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Easter weekend rules: 1. Hide & Seek! 2. Fingerpaint fragile things. 3. Cover your body in beastly pastels. 4. Ride dirty with Grandma. 5. Play Freaker Friday! 6. Rinse & Repeat. Alright, kids. The place is here, the time is now. Let's do this. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring coin pouches from Vaalbara Designs! Handmade in Venice, California, Vaalbara bags are the perfect embodiment of bohemian surf life. The leather is purchased locally, the fabrics are collected from around the world, and a portion of each sale goes to the SurfRider Foundation. Vaalbara coin pouches are the perfect size for credit cards, keys, questionable substances and, sure... coins. Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Twitter and let us know where you plan to hide your easter eggs this year with the hashtag #Freakerbara for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

One of our favorite parts of working at Freaker USA is the absurdity of our Freaker-naming process. If everything goes downhill tomorrow, it's a pretty safe bet to say that we'd find the closest nail polish factory, hide in the corners, sleep on the floors, and manically name every hue in the line. On that note... it's Freaker Friday. Let's do this. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring soy-based artisanal candles from Pommes Frites Candle Co! Handcrafted in downtown LA, Pommes Frites small-batch candles are created with domestically grown soy wax, cotton core wicks, fine fragrance oils, and apothecary inspired packaging. With simple design and earthy scents (Amber&Moss! Teakwood&Tobacco! CAMPFIRE!), these are the most unisex-y candles we've ever found. Each winner also gets a Glaucoma Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Imagine you run a fancypants candle company. Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a comment with what your best selling scent would be named for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!  

This week we're featuring one of the most badass companies we've found in... maybe forever. Enough of this yibber-yabber, let's get to the good stuff: WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring waxed canvas lunch bags from Frost River! Handcrafted in Duluth, MN, Frost River is old school in all the right ways. Their quality bags are specifically made for extended use. Need a backpack that you can use, abuse, then pass down to the grandkids? Done and done. Design, craft, and the American Dream all rolled up in a lunch bag? I'm for it. I'm extra for it. Each winner also gets a Lumbersmack Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: We'll keep this week's contest simple. Get on Instagram and show us why you need a durable, hand crafted, waxed canvas lunch bag with the hashtag #FrostFreaker for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

This time of the year always brings about the same question: Will I be living in a transient boxtruck-house this summer? Travel plans are fuzzy, ephemeral, and seemingly untied to any reality of winter. Now is the time to dream big and set the wheels in motion to make it happen. Are you ready? Irrelevant question. Get ready. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring printed tote bags from Lady Alamo! Made with love in San Francisco, Lady Alamo uses natural materials and wanderlust imagery. Inside you will find snap-buttons that make the opening smaller and transform the shape of your bag. Imaginary cities, trams, parks and critters have been hand printed on each! Each winner also gets a Forget Me Now Freaker! (Total retail value: $44) HOW TO ENTER: Get on Twitter and let us know what your real OR surreal travel plans are for the summer are with the hashtag #FreakerAlamo for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

March! It's madness. We finally convinced everyone in our office to do a bracket, which has resulted in "Gorgonzola University" and "Stone Cold Stephen F. Austin" in the final four. Alright, kids. Game. On. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring $35 gift certificates to Prinstant Replays! Printed in Nashville, Prinstant Replays is the perfect union of sports history and good design. Remember that special moment when your team made you proud to be a native somethin-or-another? Hold on to that feeling. Forever ever? Forever ever. Each winner also gets a 1 Chainz Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook and leave a comment on this photo letting us know what your game-day superstitions are. Do you secretly wear your high-school basketball thong during every game? Do you hang upsidedown for half an hour chanting the names of your top players? Do you have a personal team of rain-dancers perform at your dive bar before the game? Good. We want to know about it. Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Full disclosure: We recently filmed a rap video. The editing process isn't finished, so footage is currently being quarantined from public view. None of that matters. What matters is that we filmed a rap video, putting us infinitely closer to completing our life goal of releasing a rap video. We're feeling particularly "hustle worthy" and it's our sworn duty to spread that feeling to you. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 6 care packages to give away this week featuring a collection of 5 designer temporary tattoos from Tattly! From our personal favorites up at Studiomates and Swiss-Miss in Brooklyn, every Tattly is designed by a professional artist who get a percentage of each sale. Printed with vegetable based ink in Brooklyn, they are 100% safe and 150% awesome. Each winner gets an assortment of 5 Tattlys and a Goonie Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us your DIY temporary tattoos with the hashtag #Freakertat for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

You know that little kid that spends all day in the woods collecting twigs that look like giraffes? It's the same kid that started a secret stamp collection at the age of 3. The kid that has jars and jars and jars of found dragonfly wings and baby teeth and rocks and pogs and coins and sharks teeth and arrowheads and missing keyboard letters. That kid. We love that kid. Are you that kid? Everybody is kind of that kid, don't lie. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 7 care packages to give away this week featuring the collector’s dream pieces from Sultana Maria Jewelry! We have a variety of little-trinkets-in-jars necklaces and fancy-rock rings for you to choose from. The jar choices include gemstones, glitter, bones, and flowers! All jewelry is handmade by a little bird living in New Jersey named Sultana. She specializes in special things!Each care package also comes with a Unicorn On The Cob Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Twitter and let us know what you find yourself collecting with the hashtag #FreakerCollect for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Everybody has a dark side. That’s undebatable. It’s unofficial fact. The only thing left to determine is how dark is dark. Do you read the iTunes terms and conditions for thrilling entertainment? Do you film yourself sleeping and then watch the videos on your commute to work? Do you wait all year for Halloween just so you can take off all your clothes and run naked backwards through a cornfield wearing a Scream mask? Good. You’re not alone. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring Calaveras designer playing cards from Dead On Paper. Meticulously designed to line up with Day of the Dead history, each suite represents a specific section of society. History class + fine art + magic tricks = the perfect storm. Just like Freakers, Chris Ovdiyenko got his Calaveras project off the ground with community support via Kickstarter. Just like Freakers, Calaveras are all made in the USA. Just like Freakers, these are awesome. Each care package also comes with a Sugar High Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a comment with your silliest dark habit. Do you secretly suntan in blacklights? Do you freeze your bananas just so they turn black? Fill us in on these weird little habits for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Freaker Fridays are always fun, but today we have an extra special treat for you. Have you entered a Freaker Friday in the past with absolute certainty that you deserve the trophy prize, only for your hopes and dreams to be squashed when you don’t win? Good news for you, Bubba. Every now and then, a Freaker Friday winner fails to send us their shipping address. Mmmhm, you heard right. We have a collection of unclaimed Freaker Friday prizes! Every single one of them is from a hearty small business that decided to manufacture quality goods in the USA. Every single one of them is waiting for you. Ladies and gentlemen, this is your second chance. Carpe freakin’ diem, guys. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 7 care packages to give away this week! Each winner will get their choice of one of the following presents and a Sour Puss Freaker! -DENIK notebook (art art art notebooks art notebooks art!)-Tote bag from Out Of Print (for book worms and illiterates alike!)-Assorted Tattly pack (designer temporary tattoos to scare your mom & impress your enemies!)-Beer soap via Damn Handsome Grooming Company (it’s good. It’s really really good.)  -Passport cover from 11:11 (jet setting & heart stealing!) -Canvas pocket-notebook from Emgie Libris (to-do your lists in super style)-Cuppow (canning-jar lunchbox compartmentalization for the win!) HOW TO ENTER: The term "grab bag" can be interpreted in different ways. Get on Instagram and show us the strangest thing we would find if we grabbed something in your bag. Use the hashtag #FreakerGrab for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

How are you feeling today? Hm? Are you SO EXCITED YOU JUST CAN'T CONTAIN IT? Are you sulking through your office mumbling rude words about "breeders?" Are you more focused on the fact that it's Friday than the unspoken rule that you must "play nice" for 24 hours? Valentines Day is more than just a holiday about love, so lighten up. It's a holiday about flaunting absurd pet names. Let's celebrate the snoogie woogie boos of the world. Together. Forever. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 6 care packages to give away this week featuring DODOcases for iPhone 5! Handcrafted in San Francisco, DODOcase will protect your robots from extinction using traditional bookbinding techniques. Each care package comes with an iPhone 5 DODOcase and a Vegan Freaker! "The DODOcase philosophy is simple: make things locally and help keep the art of bookbinding alive and well by adapting it to a world of digital devices. Our skilled craftsmen make beautiful products to meet today's modern needs using age-old techniques that need preserving. It's a happy marriage of tradition and technology." HOW TO ENTER: Get on Twitter and share your favorite "pet name" with us with the hashtag #DODOfreaker for your chance to win! (No, it doesn't have to be for a lover. Yes, interpret it however you want to.) Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

This is our first day back in the office since Monday. The entire south-east turned into a solid sheet of ice for three days. What we learned in those three days is the absolute diversity of how people deal with “cabin fever.” The first day was all fun-times and snowballs. The second day was data entry and Netflix. By the third day, some of us were manically attaching mattresses to pickup trucks "for sleds", while others were making deranged fan pages for NASCAR drivers on Angelfire.com. Yes, all of these stories are true. Now we want to know what strange things you find yourself doing after 3 days of cabin fever. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING THIS WEEK: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring $30 gift codes from Halflife USA! Each one of their impossibly-soft shirts is made from locally sourced materials and manufactured in the USA! Ambitious and motivated, the guys over at Halflife are on a mission to restructure how society views the cycle of homelessness in our communities. Not only does 10% of each sale goes to a shelter of your choice, but they’ve also set up mobile programs for transitional employment. Keep on freakin on, Bubba. Each care package also comes with a Freaker of your choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Twitter and let us know what activities keep you occupied during a spell of cabin fever with the hashtag #HalfFreaked for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Everyone, consciously or not, forms habits with their words. We’ve recently noticed some of our own patterns. For example, we dissproportionately call "un-saucy" things “saucy." Nobody is quite sure where “chicki chicki boom boom” came from, but we overuse the saying without shame. An overwhelming amount Ricky Martin quotes. The word “getchu.” And the staggering amount of times we’ve called a person “little bird.” It might be time to shake the habit and flip the bird. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING THIS WEEK: We have 8 care packages to give away this week featuring bags from Flipped Bird! The lovely folks at Flipped Bird hand make reversible bags right here in the US of A. This week’s care packages include one of their reversible tiny bags, a 3 pack of their snagless hair ties and a Furbie Spice Freaker! (total retail value: $41) HOW TO ENTER: Do you flip out, flip your flops, or flip a coin? Get on Instagram and show us what you can flip with the hashtag #FreakerFlipped for your chance to win!