Select MyWalgreens Members: 4x Colgate Toothpaste + 2x Blue Diamond Almonds + 1x Soap Expired

Your post description about this being "free" is wrong, though. It's $10.xx in real money in exchange for $11.20 in Walgreens Cash, which is neither a gift card nor real money. Walgreens Cash expires. It is not real money that can be used anywhere, hence this is not free. Your post is essentially an investment which could result in a minimum 50% off a future purchase you make while your Walgreens Cash is valid. The additive $4.55 in returns from that cash back site is better.

Not saying this isn't a good deal. The end of your post where you micromanage people by saying "no threadcrapping if you don't understand the deal" isn't necessary, especially when you yourself don't seem to understand the difference between free items and investing money into a future purchase. Your whole post describes the latter. FREE would be them giving you the items with either no monetary exchange, or by giving you actual money back that at is at least equal to your purchase amount.

If you want to play the semantics game. be my guest. Obviously there's a finite amount of space in the title to include info and I was VERY CLEAR how it was made free. Now, if how the items are made free (a trade off of sorts) doesn't interest you, then pass on the deal, but a War & Peace lecture elicits an eye roll from me because it was spelled out RIGHT IN THE TITLE. Had I said free and gave no info on how it was 'free' I'd deserve the lecture.

It's the same thing with deals that are free after rewards at Office Depot or any such deal.

In the world of deal hunting at stores like Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreens, Office Depot, etc most deal hunters understand the 'free' concept in that you are given equal or more spending power to use again. These are stores that people shop at on a regular basis, so paying Wags $10 now to get $24 worth of stuff to have another $11 to spend tomorrow is actually better than them giving me $24 worth of stuff for $0 now than not having even more to spend the next time (and an extra $4 towards gift cards at FETCH if you use that app).

As for the threadcrapping, that had to do with not understanding the deal as far as the mechanics of it. I just find people who nitpick about it being 'free' especially when it's made clear as the sun in the title making much ado about nothing. No one was mislead and it's perfectly clear you have to spend the money now to get the money to spend again later. So what is the issue then? Don't want to go that route to make it free, then don't mess with it, but you can't say you weren't told even before you clicked on the thread.

And as to your 50% off the next time (head scratching) you are given back the same amount of spending power you just laid out. So the next $11 purchase is 100% paid for too, not 50% off that purchase, and you may easily earn $10 in spending power again on that purchase with wags cash or register rewards or a rebate or whatever.

and PS, Wags Cash is valid for 12 months, so the fear mongering about using it while it is valid is definitely over the top IMO.