Free flash drive with sweet eagle design.

Ca-caw! Want to easily download and transport pictures, music, and other data AND show your affection for America's freedom bird? Fill out this form to get a free 256MB flash drive. It does say it comes bundled with their downloading software, but those are usually pretty easy to delete or ignore.

Granted, 256MB isn't much in this crazy world of 16GB+ flash cards, but free is free! And America is free! And eagles are free, too! CAW!

BOGO Orange Julius.

Remember Orange Julius? Yeah, me neither, but apparently they still exist in some sad dirt mall somewhere in the country. (Actually, there's one in downtown Seattle, believe it or not.)

Anyway, sign up for their email club and get a BOGO coupon for a premium 20-oz smoothie, a coupon for a treat on your birthday, and... other stuff. Just make sure your parents know to pick you up outside Sam Goody afterward, so they don't embarrass you in front of your friends.

40% off Tuesdays at Old Spaghetti Factory through 5/26.

I'm not ashamed to admit that I love the Old Spaghetti Factory in all its family-dining splendor. The piles of pasta! The unlimited keep-it-coming loaves! The streetcars you can sit in! And now there's even one more reason to go: 40% off entrees on Tuesdays through May 26. No coupons needed, the prices are already on the special menu.

The promotion is to celebrate their 40th anniversary, and yeah, there will probably be even more noisy families and shrieking, spaghetti-flinging toddlers than usual, but THINK OF THE SAVINGS! And the mizithra!

Free Teasta tea samples.

Check out this offer for some free Teasta samples... you can choose up to two flavors and get free shipping with promo code TRYME. The flavors sound pretty good, like Holiday Mint, Chocolate Mint Rooibos, Earl Grey Cream, Tropical Green, and Papaya Ginger. I went for Chocolate Mint Rooibos and Earl Grey Cream myself... which ones did you pick? Leave it in the comments!

Clinique Bonus Time at Macy's!

I'm sure you ladies don't need me to tell you what a great deal Clinique Bonus Time is... with a $21.50 minimum purchase, you get a cute little beauty bag stuffed with samples and full-size products, often amounting to a basic makeup kit. My favorite qualifying purchase is the Dramatically Different facial lotion with the pump, which runs $24 but lasts a long time (more than long enough to get me to the next bonus offer).

Cute pink-and-white springy floral bags this time around, too! Check it out if you're in need of a beauty splurge.

Free 24-oz ketchup.

Check out this link for a coupon book worth $10, including a coupon for a free 24-oz bottle of Hunt's ketchup. Get an early start on those spring BBQs! Those hot dogs and hamburgers won't condiment themselves, you know.

It sounds like it might be a Walmart store coupon, so caveat emptor for you Walmart haters.

HTN is back from vacation!

The Hard Times Newsletter is pleased to announce that it has returned from vacation, and is ready to start saving you $$$ again! Well, maybe not today, because it is pretty jet-lagged and there are a lot of emails in its inbox. But still. It's the thought that counts... and right now, this sounds like a pretty good deal. $21.99 and free shipping, plus a touch of class for your next tiki party. Or workday.