Top places to look for freebies
John Fitzsimons highlights the best sites to visit if you fancy a freebie!
John Fitzsimons highlights the best sites to visit if you fancy a freebie!
Going green
Top of the pile are the sites Freecycle and Freegle, both of which are particularly environmentally friendly. Basically, if you want something that other people might fancy getting rid of something, say a sofa or an exercise bike, you send an email to your local list.
People that are interested in giving it you for free can then get in contact, and you can arrange how and when to pick up the goods.
Alternatively, you can simply join the list and see what comes up on offer from local people who want to get rid of their stuff.
Either way, it’s all completely free!
New free stuff
The good news is, there are plenty of sites where the freebies on offer aren’t second hand. My personal favourite is freebielist.com – all you do is enter your email address and you get a weekly newsletter detailing all sorts of free samples and general freebies you can sign up for.
Magicfreebies.co.uk works on a similar basis, while there are a number of forums that it’s also worth keeping an eye on such as Bobsfreestuffforum.co.uk and PeazyShop.co.uk. These sites are divided up depending on the type of freebie on offer to help you find what you’re looking for.
Free days out
It’s not just actual stuff you can get for free though – you can get whole days or evenings out without spending a penny too!
The National Trust detail a number of sites all across the UK that you can visit for free, while there are also loads of National Parks that won’t charge you a penny for access. If the great outdoors isn’t your thing, then get yourself over to dofreestuff.com which details what’s going on in all the different regions of the UK. Also be sure to check out Free Events.co.uk, which as the name suggests, gives chronological listings of all sorts of things that are going on which won’t cost you anything.
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There are just too many Viz entries I could put on here, so I won't, thus saving everyone time so they can 'go oot on toon and get hammered', or whatever the equivilent is in other parts of the world.
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The best way to get freebies to to ask your friends how many siblings they have... If they have a lot like the baby boom generation and you want a DVD for the evening there is a good chance they can phone a sibling and they will have the DVD or know someone who does. When I got home from shopping I tested my half price jet washer and it was great and so left a message on my sister's answering machine telling her they are running out. You can also try being nice to people. My friend asked why I get so many freebies when he saw my wide screen TV and stand. My neighbour bought a new stand to go with her new TV and paid for it with the voucher I gave her for Christmas. She then asked if I would like the old stand, it was like new and good quality and she said you can have the TV too! It's not HD but I only really use it when I have guests and watch HD on my laptop in bed; Freeview of course. You can get loads of stuff from charity shops, but they don't take furniture without a fire safety label and don't normally take electrical goods. For free events, look up your local council, colleges and universities. The council does stuff for kids in the school holidays and for teenagers the universities have events. I see the ones from Wolverhampton University on Facebook.
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26 July 2010