Are you a freebie lover? If so, welcome to my world of freebie fandom! I love to constantly find and score amazing freebies from all over the web. The web is overflowing with these free goodies, but you have to know your way around all the scams and spam to find the true freebie gems.
Here are some of my personal strategies to find freebies that will pile up your home with all sorts of great goodies! Enjoy the savings.
1) Follow Reddit’s Freebies Thread
This is a better resource for Americans than the rest of us, but this thread can be a great way to find thousands of freebies from all sorts of stores, restaurants, chains, brands and more. People will vote on the better freebies, so the higher up and the more points it has, the better the freebie. However, it can be a good idea to keep posted on new threads so you can catch the very newest freebies and get them before they run out.
2) Freebie blogs galore
Just like I have a giveaway obsession, there are bloggers out there who love to track and share freebies. Here are a few great ones that are worth the follow:
- http://www.freebiespot.net/
- http://www.icravefreebies.com/
- http://hunt4freebies.com/
- http://www.latestfreestuff.co.uk/
3) Follow brands on Facebook
I score lots of freebies (and enter lots of contests) that I discover myself on Facebook just by following companies and brands. They pop up in my news feed and are usually undiscovered by most people. Right before holidays is the most active time for Facebook freebies!
4) Use Twitter to your advantage
First, follow hashtags. Doing so is easy with a program like Hootsuite or Tweetdeck. Smart hashtags to follow are #freebie and #freebies. You can also follow Freebie tweeters to be constantly updated on new freebies they find and promote. Here are a few solid Tweeters:
More awesome Twitter strategies here.
5) Look for websites in your own language/country
Finding freebies in Israel is tough – companies here don’t like to give out their products for free. But by using Google, I did manage to find websites that list freebies. You can do the same – search in Google in your own language or by writing your country in the search like this: “freebies Ukraine”.
If you happen to be Israeli, this is my source for freebie listings.
It’s hard to get freebies here in Spain too! But seems that there are more freebies available every day!
I love FREEBIES! There are so many good ones out there! It helps to brighten a down day when I see the freebie appear in the mail!
Great idea to use tweetdeck to track freebie hashtags! I’ve never even thought of using that. What a helpful post. 🙂 Thanks!
I never knew reddit had a freebie section how cool there is so much on there I need to explore thank you! x
great tips…I sometimes forget to use Twitter to grab freebies from brands. Tweetdeck…writing it down now. (there’s just so much in social media to keep track of!)
Never thought about using Hootsuit for this but it makes a lot of sense!
Thanks for the tips. Who doesnt like freebies!?
Thanks for sharing this! I know a lot of people are always looking for freebies! I follow a lot of different freebie sites myself 🙂
Great checklists! I know there are giveaways all over the place and sometimes it’s overwhelming. There are checklists I go through if I want to enter some though. This here is a good one!
I am trying to get better at the whole social media thing, those hashtags are hard to remember to do.
Wow, nice list. I’ll definitely share this with some of my friends, because I have some frugal livers on my friends list. They’re always happy to get some free stuff in the mail.
Sweet! I always love to find some great freebies. They usually send out some pretty good coupons with them, too!
Thanks for the info! I love finding great freebies. I never considered looking on Twitter before.
Definitely follow the brands on social media. Great tips!
There are so many ways to find freebies out there, this is a great list and I didn’t know about many of these.
I love freebies. You’ve pointed out some really great ways to find them. Thanks for sharing!
I love getting freebies!
Yeah for freebies! I love Reddit.
I have heard of Reddit but not used it. AllYou usually has a daily freebie listed as well!
I personally set aside a day during the week where I search out only freebies. The fact that our bathroom and linen closets are packed with all kinds of free samples, makes it easy to grab & go when you need them. I even pack extra “kits” for a dozen or so kids each summer when they head off to camp. I never thought about following the hashtags on twitter, what a great idea and it makes it easier to find stuff!