Samples

Samples are great if you want to try out something before your buy it. A couple evenings a week my local grocery store has stands throughout the shop offering free mouth-size samples of food products. Of course their intention is to get the consumer to immediately buy the product. Often they give out discount coupons as well.

However there are other ways to get free samples. Many websites offer samples when you sign-up to their newsletter. In this way I have received coffee, noodles, cat food, and cereal. Sometimes you can even be bold enough to ask for a free sample. Many companies are quite willing to give a little product away in the hopes of continuing sales.

Recently I received an email telling me I can get a free coffee sample. The interesting thing was the email came from a fashion newsletter! So, you never know who is going to offer something for free or when. If you are interested in a sample of free coffee then check out Barista @ Home. Sign up for a free coffee sample and enter the competitions while you are there!

More samples available online right now are (please note that some of these are for Australian and New Zealand residents only):

Huggies DriNites
Poise Products
Wrigley’s Solano
Life & Leisure magazine
Sustagen
Purina Beneful dog food
Fancy Feast Gourmet Gold dry cat food
LibraGirl starter pack
Marquis Condoms
Resene Testpot
Huggies Little Swimmers
Coffee Break Coffee Bar
Bell tea
So Good trial offer
Calarox
Ethiopian coffee sample
Ecrín Curative Skin Therapy
Chandelier Crystal
Skin Care products
Disinfecting wipes
Olive oil
Tanning lotion
Naturalamb condoms
Purina pet food

Other great places to get samples are “trade” shows. Here in New Zealand there is the annual Parent & Child Show as well as the Royal Easter Show. Of course you have to pay for a ticket to get into the event (unless you win one like I often do) but once inside you can usually get away with buying no food. Have a good look around the venue and you will find many stalls offer free samples of their food. Of course their aim is to get you to buy the product, but if you are clever like me you will simply fill yourself (and your children) up on the free samples all day and not buy anything.

Many times I even have a friendly chat with the vendor and score a bigger sample. My children have even received free small toys because the vendor thought they were cute (it pays to put them in adorable dresses with pony tails!).

I know there are many more free samples available online in the USA, Canada and the UK, so if you live there just do a Google search for samples or go to your favourite website and see if they have anything on offer. Once again, let me know if you find anything worthwhile to share.