Freebie Tips

[couponfanatic]

Yes, but please put the state in the title.

[sweeneycat]

Important: NEVER give out your Social Security number.

I also never give my real date of birth. The site doesn't really care about your DOB--they just want to be sure you are over 18 so select one you will always use for freebies.

Finally, my friend doesn't like using her real name either so she has one of her cats apply for all the freebies. She uses her last name so the mail will get there. She knows when a spam phone call comes in because they ask for the cat.

[MOTU]

This is all great advice...especially the information about having an alternative email address for signing up for freebies. Most of the time it will lead to getting a lot of unwanted spam. I have a whole email addresss that none of my friends have but I use when I buy things online or if I sign up for things on line. A site that I recently found that would be very helpful signing up for freebies without giving a legitimate address and something that you don't have to worry about checking regularly is GuerrillaMail.com. You go to the site and it will give you a temporary email address that will expire after 60 minutes. This will allow you to sign up for whatever you want and then if it sends you a confirmation email you will be able to get that as well. After the hour is up it will become no longer valid unless you click the button to reset the time. I haven't played with the service too much but it doesn't ask for any information like personal email address or anything like that and it will help to eliminate junk email. I hope this helps out everyone out there that loves freebies as much as I do.