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As the weather heats up, so does the chatter about bizarre workouts and odd health tips.  Do you lace your mustache with natural, organic, free range catnip oil? Chug a bottle of red "for your heart health"? Jog in stilettos? Juice the unjuicable? Gargoyle the toilets? (Don't know what I'm talking about? Consider yourself lucky.)  It's that time of the year. We're here to help. WEIRDO BOOTCAMP, COMMENCE!  WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the yoga design we've all been waiting for - Yeti Yoga!  Even though yoga has been dominating American workout culture, the design of yoga accessories has always failed to impress... until now! Nestled in the Pacific Northwest, Yeti Yoga manufactures mats and towels that make your eyes feel as good as your post-yoga-class body.  Each winner gets a yoga towel from Yeti Yoga, an Alpha Kale Freaker, and matching Freaker Feet socks! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and give us your quirkiest health tip in the comments for your chance to win!   Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Not only did your mom pop you into this world, she also laid the foundation for your cultural upbringing. Some mother's read classic literature to their child in the womb. Our CEO Zach's mom taught him the grace and elegance of Swedish black metal. Our designer Carlos learned the finer points of merengue dancing from his madre. What did you learn from yo' mama? Pass down what's been passed down to you. It's the culture-circle of life. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the warm-fuzzies of Sleepy Mountain! Providing pop culture master-bites to the masses, Thais Marchese and her company Sleepy Mountain are like an ice cream truck in the apocalypse. A simple smiling reminder that everything is a-okay. Whether it be Ron Swanson earrings, Wes Anderson pins, or Vonnegut stickers, Sleepy Mountain finds all the soft spots. Each winner gets a prize from Sleepy Mountain, a Golden Gulls Freaker & matching pair of Freaker Feet! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram, and show us a piece of culture you learned from yo' mama. Use the hashtag #FreakerMountain for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Today is Willie Nelson's birthday!! In celebration we're spicing up our day with uniform pigtail-braids, a fieldtrip to giggle-town, and a Freaker Friday that will forever change the way you snack on heat.  Cowboys make great heroes, and heroes make great cowboys. Howdy up rowdy up, y'all.  WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the treats you never knew existed but now won't be able to snack-without, Little Bird Chocolates!   Chocolate dipped jalapeños. Need we say more? OF COURSE WE DO: There have been countless studies about the health benefits of both spicy food and chocolate. After meeting the extraordinarily smily folks behind Little Bird, we have reason to believe that sweet spice has happiness-inducing medical benefits too! Based in Long Island, Little Bird is the lovechild of Corey and Sara Meyer - a delightful couple with curious inclinations.  Rock on, Meyer Family.  Each winner gets a pack of Little Bird chocolates, a Chile Nelson Freaker, and a pair of Chile Nelson Freaker Feet!  HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments how you spice up your life for your chance to win!  Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Family. Tradition. Reunions. Ancestral folklore. That moment when you first realize that your entire family is 100% bonkers, and then everybody embraces and celebrates the bonkiness because that's what family means. Every year, Zach's family reunites to watch high-school wrestling championships. Why? Because they just do. We've known families that pelt each other with grapes and pennies every New Years. A creepy gnome atop the Christmas tree because angels are evidently passé. A card game before each football game to see if the odds are in your favor.  Hank Williams Jr. has a couple things to say about Family Traditions. Hopefully you do too.  WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring Misc. Goods Co!  We have an intense soft spot for self-made entrepreneurs who phoenix out of the ashes of a crowdfunding campaign. Tyler Deeb is that entrepreneur. Deeply humble with a rad aesthetic, Tyler's company Misc. Good Co. makes products that make memories. Oh, and speaking of families - Misc Goods Co pays the bills for these angel creatures. Swoon. Each winner gets a set of iconic Misc Goods Co playing cards and a pair of their favorite Freaker Feet! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us your favorite family tradition. Use the hashtag #FreakerGoods for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter! 

The guilty pleasures of summer. They get weird, but by definition they are amazing. Some people's summer reading list starts and stops with Craigslist's Casual Encounters. Mexican soap operas are incredible, especially when you don't speak Spanish. We once lived with a girl who would buy fast food french fries, fast food ice cream, stir them together in a bowl, stick it in the freezer, and have a feast 3 days later. Whatever your guilty pleasure may be, we're here to cheer you on. (Except for the McFlurry frozen fries pie. Don't do that.) WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the sweet treat named Hartland Brooklyn.  Nestled away in the Catskills of New York, Hartland Brooklyn makes paper products and temporary tattoos with an aesthetic of child-like nostalgia for long summer days and junk food adventurism! Much like our own story, Emily Johnson started making tiny treasures for friends in her spare time. It wasn't long before the demand for her charming designs exceeded her handmade supply. Fast forward a couple of years and BAM - it's blossomed into a lovely, homegrown, small business spreading happiness to all! Each winner gets a choice of Hartland Brooklyn product (tattoos, nail tattoos, or greeting cards!), a pair of You Got Soft Served Freaker Feet, and a matching Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and show us your favorite guilty pleasure in the comments for your chance to win!  Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Baseball swings back into our lives this Sunday, and with it comes the aesthetic of the nation's most iconic pastime. Hotdogs and bubble gum and long summer nights and Amerrrrrrrrrica! Game on. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We're super excited have 6 care packages this week featuring one of our favorite art studios: My Favourite Colour.  This husband and wife team are a dream. They're both full time art-teachers, and in their personal time they are "celebrating the aesthetics of our most important pastimes." An aesthetic that deserves celebration, for sure. Franky and Annie have created a collection of baseball memorabilia that is overflowing with sweet nostalgia and good vibes. Homeruns all around. Each winer gets a print from My Favourite Colour Studio & a Resting Pitch Face Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us your favorite weirdo pastime with the hashtag #FreakerPast for your chance to win!  Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Provenance; noun [prä-və-ˌnän(t)s\] the place of origin // the beginning of something's existence This weekend marks the anniversary of a very old and really intense story that changed world history forever. (No, not the invent of epic breakfast foods, even though today is National Waffle Day.) A lot of people know that story. We want to know your story. We want to know all stories. STORY TIME!!!!

Did everybody have an eventful St. Patrick's Day? Can you feel your eyeballs pulsating like a disco rave in your skull today? Choose your own adventure: if I say the word "whiskey" do you want to die?  (Yes) - Then let's make you a refreshing sodapop with natural botanicals and a lot of love! (No) - Fantastic. You get a saucy cocktail (made with natural botanicals and a lot of love!)     

Batman is great. Superman is great. WonderWoman is great. Bring them together, form the Justice League, great turns into SUPAH GRATEEEEE! If only there was a Justice League for our daily villains (I'm looking at you, allergies), all would be right in the world. Community supported ass-kicking is not unlike community supported herbalism. And we're here to save your day. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the community supported herbalism all-stars, The Good Fight! Lauren Giambrone is an herbalist superhero with her organic garden lair in upstate New York. She grows, gathers and sources medicinal herbs for handmade, small batch products that promote self care and thriving health. Enrollment is happening now for her 2016 Community Supported Herbalism program! Members get a care package each season with 5 organic herbal remedies, 1 self-care surprise, and an informational booklet because knowledge is health as well as power. Learn more about the program here! Each winner gets an herbal medicine (colds? immune support? allergies? We gotchu!) and a DC Comics superhero Freaker of their choice! Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments how you're fighting the good fight. Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

"What do you do? Do you come here often? What's your sign? What are your hobbies?" Out of all the vapid generic questions you will inevitably be bombarded with throughout the course of your life, there is one that stands out. The spirit animal question. Seemingly just another piece of fluff, but little pieces of a person's true light accidentally shines through with spirit-animal explanations. I'll show you mine if you show me yours. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring The Local Branch! Mackenzie and Blaine are adventurers, makers, explorers. They are lovers of life, design, and each other. They live and work full-time nomadically out of an airstream, with the open road as a backyard. Want to see how to operate a hands-on retail store, production facility, and living headquarters in limited (& mobile!) space? See their CNN interview here! We're featuring their wild animal artwork, hand printed on encyclopedia paper. Each winner also gets a pair of Pride or Die socks and a matching Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us your wildest spirit animal. Use the hashtag #FreakerBranch for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Life is an unpredictable rollercoaster of surprises, but there is one constant that will never waiver: nobody (NOBODY) will ever be cooler than old spy movies. Secret functions and surprise identities can be applied to our everyday lives though. Vinegar doubles as a sidewalk-weed killer and olive oil as furnisher polish. Men use puppies to bait unsuspecting ladies. People use shoes as a wine openers, anchors for tiny bathtub-boats, and flying-ninja weapons towards George W. Bush. Oh you fancy, huh? It's Friday - hit me with your best shot.  WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the multi-functioning wonders of Zootility Tools!  What started as a one-man Kickstarter project has now grown into 14 employees, 4 lasers, and a bustling shop full of manufacturing equipment in Portland, ME. #AMERRRRRRICAZootility makes a handful of unique, convenient, and functional tools that are thin enough to fit in your wallet and diverse enough to get your out of a variety of sticky spots.  This week we're featuring their HeadgeHog - the really really thin wallet-comb that also functions as a bottle opener, Phillips screwdriver, phone kickstand. hex wrentches, money clip, comb, and chip clip.  Each winner also gets a Party Ferret Freaker!  HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments what your secret function is for your chance to win!  Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

The United States of America is an undeniably magical place. From the center of the world named New York City to the tropical paradise of Hawaii to the badlands to the swamplands to dessert to quaint to chaos in 0 to 60. Politicians have a predictable habit of giving themselves an absurd amount of credit for all the radness. It's never been a single person that makes America so enchanting - it's the whole package! Everybody has a role to play, and while all are important, one of our favorites = small businesses who manufacture domestically WITH FIERY PASSION! With extra excitement, we get to feature one of those fiery passion businesses in T minus 3... 2... 1... WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the hot lava pit of pure American love that is WOODCHUCK USA. Prizes include wooden notebooks, wooden flasks, and a distinct sense of flying naked on the back of an eagle over the Grand Canyon. Woodchuck's mission is simple: 1. Bring Nature back to people. 2. Bring Jobs back to America. 3. Bring Quality products back to consumers. BRING IT ON, AMERICA. (Each winner also gets their choice of Donkey Show or Donald Trunk Freakers + Freaker Feet! ) HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us one thing you do that makes America great with the hashtag #FreakerChuck for your chance to win! (Politicians be damned - you got this!) Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!