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Summer is arguably just one, big, unexpected scavenger hunt. Family day at the beach? We've all played the seashell game. Jetsetting for an exotic trip? You'll find curiosities everywhere! Rihanna famously found love in a hopeless place, and once upon a time, we even found a live squirrel in our accountant's desk drawer. Surprise! WHAT YOU'RE WINNIG: This week we have 5 care packages to give away featuring driftwood iPhone docking stations from Docksmith!  Rustic and riddled with character, each docking station is crafted from driftwood found in the magic state of Maine! The four-person small business with the backdrop of coastal Americana has so much grace, we want to nominate the whole operation for a Charm Award. Good work, team! Each care package also comes with a Freaker of your choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments what unexpected thing you've found this summer for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

  Summer is a time for roadtrips, lemonade, puppies and picnics. We try to stay as relevant as possible with Freaker Friday, but we can't physically wrap and mail a roadtrip. Lemonade is always best homemade. Puppies? Illegal for a reason. Picnics, however. Picnics. We're about to revolutionize your picnics, with a little help from our friends. Ready? Go: WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have 5 care packages to give away featuring the brilliance of Yield Design House! Yield Design House is the brainchild of an adorable duo, Rachel and Andrew, who relocated to San Francisco from North Carolina. Their products radiate a simple playfulness that's refreshing, utilitarian, and a whole wad of fun.Made in El Paso, Texas, their Picnic Bag unfolds from bag to blanket in one zip! Yes, really. I know, it's genius. The Kickstarter campaign for the bags also hosts one of the greatest lines in crowd-funding history: "[The Yield Picnic Bag] reclaims picnics from the days of over-planning.” And to that, we fist pump and yell SÍ SE PUEDE, PICNIC SKEPTICS!!! Each care package also comes with a Main Street Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us how you summer with the hashtag #YieldPicnic for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Did anybody notice that we did the entire month of June Freaker Fridays in liquids? It wasn't an accident. It was our way of pre-gaming the month of July. Why? Simply because it was the most American thing we could think of to do. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have five care packages to give away featuring the American Era pack of bitters from Dutch Spirits! The story of Dutch Bitters involves boozy mobsters, treasure hunts in the Catskills, hidden underground distilleries, and a badass view for the future. Oh, and their bitters are pretty great also. "Inspired by our nation’s colorful history, we’ve crafted bold new recipes blending unique flavors from each era to create a truly distinctive line of cocktail bitters." The American Era pack includes Colonial, Boomtown, and ProhiBitters flavored bitters. (ProhiBitters! PROHIBITTERS! DO YOU GET IT OR NO, GUYS?!) Each care package also comes with a Baberaham Lincoln Freaker! HOW TO ENTER:What's the most American thing you've ever seen? Find this graphic on Facebook and leave a photo comment with your answer for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

We're eternally proud that the USA is extreeeeeeeeeeemly good at most things. Hotdogs? Pretty sure we rule the world in hotdogs. Puppies? We're eternally proud that the USA is extreeeeeeeeeeemly good at most things. Hotdogs? Pretty sure we rule the world in hotdogs. Puppies? Our office alone could dominate a dingo-thon. The word "self evident," Willie Nelson & Snoop Dogg duets, Batman movies…As a nation, we're so good at it all! Except for one thing: Containing our World Cup excitement. We blame that on the "high self-esteem" our middle school guidance counselors gave us. Bam bam bam kow pow ding dong GOOOOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLL!

Once upon a time, we exclusively ordered gin & tonics at our favorite local restaurants (I'm looking at you, Rx & Manna) because the simplicity and genius of the classic cocktail went far beyond normal expectations. The skies would open and rain gin. And tonic. And happiness. The inexplicable perfection of these gin and tonics could only be found at these two restaurants. It was obvious that there was a secret ingredient. They knew something that we didn't. Then we found out what it was. And now we're here to share it with you. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have five care packages to give away featuring the small-batch tonic from Jack Rudy Cocktail Co! "We believe we’ve managed to create the closest possible thing to a perfect Gin & Tonic." The fine folks at Jack Rudy speak the truth. Our gin game was forever changed when we finally discovered this secret ingredient. Each bottle comes from a small batch handcrafted in the South and the company is a family operation out of Charleston, South Carolina and Lexington, Kentucky - the perfect cherry to this southern charm pie. Each care package also comes with a Don't Go Bacon My Heart Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Twitter and let us know what your secret ingredient is with the hashtag #JackFreaky for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

The early months of summer = risky business. The excitement of warmth gets us a little wonky, which in turn makes us a little winky. Longer days call for crafty cocktails and then fiction and reality get a little mushy. Fake reality is evidently really popular right now (Heyyyyyy every tv program that's not Game of Thrones!) so let's embrace the weirdy summer daze and pretend that all stories are non-fiction. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have five care packages to give away featuring craft cocktail accoutrements by Scrappy's Bitters! Scrappy's has figured out the perfect symbiosis of modern and "the Old World, utilizing small-batch, handcrafted techniques that allow [them] to control the quality of [the] product on a level not yet achievable by robots." Old-world robot-slayin' better-bitters? I'm in. Each package comes with a gift set featuring Orange, Aromatic, Lavender, and Celery bitters as well as a Dad Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a comment letting us know what reality show concept (that hasn't happened yet!) you'd like to see for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

  If who-is-crying-on-the-Oprah-Show is any indication of what the future will bring, Pharrell's Happy is going to define this summer season. Pull up your britches, blow up your hat, slap a smile on that face and get ready for infectious joy. Bring it on, babies. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have seven care packages to give away featuring self-filtering water bottles by Bobble! On a sustainability mission, Bobble's reusable water bottles kill so many birds with one stone. (Note: no birds were harmed in the freaking of this contest.) With a water filtration system built into the bottle, you can drink tap water all day with no worries and no waste. Bobbles are made in the good ol' US of A with recycled materials, and every replaceable filter is equivalent to 300 single-serve plastic water bottles. Win/Win/Win/Win. Oh, happy day.Each winner also gets a Happy Flag Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us what unexpected things make you uncontrollably happy. Use the hashtag #Frobble so we can find you! Oh, and if you have a private Instagram account, let us know and we'll follow you - we can't see your submissions otherwise! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

People that follow fashion have a secret calendar. Memorial Day is a pivotal switcharoo on what is socially acceptable and what is not. You know what else has symbolic calendar systems? Secret societies. You see where I'm going with this. Alright kids, it's Friday. Let's get conspiratorial. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have five care packages to give away featuring gift certificates to Pocket + Clothing! We're big fans of both storytelling and vintage fabric design, so by proxy, Pocket + Clothing is killing it. Here's how it works: 6 found and re-purposed fabric designs are featured for 14 days until another batch of designs take over the site's charming ADHD. You choose which fabric "speaks to you" and what shirt you'd like to sport it on, then the sew masters in Tennessee make all of your dreams come true. Kapish? Game on. Each winner also gets a Cuba Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Twitter and let us know what the secret society of fashion officially allows after Memorial Day (it can be anything! Doesn't necessarily have to relate to fashion!) with the hashtag #PocketFreak for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

April showers bring May... showers. It's been drizzling for a couple days here in the Southeast, a fact that nobody is upset about. Before the dog days of summer are officially upon us, we will gladly play in the rain. In fact, we will gladly do most things outside on pleasant day in May. Things both typical and unspeakable. Things natural and things preposterous. Things rational and things inexplicably stupid. But enough about the weather. It's Freaker Friday. Game on. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring logic-defying writing kits from Rite in the Rain! Full disclosure: we peed our pants a little when we found out that waterproof notebooks existed. Made in Tacoma, Washington, each kit comes with a notebook, fabric cover, and all-angle all-weather pen. All waterproof. Don't believe me? Video proof here. Cool stories include Lemur Ecology in Madagascar, Extreme Exploration in Australia, Cattle Breeding in Virginia, and whatever adventure you decide to take with your Rite in the Rain kit. Each winner also gets a Triple Cup Freaker! (Relevance? Make it rainnnnnnn. Right?! Sure.) HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a comment telling us what you would be able to do outside, in an ideal world. Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

This week, we're thinking big. Space is big. Space is amazing. You know what else is amazing? Earth. We're weird little critters living on a weird little planet. In 1977, two Voyager space crafts were sent into the great beyond carrying a collection of human treasures. Included in the mix were photographs, printed messages (love notes?!) and musical records so that aliens can enjoy Chuck Berry as much as we do. What would we send into space? The list is bigger than infinity ...and beyond. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring stellar pieces from Mokuyobi Threads! "Mokuyobi Threads is an out of this world company that designs bags, clothing, accessories, and general radness for the superbeings of Earth and beyond. We are led by our desire to create something different and new using bold colors, magic, and awesome sauce."Made in "The Midwest, United States, Earth," we have three hats, one backpack, and a pack of ridiculously excellent patches waiting to find their new home! Each winner also gets an Enrique Freaker, so you and your drink can be sweet-hat-twins. HOW TO ENTER: The Voyager space crafts are floating through space with musical records so that aliens will know how awesome humans are. (Yes, really.) Get on Instagram and show us what fabric pattern you would have included on the space capsules for aliens to find! Use the hashtag #MokuFreaker with your photo for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Calendrical quiz: Did you know that Mother's Day is next week? Your mom put up with you, which is arguably the toughest, dirtiest, lowest paid job in the world. She fed you, she wiped you, she loved you. Even though everything in the mom-realm is unequivocally important, we're focusing on the feeding part today. Yeah. Food is great, and mom food is the greatest. Thanks Mamabears! WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have nine care packages to give away featuring the philanthropic jewelry company Half United! Based out of Wilmington, North Carolina, (HEY! We are too! Go team!) Half United upcycles materials to make simple and charming pieces, then uses half of their profits to fight both local and global hunger. We have 7 of their signature necklaces and two pairs of earrings that winners can choose from! Each winner also gets Hooters Freaker! HOW TO ENTER:Get on Twitter and let us know why your mom is the sparkiest sparkplug in the carpool lane and the sweetest grape in the bunch. Use the hashtag #UnitedFreak for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

At least 83% of Freaker USA employees have pretended to be career rappers at least once during their time here. This past week, our terminal delusions peaked with the release of a Freaker rap video. We're not over it yet. There's a good chance that we'll never get over it, so let's at least celebrate while it's still relevant. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We're feeling particularly frisky with this rap business, so we'll have 50 winners this week! Each winner will get a 1Chainz and a Mystery Freaker! Is this what they meant by "making it rainman?" HOW TO ENTER:This week, you'll have to do two things to enter: 1.) Share the video on Facebook! 2.) Watch the video, take a screenshot of your favorite moment, and leave it as a photo comment on this graphic! 50 screenshot-applicants will get a care package! (If two people use the same exact screenshot, it will be rated on a first-come-first-serve basis. Kapish? Kapish!) Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!