Friday Favorite: InTown Charleston

Are you on a budget and want free items? Do you constantly enter giveaways? Well, I do too and that is why I love InTown.com Within the first couple of months I moved to Charleston I signed up so I would "be in the know on where to go."

Since I first liked their Facebook page I have won two awesome prizes that I wanted to thank them for in this post! So, my Friday Favorite goes out to InTown for hooking me up not once, but twice with awesome gifts!

1. I received two tickets to the Party at the Point and got to enjoy a nice afternoon with oysters!
2. I received a free order of fried mac and cheese or six wings from Bohemian Bull, a free taco from Mex 1 and $5 off Fear No Easel.

If you haven't checked them out and you live in Charleston you're behind the times! Definitely check out their Twitter and Facebook accounts in addition to signing up for their email notifications. You won't regret it and you can thank me later!

P.S. I CANNOT wait for the following event. I hope I win tickets to this event because it has my name written all over it; not to mention I squealed like a school girl when I saw this on their Facebook page!

Post by InTown.com.

*Please note there is no endorsement or sponsorship of this post and that I am purely writing out of satisfaction from this organization. 

Tips For Free 5K Registration

Since December 2012 I have successfully registered and participated in three 5Ks for free! That is a $112 value (at early registration prices). Want to know my tips and tricks? Well, here you go.

1. Volunteer, volunteer, volunteer
2. Look for freebies, sweepstakes, giveaways, etc.
3. Have friends with the in. 

Volunteer:
I volunteered the night before the Run or Dye 5K and got free entry into the race. I volunteered four hours of my night doing something that I actually found to be real fun and saved me a $47 registration fee. If you count that up into hourly wages, it equals right at $11.75/hour. Not only did I get to volunteer with my boyfriend, each of us get free registration, two free t-shirts and met some nice people but it helped reach my bucket list item of participating in at least one 5K a year.

Freebies, Giveaways and Sweepstakes:
Another 5K I got free registration to was through my workplace. I was one of the first 30 employees to turn in the 5K application and got free registration. That's it, that's all I did. Not only did I get the exact same packet as the participants who payed the $30+ registration fee, but I got it all for free!

Have Friends with the In:
My first free 5K came when a friend asked if I would like to join her team and, of course, I said yes! How could I pass up a free 5K with a friend? Also, I recently had another acquaintance mention her team's 7K team and if I would join, but unfortunately I had to turn that invitation down due to other commitments.

That's it friends; that's what I have. There aren't a lot of tricky secrets to getting free registration. Just be on the lookout and you'll find free registration!

UPDATE: As of today, yes a day after this original post, I snagged another free 5K! So, knock this list up to four free 5Ks. I snagged this free registration by being another giveaway. See guys, they're definitely out there you just have to look!