OK, last week we went a little crazy with the Free Stuff. So we're gonna take it down a notch this week. Just one item and we're gonna give you until the end of next week to come up with the winning comment.

The item is a copy of 'Never shower in a thunderstorm' and it's a compilation of columns from the New York Times written by Anahad O'Connor. The premise of O'Connor's column is he takes a health-related myth and finds out if its true or not.

This thing is chock full of cool myths. Like....

Will eating poppy seeds make you fail a drug test?
Can you fight off a shark by punching it in the nose?
Does Spanish Fly really exist?
Can drinking coffee stunt a child's growth?

So share your best myth, urban legend, old wives tale. The best one wins the book....and the title of Free Stuff Champion of the World and Beyond (for the following week only.)

Are you a lawyer? Party pooper? The rules are here.

We just had to do a special midweek Free Stuff post in honor of the new 'Forever stamp.'

This is the stamp you will be able to buy to avoid any future stamp price increases. It comes  just in time for the latest postage hike, from 39 cents to 41 cents.

Anyway, I don't know how, but we got our hands on a book of 20 of these gems.

You want 'em? Then tell us why in the heck you still need stamps, much less stamps that will last forever.

And the story better be more exciting than "I need to send in my PG&E and cable bills"

As usual, the rules are here. I figure we'll let this run through the end of this week, so get those stories up!

In honor of the new PIrates of the Caribbean movie coming out in a few weeks, we're putting up "The Government Manual for New Pirates" on Free Stuff this week. This tome has everything from a guide to conjugating 'to be' for new pirates (it's always 'be') to a page with a paper eye patch you can cut out (presumably when you need an eye patch in a pinch.)

Share your favortie pirate story, memory, photo, whatever. The best wins the book.

As usual, you can read the rules here.

It's getting warm and sunny and that means lawns will be growing fast for the next few months. I'm sure there are some great lawn horror stories out there. Or maybe some wonderful story about how your lawn saved your life, marriage, etc.

Share them here and you might win our latest Free Stuff item, the book "Lawnscapes." This a cool little book that has all kinds of tips for making your lawn a work of art. This looks like one of those novelty books (what with the fake turf on the cover), but there is a lot of serious mowing knowledge inside.

As usual, please check out our rules here.

Our second Free Stuff item for the week is this blue Dodgers bag. Again I'm not sure why this was sent to us. Did the Dodgers think we had forgotten them?

Whatever the reason, it's yours if you have the best Dodgers story out there.

Go!

As said before, you can find the rules here.

We had a big turnout for the first week of Free Stuff, so to avoid a let down I figured we would offer up two items this week.

The first is a bottle of McCormick's Root Beer Concentrate. I'm not sure when or why this little bottle showed up here. Probably a few months ago.

One note: I originally thought this was just a bottle of root beer flavoring, but upon reading the back of the box I discovered you actually use this stuff to BREW root beer, using yeast and fermentation and everything! You have been warned.

So how do you win this curiousity? Post your best root beer memory. here.

Extra points for anyone who actually has made root beer at home.

As usual, you can find the rules here.