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With the economy in its existing condition and our purse strings all that just more tighter, it is uplifting to know there are businesses out there with directories or listings of freebies from businesses available to the everyday consumer. Granted, some of the offers may just be a couple of tampons or useless things like stickers, but, throw those tampons in your purse, gym bag and you are covered! There is a need to become a more sustainable society and so sites that offer recycled or environmentally friendly products are becoming more common. There are often companies that purchase 12 month publication subscriptions on your behalf! All you have to do is sign up with no ongoing obligation or submission of your credit card details. Very popular magazines like Oprah’s magazine have been offered on a number of occasions.
Some of the cooler things that I have gotten for free are:
Great food samples from Maccas, Ben and Jerry’s Outback Jack, Burger King, Raising Cane’s, Dunkin’ Donuts and much more.
Free Beauty free stuff from L’Oreal, Olay and perfumes from Calvin Klein, Hugo Boss, Nautica, Lacoste and Avril Lavigne.
freebies from Cheerios, Lysol, Greenworks, Neutrogena, Kotex, Depend, Nicoderm and so much more.
Magazine publications too many to count and name!
1 place you should definitely check out once a week is www.walmart.com/samples. About once a week Walmart will update that page and offer about 3 to 5 samples of products. Examples include the newest type of feminine products, grocery samples and over the counter medicine. The greatest thing is that Walmart is such a reliable brand in itself that the free samples always turn up with no conditions. However Walmart samples are limited as businesses that wish to send out free trial samples through them spend large amounts of money which isn’t available in every company’s budget. Therefore they advertise their free samples through their own networks without the same amount of publicity and attention than if they were advertising through Walmart.
One site that is great at bringing the best free stuff everyday is FreeStuff4Free.com. A website dedicated to bringing surfers the best reputable freebies on a daily basis, FreeStuff4Free.com has an easy to navigate interface with the freebies broken up into several categories. Starting to gain traction in the free stuff segment, they also offer prizes each month to those that sign up to their daily mail out which highlights the best freebies for each day aptly name the “Catch of the Day”.
If you’re new to this game of signing up for free stuff, the no. 1 piece of advice that you can use is create a “spam” email account when signing up. Never use your work email address unless you want to bombarded with unsolicited and unwanted spam mail.
So using the above information, sign away and grab some great stuff!
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Posted in Budgeting · February 16th, 2010 · Comments (0)
Though we may have seen the worst of the slump pass us by, we can never be too thrifty and save money where possible. I’ve decided to jot down a couple of tips on how to save money when shopping for groceries.
Do not shop whilst hungry – This is a big no no. Shopping whilst hungry only tempts you to make impulse choices and purchases leaving you with a larger grocery bill than you should have. You may feel that it only happens once in a while but when you add it all up over the year, you will have spent in excess of at least $1000. Don’t believe me? Check it and see!
Know your prices – I consider this to be one of the most crucial points. It’s like if you were going into business, you would need to know the market and your competitors and what they charge and what services they are offering. Previously I used to bring a notebook into the supermarket to write down the prices of groceries from so I could get a approximate estimate of what prices of particular goods should be. Now that I’ve done it on a consistent basis for a couple of months, I now know what the prices of things should be. It’s crucial to know the prices beforehand because you have to know what something costs to determine whether or not you are getting a good deal.
Use coupons from the newspaper and Internet – Using coupons to save on groceries will save you a drastic amount of money. So many people get turned off with the image of cutting out coupons from a newspaper or think it’s a waste of time. I am telling now, if you are not already couponing, you need to start now. If you do not receive the Sunday paper there are always free coupons online from sites such as FreeStuff4free.com. Many coupons are covered from a range of categories as well as a wide range of free samples. Otherwise Coupons.com is another simple to use site with plenty of savings.
Consider generics and store brands – Branding and promotion of brands cost money. Where does that money come from? Well from you, the consumer. Businesses increase their prices to cover the cost of the branding strategy. Basically what you need to know is that quite often generic brands are actually at least equal if not better than brand products. If you don’t believe me, do a blind test and see if you can actually tell the difference. I’m betting that for 99% of the population, you won’t be able to. Generics and store brands are frequently made in the same factory as the name brands, with only a different label. You may not appear to be keeping up appearances but the functionality of the product is what is important and not what brand you are using.
Independently each point on its own will save you cash however if all 4 are used in conjunction with each other, the amount increases exponentially as each tip is extrinsically linked.
Hopefully this will help save some of your cash so that you can spend it elsewhere useful like towards your mortgage.
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Posted in Budgeting · February 8th, 2010 · Comments (0)