25 Easy Ways to Get Free Stuff Online (And Locally)
Where to Get Free Stuff Online
By visiting one (or all!) of the sites below, you can find nearly unlimited access to free stuff online.
I found many sites but narrowed the list down to the most user-friendly and with the least personal information needed to participate.
1. Freecycle
Freecycle is one of the best sites for getting free stuff online. It has over 11,000,000 members who post stuff online for free that they no longer want.
Its mission is to encourage people to share, which in turn will reduce waste worldwide. The site is free to use and is available in over 5000 towns.
2. Just Free Stuff
Just Free Stuff is a comprehensive site offering deals and free samples on just about anything you could think of.
Along with basics like beauty, baby, and pet samples, they share details on how to get free samples or products on educational products, games, eBooks, clothes, and more.
The site also offers a free CD section. When I clicked on that category, there were offerings for free CDs that focused on different subjects, such as personal finance education and a Disney cruise planning CD.
3. PINCHme
PINCHme offers new samples each Tuesday. It’s free to join, and you get to keep the products you test. Over ten million members have tested 30 million samples.
Currently, PINCHme only sends samples to the contiguous 48 U.S. states.
PINCHme
Get free samples by mail
No credit card required
Over 9 million members
4. Swagbucks
Swagbucks is certainly one of the easiest ways to get stuff online.
With Swagbucks, you can earn points by searching online (something you probably already do anyway), shopping, taking surveys, watching videos, and more.
With the points you earn with Swagbucks, you can get free gift cards to many popular stores such as Amazon, Walmart, Target, and hundreds more.
Bonus: You can also get a $10 sign-up bonus, and anyone 13 years or older can join Swagbucks.
Swagbucks
Multiple ways to earn
Has paid out over $550 million
$10 sign up bonus
5. Similac
Are you expecting a baby soon? Similac offers up to $400 in baby formula samples and coupons. You will also get nutrition guidance information.
Other baby formula producers may also offer free samples.
It’s also possible to get free samples by creating an online baby registry from Amazon, Target, Walmart, and others.
6. Rebaid
Do you shop at Amazon? Rebaid lets sellers offer products for free or at a steep discount. You must buy the product, and Rebaid rebates your purchase within three days.
Full rebates are available for health supplements, clothing, pet supplies, and more.
Learn More: Rebaid Review
7. Free Samples.org
The Free Samples name says it all. The site updates every twenty-four hours, so you can have the most updated access to free samples and other free items.
Items they had showcased for free:
Cleaning products
Food products
Coffee samples
Dog food
Bandages
Vitamin supplements
The site also shared coupons for free drinks and other stuff at various national chain restaurants, coupons for everyday items at grocery stores, and various coupons for other stores and companies.
8. Freeflys
Freeflys is a popular freebie site that has earned a regular spot on the widely viewed Today Show. You can browse free samples by type, such as food samples, beauty samples, health samples, samples for kids, and more.
They also share hundreds of coupons for everyday items and available sweepstakes entries.
There is a space where you can register to receive daily emails about Freeflys free samples and other deals, or you can browse for free without signing up.
9. TheFreeSite.com
The Free Site is one of the oldest freebie sites with extensive offerings. Most of the options are for digital freebies like apps and downloads. They even have a free sample section.
International visitors can also take advantage of seasonal freebies and offers. Some physical product samples are also available on TheFreeSite.com.
10. Go Freebies
Go Freebies shares its free sample links right on its home page in blog post form, which is convenient. They also share free sample information in a sidebar on the left of the page.
Bonus: those signing up for their daily newsletter are entered into a drawing for an Amazon gift card.
11. 2000 Freebies
Although the 2000 Freebies site is a little simplistic in its design, that doesn’t take away the ability to search out free samples easily and quickly.
The site shares free sample offerings by the current month. They’re found under a “Hot Freebies” section in an easy-to-use sidebar organized alphabetically, by type, or by listing the newest offers first.
12. LiveAbout
An extensive online resource for many topics, LiveAbout lists a handful of the best freebies by mail each day. You should check daily to see sign up before supplies run out.
The offerings can include magazines, flower seeds, and free satellite radio trials.
13. I Love Free Things
I Love Free Things is an easy-to-use site that shares hundreds of pages on how to get free products. Their search engine lets you click on the Free Stuff or Free Sample categories.
You can also browse their most popular “free” items: baby, beauty, food, clothing, or stickers.
They also have a search button that allows you to type in a specific keyword, such as “laundry detergent” or “restaurant,” to find freebies in those genres.
14. Sweet Free Stuff
Sweet Free Stuff shares the most popular free sample offerings currently available, such as pet food, beauty products, and baby products, just as most other sites do.
They also have a category for birthday freebies, sharing which companies give free samples or meals on your birthday.
15. My Free Product Samples
The My Free Product Samples site does what it says: it offers free samples with no strings attached.
The types of free samples they offered ranged from music samples and book and magazine subscription samples to free “happy” samples (Want to know what “happy” samples are? Just check out the site).
They also share popular sample offerings like health, beauty, kid, and medicine samples.
Bonus: they share store giveaways and sweepstakes entries as well.
16. Freebies4Mom
This site does lean toward advertising free samples that benefit moms, but it also has enough other free sample offerings to make it worthwhile for non-moms to check out.
Pool cleaning kits, food samples, and health and beauty products for men and women alike were available when I looked at the Freebies 4 Mom site.
17. Walmart
Walmart sometimes gives away sample boxes containing various products at different times of the year.
When I checked the page at this writing, the free sample boxes they were giving away included a beauty box (when you sign up, you get a different beauty box at four different times during the year) and they also had a box of baby samples you could sign up to get.
For instance, you may have to complete a baby registry to get baby samples. From the site page, it looked like you could get quite a bit of stuff in each box. They do charge a five-dollar shipping fee for each freebie box, however.
18. Sample Source
Sample Source is different than your average free samples by mail website. First, sample boxes are available on a seasonal basis.
You can join Sample Source, take a profile survey, and request a sample box that matches your interests.
You can receive a box that contains some of these items:
Beauty care
Makeup
Household cleaning
Food and snacks
No purchase is necessary, but you must rate the items you receive. Your feedback helps companies improve their product and you may qualify for more samples in the future.
19. Freebies.org
Freebies.org is another great site that has info on tons of free samples.
They share information on giveaways for categories such as:
Free books
Food
Cosmetics
Feminine hygiene
Health products
Audiobooks
Magazines
Pet products
You don’t have to join to use their free sample offerings. However, like other sites, Freebies.org does state that if you sign up for their email list, you’ll get access to more free stuff.
You’ll be first in line for free offers so that you don’t miss out on freebies that have a “while supplies last” limitation.
Some of the cool freebies I found on the site at this writing included free ice cream (woohoo!) and free samples of shampoo and fragrances.
20. Freebie Depot
Freebie Depot is yet another site that offers something for nothing – who can turn that down? However, along with sharing info on free samples, they also share about product offers with ridiculously big money savings.
Those bonus offers might not be free, but they can save you bunches of cash. For instance, they share specifics on Amazon’s daily Hot Deals.
The site is easy to use, with clear and specific categories listed at the top.
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21. Free Stuff Finder
Free Stuff Finder is an expansive site that is well laid out and very user-friendly. The very first tab category on the site is the “free stuff” tab. It makes it really easy to find the free sample offers.
The site shares specific offers on back-to-school deals, has a coupon database, and has videos on couponing.
Also, it has a site category sharing the latest ads from some of the biggest store names, such as Target, CVS, and Walgreens.
22. All You
All You is a freebie giveaway site and a magazine combined into one. The tagline reads Your Guide to the Best Freebies. I found the site super easy to use and attractively designed as well.
When you reach the homepage (click the link above), you can hit the “Your guide to the best freebies” banner. The site will then take you directly to the latest freebie deals.
Under the banner on the freebies page, you can search via a category taskbar or search by scrolling down through the blog posts. One of my favorite blog headers I found as I scrolled was the “Family Fun” post.
In the article, they shared eight different places where families can get freebie entertainment options. For example, you can get a free movie ticket at a participating theater.
It also has a direct link to the All You online magazine. It features up-to-date articles and some of the popular articles from the magazine’s back issues.
23. Hey It’s Free
The Hey It’s Free website was, like many of the other sites mentioned here, attractively designed and easy to use. The site’s homepage features a blog listing each freebie and the information on how to get it separately.
However, you don’t have to scroll through the blog posts if you are looking for a specific freebie.
Instead, you can use the search bar in the upper right-hand of the page or go directly to the “Top Freebies” tab.
I also liked that they had links to other popular freebie sites on the right sidebar.
24. Target
Like Walmart, Target also has a program where they occasionally give away sample boxes. When I searched online at the time of this writing, I only found one available sample box. However, you may be able to find others as well.
The link above led to a page listing all available beauty sample boxes.
Unlike Walmart, the boxes available at Target aren’t totally free, but they are a really good deal. In a recent sample box, you get $28 worth of beauty products for only $7.
25. Bzz Agent
Bzz Agent describes itself as an “international network of consumers who voluntarily participate in word-of-mouth campaigns for various products and services.”
Here’s how it works:
Go to their website and create a free membership. Then, fill out some surveys that help them gauge your different interests and determine what types of products you use regularly.
After that, you get free samples of products to try for yourself and your family. You then share your honest opinion about those products on your Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites or on your blog if you are a blogger.