How many of us have expected to get something for nothing and had to pay for shipping and handling? And by reading the fine print, you discover that taxes and tips are your responsibility.
If it’s supposed to be free, then you shouldn’t pay anything, zip, zero, nothing, right.
Well, how many times have you seen something advertised for free, then the fine print says only with purchase? Also, the purchase has to be above a certain amount. I know advertising people have to make their money somehow, but honestly, sometimes those freebie deals are a cover-up for a major purchase that most gift-seekers can’t afford anyway. Or they are only available in a certain country. (Not usually where I live).
Well, sometimes the last one annoys me. I go to the trouble of getting to a website and find out I can’t apply anyway because I don’t live in the right country.
Is it that these big companies do not know that there are people who live north of the American border and that we also like free things? Well there are some companies that give gifts to Canadians and so I will spend my hard earned money on their products.
This is what I have in the last 5 years:
1. A Compaq laptop case
2. Feminine hygiene products
3. Post/General Mills Family Size Cereal Box
4. NASA posters, mental health organizations, music clubs
5. Cash for earning on survey sites
6. Brainbench.com Certificates
7. Beauty products
8. Brochures and Coupons for Bed and Breakfast Inns
9. Amazon.com Gift Certificates
10. Fishing magazines
11. T-shirts
12. Twenty boxes of tissues from the manufacturer.
13. Future Shop Gift Cards
14. Self-rising flour
15. Kool-aid Jammers and Sports Drinks
16. Razors
17. hair clips
18. Stationary
19. Free Software Discs + Free Trials
and of course free money for taking surveys.
These are the ones I remember and there have been lots and lots of coupons online and offline for different things ranging from soup to island vacations. If there are promotion people who want a family to try the products, we usually do that too.
We have participated in surveys on Ketchup, Laundry Soap, Hand Soap and Body Wash, Kraft Dinner, and Mayonnaise, just to name a few.
I’m sure there are plenty of gifts for everyone and I’m going to keep searching the web.