Free Stuff

There are people who give away a lot of free stuff, and it’s easy to find. Individuals will use free classifieds like Craigslist to advertise free goods; the only catch is that usually you have to pick it up yourself. Mattresses, armoirs, boxes, toys, DVDs, you name it, it’s being given away for free. What’s to say that you couldn’t pick up an old dining room table, fix it up, and then sell it off for $50. This requires a little bit of work and perhaps basic carpentry skills, but if you have it, then you’ve got possibilities.

If old mattresses aren’t your cup of tea, maybe free samples of breakfast cereals or cosmetic products are more to your liking. Go to (About.com) for the “Free Stuff” blog.
It’s updated relatively frequently, and gives you advice on where to go to get these free samples. Walmart.com shows up pretty frequently.

Perhaps you would rather go for industrial quantities of free stuff. Have a need for mulch, scrapwood, manure? If you can believe it, many people just throw this stuff away. If you’re a gardener, picking up a truckload of organic refuse (provided you can verify that it’s not toxic for some reason) is a great way to avoid dishing out hundreds of dollars in topsoil and fertilizer. Gardening is also, by the way, a good way to avoid paying out 20% of more of your income in food bills.