Magnetic led flashlight is my favorite free item, I use them at work

I collect the flashlights throughout the year. Then my son, who is an Eagle Scout, will donate them to his district Boy Scout Office. They go to young kids who want to camp but can't afford all of the gear. It helps a lot.

So if you find yourself with some flashlights/batteries that you don't need anymore just look up your local Scout Shop and they would be happy to take them.

I definitely collect HF freebies. If I'm going to the store anyway, why not use a 20% coupon and a freebie coupon.

"If it's free, it's for me!"

My dad has a weird obsession with the tape measures. We have at least 5 or 6 now.

Personally, I like the magnetic bars/parts bowls, and I’ve been hoarding them for myself. I line them up along the siderail of a game I’m shopping, and use each one for different things. One bowl for posts, another for wood screws, another for speed nuts, etc etc.

Flash Lites, Tape Measures, and the Micro Fiber Towels are the big three for me.

Have a flashlights in every vehicle, drawer, etc. Tape measures are also scattered everywhere.

Strangely enough I still spend several minutes looking for a working flashlight or tape measure when I need one. . .

Blue led flashlights and the magnesium strikes.

They seem to be getting stingy on the % off coupon making it only good during special weekend dates.

And it seems, the coupons I carry in the car are always expired.

Magnetic tray and microfiber cloths are my freebie goto.

If ye need any of the twenty free items or a rotating super coupon they have them ALL here:

http://www.hfqpdb.com/browse

with long expiration dates.

I call them up on my phone and they scan away!

They always have the latest coupon online on their ad section. Just pull up the jpeg and zoom in for them to scan it. You'll never have an expired % off coupon again. I never really paid attention to the coupons to know that you could use the 20% off as well as the freebie coupon at the same time. I wonder if they will let you scan the freebie digitally as well instead of having it in hand.

I am very much a "buy a quality tool once" type of guy but HF definitely has its place for certain things. Especially one time project tools or things that quality doesn't make a difference or may be hard to screw up.

That's awesome. You should build a coffee table out of them.

Second Store in my area just opened.

No I don't but it is a little bit far away from me so I'm not in the area much.
i would always take more magnetic trays though!

Was the Meters for me.
Then got too many of them and had to move on to Blue Flashlight.
Then got too many of them, so now moved onto Magnetic Trays.
Just being a consumer.

How in God's name did you not list multi meters in your link?!?!

The black flashlight followed by the tape measure got enough micro fiber towels at the moment. I probably passed the 100 number on the black flash light use them day,night all the time about every 3 months scrap 3 or 4 that have half of the leds burned out,bad switches something else making them junk or just disappear all together. Nieces and nephew run off with them when they visit hunting monsters. Due for a few more meters leave one in every pinball game i work on saves me looking for one.

Still have the angle grinder i paid 14 dollars for many years ago cut bricks,stone etc the thing just keeps gong. The ball joint press that was junk broke it 1st shot. Are the tools the be all and end all no but when it's cheap i don't expect much i see the tools as the one trick pony product last more then two uses fine. Have a fair number of hand tools that have yet to break of fail. Can't say that about my tools i use for my day job used to have 98% usa tools in my tool bucket but in the last 10 years its come way down about 60/40 now. Tool cost keeps going up but my pay check doesn't

Lucky for all of us; they're having a Sale this weekend.......

Huh, I had no idea you could use both. I thought they couldn't be used in combination with other coupons.

You can use both as I have and the one near me (about a mile down the road) just scans them from the booklet and leaves them there for me to use again.

The 25% coupon is the big one and only near holidays.

PinballGeek Headlight on sale:

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I always thought this, I've got some of the ones from the last mailer right here in my hand and it says they can't be used with any other discounts, I always assumed they wouldn't take it if you are using another coupon for something else. Guess I should try it next time I get something there.

we have a shoebox full of the blue flashlights. And about 7 tape measures and a nice collection of microfiber clothes. Go there a lot.

I guess on the poll the other is the Harbor Freight volt meter which I have also.

The coupons do say that but they never stop me from doing it, and the register software doesn't seem to care either.

They should have a "coupon free" checkout line at Harbor Freight. I always seem to get stuck behind someone with a handful of coupons and it really slows the process of simply making a purchase.

Do you Collect Harbor Freight Freebies? Yes

And here are some tricks. Always make sure they scan your XX% off with your most expensive item, you know that's not on your total purchase just 1 item, so make sure it counts. Yes you can do a free item with that XX% off coupon that's it in my location.

So here is a trick and your wife and kids will hate you for it. Give them each a XX% off coupon and a free something coupon then get 1 each of the cheapest things in the store, I used to do a wire brush that was under a dollar. Make them by your wire brush and get something free and spend less then a buck. Of coarse you buy the actual thing that cost money and let them be embarrassed.

Now I think Harbor freight may have caught onto my cheap ass and I think some of the free coupons might now say with purchase of something over a certain dollar amount?

As for what I get I'm a go to Multi-meter/tape measure guy. But honestly I get it all.

One year as a gauge gift for Christmas I gave each of my son-in-laws a gift with one of every free thing from Harbor Freight.

They all Make great stocking suffers

You can take pictures of the coupons and throw away the paper ones. My local hf scans off my phone or types the number off of it.

Popped my cherry today and got a freebie 4 pack of micro fibers with the other coupon purchase, piece of cake. As far as being embarrassed about the whole coupon thing, it really isn’t an issue. The cashiers are all in on the system and seem to have no problem working with you to get the best deal. You figure they do this all day long. I watched a few guys in front of me checking out and they had a lot more coupons in a stack than me, going through them all trying to get the best overall price for everything. Cashier didn’t seem to mind at all.

I got one of these for $13

https://www.harborfreight.com/450-lumen-led-trouble-light-63920.html

I tried it out, it’s fairly decent for lighting up the underside of a pinball machine if you can find somewhere to hang it. It’s not super bright like the sun or anything but works well for the price.

I stopped glomming the black flashlights because they're crap and seem to die almost instantly, but the blue flashlight/spotlight with the hook is nice piece. Picked up several sets of the 6-piece screwdrivers too, this way they're in various rooms around the house and I don't have to worry about searching for the shorty phillips, even though I still can't find the damn things.

I guess this isn’t exactly new news, but not long ago HF changed up the whole system. The 20% off anything coupons (and occasional 25%) are apparently gone forever. Same for the freebie stuff and the catalog mailers.

They still have discounts and coupons on their website with good deals, but you have to do more work to get a discount on a specific item you might want.

Yea since harbor freight did away will the ads/coupons galore i don't go as much yes it was not top stuff. But as a person who did many years in retail the give away get people in the store.

That sucks about the coupons and mailers. No sadness about the freebies, it was mostly/all junk you don’t need anyway (or you’d pay for it). What’s the point of a box of 8 flashlights, 1/2 of which stop working after 1 or 2 uses?

Every time we're out an about and close to HF, I'll stop in. Wife gives me
all kinds of grief about it. My faves are the palm size LED flashlights and
multi-tip screw drivers. Have bunches of both.

Also like their needle nose pliers, there are several styles. Great for working
on pins and often 99 cents on sale.

I loved the freebies and would always end up wandering around and buying something when I popped in to grab one now I will only go if I specifically need something.

Yep, the 25% tariffs that were imposed on goods coming from China are killing HF

Even on HFs **premium** ICON tools, who's going to pay more for those than just buying Taiwanese GearWrench that you can exchange anywhere?

From the ashes, HF 20% off coupon just surfaced in my inbox!

No coupons for me, yet. I was in the store last weekend and there were no freebies. The blue, flat portable light was $2.

Why does the Father's Day sale end tomorrow? Are they using a HF calendar or something?

Why buy anything from Harbor Freight if you’re never ever gonna use it?

Let me rephrase, Why go out of your way to get free stuff from Harbor Freight that you’ll never use?

Because!

Just diggin in, hope to meet you one day. Perhaps at the Lounge.

I’ll be there next Saturday. Just look for an old fart, that’s me. I’m out before noon.