Today I feel pretty good, because I've managed to score about $100 Australian worth of kind-of-free stuff.
I'm journalist and spend an awful lot of time on my computer and I often answer those emails that say - "Get paid for your Opinions!" Well today not one but TWO of those sites came through for me - one with a $50 gift card for local department store David Jones which is kind of handy as we have friends getting married in April who are registered with that store. And the other site you have to pick an actual thing, so I've scored a blender. The only thing that went AWOL in our move last year was a box labelled "small electrical - kitchen" and I've already replaced the food processor. But there's still the electric beater (eggwhites won't cut it in the processor) and rice cooker to go.
I know, they've both taken me hours of my time answering questions. But as I'm getting paid for those hours anyway, just waiting here for more news to happen, I figure it's all gravy. Makes a change from playing Shockwave games and emailing friends anyway. And sometimes I get products to test as well! All in favour of the free stuff!