Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2013, 07:01 PM Jan 2013

For fun: The $39 Experiment

Not sure if this has been posted but:

http://the39dollarexperiment.com/

A blogger mails 100 letters to various companies asking for free samples.

A chart details what he received ( $275 worth of products/coupons ) and his attempts to auction it all off.

Old blog, but I found his letters funny - like the ones to Quiznos and Subway.

Not sure if it would be worth the time, but something a frugal might try on a bored day.

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For fun: The $39 Experiment (Original Post) Tsiyu Jan 2013 OP

that was a fun read! thanks for posting NMDemDist2 Jan 2013 #1

Just now catching up to old posts Tsiyu Feb 2013 #3

i'm not afraid to ask for credits and discounts NMDemDist2 Feb 2013 #4

Have you noticed that some guys WILL NOT use a coupon? Tsiyu Feb 2013 #5

There's no such thing as a "fake tattoo" SquirrelHill4444 Feb 2013 #2

NMDemDist2

(49,314 posts)

1. that was a fun read! thanks for posting

Reply to Tsiyu (Original post)

Wed Jan 16, 2013, 10:08 PM

Jan 2013

not sure i'm ambitious enough to do it, but an interesting concept

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)

3. Just now catching up to old posts

Reply to NMDemDist2 (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 20, 2013, 07:25 PM

Feb 2013

Glad you enjoyed it.

Takes some moxie to ask for all the free stuff, but I thought it was fun, too.

NMDemDist2

(49,314 posts)

4. i'm not afraid to ask for credits and discounts

Reply to Tsiyu (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 20, 2013, 07:35 PM

Feb 2013

but usually only with someone i already have a relationship with.....

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)

5. Have you noticed that some guys WILL NOT use a coupon?

Reply to NMDemDist2 (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 20, 2013, 07:49 PM

Feb 2013

I pass along really good ones if I don't use the product, but most of the men I know wouldn't be caught dead using one. I try to tell them all that's how the stinkin' rich get stinkin' rich - the nickels and the dimes! They just roll their eyes.

Discounts are always nice, and it's cool when you get to know proprietors ( or vendors ) and they clue you in on specials. I got some new 8' landscape timbers for $.99 each that way.

SquirrelHill4444

(11 posts)

2. There's no such thing as a "fake tattoo"

Reply to Tsiyu (Original post)

Sat Feb 9, 2013, 01:34 AM

Feb 2013

I think what the writer actually got from Max and Erma's were temporary tattoos

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