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Christmas FREEBIES Roundup
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Happy holidays! You've found the Web's top collection of yuletide freebies, including gifts, samples, digital holiday cards, freebies for children, and free Christmas software. We also offer such goodies as free services that'll make sure a child's letter gets to Santa, as well as free Christmas clipart, games and contests.
Be sure to check with us regularly throughout the holidays as we'll be constantly adding new free Christmas goodies to this page. And after you've checked out our Christmas freebies, be sure to click over to our parent site, The Free Site, home of the Web's best freebies.
Please send us E-mail if you're aware of any Christmas freebies that we haven't listed below.
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 Festive Fun 98 screen saver - Festive Fun 98 displays spinning angels and smiling stars; teddy bears waving Christmas balloons; penguins sporting Santa Claus hats and more...all in a festive backdrop of gently falling snowflakes. You can adjust the display mode as well as the speed, amount of snow etc., plus optionally add
all your favorite Christmas MIDI tunes to play in the background. 967 kilobytes. (For Windows 95/98/NT).
 Free Christmas Graphics - Working on a Christmas-themed Web page or presentation? Claire Schaefferit's site offers a great roundup of the Web's top Christmas free graphics sites. From original yuletide art to icons to matching sets to ornamental graphics, you'll find it here. All sites are rated and reviewed.
 Daily Furby contest - FreeFurby.com is giving away one Furby every day until Christmas. Fill out the survey here to be automatically entered into the contest every day until Christmas. (U.S. only). Limit: one entry per person, two entries per household.
- 3D Christmas Free Digital Cards - This wonderful, unique free service lets you send Christmas greetings in the form of cool 3D animated greeting cards The cards can be personalized to include your message. No special software is required to view these cards; they use 3D Planet's own embedded animation player (and you send them as executable E-mail attachments). Selections here include Singing Santa, Holiday Poinsettias, Musical Christmas Tree, Peace on Earth, and more.
- Free Christmas children's storybook - Send in your request for your free copy of "Red Boots for Christmas," a 32-page children's book. International availability.
- Holiday Credit Sweepstakes - Get a early start on paying off those Christmas bills. Take a shot at winning $3,000 in this sweepstakes. Contest deadline is Dec. 31, 1998. (U.S. and Canadian residents only).
- The 1998 Santa's Page - The Santa Page, now in its third year, is a place where kids of all ages can post their Christmas wish list for Santa on the Internet for free. It's the best way to make sure the jolly old guy leaves what you want under the Christmas tree. Just send your wish list and this site owner will "make sure your list gets downloaded to Santa."
- Drawing Hand Screen Saver: Christmas Version - Jeff Newman, creator of "Drawing Hand," a screen saver that creates works of art before your eyes, now offers a free Christmas edition of this amazing program. Watch as a busy artist's hand creates a wonderful image of Santa on your screen. Fun to watch (and it teaches you how art is created, as well). 2.1 megabytes. (For Windows 95/98 & NT).
- Font Freak's Christmas Fonts - Need a festive look for your Web page or presentation? Font maestro Ole Larsen has assembled a cool collection of the Web's best freeware Christmas fonts. Selections here include Candy Cane, Frosty, Igloo, Kringle, Christmas Tree and more. Be sure to also check out Larsen's main site, the excellent Font Freak.
- Free Christmas Wallpapers - Decorate your desktop with these lovely holiday wallpapers from T&P SC. These colorful, festive images include Santa, Frosty the Snowman, Yuletide decorations, Doves, Holly and more. You can view thumbnails of each image and download these wallpapers in compressed ZIP form.
- Quiz the Season Trivia Blitz - Test your knowledge of Christmas in this fun trivia game and take a shot at winning daily prizes. The game is updated daily with new questions. Daily prizes include $25 cash prizes, a Sony Walkman, a GE clock/radio and a cordless phone. A grand prize of a trip for two to Canada or the Caribbean will be awarded in January. (Prizes available to U.S. residents only).
- Free Catalogs - Start your Christmas shopping planning early with the hundreds of free catalogs available from CatalogLink. This award-winning site lets you easily choose from catalogs in dozens of categories. Topics include gifts, apparel, electronics, recreation & hobbies, business-to-business, and computers. (International availability).
- Turkey coupons - You can get some help with planning your holiday meals by signing up for Butterball's "Turkey Mails." They'll then send you free newsletters with lots of info on turkeys, as well as money-saving coupons.
- Wallpaper Calendars for the Holidays - Here's a lovely, free collection of free, festive wallpaper images for your desktop. Calendars here include Santa, Christmas, Happy New Year, Winter, Kwanzaa and more. Instructions are included for installing these wallpapers on both PCs and Macs.
- Win the Ultimate Gaming PC Sweepstakes - Take a shot at winning the perfect gift for the computer gaming buff in your family. This sweepstakes will award a powerhouse computer system, featuring a Pentium 450 MHz processor, 128 megs of SDRAM, a Dual-Canopus Pure 3D Voodoo II 24-meg graphics card and a 21-inch monitor. (U.S. and Canada, excluding Quebec). Deadline is Dec. 31.
- Free Christmas Screen Saver - Put your computer in a festive mood with this screen saver, which features lovely yuletide images of Santa, Frosty the Snowman and more. (You can use the images as desktop wallpaper, as well). From the freeware screen saver guru Tony Beaudion, who wishes everyone, "Happy holidays." 1.29 megabytes. (For Windows 95/98/NT).
- Family Point - Using this innovative free service, you can easily set up a family "meeting point" for the holidays. It's a great way for your family members to keep in touch, post Santa wish lists, etc., throughout the holiday season. Just sign up and set up your own space on Family Point and then you can take advantage of features like a calendar for keeping everyone up to date. There's also a place to post your photos, an address book, chat, discussion groups and E-mail.
- Fonts for Christmas - Here's a small, but quality selection of free Christmas and New Year's-themed fonts. Perfect if you're preparing a Christmas presentation or if you'd like to give your Web site a festive look. Selections include "Candy Canes" and "Christmas Ornaments."
- "The Joy of Holiday Baking" brochure - Send in your request for this free brochure from Land O' Lakes, which offers "time-tested tips for better baking, plus five delicious holiday recipes." Note: to get the brochure, you must register with this site (which is free).
- Free Christmas sound files - Here's a fine selection of popular free yuletide tunes in MIDI format. Titles include "The 12 Days of Christmas," "Noel," "Away in a Manger" and many more. From Wavhounds.com, a popular free sound file resource. If you're looking for a free MIDI sound file player, you can find an excellent one here.
- Christmas Fred Desktop Buddy - Christmas Fred is a fun, free animated cartoon series for your computer desktop, which will entertain you while you work or play. Watch Fred deliver gifts, play the piano, walk, fall, whistle, sleep, drink and do a dozen other silly things right on your desktop, while you work. 280 kilobytes. (For Windows 3.1, 95/98 and NT). 8 megs of RAM and sound card recommended.
- Catalog Request Center - Start planning your Christmas shopping early at this site, which is offering hundreds of free catalogs on many topics, including automotive, business, parenting, collectibles, computers, fashion, food & beverages, hobbies, gifts, home & garden, pets, music & audio and recreation. Perhaps the Web's top free catalogs site. (U.S. only).
- Christmas Snowflake Screen Saver - MHDA Inc., makers of the excellent Christmas Snowflake E-Storybook offer a lovely, free Christmas screen saver at this site. You can also download a free demo of the Christmas E-Storybook here. (For Windows 95/98. 1.1 megabytes).
- Christmas Cards @mallshops.com - Here's a small, but growing collection of free digital holiday cards. These digital greeting cards feature animated festive images and Christmas background music.
- Christmas recipes - "Reader's Digest" serves up a huge number of yuletide recipes at this site. Let me see here: "Whiskey Eggnog," "Roast Goose" and "Surprise Cocktail Meatballs." Sounds good!
- Win a Christmas gift basket - Take a shot at winning a Christmas gift basket, which includes truffles from Carrie's Chocolates, a plastic canvas kit from PG's Designs, a Triple Candle Holder Kit from Heart 'N Home plus a selection of prizes from Mayhew's Wholesale, Nelsie's Cupboard and the Internet Craft Fair. Contest closes on December 18, 1998. One prize winner will be drawn on December 19, and the prize will be mailed out to the winner on that date. (International availability).
- Create your own Christmas cards - This site offers a service in which you can create your own Christmas cards, or personal and/or business greetings. You may also create a type chart or a calendar. Just type in your
input and within a few seconds you'll get back a PDF file, ready to output on your printer. You'll need a copy of Adobe Acrobat's Reader (which is free) to use this service
- Save on holiday shopping - Save some money on your Christmas shopping with the many free coupons available at this popular site. CoolSavings.com offers loads of coupons that you may output from your printer. You can use these free coupons to save money at various stores, restaurants, and travel companies. Membership and unlimited use of CoolSavings.com is free. (U.S. only).
- Web Diner's Christmas page templates - If you're a Web page author, check out the festive free templates at this site. To get a great, professional-looking page you don't have to slave over an HTML editor, you just need to grab yourself some ready-made templates here. All they ask for is a linkback on your page. Each template can be previewed before you download it. Examples include "Homespun Christmas Web Page Template" and "Animated Kwanzaa Web Page Template."
- The Christmas Trivia Quiz Game - Everybody knows about Christmas. Everybody knows about Santa, presents, goodwill, stockings, reindeer, holly... and so on. But do you know who the original Santa Claus was? Or how the candy cane got its shape? Now you can test your grip on Christmas trivia with this program.
- Win a free Christmas gift - Fill out the short form for your chance to win a free children's gift from Kmart. (U.S., Puerto Rico and Samoa only).
- Send Your Christmas wish list to Santa - Sign up for Net@ddress, a free E-mail service, and you can then send them your Christmas wish list to Santa and get a reply from the jolly old man. Net@ddress, by the way, is an excellent free E-mail service that features Web and POP access, as well as mail forwarding.
- duJour.com's Holiday Page - No Christmas on the Web is complete without stopping by this fantastic fun-filled site where you can play Christmas trivia, enter holiday-related contests and win prizes.
- The Christmas Pages - You can win cool yuletide prizes in the Christmas Quiz at this major, popular Scottish site. Prizes include cash, software and sports gear. They also offer an impressive collection of free Christmas digital postcards. Three categories are offered: "Traditional," (featured lovely stained glass images), "Scenic," (featuring beautiful landscapes from Scotland) and "Wildlife." You can also write Santa here in the "Santa's Virtual Letter," section (and then see a fun Macromedia Flash animated sequence that shows the jolly fat guy's response to your note).
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