Photograph Credit: Krispy Kreme

Happy 75^th Anniversary, Krispy Kreme! Among your promotions on National Doughnut Day, Talk Like a Pirate Day, and National Coffee Day, you are celebrating in style.

Though I keep eyeing the new cotton candy and caramel apple doughnuts, I have not taken the plunge. If you follow my goals, you know I really don’t need any doughnuts. But if I splurge, it will take a chocolate iced, crème filled doughnut. Yum!

National Coffee Day Free Coffee

For all you coffee lovers, Krispy Kreme comes to your rescue offering a free 12 oz. of their house blend in honor of National Coffee Day on Saturday, September 29, 2012. Per Krispy Kreme Doughnuts’ Facebook page, this offer is for all United States and Canadian locations, a limit of one per customer, and no purchase necessary.

National Coffee Day Giveaway

In addition to the free house blend offer, Krispy Kreme will give 75 fans a free year of coffee which is 2 bags of coffee shipped to winners each month. To enter the free giveaway, fill in this form and chose your favorite signature coffee (house blend, decaf, or dark roast). The sweepstakes ends on Saturday, September 29, 2012. Good luck!

For additional fun, family activities, check out Using Time Wisely’s Facebook event page. Enjoy using time wisely with those you love! Happy fall!

Question: What’s your favorite item on Krispy Kreme’s menu?

Photograph Credit: Krispy Kreme

Blow me down, Matey! Krispy Kreme Doughnuts is celebrating Talk Like a Pirate Day. Aye, Aye, they have such a day.

My husband participated in Talk Like a Pirate Day last year without any encouragement or freebies. Can you imagine what our family gets to endure this year? 😉

Free Doughnut

Valid only on September 19, 2012, any landlubber who walks the plank to a participating Krispy Kreme Doughnuts location and chatters like a pirate receives a treasured-reward – a free original glazed doughnut.

Free Dozen Doughnuts

To the serious buccaneer who arrives in full pirate attire (from head to toe) goes a free dozen original glazed doughnuts.

Guess our family will pull out those eye patches and the stuffed animal parrots for an exciting voyage to me Krispy Kreme Doughnuts location on Wednesday, September 19 for our free doughnut. Not sure if we can scrape together a full costume, but ye never know. 🙂

As you check your compass, map yer course to a participating Krispy Kreme Doughnuts location on Wednesday, September 19, 2012. To find a participating location and get a few pirate phrases, visit Krispy Kreme Doughnut’s Talk Like a Pirate newsletter.

Whether you sing a Yo Ho tune, grumble your Arrgh!, or chat a chipper Ahoy!, celebrate with Krispy Kreme Doughnuts on Talk Like a Pirate Day, Wednesday, September 19. Are ye on board? Happy pirate scowling!

Question: What’s your favorite pirate saying?

Photography Credit: LaMar's Donuts

Yes, there is a National Doughnut Day, and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and LaMar’s Donuts are celebrating with free doughnuts.

Yeah, another great family adventure to start off next weekend.

If you have a participating location near you, then mark your calendar for these free events:

Krispy Kreme tweets on Twitter:

Friday 6/3 – KKD is offering 1 FREE Doughnut on National Doughnut Day. This offer is good at participating U.S. KKD retail shops.

LaMar’s web site announces their celebration:

We celebrate National Donut Day by giving visitors a FREE Gourmet Donut with a hole – No purchase required! Since National Donut Day started in 1938 as a tribute to the “lassies” – women volunteers who helped feed soldiers in World War I, we find it an appropriate patriotic salute to give every visitor a gourmet donut – free, for no charge. Imagine: a donut that doesn’t require any dough!

In addition to the free doughnut announcement, LaMar’s web site includes the history of National Doughnut Day. Since I found it interesting, I am including the information.

THE HISTORY OF NATIONAL DOUGHNUT DAY

National Donut Day is celebrated on the first Friday in June. In 1917, Salvation Army female volunteers known as “lassies” prepared thousands of donuts to the homesick soldiers that served in France during World War I.

The doughnuts were made by filling a pail with oil and using left over dough flour and other ingredients on hand and a wine bottle as a rolling pin. Doughnuts were fried – seven at a time – in steel helmets on an 18-inch stove. The 100 doughnuts made that first day were an immediate success.

Soon, hundreds of soldiers stood in muck outside the tent, waiting for the sweet taste of doughnuts. Before long, The Salvation Army was cooking thousands of doughnuts around the clock. National Donut Day was officially established in 1938 by the Chicago Salvation Army to raise much-needed funds during the Great Depression.

Please visit the links to these establishments to locate a participating location near you. I have learned to call ahead to confirm participation since, more than once, our family has arrived for an event only to find the business not participating. Use your time wisely and check first. Enjoy your time with your family!