Places and Ways to Get Freebies

Veronica Samuels
The best ways to find freebies are through the newspaper, the television, flyers in stores, word of mouth, or on the internet. Listed below are several ways to get free items:

Teachers can get a John Stossel DVD free.

Dunkin Doughnuts gives out freebies once a month.

Enfamil gives free coupons and samples of formula just by signing up at their website.

Huggies gives free diaper coupons by signing up at their website.

$25 or $50 adwords are available through the For Dummies series of books.

My local television station's website offers freebies on a weekly basis.

Wal-Mart offers free samples through their website.

Free grocery coupons at coupons.com

Wendy's offers a free single hamburger on the back on your receipt if you call a number.

Cold Stone has free ice cream on certain days (check their website).

Some of the chain restaurants have certain nights were kids eat free .

IHOP sends out coupons through the mail for buy 1 get 1 free for breakfast, lunch, or dinner.

Adobe.com offers free trial periods for its different software.

Inspiration offers a free trial period of 30 days to use its software.

Intuit.com offers 30 days to create your own website.

A lot of companies are willing to offer freebies of some sort because they want you to become a loyal customer. The market is so competitive because there are brick and mortar stores but there is also the internet. Not only do some of the internet sites offer freebies, but they also offer discounts. They want their online business to expand. Some of the informational websites offer free e-books. However, it does take time to find freebies. At the end, it is well worth the effort.

It is so exciting to get free items that we sometimes forget that some people try to pull a scam on you. If a company or site asks for money for an item, then it is not free. You need to quickly look somewhere else for a free item. The old saying "If it looks to good to be true, then it usually is" applies to looking for freebies on the internet. If a site has an abundance of misspelled words, I would not respond to anything on the site. A good place to check out websites is the BBB. Sometimes you can put in a search for a review of a site and obtain information that way through Google or any other search engine. Always check the website's address to make sure that it has not changed into another address once you have entered it. The most important thing is to never give out information if you have the slightest bad feeling about a site.

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