Birthday Freebies

There are many things you can get for free from brands on or around your birthday. Did you know that? These offers can vary drastically, but one of the most essential steps to qualifying is to be pre-registered. Do not sign up for birthday discounts on the day of and hope it's gonna work out. It may, but some offers will necessarily be unavailable.

. Instead, you must plan in advance and register your date of birth with these companies ahead of time. First, start a search online to see which companies offer birthday freebies. These can range from meals, gift cards, small trinkets, etcetera. Who wants to eat a free sample on their birthday? That’s birthday meal time! Correct!

However, a lot of these companies will extend their offer for a week or two proceeding as well as the following week. This lets you extend the birthday spirit a little bit and mitigate that birthday come down, the day after.

REGISTER A SPAM EMAIL FOR SPAMMY ACCOUNTS

The last thing we’d ever want to do is actually give these companies our email addresses. So register a SPAM email. I cannot overemphasize this enough. As the great documentary, Social Dilemma taught us, we are in an exploitative attention extraction economy. Your inbox is full of paths and distractions that are created by someone else. They are not what you envisioned for yourself.

This can often be helpful and lead to unknown information, knowledge, and opportunities. However, most of the time your inbox is filled with commercialized drivel trying to commodify your attention or convert you into a customer.

In the age where every time you want to have a sandwich at a store they’re throwing an app offer your way, these spam emails are of critical importance.

Protect your time.

A great starting point is this website. You may recognize the website from providing rather reputable promo codes. I will cover promo codes in a later blog on this series of Basic Consumer tips. Retailmenot does a great job of breaking down the birthday freebies into edible and retail categories. It’s a great jump-off point.

https://www.retailmenot.com/blog/birthday-freebies.html

Closing Thoughts about Birthday Freebies.

Most of these freebies are offered by huge corporations that sell poison. There are some health food brands and companies that offer birthday incentives. It is certainly feasible to create a well-rounded healthful celebration of birthday freebies, but by far, they are mostly unhealthy. Sometimes that’s ok and needed, and sometimes the options one has are minimal or restrictive. If you have the ability, do the research! Don’t just check off of the “birthday freebies list”; consult with companies, brands, and stores that you like and ask if they have any birthday discounts, incentives, or freebies. This is the better strategy for getting something that actually matters to you.

If you’re simply looking to maximize without regard for personalization or specifics, it is quite possible to put the nearest date on every single hyper-corporate company’s birthday incentives list. (I’d be safe and put a few weeks out so you don’t have to wait a few years)

A google search of “McDonald’s birthday free… immediately brought up a link to fill out some information.” There you would enter your birthday (or rapidly approaching date) and repeat for many corporate companies. You could theoretically spread the dates out such that you’re collecting birthday meals year-round* You would need to be sure that ID was not required, which is more plausible than it may seem. The reason being, because your birthday had been registered and your discount could likely come from an automated email.

My favorite birthday freebies I’ve ever cashed in on are Juice Generation, where I got a dessert-y smoothie. The second was Juice Press, which provided me with 20 dollars in spending. I believe they have eliminated this wildly generous discount. However, there are many gems out there. So don’t forget to commodify your birth date.

I would like to end this hyper-commercialistic blog with a corny but true sentiment. All this free shit, and gifts and yada yada. The only thing I care about is attention and love from people I care about on my birthday. That’s all a gift represents anyways… coupled with the thoughtfulness, time, and financial investment and of course the joy a little materialism brings.

This coming birthday, the thing I want most is to talk to my best friends and spend time with them doing things we (I) love. The sun, weather, activity, and motion are playing an increasingly large role in my joy these days. I do not think I am alone.

All That being said, I look forward to helping you save and get scrappy. I really value taking away all we can from corporations and saving what we can for ourselves. This will take the form of more radical (farming! ) steps, but until then, saving money in simple consumer ways is something I’d like to spread.

I love you all thank you so much for your readership.