The original purpose of freelief.com

When I first registered this ridiculous domain (even Google asks me, did you mean freelife?) years ago, my main interest on teh intertubez was saving money and getting freebies.

The best example of those humble beginnings is the artifact known as the free prints page.

I moved it to Squidoo as it was easier to maintain that way, easy to update from anywhere, and the Google page rank boost was nice too.

Here’s a brief overview of the kinds of offers on the current free prints page:

• Kodak Gallery: 75 FREE prints!
• Snapfish: 50 FREE prints!
• SeeHere: 50 FREE prints! (coupon code prints-8 exp. 3/31/09)
• dotPhoto: 50 FREE prints!
• Clark Colorlabs: 40 FREE prints!
• Shutterfly: 25 FREE prints!
• PhotoWorks: 25 FREE prints!
• RitzPix: 16 FREE prints! (coupon code newfree4×6)

Please note that these offers are generally limited to new customers upon their initial site registration.

Since that impulsive dotcom startup in a frugal-by-necessity former life, things have improved substantially. I haven’t lurked in the freebie-grabbing, coupon-swapping, deal-stacking forums much. I still try to live without excess and waste, but time spent clipping coupons for products I don’t use in hopes of mailing them to someone who might have a 50 cent coupon for my brand of deodorant just isn’t effective use of my time.

I do miss the simple thrill of being one of the first 500 site visitors to register and receive a full-size sample of a new product free, though. That was just like winning the lottery. Except instead of cash, I got … stuff.

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over 200 free digital photo prints

I migrated my FREE PRINTS web page from freelief.com to the Squidoo site.

free prints on Squidoo

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free prints

I guess I should blog about my free prints page. It is one of the main reasons I started freelief.com back in the day. (You know, like, the 90’s.)

At freelief.com/freeprints I list all of the websites I’ve found that offer free digital prints, and then I also compile all of the coupon codes I can find for those sites, so you can get hundreds of prints for just the cost of shipping. I’m frugal like that.

Okay, I’m cheap. Really cheap. I’m not paying for prints when I can get them for free.

Most recently, I’ve used free print offers and codes to have “oversized business cards” made up for my kids’ t-shirt stores. 50 for $0.99 shipping/handling at Winkflash with code. They are learning about marketing by using them as a promotional tool, handing them out at school to friends and teachers, tacking them up on the grocery store bulletin board.

I have also used free prints to promote my own freeprints webpage (ironic), advertise a horse for sale, and print full color regular business cards (you can fit three on a 4×6″ print) as well as make photo postcards for thank you notes after the wedding.

Since my daughter is getting into scrapbooking and has her own new digital camera, I think there will be lots more free prints in my future. So I’ll try to keep that page updated for all to enjoy.

[EDIT: free prints page now resides at squidoo.com/freeprints]

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