Reddit Freebies

In order to cut back on costs, I’ve taken to religiously stalking the Reddit freebies page (they also have an e-freebies page). I found the page a while ago while looking for free stuff for college students (I’m such a sucker for free anything) and it’s actually a good resource for some basics or fun stuff (e.g. stickers, calendars, water bottles, t-shirts). People post links of free samples that they find, along with an expiration date, and you can sign up for whatever freebies you want. Most of the freebies need a Facebook like or maybe your email or a survey response but if you create a dummy e-mail, you can avoid the spam. Or just unsubscribe; most companies are good about not sending you e-mails if you ask them not to.

You do need to enter your address so they can send you the free samples but if you do some research on the companies ahead of time, you’ll see if it’s a legit company or not. Reddit is also pretty good at curating the forum so there aren’t any referral links, illegal things, self-promotion, etc.

I found it really useful while in college to grab samples to help tide me over and take care of the small things. Some of the things they offer are soaps and shampoos and sometimes, small food samples too, like coffee. They’re good to have around for when you run out of shampoo and haven’t had the chance to get to the store or for traveling. It also helped me keep an eye out for those bigger, well-known stores, like Target, that gives out pouches of samples and coupons.

It does take a few weeks for the items to ship, but by that time, sometimes you’ve forgotten you ordered it and you get a little surprise in the mail!

What are some of your cost saving techniques?