I won’t lie: I’m cheap. If I can get away with not buying it/not having it, I won’t. If I can get it on sale, find it somewhere else, or comparison shop on-line, I will. What does this mean? It means free stuff makes me happy. Even happier than when I get stuff in the mail, and I get this excited about stuff in the mail:
(I also wanted to post this picture to dispel any rumors about me potentially being a cool kid.)
I’ll reveal more about those box contents later this week. Hint: It’s not fragile. Hint: It’s food.
So what has been making me even more excited than that recently?
Getting a free bunch of organic bananas in my already insanely cheap bag of bargain bananas. $0.99 for all these bananas? That’s practically free already. Plus organic? I don’t even care if bananas are one of those foods where organic doesn’t particularly matter. Free.
This pen came in the above pictured box. For free. No free item is too small to be celebrated. Cheap ballpoint pen? Don’t care, I’ll take it.
While my garden took a lot of blood, sweat and tears, I still see my garden goodies as free. A giant bag full of greens for the week? For free.
Y’all may have your fancy purses and deluxe lunchbags, but I have a free handout from Target to shove my food for the day in. It has such qualities as handles, being free, space to hold food containers, being free, standing out in the work fridge, and, you guessed it, being free.
I got these shorts for free around Christmas. Pulled the tag off and wore them yesterday. And in doing so, revealed the power of free: Two boys hit on me at the gym. They just knew. Saw me in my booty shorts and thought, “Hey, there’s a girl that looks like she can spot a bargain.”
And the best freebie of this week? This absolutely gorgeous marble-topped dresser the world’s best friend had and didn’t need. Amount of furniture in my house? One dresser closer to, “maybe someone actually lives here and this place isn’t abandoned.” Remember how I mentioned if I can avoid buying it, I will? Turns out that applies to furniture, too. Chairs, sofas and tables are overrated.
Found a good freebie recently?
The possibility of free things is what gets me out of bed every morning. Except for free food, which is my kryptonite – for some reason I never understand that free food still has calories.
Also, your arms are looking AWESOME.
Why thank you! It may just be a flattering camera angle, but I’ll take it
An example of intelligent living.
oooh, can’t wait to see what you got – I love packages in the mail…
I also love pens, bananas and garden produce – I am SO missing my garden this year!
You just need to find a friend with a garden, then it’s even MORE free
LOL @ Saw me in my booty shorts and thought, “Hey, there’s a girl that looks like she can spot a bargain.”
There is no doubt in my mind that guys at the gym are judging girls solely on how practical they seem
Haha – I have that pen too.
The dresser is awesome! Best freebie for me lately was getting to lick the cake spoon from the bakery I ate lunch at this weekend. It’s the small things.
You must order from iHerb, haha. And it totally is the small things–just one can turn a whole day around.
Hahaha a girl after my own heart- anything free is good in my books! So I was at Pinkberry today and bought 2 fro yos…one for me and one for my mom so the lady gave me 2 stamps in my loyalty card. While we were sitting, a random person came up to me and gave me his loyalty card (also with 2 stamps) as he was leaving the country so the card would be of no use to him….I am that much closer to a free fro yo (toppings included) – woo hahaha! I also got upgraded on my flight to London which meant I got to fly business (i.e. total luxury) without the hefty price tag!
Oh my gosh, both of those would totally make my day! I get ridiculously excited if I buy froyo with someone and they don’t want the punch/don’t have a card and I get it instead…
Hahahaha. This is a perfect Monday morning post. I love that your new booty shorts got you all kinds of action at the gym (even closer to renewing my membership!). Hilarious x 10000. So much free stuff!
Free is awesome! I do the same thing for my lunch bag … I use those reuseable shopping bags. For some reason, no one wants to steal the stuff I bring for me lunch … lol. I see my garden as free stuff too! Even though it wasn’t really free, it kinda seems like it!
I freaking love your hair. LOVE.
And I also love your arm musclessssss! haha
I love your post! I am literally laughing right now you are too cute! ALl of those nanners WOWZERS! I use those reusables for EVERYTHING! Travel, lunch, gym bag you name it! I love when Forever 21 gives free ones so I always stock up! Love and Shine CourtStar
Hey that girl looks like she can spot a bargain…. hahaha. That made my night. Thank you.
I love freebies! I think it is genetic, my Dad is a freebie star and at race events when they give away free samples he goes back to the same booth multiple times. I take the cast aways from my sisters clothes even though they don’t really fit properly. That’s probably the most recent freebie I have gotten
I am a total bargain shopper – I will not buy a thing unless I have too or it is super cheap! I can’t believe you got all those bananas!!
hahahahahahahaha!