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  Sometimes the best gifts are experiences. Why send a box of chocolates when you could get into a slap boxing tournament with chocolate trophies? Why get your sweet treat a steak dinner when you could fly her to Mongolia to herd cattle for the weekend? (That's a pro tip. You're welcome.) Why buy a single rose when you could make a badass terrarium from space moss and magic root-less plants? Hhm? Don't worry. We're here to help. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have five care packages to give away this week featuring DIY air plant terrarium kits from The Zen Succulent! We've always been fans of indoor rainforests, but fine folks at Zen Succulent (the cutest mother and daughter team you've ever seen) in Raleigh, NC have really knocked this one out of the water. We have five care packages to give away this week featuring DIY air plant terrarium kits from The Zen Succulent! We've always been fans of indoor rainforests, but fine folks at Zen Succulent (the cutest mother and daughter team you've ever seen) in Raleigh, NC have really knocked this one out of the water. Yes, air plants are real plants. Yes, they are alive. Yes, they're super easy to take care of. Just spritz the little guy with tap water every 1-2 weeks! It sounds like a mouthful, but bear with me: each grab bag has an air plant (Tilliandsia), assorted reserved redindeer moss, preserved black lichen, black pebbles, and wood. All you need is to find a receptacle you find worthy, and arrange your mini-forrest to be as awesome as you are. The possibilities are endless! Each winner gets a terrarium kit and a Love Glove Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram & show us an adventure that you created with the hashtag #FreakerZen for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Pop culture is nuts. It's a rollercoaster of collective emotions, giggles, and cry-faces. Why does anyone care when Jay-Z gets lady-punched in an elevator? Because it's hypnotizing and weird, that's why. Marky Mark's legal problems? Bruh. The entire series of Drake being a basketball wife. The dangerous red-line of celebrity twerking. Never forget 2007 Britney. Or Steven Seagall's bromance with Vladimir Putin. Today we celebrate the quirks of culture with a little help from our friends. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have five care packages to give away this week featuring the wild and wonderful, cheeky freaky greeting cards from Tay Ham! One of our hometown favorites, Tay Ham is making a splash in the national card-game. She takes the absurdity of pop culture and does the unthinkable: she makes it better. The Guardian, MTV, Complex Magazine, and Comedy Central all agree: this girl is the bomb. The bomb diggity. The cards start their journey in a New York paper mill, then are printed with love right down the road from Freaker headquarters! Tay Ham's badassery has got us feeling some type of way, and we need to share that excitement with you. GO HAM OR GO HOME. Each winner gets a gift pack of 5 Tay Ham cards and an Irrigator Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave us a photo comment with a pop culture detail that you find to be really weird. Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Baby, it's cold outside. Instinct: pour a whiskey, break out the onesies, kartwheel through a bonfire, wrassle a gater, and freak your feet. Problem? Solved. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages to give away this week featuring rare production samples from our research and development for Freaker Feet! Last week we launched a Kickstarter campaign to run a full production of our 127 Freaker Feet sock designs! We're sourcing, designing, manufacturing and fondling every part of the production process right here in the USA! Freaker Feet has not entered mass production yet, but we have some samples from our mill and we want nothing more than to freak your feet! Right here. Right now. We hug you we glove you! Each winner gets a pair of Freaker Feet and a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram, share the Freaker Feet graphic (above!) and give us your best caption with the hashtag #FreakerFeet for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

  Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas?! All the hugs, all the Freakers? The good news: That's great! The bad news: We're about to burst your bubble. There are two things in this world that you definitely want but probably didn't know existed. Until now. 1. Freaker Feet! We just launched an explosive Kickstarter campaign for Freaker socks and we need your help to manufacture them all locally! Click here for a good time! 2. The domestically manufactured stainless steel growler that dreams are made of. Really. They're made with magic. And they want nothing more than to belong to you. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have three care packages to give away this week featuring your dream growlers from Shine Craft Vessels! Founded in 2014, Shine Craft is what some companies might call "fresh meat." Fresh faced, young, and full of energy, these stainless steel growlers have a 100% toxin, BPA, phthalate, and PVC free interior lining so there's never a wonky aftertaste. Plus, they are impossibly beautiful. We have something of a fetish for local manufacturing processes and Shine Craft has laid theirs out for the world to see. Produced in small quantities in Virginia, each growler is metal spun, polished by hand, then"overly scrutinized and individually handled" by a stellar team. Wander and rumble, indeed. Each winner gets a Shine Craft growler and a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO WIN: Get on Facebook, find this graphic and show us in the comments what you take with you for a guaranteed good time. It can be a text or photo comment, whatever strikes your fancy! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

 Aah, yes. The holiday spirit. It's that special time of year when strangers in funny hats knock on your door, spew some musical nonsense (let's be honest - fa la la la la la la la la la isn't winning a Grammy anytime soon) and nobody calls the cops because it's not creepy. You like it, even. Do you love it?! You love it. No regrets. It's also that time of the year that you get bombarded with unexpected treats. Do you love it? You love it. And we love you. So let's get this spirit hustle going. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING:We have TWENTY care packages to give away this week! In an ideal world, we would gift everybody and their nutty uncle a Freaker for Christmas. This is the next best thing. Each winner will get a Freaker of their choice! WAHOO! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us how you're getting into the holiday spirit with the hashtag #FreakerHoliday for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Men can be notoriously hard to shop for. "Nothing, I'm fine. I don't need anything" season is in full force, and you're probably feeling a little "but I have to get you something, ya dingbat" helpless. Before your downward spiral into A Christmas Story tirade, calm down. Don't worry. Take a deep breath. We're here to help. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have six care packages this week featuring special treats from Tick & Tocks! Once upon a time, two bearded chaps decided that their facial hair deserved a better pampering. Handmade in Lima, Ohio, Tick & Tocks offers quality grooming products for the whiskered men in your life! Handcrafted lip balm? Done. Magical beard balm? Done. Beard Liquor? You heard me right. And yes, we've got you covered. Each winner gets their choice of 2 treats from Tick & Tocks and a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a photo comment of a facial hair situation that deserves pampering for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

  The holidays are a time for story telling. There's no better time for Uncle Harry to cackle on about his peyote adventures in Mexico than when the family is gathered around the Christmas fire, hot toddy in hand. The truth about Little Susie's "suckerpunch training" is finally revealed. And who knew that Grandma once fell in love with a clown and joined the circus in Yugoslavia? Aah, yes. It's a magical time of year. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have five care packages this week featuring the unlimited charisma of New York to Nashville! Danielle Romero is originally from the north, but has found herself living in the depths of Tennessee's southern charm. She started her company, New York to Nashville, with a love for vintage fabrics that tell stories. Each pocket square starts with a journey to the backroads and small towns of the American South to find the best fabrics. Handcrafted in Nashville, Danielle's pocket squares add the perfect dose of dapper to a class act. Each winner gets a pocket square and a Freaker of their choice! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us a piece of fabric that tells a story! Use the hashtag #FreakerSquare for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Thanksgiving is next week! Have you already prepared your stomach's battalion for 3 servings of crazy uncle, 2 parts premature Christmas music, and 1 endless feast? No? That's okay. We're here to help sprinkle a little magic on your holiday. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have five care packages this week featuring the brilliance of Bulls Bay Saltworks! Rustin & Teresa Goodin are Carolinian heroes. If you've ever had the honor of visiting Charleston, you know that there is a distinctive taste, not only in the food - but also in the air. And it is delicious. Bulls Bay Saltworks figured out a sustainable way to bottle it up and sell it. This is good. This is very good. Rustin & Teresa hand-harvest their line of gourmet salts in South Carolina's Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge - one of the healthiest saltwater ecosystems in the country! "We are passionate about offering a domestic sea salt sourced from the cleanest resources possible while maintaining a minimal carbon footprint. Our exclusive line of products are hand harvested in small batches and evaporated using solar energy." You win, Bulls Bay. You win. Each winner gets a gift package with Smoked Sea Salt, Carolina Sea Salt, and a Forrest Dump Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know in the comments section what you plan to harvest this holiday season. It can be photo or text, real or make-believe! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

This week we celebrated Veteran's Day by releasing a Freaker for every state, with the exception of Iowa and Nebraska, who were assigned the same design. And let me tell you: Hell hath no fury like an Iowan sharing a corn husk Freaker with Nebraska. So here is our public service announcement: You win, Iowa. Not only do you have an amazing Iowa Freaker on the way, but rest easy tonight knowing that your Iowan kinfolk are fighting for your Freaker rights like Canada is about to invade. There's no place like home, dingdongs. And also Iowa. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have five care packages this week featuring gift codes for The Home T! Once upon a time, a southerner moved to New York City. The lack of rocking chairs, BBQ, and southern twang left a hole in his heart in the exact shape of North Carolina, and thus The Home T was born. Softer than soft and made proudly in the USA, The Home T has a shirt for all 50 states (yes, even Iowa) because no matter where your home is, there's no place like it. Each winner gets a $30 gift certificate for a Home T and a state Freaker of their choice!! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram, give The Home T a follow, and show us why there's no place like your home state with the hashtag #FreakerHome for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Traveling is one of life’s greatest treats. The quirks of the world never cease to amaze, but it’s not only the destination that makes traveling such a treasure - the journey is often the most eccentric part. We’ve all had some strange adventures (I mean, we lived in a traveling boxtruck for 4 months) and while there are endless perks to a nomadic period, one of the biggest and brightest bonuses is the fanny pack. You know what I'm talking about. The glorious, glorious fanny pack. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring handmade fanny packs from Avenue Dee!! Avenue Dee started once upon a time when the dearest Deeana caught the travel bug. She made herself a fannypack for her adventures and soon enough, friends, family, and beyond were wanting one to call their own. Now Avenue Dee supplies adventure seekers and wander lusters and "LOOK MOM, NO HANDS!" enthusiasts with colorful fanny packs for their journeys, big and small. Fun meets function... with a side order of awesome. Bring the fanny pack back? Oh, it's been broughten. Each winner gets a handmade fanny pack, a Baberaham Lincoln and a Mt. Crushmore Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and let us know the most interesting place on your travel bucket-list for a chance to win! Words and / or photos both apply!!! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

A wise sensei once said "every boy and every girl, spice up your life." There is no better time to act on that sound advice than right here, right now. It's Halloween, chickies. Let's get saucy. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring Bees Knees Spicy Honey from MixedMade! Casey and Morgen, two life-enthusiasts in Brooklyn, have been waging war with "boring." They work with small, independent, natural-process beekeepers in the Hudson Valley, then infuse the raw honey with a blend of chili peppers to make a perfect mix of sugar and spice. Full disclosure: one of our co-workers has been eating this honey, by itself, at her desk, for the last 6 hours. It's that good. If you're more of the "condiments with actual food" type, here are some incredible recipes with the honey. "Every batch is handmade with lots of love and spice-induced watering eyes in Brooklyn, New York." You're fighting the good fight, boys. Bra. Vo. Each winner gets a Spicy Honey and a Finger Food Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Costume contest!!! Get on Instagram and show us how you're spicing up Halloween with the hashtag #FreakerSpice for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Slogans are highly under-appreciated. Slogans are one-liners with a purpose. A motto that sells you. A proverb that doesn't say anything important. A jingle that doesn't give away your karaoke handicap. Today we're celebrating the simple beauty of these weirdo catchphrases and we're inviting you to the word party. Slogan of the day: We did it all for The Hooky. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: We have 5 care packages this week featuring The Hooky keychains! "Solid. Simple. Spinny." is The Hooky's winning slogan. The Hooky is an "unobtrusive, lightweight keychain that can easily but securely hook onto belt loops and straps." Are you a serial key-loser? Not anymore, Buster. Aluminum, functional, clean... and perfectly designed to spin on your finger, so you can silently and successfully give the hint that you are ready to leave that Friday afternoon board meeting. Nick and Dave, two North Carolina all-stars, are smack-dab in the middle of a Kickstarter campaign to get this baby off the ground, so each winner will be getting a product so exclusive that nobody else has one yet - even the people that have paid for it. Each winner gets a Hooky and a Poli Sci-Fi Freaker! HOW TO ENTER:Get on Facebook, find this graphic, and leave a comment with your personal slogan for a chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!