What is the best freebie you ever got?

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Someone I knew got a giant size Chanel bottle of perfume from a promotion!

I’ve had nothing of note

I get loads! Best one probably a huge tv but also got a massive American fridge freezer recently too. I think the postman hates me but I get things every week due to my job.

My dog was a pretty good one.

33 boxes of mint matchmakers as a supermarket substitute for two boxes of after 8s.

it remains the best day of my life.

£700 Mulberry duffle coat (30 years ago and still going strong)

Multiple spa stays (some overseas)

Many, many, many, many cosmetic / skin care products. Multiple hundreds.

Samsonite luggage.

Upgrade from Economy to First on a 12hr flight.

Loads more but they’re the things that come to mind.

Mumsnet used to do product testing. I had a sat nav and a Dyson hoover.

I ordered a big bottle of Malibu with my online food shopping and they accidently sent me 2 (but only charged for the 1). I contacted them and they just thanked me for letting them know and told me to keep it!

My dog!

And once Ocado had an extra random bag of bits of fridge groceries in the van and I was the last stop that night. So the delivery fella gave it to me because it would all be thrown if he took it back.

My brother won a PlayStation the day they were first released. That was pretty epic.

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About 10 years ago I won an Instagram giveaway for a coat from Lavish Alice, I think the RRP was around £120. It's lovely and I still wear it throughout the colder months.

NHS dentist.

A small thing but: this doesn’t happen so much anymore since the advent of parking apps however I used to love it when you were about to pay for parking and someone would give you their ticket that still had a few hours on it when they were leaving.

Weird one but my friend was emigrating and gave me a bag of dried chick peas the size of a small pensioner.

I had to get very inventive with recipes to use the bloody things up. I tried lots of new foods, got really confident in cooking, developed a bit of a palate for flavours that work well together, and really changed my approach to low-cost food and cupboard basics.

Upgrade from economy to business on long haul flight

An armchair

Small but lovely gesture - man behind me paid for some chocolates when I forgot my phone at till - did make me feel a bit weird though

Upgrades to first class on flights for dd and I to jfk .

free London eye visit with afternoon tea for all 5 of us on the eye during the 2012 olympics as a perk with our credit card

My brother won a Porsche.

We got VIP tickets to a tennis thing. We were entirely uninterested in the tennis, but the hospitality was excellent. If I hadn't been pregnant I'd have got wasted on free champagne.

When my first child was born, my husband bought me a food hamper from Fortnum and Mason. Needless to say, I was delighted. A week later, another one arrived!! We rang and explained what had happened and they told us to keep it. 😁 We still use the baskets for toy storage 10 years later.

I got DH a Klingon bat'leth for his birthday one year and it came with a free longsword in a leather scabbard. We don't have any use for a sword but it looks rather fine.

Oh some lovely examples

Here’s me thinking a free Greggs porridge was a great freebie!

I got a free front door from a door company because I found thousands of flyers they had had printed and lost (never asked how) they were so grateful they offered me a front door to say thank you, I was so chuffed 😂

I used to get free tickets to the Ideal Home Exhibition every year through work.

Can't think of anything else of note... Oh yes - when a previous employer was moving premises there was a load of really good antique furniture in the attic that had to go, and I got a mahogany tea trolley that was well over 100 years old. It's been in my loft ever since though.😂

Our wedding venue. 😁 We paid a £100 deposit and paid £2k for the Indian restaurant downstairs from it to do the catering (best wedding food ever LOL) and then people spent so much at the bar at our venue we got the deposit back so the venue itself was actually free. 😁

I have had lots of freebies…best ones
-Flight upgrades to 1st class to Barbados
-my whole house painted…🙌🙌

On a gorgeous holiday in the Caribbean and we had a phone call during breakfast to say sorry, but we wouldn’t be leaving that evening - flight would be delayed by 24 hours - and I hadn’t even started packing! 🙂. No extra charge for the hotel.
Still a SAHM with young dcs then, so no problem with return to work.