's not a bad idea to begin to pick up holiday gifts. So, if you have women in your life that would enjoy being pampered this would be a good time to stock up.

FREE Sample of Dove Calming Night Body Wash

FREE Sample of Aveeno Nourish +Shampoo and Conditioner

FREE Sample of Nescafe Taster's Choice Stick Pack

TRIAL pack of o.b. tampons

Here is another great ongoing deal for the Summer. Each and every Monday through the summer [until August 31, 2009] when you buy a sundae at a Ben and Jerry's scoop shop you get a sundae of same or lesser value for free. Check out the fine print and make sure your location is participating.

This kind of deal makes it hard to stick to only eating at our locally owned ice cream parlor especially when the B&J scoop shop is literally around the corner from our house. And two doors down from the locally owned shop. But anyway, I digress.

Here's what you need to know. FREE ICE CREAM ON MONDAYS AT BEN AND JERRY'S. Enjoy!

It's time to take a look around the blogosphere for some great freebies:

FREE Carefree Ultra Protection Pantiliners

FREE Dove Heat Defense or Intense Therapy Haircare Samples

FREE sample of UnderJams absorbent night wear

FREE sample of Quaker True Delights chewy granola bar

Mercury Magazines is giving away 4 issues of Oprah's "O" Magazine to qualified individuals. This one won't last long so head on over quickly to get signed up for yours!

And don't forget on Friday to go to Mars to sign up for your coupon for a FREE chocolate bar. Mine have started rolling in and I am definitely enjoying them! Yum!

Before I get started with the great freebies out there let me point out some great deals to make sure you've found them.

First there's a great deal on Huggies at Target this week. Buy 3 Pull Ups or Diapers and get a $5 gift card. Use the $3/1 coupons found on the coupon bar on the right [it will give you 2 coupons per computer] and that gives you an even better deal. Then remember to turn in your receipt to Caregivers Marketplace and get even more money back.

Second, there are great deals on RSVP Pens for $1 and reams of paper $2 after EasyRebate at Staples. Thanks to Common Sense for Money for posting both of these great deals.

Now, onto our regularly scheduled program:
I hope that you are finding some great deals for these summer months. Stick around 'cause I think there are going to be some more great finds.



Try out Shop4Freebies - there is a new list of free stuff every day! That is a Cool Idea!!

FREE Will and Trust Kit from Suze Orman with the Gift Code People First [thanks Money Saving Methods]

Two FREE Sample Packets of Emeril's Original Essence

Coupon for a FREE full size OPI nail laquer or American Crew sha ve cream from a Beauty Brands store near you

And, as always, don't forget to go to the Mars site on Friday to register for your coupon for your FREE chocolate. Yummy!!