A Hundred Indecisions

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Absolutely FREE!

I LOVE freebies! What's not to love. I get stuff, I pay nothing! It appeals to my frugality. I occassionally even brave the grocery store or wholesale club on a Saturday for all the free food samples.

There are hundreds of websites offering the inside scoop on freebies! Some freebie sites are home-grown mom-n-pop sites that TRY to keep current, but frequently the offers they list are out of date or expired. It's frustrating to wade through pages of content looking for an interesting freebie offer, only to find a link that takes you to a dead end.

Then there's the dark side of freebie offers... those crazy websites that make you sign up and provide all your contact information, then they sell your data to spammers and never really send you any free samples.

But in the murky waters, there are a few FABULOUS sites that I can count on to provide awesome freebies.

Start Sampling - a warehouse of various samples, you can select ONE every 24 hours. Sometimes they have nothing of interest, sometimes they have 3 or 4 cool things all at once. Makes it worthwhile to check on a regular basis. And, from my experience, you actually GET the samples you select.
Dove Website - AWESOME samples available periodically. Once you sign up for a freebie, they seem to email you each time a new product is being offered as a sample.
Post-It Perks - DOUBLY AWESOME. I admit I have an office supply fetish (with an emphasis on writing implements, but I digress). So free 3M products ROCK!
Olay - Much like Dove, frequent samples, great products. Love it.

My hubs works for one of the major US office supply companies on the commercial management side and frequently gets vendor samples... of PENS, and PAPER, and other cool office goodies. It's like being married to the ice cream man! Too yummy.

Do you have any favorite freebie providers?