A short video on how this woman saves money online

Tips to Saving Money Online

Dumping problems on others.

One possibility for earning some money as well as sometimes getting some decent stuff for free is to clean up properties for Realtors, apartment complexes, and other businesses and places that need to get rid of unwanted furniture and other merchandise left by previous clients, renters and others. While you oftentimes have to deal with stuff that is not worthy of anything other than taking to the dump, you can usually get someone else to do the real dirty work, while you gleem the stuff worthy of keeping. A couple of points; you'll need to make contact with realtors and property management people letting them know that you're available to clean out places...fast. While many will already have contacts in place, business is always coming and going so you need to be persistent and call, visit and even mail short form letters to the appropriate people. You'll need to have access to a truck, van, etc., to make this work, and this can become a full time business if you're not careful, so unless you have a good bit of time, and willing to get your hands and other things dirty, this may not be for you.

Local Newspapers

Most small towns have a local newspaper or shopping guide which happens to have a classified section and most will have a section for "Free Stuff", "Free Things", etc. While you may find that many of the items offered as free may not be things that would be of interest to you, sometimes you'll be able to score some decent furniture, books, and other stuff that people who are moving are more interested in getting rid of than making money on. The small town papers are often the best place to look here. Find out when it's published, and get a copy as soon as it comes out.

Cleaning up at yard and moving sales

A few years back when I was going to yard sales, I noticed how people tend to be more willing to bargain as they got toward the end of the weekend and still had a slew of stuff to get rid of. This got me to wondering what these people did with the stuff that was left over and couldn't get rid of? Of course, some will take the leftovers to places like the Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc., but many people have neither the time or inclination to do either. Thereupon, I reasoned that many of these people would be happy to have someone come along and take the remaining merchandise off their hands for free.

The way to work this is when going to sales on Sunday afternoons, take note of the people that still have a bunch of stuff to sell, and write down their address and phone number if possible. A couple of days later send them a short note along with your business card stating that you are in the "Take-A-Way" business or something similar and let them know that you will be happy to remove their unwanted reusable items for Free. While many won't respond, some will, especially those moving and with an urgent need to get rid of their "stuff". Try this, and you might be surprised at how many things people will be dying to give you for free.

Free Travel Bag

With the price of gas, food and other essentials skyrocketing, taking a trip has become a luxury that fewer of us can afford to do. Nevertheless, I have found a site that will give you a free travelbag that you many never get to use. Well, you could always carry it along with you to work, the store and other places and let your imagination run wild, and convince yourself that you're taking that vacation to Disneyworld, the Grand Canyon, or some other neat place. In any event, if you sign up at Tripadvisor.com and then click on this link... Free Travel Bag you can at least have that little Travel Bag ready to throw over your shoulder on your shiny new moped, as you start off on your journey.

Learn How to Be A Cowboy...Free

A lot of us have had the secret desire to live the exciting life of a cowboy of the 'Old West' days. Are there still cowboys out there? You bet! Of course you might ask, how do I become a cowboy? Well, a good place to start is by reading the magazine called simply 'Cowboy'.


In it you'll find all the tricks involved in riding the old trails, roping calves, fighting wooden Indians and all kind of neat stuff. The great thing is that you can now get a *FREE* one year subscription to Cowboy magazine by clicking on the following link.... Yippie Yi Yay.. Partner!

Free Cowboy Subscription

Free 'Joe'

When I lived out in Seattle a couple of years ago, I came to realize just how much they loved their coffee. At the place that I worked, there was free coffee to be had at all of our satellite locations. One of the coffee's that they featured was 'Seattle's Best' no really it was Seattle's best coffee, well anyway that's the name of the coffee, and it was pretty dang good. If you're a coffee afionado and want to try some of what they call 'Seattle's Best' coffee, then click on the link and you can get a free sample and they you'll be able to determine if you are in fact drinking 'Seattle's Best' or perhaps one of the best.

Seattle's Best Coffee Free Sample

Want to get lots of Free Stuff? Join the Freebie Force

Learn a New Language.....Free

Here's a great way to learn a new language...you know like the one you took in high school for three years and at the end were able to say "hello","goodbye", and "close the door". Well, now here's your chance to impress all your friends by being able to say "hello", "goodbye", and "wow, it's hot" or something along those lines, and best of all it's *FREE*

Livemocha offers numerous languages such as Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and a whole lot more. Whether for business, travel or just fun, you can learn a language the affordable way.(you can't beat Free)

You can sign up at;

Learn Any Language..Free

Low Car Diet

We've all heard of the Low Carb Diet...I've been on it myself about a hundred times. No, this one is like no diet you've ever tried. Zipcar is offering you the chance to give your car a break and will provide you with several incentives to do so...like a loaded transit pass(although if you do so in cities like Baltimore, you might be putting your life on the line)a FREE 1 year Zipcar membership with a good bit of driving time and some other neat stuff.

If you're not familiar with Zipcar, they're a relatively new company that came up with the neat idea of providing people who either don't have a car, don't want a car full time, or just prefer to use a car now and again the means to do so by using one of the Zipcars placed throughout various cities. For now, this offer is good in the following cities; Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Portland, Toronto, Vancouver and Washington D.C. But with the way this idea is catching on, it will probably be available in a location near you very soon. To check out the details, go to;

Zipcar Low Car Diet

P.S. This offer is good for the period between July 21 and August 15.

Go to the Movies for FREE

With everything going up, wouldn't it be nice to be able to have something cost you less, even FREE? Here's your chance to see the new movie with Will Smith called 'Hancock' gratis, and put yourself on the list to get Free Movie Passes to advanced screeenings of other upcoming movies. All you have to do is sign up at the site and you're good to go...to the movies that is. The only catch with this is that you should live in or near the following large metropolitan areas...Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Of course, you'll still have to buy your own soda's and popcorn, but saving the price of admission isn't a bad thing, and you'll be one of the first to see new movies coming out, and you can be the local movie critic to your friends, letting them know whether or not a movie is worth seeing.

Sign up here....Free Movie Pass

Urgent....Fly Free to Select Locations....

Here's your chance to get a free ticket to several locations, such as Ft. Lauderdale Fl., to Jamaica, Bahamas, Costa Rica, etc., with a special promotion by Spirit Airlines. There are other locations as well. You must sign up for these deals by MIDNIGHT June 5, so hurry and check it out to take advantage of this opportunity to Fly FREE! The link is here;

Spirit Airlines Free Flights

What's Behind All the Emails Offering Free Stuff?

If you're like me, you probably receive about 50 emails a day telling you that you are the winning recepient of a free Airline Trip, Big Screen T.V., Ipod, Computer and lots of other great stuff. Are they for real? Actually, they are, but what happens is that once you submit your information to the place offering the prize, if you read the small print you'll find that you have to complete offers from different groups usually designated as 'Gold, Platinum, Silver' or some variation of this. To see a sample page of the type of offers you'll have to complete Click Here you'll also usually have to refer at least one and sometimes several people to the page as well.

The reason the companies can offer these deals is because they know that 95% of the people will never complete the requirements in order to redeem the prize. Therefore, they get the information of lots of people, many signing up for their offers and seldom have to give out the prizes.

If you decide to participate in one of these offers, make certain that you keep records on the offers you complete and anyone that signs up under you. While the offers are for the most part legitimate, it takes a bit of work, and sometimes money in order to get that fabulous large screen T.V. sitting in your Living room.

For the Mathmetically Challenged

Are you one of those people that has trouble adding up how many hundreds you've spent at the gas pump this month? Well, now you can let this new space aged calculator do all the hard stuff. Yes, it adds, subtracts, and probably a thousand other neat things. While it's not like winning a car or a pile of cash, it comes it handy when trying to figure how much you've added to the national debt this month. Anyway, you can get your FREE Calculator at...

Free Calculator

Free 10 Pack of Recordable DVD's

Now here's a deal that's music to your ears. You can get a Free 10 pack of Recordable DVD's from Office Depot just by going to the following link and printing off the coupon. The offer is good until June 21 so you don't have to rush down there in your P.J.s tonight to bag your Free Recordable DVD's.

Link... Free 10 Pack of DVD's

Free Microsoft Accounting Express 2008

I've always liked working with numbers. I even once thought about becoming an accountant. Numbers are my friends, especially when they work in my favor such as my winnings yesterday of $244 in a race at Charlestown Racetrack. Those numbers I can understand. Anyhow, for those who use accounting software for business purposes, Microsoft is allowing you to download their Office Accounting Express 2008 for free! It should be noted that this software is designed for U.S. and U.K. small businesses only. The version you will be downloading is the U.S. version. You can download the U.K. version at... U.K. Free Version

Free Magazines for the 'Manly' Man

I run across a couple of free offers that some may be interested in. First, you can get a free two year subscription to 'Motor Trend' magazine simply by going to;

Free 2 Year Subscription to Motor Trend.

Or if you're the hunting and fishing or other outdoors kind of guy, you can get a free subscription to Field and Stream Outdoor Life Magazine at;

Field and Stream Magazine Offer

Finally, Dads, you can get some Free Grub(Onion Rings) at TGIF on Father's Day, Friday June 15. Simply print the coupon off and take it with you for free Onion Rings for dad on that day only.

A Freebie for the Ladies

I ran across an offer that allows women to get 3 Free weeks at 'Curves' Workout Centers simply by bringing in three caps from milk containers. The promotion runs up through July 17, so if you've been wanting to check out 'Curves' without making any kind of commitment(sounds like an offer for us men)stroll on in with your 3 milk tops and get those curves going. To get the details on the offer, go to;

Curves 3 Week Free Workout

Free Digital Camera

I ran across an article that says that you can get a free Digital camera just by signing up and activating a Discover credit card. By activating they mean; applying, getting approved and making a purchase consisting of a credit car purchase, balance transfer, or cash advance. According to the website, the camera you would receive is a Canon Powershot A580 which features a 8.0 Megapixel and 4X Optical Zoom lens. This camera has a $149 retail value.

You can get all the details at;

Free Digital Camera

Getting Free Meals at Restaurants

With many people taking mom out to a restaurant today to celebrate Mother's Day, it reminds me that there are many places that will give you a free meal just to celebrate your birthday. Most large restaurant chains such as Denny's, Red Hot and Blue, IHOP and many others will give you a free meal on your birthday, but the thing is... most usually give you some leeway as to when you actually take advantage of it so that you don't have to try and eat six free meals on the same day. For instance, Damon's Grill says that the offer expires about a week after your birthday. Red, Hot and Blue on the other hand gives you a month after your birthday to take advantage of it. By signing up at several different restaurant chains, you can literally get free meals for several weeks or more.

You can find out if the restaurant chain offers a birthday club by checking at the restaurant or going to the corporate website. The terms will vary with the restaurant and some will require you to purchase another entree or dinner at equal value, but there's nothing shabby about getting your meal for 50% off and if you get your husband, wife, signficant other to do the same, you can dine in style at half the cost for at least a part of the year.

Free Long Distance Calls Worldwide

How would you like to greatly reduce or completely eliminate your long distance calls? By downloading some software from company's such as Skype, you can use your internet connection and turn your computer into a phone! It works similar to most of the Cell phone company's in that calls to your network, which means other Skype users is completely free. So, the hardest part is convincing your friends to download the software that will allow you to talk free to other Skype users anywhere in the world.

Some of the other things that you can do for free with Skype is video calls, instant messaging and group chats, conference calls with up to nine people, and forward calls to people on Skype. There are also many other features that Skype offers such as great long distance worldwide rates as low as .02 cents a minute when calling landlines or mobiles.