Free Samples!
Is requesting free samples worth your time? Does filling out all the forms feel laborious to you? Do you find yourself passing up these offers? If so, read on.
Before I started getting serious about couponing, I would usually pass up the, “Free Sample” offers. Why? Because I always felt that filling out the forms where to time consuming for the little samples that I would get.
Well…my view of free samples has completely changed over the past year. Now, I look at them as a great addition to maximizing my total savings on food and household items. An example of this would be the above picture. I sent away for a free sample of a Fiber One Bar, and Cereal. The offer stated that it would come with $5.00 worth of Fiber One Coupons. Well..you know I jumped on that offer right away. I love Fiber One products!!
Well as with most free samples, I request them, and then forget about them until they come in the mail. There was no exception about the Fiber One Offer. Once I ordered it, I totally forgot about it. So here is were the beauty of the samples come in.
I wanted to really maximize the Fiber One deal at Target this week! So I printed out all the coupons from here and here and used them all. I even had my daughter fire up her computer to print some extras. Well…after about 3 times of trying to print from my daughter’s computer I gave up, because I couldn’t figure out how to send it to my printer. So later that morning I went to the mail box to find my Fiber One Sample!! The box came with a free Fiber One bar, a sample size box of cereal and…..THE $5.00 worth of coupons!!! Yipee!! They were the very coupons I was trying so hard to get extra of!!
So guess who is going back to Target??? You guessed it…yours truly!!! “smile”
There are several other things you can do with these free samples. Here are just a few:
My daughters love having sleep overs and inviting several of their friends. So right now I have a box of all the free samples of deodorant, shampoos, razors, lotion and body wash that I’ve requested.
I bought some nice colorful lunch bags, and will be making several overnight goodie bags for all of their friends for the next “big sleep over”!!
You could buy a pretty basket, and fill them up with some nice samples and bring them to an elderly person in your church, or a nursing home.
You could also give them to your young daughters to use!! I know my girls love any thing that is small. They get very excited when they can have a small sized hand lotion to put in their pocket book, or use in the shower.
How about the “baby samples”? You could do up a nice little gift basket for a baby shower!!
These are just a few ideas of what you can do with all of the free samples I offer on my blog. If you have been over-looking these little guys, and would like to order them, click on “samples” on the link provided at the top of my blog! Then start enjoying the great things about Free Samples!!
What do you do with your FREE SAMPLES?? I would love to hear what you all have to say. Please leave a comment below!!
~ Deb ~
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I keep them with me and then give them to homeless people. There is one lady in the park near where I live and I give a lot of the items to her. What seems like a small thing to me is a treat to her.
Rita, THAT is FABULOUS!
I save them up. they make great “filler” gifts for the holidays for my teenage daughters. (they also love anything small) They are also a great way of trying something new with out the investment!!
I donate what I don’t use to our local battered womans shelter
I use them as I think it’s a great way to try new products. My most recent and favorite sample was the Glad Forceflex Quick Tie kitchen bags. I love these things and can’t imaging going back and using my old bags ever again.
I put them away and use them for stocking stuffers (yes, my 2011 stocking stuffer bag is full). I also have a decorative basket in the bathroom with the samples in them for guests. I also purchase products that have the free samples attached to them; I have compared these to the regular products and they are the same price. Michele and Rita, what you do is inspirational. I will now start a new pile for this purpose.
I had a whole box full at Christmas time. When my 2 daughters came home for Christmas they had such a riot going thru it and picking what they wanted. Now that they won’t be home for a while I am saving them to donate. I love the dog and cat food samples!! The animal shelters need all they can get!!
I have them sent to my daughter, who’s 2000 miles away at college. She never knows what’s coming!
I use what I get and find products I like!
Cheryl that is EXACTLY what I do (tho she isn’t that far). I also use them for traveling or when I’m running low on something right before payday.
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