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The best things in life are free. A very wise person once said that, and we agree wholeheartedly, which is why we present to you: Free Friday! This week’s offers include free food, free cleaning products and more.

Chick-Fil-A has a free food breakfast offer.

Chick-Fil-A earns the top spot among this week’s Free Friday offers for free food. The fast-food chain is offering a free breakfast entrée to anyone who makes a reservation on their web site, starting Monday, Aug. 29. Give yourself a reminder to make said reservation on Monday.

Ruby Tuesday, which has been making a HUGE Free Friday push with a number of offers for free food in recent weeks, is back at it again. Simply “Like” their Facebook page and fill out a form and you will receive a free appetizer. (Thanks Saving Cents With Sense)

Panda Express didn’t want to be left out of the Free Friday fun, so they have an offer for free food as well. By printing out and using this online coupon, you will receive a free entrée item with the purchase of any 2 or 3-entrée item plate.

Dannon is putting forth a major effort to promote its new Oikos greek yogurt product, and as such is handing it out for free! Note: In CA, LA and NJ, this Free Friday offer for free food will come in the form of a mailed $1 coupon, instead of an actual yogurt.

We’ve recently highlighted a few Free Friday offers for dog food, but this week it’s time to give the cats some love. Visit the Purina Pro Plan Facebook page and complete a short form to get a can of free food for your kitty. (Thanks Eeendeavors)

Free Friday means a free food offer for your cat!

From free food to free cleaning products. Having eaten all that stuff, you need to brush your teeth, after all. Enter this Free Friday offer from Walmart. Just for finishing a brief survey, you can get a sample of Crest Complete toothpaste. (Thanks The Daily Goodie Bag) NOTE: This deal is expired!

While the next free cleaning products offer requires a bit of time, it is definitely worth the effort. By filling out a somewhat lengthy survey, you can obtain a sample of Blemish Fighting Ice Cleanser product from the top-notch brand Bioré. See, told you it was worth the effort.

Though not a free food or free cleaining products offer, this last one is so cute we just had to include it in Free Friday. Tiny Prints is offering an adorable free Christmas greeting card. You might not be thinking about Old St. Nick right now, but getting a card now will surely save you some time and money in December. (Thanks Saving the Family Money)

We hope you enjoyed this edition of Free Friday and tell us in the comments your favorite offer.

It seems like just yesterday the kids got out for the summer, but it’s already back to school time. Hence the decision to feature back to school discounts in this edition of our popular blog feature Steals of the Week.

We’ll start with the most obvious of the back to school discounts: backpacks and a lunch container! A seller in El Cajon, CA is offering two used backpacks and a lunch container for just $5! That’s certainly a Steals of the Week worthy price.

Next up among the Steals of the Week back to school discounts is a hand-held calculator for sale in Corona, CA for only $20. Sure, it’s a real estate calculator, but it will certainly come in handy at school as well.

For the pre-schoolers and kindergartners comes this Steals of the Week entry. It’s a fun count app for the iPad that helps little kids learn how to count. And it costs only 99 cents – back to school discounts under a buck rock!

Style is so important to kids these days. Why not take advantage of back to school discounts that help you get them looking fashionable? This Steals of the Week item is a kids tie-dye t-shirt for only $10 in Glendale, AZ. Note: Shipping is not included.

Alright, enough with the small stuff, we are wrapping up our back to school discount with a scanner. But not just any scanner, an Epson Pro GT-S50 scanner! It comes in at a Steals of the Week quality $349 price tag in Dana Point, CA.

As always, please leave us any Steals of the Week you’ve found by searching the PennySaverUSA classifieds in our comments.

Next to Free Friday, this is our favorite kind of blog post. The one where we highlight the many amazing online contests we are holding!

Earning the distinction as the headliner among the current online contests is our PennySaverUSA coupon contest. Share with us your best coupon experience in 250 words or less and you will have a chance to win a $250 cash prize!

Enter the SaverTime Tweet2Win contest!

Think about it, you will receive at least a $1 a word if you win the contest – not a bad pay rate. The winner will be determined by a panel of PennySaverUSA judges, and there aren’t a ton of entries, so your chances of winning are strong.

Next up is the latest of the incredible online contests from our daily deal site SaverTime.com. SaverTime is making its first foray into the Tweet2Win arena and will be randomly giving out one $25 gift cards every hour from 9-5 on Friday to registered users who follow @SaverTime on Twitter and retweet the message: “Follow @SaverTime and RT to win a $25 Gift Card every hour on Friday 8/26!“ between now and 5 p.m. Friday.

As an aside, let’s take some time to send congratulations to Carrie M. who won six months of free gas & groceries from SaverTime!

For our Florida readers, The Flyer is offering trips to Disney World, Nassau Beach, the Florida Keys and Coco Key Water Resort for lucky winners. Those are some sweet online contests!

Stay tuned for even more online contests on the way and check us out on Facebook.

It’s time for another edition of Make Money Monday – the feature where we try to help you get a job.

This week we will highlight five of the major employment categories on the PennySaverUSA.com classifieds. After all, the best way to kick-start your effort to get a job is by looking at professions with the most demand.

Get a job by scanning the PennySaverUSA.com classifieds.

The automotive industry is rebounding and that is reflected in the number of automotive openings on PennySaverUSA.com. Get a job in a variety of different roles, from mechanic to office manager.

One field that never lacks for openings is sales. There are lots of opportunities in sales on PennySaverUSA.com and it’s a good place to look if you want to get a job.

The financial services sector has taken a bit of a hit in recent years, but many openings still remain. Get a job in this broad industry today by checking out the PennySaverUSA classifieds.

Beauty care never wanes – or at least it seems that way. Scan the dozens of openings in the PennySaverUSA.com classifieds to get a job in this burgeoning field.

Another steady area to search if you want to get a job is customer service. Peruse the slew of openings in the PennySaverUSA.com classifieds.

We wish you all the best in your attempts to get a job and let us know in the comments if you are hiring, so we can highlight your opening.

A week wouldn’t be complete without Free Friday! This week we’ve got a variety of free offers that are useful for every member of the family.

Macy’s is making its first appearance in Free Friday with one of this week’s top free offers for teenagers. The department store is having a special American Rag Back to School promotion through its texting service. To get a free clutch purse, text RAGGEDGIFT to 62297 and to get a Young Men’s t-shirt, text RAGGEDTEE to 62297. (Thanks Girls With Coupons)

Among the Free Friday free offers: Burberry fragrance!

From Macy’s to Chuck E. Chees’s. The quintessential kids’ funhouse has a free offer for 10 tokens. All you have to do is print out one of their rewards calendars and mark it with a pen to show that your child accomplished any of a number of different things, bring it to the local Chuck E Cheese’s and they will give you the tokens. (Thanks the Frugal Free gal)

Next up are a couple of free offers from top-of-the-line luxury brands for mom and dad. Armani Sport is giving away a free sample of its new fragrance for men if you fill out a short form (click on the free sample button to the right of the page). Burberry, meanwhile, is giving away a free sample of its new fragrance for women if you like their Facebook page and fill out a short form.

This is a good day for our male readers to get some free offers. In addition to the Armani Sport fragrance above, you can also request a free sample of Aveda Men Pure Performance Aftershave. Click on the bottom link on the right side for the sample! (Thanks Time 2 Save)

With fall fast approaching, those of us that suffer with allergies have to prepare. BreatheRight which has a free offer for a sample is a great way to open up those nasal passages. Just register with their web site to receive your free sample.

Walgreens deserves credit for having some of the best free offers on a consistent basis, and they did not disappoint this week. Saturday only, they are handing out a free 8×10 collage print — perfect for your family summer photos. Just make sure you use the coupon code (PRINTONE).

Closing out Free Friday is another of the free offers from Coastal Contact. They are giving away 5,000 free frames today only, so don’t waste any time in capitalizing on this free offer.

One last reminder. Don’t forget to check out the free stuff section of PennySaverUSA.com to find more great freebies, including this one for a computer cable.

It’s a time-honored institution here on the PennySaverUSA blog. If you are a new reader, let us introduce you to this esteemed feature: Steals of the Week! In this edition we will cover discounted tools.

Harbor Freight is one of the nation’s leading stores in which to find discounted tools, and they did not disappoint with their latest sale. They have a wide array of items on sale for up to 80% off. Now that’s a Steals of the Week caliber sale right there.

The next Steals of the Week entry in the discounted tools category comes to us from a seller in Madisonville, TN. His ad is outstanding and so is his price: $100 (or best offer) for a full-featured Scroll Station Saw from Dremel. Snatch this one up right away.

Any time a brand new grinder – made by Makita, no less – is available for just $80 (or best offer) that’s going to make Steals of the Week. The seller is located in San Bernadino, CA and says he has even more discounted tools for sale.

It’s nice when you can get discounted tools with the original case and charger. A seller in Hermosa Beach, CA is offering his Coleman Powermate Cordless Drill for just $40. A useful item at a Steals of the Week worthy price tag.

We had to include one low-cost Steals of the Week option for discounted tools. This 5-piece Husky nut-driver set is being sold for just $5 in Murrieta, CA. Not bad eh?

Please let us know if you’ve found any Steals of the Week quality items in our comments.

Grandparents Day is coming up soon (Sept. 11) and PennySaverUSA has come up with a creative way to say thanks to that special grandparent in your life.

By following and tweeting @PennySaverUSA with the hashtag #pennyshout, you can have your free message printed in the local PennySaver.

The one key thing to remember is to include the zip code in your tweet, so we know which PennySaver publication in which to print the message.

That’s not the only way to get a free message printed in the PennySaver for your grandparents, however. If you happen to not have a Twitter account, you can also If you don’t have a Twitter account, you can also send in your free message the old fashioned way through the phone or fax.

The number to call is (800) 995-3333 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (800) 995-3333 end_of_the_skype_highlighting and the fax is (760) 599-1505.

The deadline to get in your free Father’s Day message is Thursday, Sept. 1.

As for gift ideas for your grandparents, look no further than PennySaverUSA.com and SaverTime.com.

Our online classifieds feature a number of exceptional items that your grandparents would surely love, while SaverTime.com provides up to 90% off good and services that would be great for your grandparents.

If you don’t have Twitter or a phone, please leave your #pennyshout in the blog comments and we will make sure it gets included.