Blog!

  There is something so warming about the word "home" that it can be used as a precursor to an otherwise limp word. Home team. Home run. Home base. Home fry. Home skillet. It's comfortable, inviting, and also awesome. On cold winter days like today, home is the ultimate sweet spot. Today we come together to give home-turfs everywhere a digital standing ovation. Hip hip hooray! WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the undeniable radness of Oxford Pennant!! Inspired by American sports traditions, these guys make wool & cotton pennants with a distinctly modern twist on vintage feels. That new nostalgia, y'all. Oxford Pennants use natural stocks (no synthetics!) and manufacture 100% in the USA. Their designs range from cities and state pride to personal mantras and Americana folklore. Each winner gets a gift code for an Oxford Pennant & a pair of Freaker Feet of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments why your home turf is worth rooting for. Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Repurposing. It's everywhere and it's awesome. It's 2016 and there is virtually nothing we haven't repurposed as a society. Grandmother's piano? Hope you don't play because it's now a shelf. You gonna use those extra drain pipes? Cool. I'm going to open a hotel. An empty 2 liter? New shoes! Penguin hats! THE FUTURE OF OPTICS! The possibilities are beautiful and infinite, but it's Friday so let's exploit them. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the refined elegance of Standard Wax! These minimalist candles are A+ in the scent department and after the flame is gone, the ceramic containers provide a perfect home-accessory with utilitarian purpose! In their own words, "What started as simply making holiday gifts for friends has accidentally turned into our passion. What keeps us going? An obsession with unique scents, practical art, the idea of repurposing everyday goods and a ridiculous amount of beer." Bravo, you fine fine folks. Bravo. Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us what the word "repurpose" means to you with the hashtag #FreakerWax for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

  Nicknames can be super fun. Until you're in love. Then, out of nowhere you're getting called "hottie poopsie smoo" by your favorite person - and even though you know they don't mean to call you "a burning pile of tiny shits" it still feels wrong. Romantic pet names are always weird and often inexplicable. Is is for that reason alone that we're hopping in a warm bath of smooki-mush poptart jujujiggles, with a little help from our friends... WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the luxury of The Soaking Tub! Responsibly sourced. Small batched. Uniquely crafted. Botanically-based. The Soaking Tub makes bath products with the care and quality that sets passionate small-businesses apart from prepackaged mass production. Each winner will get orange soy soaking salts, blood orange + rose bar soap, and a pair of Sugar Britches Freaker Feet socks! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a comment with the oddest romantic pet-name you've been called for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

The power of hugs is real. A genuine squeezy embrace can brighten the darkest of days. The only problem with good hugs is that you need a caring person in your immediate vicinity to give you one. What if you're stranded in Sibera?! What if you're surrounded by people without arms? Or even WORSE - jerks that don't use their arms for good? These are the hard-pressing issues of our time. The only solution? Learning how to share meaningful hugs with non-humans. We're here to help. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the handmade wonders of Owl Ridge Farmstead! Owl Ridge is a real-life fairytale about a husband and wife dream-team living in the Blue Ridge Mountains, hand-making quality items from natural ingredients. Because they can. And they love it. And they're sweet and perfect and this is what small business IS at it's purest core. (Plus, it doesn't hurt that they're super-duper good at what they do.) Le sigh... America, we love you deeply. We have a handknit wool watch-cap, a leather wallet, pumpkin spice candle, antler tip necklace, and leather wrapped copper cuff all up for grabs. Each prize is a loving embrace passed down from the makers. All winners also get a Hedge Hug Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us a non-human thing (ANYTHING!) that you want a hug from. Use the hashtag #FreakerFarm for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand." -Mark Twain Mischief! Intrigue! Cunning wit! Endless adventure! The all-American hero always seems to be a bit raunchier, rebellious, and a tad more ...criminal... than their cultural peers. What makes it work is a winning combination of bravery and humor. No, this is not about to turn into a plug for another dumdum Vin Diesel movie. It's a plug for a super rad Mark Twain movie. ( #GrowingUp ) WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 7 care packages this week featuring signed movie posters for the upcoming slam-dunk crime-comedy indie-film Band of Robbers! Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry Finn. Modern Day. All grown up. Petty criminals. Corrupt cops. Hidden treasure. Wild adventure. Absurdist humor. 10/10 game on. See the trailer here! There are six Band of Robbers posters signed by the cast (Kyle Gallner, Adam Nee, Matthew Gray Gubler, Hannibal Buress, etc) and one Being Evel poster signed by producer and infamous jackass, Johnny Knoxville. Each winner also gets a Freaker with another classic character reimagined - Genghis Khangratulations! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments which classic character you would want as a modern-day partner in crime. Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Everybody wants to change the world - the only thing that divIdes us is how. Some work hard to protect our oceans, some feed the hungry, some fight tirelessly for global human rights, some spend 100% of their time trying to repeal health care, some put on suits, some yell at people in suits, some bring art to the masses, and some just want to free Gucci Mane. Turns out changing the world is a team effort. Let's figure this shit out. (AKA WE COMING FOR YOU, GUCCI.) WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring Love Bottles! This company is ambitious optimism & fierce positivity in material form. The fine folks at Love Bottles are changing the world, in the little big ways. Here's how: 1. By donating cashmoney to charities around the world for every bottle sold 2. Supporting neighbors and community by manufacturing in the USA. 3. Distributing statistics / reality checks about the harms of plastic bottles. 3. Spreading love far and wide. It is with great honor that we help with this mission today. (Learn more about their sweet hearts & big efforts here! ) Each winner also gets a pair of Sock Lobster Freaker Feet! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments how YOU want to change the world for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Deeeeeeeeeep breath EAT THE AIR! Can you tell?! It's a New Year! 2015 was an all-star (thanks guys!!) but this is the week where we all babble on about fresh starts, resolutions, and second chances. Every now and then a Freaker Friday prize goes unclaimed. This week we're giving some of our favorites a second chance for a new life with you! Ready, set, GO: WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring a hodgepodge of American-made goodness. From porcelain flasks (Edgewood Made!) to local sea salts (Sea Love!) to swoony moon prints (Mary Ordog!!) to mason jar drinking lids (Cuppow!), there's a little taste for everyone. Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! Let the games begin. HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us your New Years Resolution in action. Use the hashtag #FreakerYear for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

We all know the story of St. Nicholas, the fat guy who really loves your mom's cookies, breaking and entering, and asking children he doesn't know how naughty they've been. But do you know the story of Krampus? Krampus is the German Dungeon Porn equivalent of Santa Claus. He is an ancient legend. A goat-y demon that kidnaps bad children during the holidays. A terrifying monster with a face only a mother could love, Krampus is back in town for Christmas, poor devil. And we're here to welcome him. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We're giving away 5 care packages featuring handmade hotsauce from Poor Devil Pepper Company! Poor Devil is a labor of love and spice. One might think that being made in small batches with organic peppers from local farms in Hudson Valley & the Bershires was special enough, but Poor Devil takes it one step further: All Poor Devil hot sauces are preserved via raw lacto-fermentation - a process that takes time but maintains the super flavor of the fresh peppers more than normal vinegar based sauces. R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Each winner also gets a pair of Freaker Feet socks of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments why Krampus is coming for you this year. The naughtiest kids win the treasure! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Christmas season is in full force and the pressure is on the find/pick/buy the perfect gifts for everyone you know. Here are some tidbits of freak wisdom: 1. You're awesome. Your gifts should be as awesome as you are. Christian Slater's Gleaming the Cube level of awesome. 2. Made in America matters. When you buy American, you're helping your neighbor afford gifts that are also as awesome as you are. And the cycle keeps on giving. 3. If you play your cards right, you can win awesome American made gifts! But what American made gift could possibly be equally awesome to you-ness? I'M SO HAPPY YOU ASKED. Freaker + Aluminati are here to save your day. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We're giving away 5 care packages featuring Anyway Boards from Aluminati Skateboards. Aluminati makes quality old-school cruiser boards out of recycled aluminum with full wrap graphics, and they manufacture stateside in California! Win/Win. We get to see the Aluminati guys at trade shows twice a year, and their perma-smiles, belief in American manufacturing and general radness always put us in the right state of mind. In their own words, "You can ride anyway you want with the Anyway freestyle cruiser. 27.5″ in length and 6.5″ wide with a uniform nose and tail means this board is one fun ripper great for the streets or park." Shred the gnar, dude. Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us your coolest trick (interpret that however you'd like!) with the hashtag #BoardFreakers for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Since our official release of the DC Comics Freaker line earlier this week, we've been seeing superpowers in the everyday person. We're all heroes. Some people save crying babies from burning buildings. Some people annihilate terrorists. Some people deliver pizza. Some people just really like wearing capes. Some people make gourmet marshmallows. We salute you all. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We're giving away 5 care packages featuring gourmet marshmallow sets from Wondermade! The story of how Wondermade came to be is simple, heartwarming, and perfect: It all started as a Christmas gift, an act of love. Learning how to make candy for a dear one. And since you can't cook just one marshmallow, the love (&candy) naturally started to spread. Everything else followed. Love & Marshmallows, y'all. It's so unbelievably happy that they even have a Ted Talk about it. On the product: gourmet marshmallows in extremely awesome flavors (Pumpkin Pie, Eggnog, BOURBON?!), handmade in Florida in the cutest candy cafe this side of Japan. Sold. Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: You have been awarded with a weirdo superpower. What could it be?! Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a comment with your number #1 oddball superpower choice for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Here at Freaker USA, we pride ourselves in being equal-opportunity swag appreciators. Do you paint yourself up like a carnival clown when nobody is looking? Into it. How many pieces of jewelry have you made from treasures found in the middle of the road? Bravo. Are you an 87 year old that dresses up like Kurt Cobain and a box of glitter? (Looking at you, BaddieWinkle.) Are you also a dog? Fantastic news. We have just the treat for you. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We're giving away 4 care packages featuring waxed canvas pet bowls from Wax + Cloth! At first glance, Wax + Cloth feels like the love child of a talented team of designers, makers, and dreamers. Look a little more closely and you’ll find that it is a one-man operation. Paul Kwiatkowski makes everything by hand in his hideaway in Winston Salem, North Carolina. His waxed canvas pet bowls are a perfect size, weight, feel and look for critters far and wide! Each winner also gets a Doggie Style Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us your critter's style with the hashtag #FreakerDingo for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Halloween and Election Day are always eerily close neighbors on a calendar, and we like to think that this is no coincidence. The most remembered parts about political campaigns are the skeletons in the closet that are inevitably thrown into a limelight. Blackmail and intrigue. Carlos Danger and sext-Gate. Frank Underwood is hiding under your bed and a rookie Senator is waiting for you at a rest stop in rural Alabama. Scandal ensues! Let's party. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We're giving away 5 care packages featuring dirty pencil packs from Sweet Perversion! We've always been huge fans of combining functionality and crass lewdness, but Jeannette Champion-Fanning takes it to the next level with Sweet Perversion. Although it's primarily a rad greeting card company, Sweet Perversion also offers bawdy pencil sets and wrapping paper to make even the most inappropriate of uncles blush. Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us why you couldn't run for public office with the hashtag #FreakerScandal for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!