28 posts tagged “free”
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Mark Boyle (a.k.a. Saoirse, which is Gaelic for "freedom" and pronounced "sear-shuh") set up the Freeconomy website (http://www.justfortheloveofit.org). The idea is that like-minded people sign up, list their skills and donate them to others. In return they receive favours back. For instance, a hairdresser may give a mechanic a haircut and in exchange the mechanic would fix the hairdresser's bicycle. No money ever changes hands. The website appears to have been successful. Boyle says 4,200 people with 900 different skills from 85 countries have signed up.
This concept has been so successful, that people regularly visit sites where things are given away freely. The most notable being FREECYCLE. Others worthy of checking out include TAKEMEIMFREE and CURB SURF.
Rock Bottom Brewery in Chicago has a monthly tapping on a Thursday night. It is free to mug club members and you usually walk away with 2 free pints. BTW, the mug club is absolutely free to join. Check your local Rock Bottom to see if they have a similar deal.
The first Monday of every month, from 7pm - 9pm, Horseshoe Casino (Hammond IN) has a "beer of the month" tasting. You get to try a 2 ounce sample of the beer, but if you hang around, you usually get a refill. Last night, I got an entire snifter for free! And this was a huge 10% ABV beer.
All I did was sign up for newsletters and submit my date of birth. Look what I got this week:
$5 off from my local butcher
$10 off my food/beer bill at Rock Bottom Brewery
Free Blizzard from Dairy Queen (a $3.73 value)
Free swirl shake from Arby's (a $2.60 value)
Free Chinese buffet (an $8.50 value)
Total Savings = $29.83! :<))
If you want to save this kind of money on a weekly basis, be sure to follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my RSS feed on Twitter.
The podcast below helps explain my business model. I think my model takes the high ground, I give you 90% of everything for free.
I keep my blog ad free (those Google ads at the bottom keep VOX hosting free for me). My sidebar simply has referral links for you to join programs that I have already joined and are making money at. And finally I have created downloadable seminars so that you can get the other 10% I do not reveal on this blog. These include the scientific method of buying and selling stocks and the 3 fat frugal techniques guaranteed to save you thousands of $$$.
Thanks to the folks over at Frugal Yankee for this podcast.
