FrontierVille: Free Elbow Grease goes a long way

While we may have gone a few weeks, or even a few months in FrontierVille without really needing to call on the powers of Elbow Grease (yes, the building ingredient) to get things done, times have changed my friends. These days, you'll need Elbow Grease to do all things from building the Ponderosa Lodge to repeatedly expanding your Storage Shed, making this an item that's in high demand, but pretty time-consuming to come by.

Whether you're allowed to ask for Elbow Grease individually from friends, or in a random post to your news feed (that very well might be ignored), wouldn't it be great to at least check off one of those Elbow Grease from your list for no effort? Apparently Zynga thinks so, as they're giving away a free Elbow Grease to all users that head to a particular link today, and today only. Hint: It's this big link right here.

Sure, a single Elbow Grease may only take a few minutes off of the build time of your next project, but any free item is better than no free item, at least in my book. Besides, as so many people often complain about having to ask for so many ingredients, this will at least save one of your friends from a little bit of "spam." So what are you waiting for? Grab your free Elbow Grease while you can!

Do you like seeing free building ingredients given away on the FrontierVille fan page, or would you rather those giveaways offer exclusive decorations / items instead?

Zynga giving away 250 Cafe Cash on Cafe World fan page for Mother's Day

While many Cafe World players will fondly remember the days of mass amounts of free Cafe Cash, the supply has slowed in recent months. This makes Zynga's announcement all the more exciting - on Mother's Day, to celebrate mothers, Zynga will throw five separate Trivia Giveaways on the Cafe World fan page on Facebook.

These trivia giveaways will likely be about Cafe World and its features, although Community Manager Pinky Chefcadero didn't exactly make the theme clear. What we do know, however, is that these contests will be held from 12 PM PST to 8 PM PST on Sunday, May 8 - Mother's Day proper. Also, if you play the game anytime this weekend, you'll receive two free Instant Spices, just as a way for the Cafe World team to say "thanks" for our patience and continued support.

Each of these five trivia giveaways will offer 50 Cafe Cash as the final prize, which is enough to purchase either a ton of additional spices for your cafe, or even finish most of a Catering Order for you automatically (among dozens of other opportunities). Since contests like this don't come around very often, you might want to set your alarms for 12PM tomorrow - just make sure you spend some quality time with mom first, before abandoning her for the Cafe World fun.