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Next week, there will be a fight. Already labeled as the Fight of the Century, millions of people around the world will be watching Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao whack at each other until one of them falls over. Whoever is left standing will bask in unbelievable fame, money, and glory. There will be no tie. There can only be one. Sometimes you need to fight it out. Sometimes you need to give peace a chance. And sometimes, it's best just to flip a coin. We're ready for all of the above. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring Tiebreakers from Set Editions!! Have you ever found yourself bickering about the little things? It's an obnoxious spot to be in. The masterminds at Set Edition have a solution that "solves the unsolvable." Each set of Tiebreakers comes with 3 wooden flip coins that nip squabbles in the bud. "You Apologize" vs "I Apologize," "Your treat" vs "My treat" - this simple quick fix makes so much sense, we're surprised that international diplomacy hasn't taken a cue yet. Based in Hudson, New York, Set Editions partners with small printers, mills, and manufacturers across the country to make all of their items in the USA. Game on, Friday. Each winner also gets a Fish You Were Here Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments section how you break a tie. Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

This time of year, both emotions and snot run wild. People go to great lengths to defeat allergy season, and there always seems to be a wild new cure on the horizon. Even though the "are neti pots awesome?" debate isn't as loud as it used to be, there are countless seemingly odd cures for the season. Headstands. Quail eggs. Vitamin injections (Yes! With needles! WAIT WUTTT?) Parasitic worms. Today, we're sticking with what we know: a deep breath & a cup of tea. Gahhhhh, hey Friday. Nice to see you again. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 6 care packages this week featuring craft iced teas from Teakoe! The fine folks at Teakoe combine gourmet teas with flavorful design, served with a side of sustainability and environmental consciousness. They also really like bees. (BEADS? Bees!)Not all teas are created equally. Take your sips in peace knowing that Teakoe's iced teas are all natural, non-GMO, and handcrafted in small batches in Colorado! Plus, they're delicious. Each winner also gets a Packstreet Boys Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram & show us how you're staying peppy during allergy season with the hashtag #freakoe for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Unless you’re a ski instructor, snowball enthusiast, or serial masochist, spring is a time to rejoice. You showed winter who’s boss. You made winter your minion. You told it to shoo on it’s little way, and it finally listened. Do a little dance, make a little love, go outside and frollick in the meadows - I’m not here to tell you HOW to celebrate, but you should definitely celebrate. We here at Freaker USA are big fans of sweet jams. If you need us, you can find us in a stranger’s flower garden with a loaded boombox and The Macarena. It’s Friday. Feel free to join. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 9 care packages this week featuring packaged happiness from The Jam Stand! The sweet girls at the Jam Stand are official ambassadors of smiles. Jessica and Sabrina mix charismatic flavors and adventurous personalities for an A+ experience into the world of jams. Peach + Sriracha? Yep. You're My Boy Blue-berry Bourbon? Absolutely. The Jam Stand is more than just an artisan food company though - it is a business model that we should all aspire to. "Every interaction you’ll have with The Jam Stand; at a local market, grocery store or online is simply jovial and that’s how the company and its products are designed from the ground up." This philosophy has labeled The Jam Stand as "Brooklyn's happiest food company" bio, and for that we want to bearhug all of you. Bravo, ladies. Bravo. Each winner also gets a Pelican't Touch This Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: If you were a pop music sensation, what would you choose as a stage name? Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and give us your answer in the comments section for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Storytellers don't get enough credit. Have you ever watched a movie? Thank a storyteller. Read a book? That's an obvious one. Do you get your life wisdom from fairy tales? (Trick question. Who doesn't?) More than just pop culture though, the entire history of humanity depends on storytellers. The good, the bad, and the illest will all be remembered because somebody takes the time to write dat sheet down. The sheer depth and reach of storytelling is incredible! And the best part about it? Everybody has a story to tell. tl;dr? You're a hero, baby. Also, it's Friday. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the unlimited charm of Ex Libris Anonymous! For the past 15 years, the fine folks at Ex Libris have been making one-of-a-kind journals from vintage books. Handmade in Portland, Oregon, Ex Libris journals are officially an office favorite. In fact, we're already fighting over who called dibs first on the off-chance that one of this week's winners doesn't claim their prize. So, please, for the sanity of all involved - win this and love this. Love this hard. Each winner also gets a Kim Jong Illest Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: They say a picture is worth a gazillion words? Let's prove it. Get on Instagram and show us a photo that definitely tells a story. Use the hashtag #FreakerLibris so we can find you! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Our little company is headquartered in a quaint town on the coast of North Carolina. This week, we forced the entire office to take a vacation in the mountains on the other side of the state. (Oh, uh, sorry if customer service has been a little slow this week. 100% our bad.) The serenity of the Blue Ridge Mountains has been a good reminder of some easily-forgotten life lessons: Nature is awesome. Friends are important. It's good to shut up sometimes. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 8 care packages this week featuring cork gem wine stoppers from Bird + Beau! Kristin Austin is a true maker. She creates little emblems filled with charm that will make even the coldest of hearts hear the birds chirping. Even though Bird + Beau is primarily a jewelry company, Kristin makes gifts that add spunk to any situation. We're excited to announce that this week's Freaker Friday is the debut of her newest creation - recycled cork gem nugget wine stoppers! Hand cut and painted, Bird + Beau have out-cuted the cutest of the cutes with this one. Each winner also gets a Clyde Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comment section what always makes you put a cork in it. (Feel free to interpret that whichever way you'd like!) Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

  GUYS. It's the first day of spring! Get outside and celebrate! How? Let's count the ways. Some people like camping. Some people like skydiving. Some people like laying in a field and making flower-crowns for a prime-time selfie session. Some people like lying about enjoying hiking to impress potential mates. Some people meditate under trees. Some people chase cheese blocks by hurling themselves down a hill. Whichever way you enjoy the great outdoors, it's probably (definitely) more fun when you're awake. And we're here to help. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 9 care packages this week featuring cold brew coffee kits from CoffeeSock Co! Family owned and operated, CoffeeSock Co designs and hand-makes their products in Austin, Texas, and fills 2 voids that we have all felt: A.) the devastating early-morning moment when you realize you're out of coffee filters, and B.) the yearning desire for the glory of coldbrewed coffee! Their sustainable and reusable filters are made from organically grown, untreated cotton, for use in a variety of coffee systems. Chemex? Check. Hario? Check. Good ol' drip coffee? Check. Five winners will be getting a DIY ColdBrew Kit which includes a quart sized canning jar, CoffeeSock filter, and a bag of Barrett's Micro-roast ColdBrew Blend coffee - the other four will be getting a ColdBrew filter. Each winner also gets a Straight Outta Campton Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us how you enjoy the outdoors with the hashtag #FreakerCoffee for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter.

It's March Madness!!! Have you already framed your bracket this year? Is your lucky shirt proving its worth? Did you set your couch on fire in celebration? (I'm looking at you, West Virginia.) Whatever your sportula preferences are, March is a time for raucous friends, team spirit and most importantly, Air Bud. Let the hoop dreams begin. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring A Visual Compendium of Basketball Jerseys by Pop Chart Lab! Pop Chart Lab's story is seemingly simple: "In 2010, a book editor and a graphic designer joined forces with one modest goal: to render all of human experience in chart form." Since then, Pop Chart Lab has beautifully mapped out the most important moments in human accomplishements. Some of our personal favorites: The Many Varieties of Whiskey, The Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names, and The Periodic Table of Heavy Metals. We're rooting for these to make the history books, guys. Printed with vegetable-based inks in Long Island City, Queens, the Visual Compendium of Basketball Jerseys traces the history of amazing jerseys from 1921 to 2014, and yes - to answer your inevitable question - of COURSE they included Space Jam. Each winner also gets an Aztechno Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Who would be the all-star of your fictitious dream team? Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a us a photo comment with your answer!! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

The last time you got on an airplane, what was your general sentiment? Our guess is that it was one of two things: A.) "I'm having a panic attack and the person next to me smells like if a hospital cafeteria and Diane Rehm's voice had a secret illegitimate child." B.) "LOOK MOM, I'M FLYINGGGGGGGG!!!!! IT'S WIZARDRY!!!" Being able to fly anywhere you want at any given point in time is incredible. What was once thought of as a magical feat of the human experience is now considered a nuisance, and many dread it. Are you one of those people that love travel but hate flying? What could possibly make airports more bearable? Sit down, buckle up, lean back and enjoy, because we know the answer and it's going to be great news. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring W&P Design's latest creation: The Carry On Cocktail Kit! W&P Design is the same small team of designers and foodies that brought you The Mason Shaker and The Homemade Gin Kit! Their newest project, the Carry On Cocktail Kit gives you everything you need to make proper Old Fashions at 30,000 feet. The kit includes a carry on tin, an Old Fashion recipe, cane sugar, spoon / muddler, small batch bitters, and a linen coaster to make sure your flying experience is top notch! Just order a mini-bottle of bourbon from the stewardess and wah-lah! "Enjoy your flight" is no longer just wishful thinking. Each winner also gets a Tug Life Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us one thing you always want to travel with. Use the hashtag #FreakQuentFlyer for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

The internet imploded last night over the color of a dress. The black + blue vs. white + gold debate rages on, with allegations of internet-sorcery and dark-magic flying left and swiping right. Tensions are high, with both sides of the aisle turning more and more passionate about what color duo they see on the dress. The whole ordeal has us yearning to see other duo debates. Are you seeing Mario + Luigi or Batman + Robin? Peanut butter + Jelly or Pizza + Beer? It's Friday. Let the games begin. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 7 care packages this week featuring handmade pouches from Wax + Cloth! Despite this week's theme of teamwork, Wax + Cloth is a one man operation. Paul Kwiatkowski designs, creates, and handmakes everything in his special corner of Raleigh, North Carolina! Batman before Robin. Bey before Jay. And he's doing an incredible job. We have 7 pouches, some small (11" x 9"), some large ( 12" x 10.5") some made with the classic waxed cotton, and some from Paul's unreleased felt line, so you'll be one of the first to paw on his new creations! Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook and leave us a comment on this graphic with your favorite duo for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

This week we released one of our all time favorite Freaker designs: Shaquille O'Peel. It's a banana being picked up with chopsticks. What are we rambling about, you ask? What does Shaquille have to do with a chopsticked banana, you ask? Why is that an all time favorite, you ask? What does it MEAN, you ask? Valid questions. One answer: Because we could. And so we did. It's Friday. Let's get veird. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring BankNote NYC, and we have the honor of featuring their namesake product - the BankNote Light. "A minimalist wallet paired with a notebook. Vintage Italian leather. Small batches. Made in NYC." Yes, please. BankNote NYC is a homegrown operation with a sense of design and more importantly, a sense of humor. "We don’t know what we’re doing. So we keep things simple and work with people who know exactly what they are doing." I like your style, guys, but we respectfully disagree. BankNote knows exactly what they're doing. The website takes you through their entire manufacturing process, how they stitch each envelope, and even name-dropping the individuals who handmake each product. A+ and gold stars all around. Each winner also gets a Shaquille O'Peel Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram, and show us an absurd thing you've created. It can be a doodle, masterpiece, soundscape, lego creature, whatever. Use the hashtag #FreakerNote so we can find you! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Tomorrow is the most divisive holiday on the calendar. Love it or hate it, Valentine's Day is here to stay. We have a solution for the cynics and celebrators alike! If it was up to us, a holiday celebrating love wouldn't be narrowed down to just people loving other people. Love is all encompassing! One of The Freakerteam members loves Vin Diesel's Fast & Furious character more than any romance she's ever dabbled in. Another one loves that "Going Up On A Tuesday" more than should be humanly possible. Alpacas? Love them. A lot. Pizza? Even the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court can't deny that pizza is true love. It's high time to celebrate all kinds of love. Baby goat videos, nachos, and potato gun love included. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring the clean craftmanship of Wood Thumb!! Wood Thumb is the design child of two brothers, Chris and David Steinrueck. They craft modern accessories from "reclaimed redwood, old bourbon barrels, whiskey, tablesaws, bacon chocolate" in their warehouse in San Francisco, and have a damn good time doing it. We're featuring their handsome magnetic bottle openers in this week's care packages! Each winner will get a choice between reclaimed solid walnut and bourbon barrel wood bottle openers! They are outfitted with three powerful magnets embedded into the wood, that can catch over 30 bottle caps at a time! Simple. Functional. Dapper. Done. Each winner also gets a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic and leave us a photo comment with something that you love inexplicably. Rubber bands, carnival rides, llamas - we all have SOMETHING that we love uncontrollably without a solid reason. We want to know what yours is! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

  Let's be honest. Sometimes you find yourself rooting for the bad guy. Don't be ashamed. Even Obama admitted that Omar was the best character in The Wire. How many of you secretly wanted Walter White and Gus to drop the beef and become best friends for Team Awesome? FACT: Nobody watches Hannibal because they like Clarice. Frank Underwood. Dr. Evil. Mugato. Danny Trejo playing Danny Trejo. The shark that played Jaws. The asteroid in Armageddon. Ernie McKracken, anyone? Sometimes it feels good to be bad. Sometimes it smells good. And every now and then, it sure as hell tastes good. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 10 care packages to give away this week featuring gourmet beef jerky from Righteous Felon Jerky Cartel! There are four scandelous flavors of jerky - Victorious B.I.G., Che-Potlé Guevara, O.G. Hickory, and our office favorite, Habanero Escobar. Handmade in small batches, Righteous Felon exclusively uses quality natural ingredients and Black Angus Beef without the hormones, antibiotics, or preservatives you tend to find in mass produced snacks. They also donate a portion of all sales to The Innocence Project, which is a non-profit "national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through the use of DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice." Righteous, indeed. Each winner gets 2 packs of Righteous Felon jerky and a Freaker of your choice! HOW TO ENTER: It's a two-fer today! Get on Facebook, share our Kickstarter link, then find this graphic and leave us a photo comment with your favorite villain for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!