My best friend and I were talking this week about what freebies she could get for her birthday.  She asked me if I knew of any good websites to sign up for and coupon codes that are available for your birthday.  It got me thinking about all of the great deals out there that we could be getting for our birthdays so I thought I would research it and do a post about it.

I found a number of websites that if you sign up for their email, (no purchase necessary), they will send you coupons for freebies or discounts in honor of your birthday.  Here are a few of the ones that stuck out to me that I thought I would share with you.

Old Navy Canada: Sign up for their emails and get a coupon to use the week of your birthday

Starbucks: Get a free beverage from Starbucks for your birthday when you register for their rewards card

Sephora: Get a free gift for your birthday when you sign up for their free rewards card

Orange Julius: Sign up for their club and get a free smoothie or fruit drink

The Body Shop Canada: Free “Love Your Body” membership (which entitles you to 10% off all year). If you already have the card, you will receive a $10 off coupon to use instead.

Restaurants- Montanas, Dennys, Boston Pizza and a few others will give you either a free dessert, appetizer or even a free meal.  It may vary from store to store so check your local stores.

Coupon Codes: A lot of stores are jumping on the coupon code bandwagon and well send you a special coupon code for your birthday to save at their store.  Make sure to check out our coupon forum for new coupons daily.

These are just a few of many great birthday freebies out there.  If you know of some great birthday freebies let us know! A special Happy Birthday shout out to the one who inspired this post Happy Birthday Heather!

(Thanks to Will for the image)

Steven and Lina, the authors of GroceryAlerts, dropped me a line about an eBook they’ve penned. I rarely post this kind of thing on Bargainmoose, but they’ve done a lot of hard work and come up with a good resource for Canadians. The eBook details a lot of the freebies you can get on your birthday.

• Click here to get the free stuff eBook

These offers are the kind of thing you’ll see here on Bargainmoose tagged with birthday, but Steve and Lina have gone into a lot of detail, covering various categories and digging into deals for various provinces. Some of the nation-wide examples:

• Old Navy Canada – Free gift on your birthday
• Booster Juice Canada – Free 24oz smoothie on your birthday
• Marble Slab Canada – Free ice cream on your birthday
• The Body Shop Canada - Free $10 gift voucher on your birthday

Some of the restaurant and dining offer tend to be BOGO (buy one get one) or a free gift with purchase. But that’s all clearly explained in the eBook. A lot of them are totally free, like the 4 deals I mentioned above.

Sign up for the My Starbucks Rewards, and you will get a coupon in the mail for a FREE beverage for your birthday.

• Click here for your free birthday beverage @ Starbucks Canada

All you have to do is buy at least one Starbucks beverage within 12 months of registering and they will send you a Starbucks postcard within a few days of your birthday.  Bring it in to any Starbucks Canada before the expiry date and get your FREE beverage. I can’t wait to sign up for this one to get a free drink!

Thank you to our Mooser MLBR in the Barginmoose Forum for letting us know about his deal. (Pic credit to tompagenet)

Starbucks has launched a new, free Rewards Program in Canada. My Starbucks Rewards is a program that rewards customers for visiting Starbucks.

• Click here to find a Starbucks near you

To join My Starbucks Rewards,  create an account and activate and register at least one Starbucks Card to your account worth $5 or more, either in store on online .

If you already have a registered Starbucks Card that you have used within the last two years and are a current member of Starbucks Card Rewards, you will be automatically enrolled in the Green Level of My Starbucks Rewards and you’ve probably received an email with program information.

You can earn rewards by using your activated card to pay for your order at Starbucks. You’ll get one Star for each visit.

There are three levels in My Starbucks Rewards depending on the number of Stars in your account.

In the first Welcome Level, you’ll get a postcard for a free beverage of your choice as a birthday gift. To move up to the second Green Level, you’ll have to make 5 visits in one year. The Green level offers everything from the Welcome Level, free beverage customization (free select syrups and soy/lactose free milk), unlimited in store refills on brewed coffee or tea, and free tall beverage of choice when you buy one pound of Whole Bean Starbucks Coffee. You’ll also receive special email offers.

After 30 visits in one year, you’ll move up to The Gold Level. Here you’ll get everything from the Welcome and Green Levels as well as a personalized Starbucks Card, additional offers and coupons through email, and a free drink of choice after 15 additional visits.

• Click here for all the info on this Rewards program

If you are a frequent Starbucks visitor, this free program will definitely benefit you. Just for the free birthday drink alone, it’s worth buying a $5 Starbucks card!

I’m a little scared to see how many stars I’ll reach in one year. Starbucks is definitely somewhere I just can’t resist. Love, love, love the Chai Lattes there! Oh, and the frappacinos aren’t too bad either

If you sign up for the email newsletters at BoosterJuice.com, they will send you a coupon for a free birthday smoothie, when your birthday comes around.

• Click here to sign up at Booster Juice

When you click the above link, click on the orange circle called “nation.” In there, fill in the form with all your details, making sure to select your local Booster Juice store. Once you’ve done that, they will send you a confirmation email with a link to click.

I’d recommend adding your correct date of birth, don’t try and spoof it. Some stores would ask for ID when you’re redeeming a birthday coupon, as they don’t want people taking advantage of the freebies.

The free coupon can only be redeemed on the actual date of your birthday, at the store you name in the sign-up process.

There are loads of Canadian locations for Booster Juice – you can see them at the green circle with the world in it, titled “where.”

Tomorrow, the 16th of August 2010, is the official 2nd birthday of Bargainmoose Canada! Hooray!

I cannot believe I have been blogging for 2 years now! On that first day, I did a welcome post, a Bounce freebie, a Sears coupon, so I started exactly as I meant to… and continued that trend to this day. From posting 50 deals back in August 2008, Bargainmoose now has over 200 deals each month.

We’ve grown from just a few Moosers, and we’re now in the thousands, as you can see by the daily stats over there >>> under my RSS icon (over 6k daily Moosers at last count).

On a personal note, I love logging on to Bargainmoose every day to see lovely comments from the Moosers, and sometimes I even get thankful emails stating how much money I’ve saved someone. It makes me happy to hear how much you guys save!

So here’s to many more years of The Moose!

EXCITING NEWS:

Starting tomorrow, I am going to be starting a HUGE contest, the biggest I have ever undertaken on Bargainmoose. Please check in on the site tomorrow for all the juicy details, and you might be able to get your hands on some loot! You’ll be able to follow all our birthday antics on the Birthday tag. Come back and see us soon!

As my birthday just recently passed I bathed in the attention (or lack there of) of family, friends, and franchises. I’ll admit, I am a very gifty person, I really like giving them, and I really like receiving them. I subscribe to several newsletters, am a member of a few ‘clubs’ and here are some noteable ones you might want to join before your birthday comes around, and why:

• Disney Movie Rewards: They gave me a choice between 5 diff Blu-Ray DVDs to pick 1 for free, all I had to pay was the shipping cost of $2.95. A Blu Ray copy of National Treasure is on its way!

• Baskin Robbins Birthday Club: They sent me a coupon for a free ice cream cone. It was so wonderful.

• Swarovski: I’m on their mailing list and as a gift they sent me a $15 CAN online voucher good for 3 months.

I know there are many restaurants that give free food to the birthday celebrating individual, but of course they make money off the rest of the Birthday Party. I like the above 3 because they are really birthday person oriented, and one is completely free, one very reduced, and one a nice little voucher for a place I already shop.

I would love to expand this list, so does anyone else have any other items you can get for free for your birthday, or vouchers or get at a reduced price like this? Drop us a line!!

Did you know that if you join their email list, they will email you Boston Pizza coupons, including totally free food!?

Initially, they will send you a coupon for a free starter with your meal.

• Click here to join the mailing list @ Boston Pizza Canada

On my recent 1 year anniversary of joining the email newsletter, I received a printable coupon for  a free 2 topping individual pizza. The coupon was valid for a week from the date of receipt. But sadly, I cannot share the offer with you as it is a unique email – you’ll have to sign up to receive these kind of offers yourself!

On my birthday, they emailed a coupon for a free gourmet pizza or dessert. And there was also an email on Valentine’s Day, so they really don’t contact you very much.

Remember, if you’re going to be signing up to the mailing lists of companies so you can get deals in newsletters, I recommend setting up a new disposable email address, which you can use just for this purpose. For example, I use a spare gmail address where all the junk (and deals) go to!

Buy one Blizzard at regular price and get the second for 25 cents at Dairy Queen.

• Click here for Dairy Queen store locations

It’s the Blizzard’s 25th Birthday, so from April 19 to April 25, Dairy Queen Blizzards are “Buy One Get One” for only 25 cents. The second Blizzard must be of equal of smaller size.

Yum! Give me one cookie dough blizzard, and a second cookie dough blizzard! With 25 mouth watering flavours, which one is your favourite?

If you join the e-newsletter from William Coffee Pub Canada, they will email you a voucher for a free regular size specialty hot or specialty cold drink just for joining!

• Click here to join the mailing list

• Click here for Williams Coffee Pub locations

You also get birthday gifts, as I mentioned in the past. I’ve joined with one of my email addresses, so I will see if the voucher can be shared, but it’s likely to have my personal details on it.

This is an easy-peasy freebie! Sign up to the Baskin Robbins Canada mailing list online, and get a coupon for a free ice-cream on your birthday!

• Click here to sign up @ Baskin Robbins Canada

• Click here for the store locator

They will email you 5 days before your birthday.

I haven’t received this yet, so I am not entirely sure what format it comes in, and if the coupon is only valid on the exact date of your birthday.

Some companies are aware that people take advantage of these kind of offers, so they might ask to see ID when you present your coupon – keep that in mind.

If you live in Alberta, BC or Ontario, there may be a Milestones restaurant near you. On their website, they’ve uploaded a coupon to enable you to claim a free entrée on the week of your birthday!

• Click here to print your free coupon

• Click here for the Milestones locator

This is the deal: you can get the free entrée on your birthday week as long as you bring 3 paying friends with you!

The free coupon is valid to the 31st December 2010 – ages left to make use of it!

If you join the e-club online at Pizzadelight.com, they will send you a free gift (probably a coupon to redeem in-store) and a free gift on your birthday too.

• Click here to sign up on Pizzadelight.com

• Click here for the Canadian store locator

I’ve just signed up, so I hope they also send juicy offers to my inbox from time to time.

The initial freebie was regular garlic cheese fingers with any meal purchase of $5.99 or more.The coupon lasted for a few weeks from signup.

The birthday freebie I received was a free combo from the birthday menu or lunch buffet, including a drink. This one was only valid on the day of the birthday.

These deals may change throughout the year.

Here’s another nice offer from Tony Romas Canada. If you join their online mailing list, they will send you a special birthday card…

• Click here to join the Tony Romas mailing list

• Click here for the store locator

The birthday card  includes a deal to get you free ribs on your birthday! I don’t know how many ribs you get or if it is only on your exact birthday. If you find out, could you please let me know in the comments below! Cheers moosers!

It says it takes 6-8 weeks to process, so I recommend you sign up well in advance of your actual birthday.

Yum! Free food!

Chai, espresso, cappucino, coffee, tea – oh my! I like to go through my day with a near-toxic blood caffeine level, so it’s pretty safe to say that I”m a hardcore Starbucks junkie! Just seeing the color green now makes my heart beat faster! And being the parent of teenagers, I never have loose change or cash in my wallet (why does everyone need my last $5 just as I’m about to head out the door in the a.m.?!) … so I always have a Starbucks card in my purse.

Starbucks is now offering an extra incentive to register your card with them – they’re giving you a free beverage on your birthday!

• Click here to go to the Starbucks site

Why bother to register your card?

Well, registering your card will help you to get the most out of it – special rewards and benefits like a complimentary beverage on your birthday. You’ll get up to 2 hours of free Wi-Fi (the card provides the username and password needed to conect with Bell Wi-Fi). It It lets you check your balance.

You can even set up your card under the “Manage Card” feature to automatically reload when the balance falls below a certain amount -   a definite perk if your kids use your card too, it helps avoid that “what do you mean there’s not enough left on it” moment at the till! Best of all, it protects your balance if your card is lost or stolen! If you report the card lost/stolen, they can transfer the balance as of that day to a new card that they’ll mail out to you immediately!

One other perk of registering your card, it also makes you eligible for Starbucks Card Rewards which offer some sweet savings to further enhance your visit to Starbucks: free syrup and milk options for your beverage, free brewed coffee refills -hot or iced, a free tall (12 oz) beverage with your 1lb whole bean purchase, and up to 2 hrs free Wi-Fi per day.

I registered my  card, and it only took me 4 minutes (and I’m a techno-doofus!). You’ll need to enter the card number and the 8-digit Card Security Code, both which can both be found on the back of the card. You’ll need to create an account with Starbucks, entering the usual name/password/date of birth/mailing address.

When you’re entering your address, the Canadian provinces are listed below the USA states. The form does accept Canadian postal codes.

Happy Birthday to us!

Thanks to pink!