Tyrone

How many of us have hoped to get something for nothing and had to pay shipping and handling? And reading the fine print, you find taxes and tips are your responsibility.

If it is supposed to be free then you should pay nothing, zip, zero, nada, right.

Well how many times have you seen something advertised for free, then the small print says with purchase only. Plus the purchase has to be over a certain amount. I know the advertising people have to make their money some how, but honestly sometimes those offers of freebies are a cover up for a major purchase most people looking for freebies can't afford anyway. Or they are only available in a certain country. (Not usually where I live.)

Well sometimes the last one ticks me off. I go through all the trouble of getting to a web site and find out I can't apply for it anyway because I don't live in the right country.

Don't those big companies know that there are people that live north of the American boarder and we like free stuff too? Well, there are some companies that deliver freebies to Canadians and for that I will spend my hard-earned dollars on their products.

This is what I have got in the last 5 years:

1. A Compaq notebook carrying case

2. Feminine Hygiene products

3. Family Size box of Cereal from Post/General Mills

4. Posters from NASA, Mental Health organizations, Music Clubs

5. Cash from winning at Survey sites

6. Certificates from Brainbench.com

7. Beauty products

8. Pamphlets and coupons for Bed and Breakfast Inns

9. Gift Certificates for Amazon.com

10. Fishing Magazines

11. T-shirts

12. Twenty cases of tissue from the manufacturer.

13. Gift cards for Future Shop

14. Self-rising flour

15. Kool-aide Jammers & Sports drinks

16. Razors

17. Hairclips

18. Stationary

19. Free software discs + free trials

and of course free money for doing surveys.

These are the ones that I remember and there have been lots and lots of on-line and off line coupons for different things ranging from soup to vacations in the Islands. If there are any promotional people out there that want a family to try products we usually do that too.

We have been in surveys for ketchup, laundry soap, hand soap and bath gels, Kraft dinner, and mayo just to name a few.

I am sure there are lots of freebies for everyone and I am going to keep looking around the web.

Ms. Williams brings together personal experiences, medical and computer online certification. She has coped with life in many different situations, health problems, and shares the pain and the strength and wisdom that she has received from others and her Higher Power. She has spent many years studying relationships. The conclusion being that the longer you are in them the less you know about them. The pain of her own life and a spark of the odd humorous moment make her articles and stories a joy to read. From Ms. Williams about her Writing: "All that research, trial, error and therapy has finally paid off somewhere".