Free Craft Supplies

[BBecker717]

Here are some great FREE and postage only offers (and a great new web
site for crafting offers) that I have come across recently. Please
feel free to e-mail back any offers that you come across and can share
with me.

Some sample offers:

1. Angel and Santa Holiday Ornament and Pin
Make your own Angel and Santa Holiday ornament and pin. Complete kit
includes materials, stencil, easy instructions, and patterns to make
ornament and pin. You will just love this kit! Please include a
postage and handling charge of: $2. Write to: Holiday Offer - HZ32, 602
S LaSalle St., Suite H448, Chicago, IL 60605.

2. Angel Pin Project Sheets
Great project sheet. Quick & Easy. Just rub on using True Expressions
Rub-On Transfers. Request the adorable angel pin project sheet. Write
to: Chartpak, One River Road, Leeds, MA 01053.

3. Festive Holiday Angel
Create this quick and easy angel for your treetop to house on wreaths
or over a door to bless all that enter. Include SASE. Write to: HFDC,
2696 Gravel Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76118.

4. Formby's Craft and Decorating Booklet
A free project booklet on decorating and craft ideas. Include SASE.
Innovative craft ideas, home improvements and refinishing projects.
Write to: Thompson & Formby's, Inc., 825 Crossover Lane, Memphis, TN
38117.

5. Free Washboard Idea Sheets
Write or call for free washboard idea sheets. Nostalgic Country look
washboards. Write to: Columbus Washboard Company, 1327 Oxley Road,
Columbus, OH 43212. You may call Columbus Washboard Company at
800-343-7967.

6. Oil and Acrylic Painting Guide Book
52 page guide book on painting. Includes tips and suggestions. Please
include a postage and handling charge of: $1. Write to: ChromaAcrylics,
205 Bucky Drive, Lititz, PA 17543.

7. Ragamuffins Full Color Transfer
So cute and adorable. Specify painting, angels or Christmas and
receive a surprise bonus gift too. You may even order more than one
transfer. Please include a postage and handling charge of: $1. Write
to: Darrow Production Company, PO Box 1457, El Reno, OK 73036.

There is also a great book that lists hundreds of free and postage only
offers. The book is called Free Stuff For People Who Enjoy Crafting,
Sewing And More - 1997 Edition. This is a really an incredible book.
Ads and articles for this book have appeared in craft, sewing, tole
painting and ceramics magazines nationally. Some of these offers were
found in this book.

According to Michael s Arts & Crafts Magazine

"A new directory for crafters includes FREE or postage-only offers
including booklets, patterns and project sheets. Throughout
the...booklet, look for popular manufacturers names including ...Delta
and Offray. Order Free Stuff For People Who Enjoy Crafting, Sewing And
More - 1997 Edition - by sending $3.00 to:" Prime Publishing, Inc.,
1954 First Street, PO Box 663, Dept. AO97, Highland Park, IL 60035.

Or, check out their web site at: http://www.ppi-free.com/freestf2.htm

Some great crafting information and a page dedicated to offers from
manufacturers offering free and postage only crafting, painting,
needlecraft and sewing supplies. Site includes supplies, samples, and
more.

[FaithCT]

I don't think all "free" offers are scams. There are several free stuff
offers and web pages that have free offers from legitimate companies. To
date I have received a number of items at no cost, among them film,
cigarette papers, pins, a passport holder, perfume samples, and samples of
cold medicines. Large corporations allow for this in their promotional
budgets, since it allows the public to get a sample or an introduction to
a new product or service.

If you don't have to pay shipping and handling, it's no cost to you,
hence, free. Sure, you may get some mailings from the company from time to
time, but so what? If you don't like the mailings chuck them. As long as
you only respond to companies that you have heard of and not just any old
posting in a newsgroup you shouldn't have any problems.

-f

[freestuf]

Karl, I'd love to send you a picture of my 22gal barrel filled with
freebies & the box filled with health/beauty aids, all obtained via
internet & phone, and cost me nothing - NOTHING! So I might get a few
junk mails now & then, I just delete 'em.

This past wk I recvd: $5 gift cert. for answering an online survey at the
ToysRUs website, a very nice leather passport holder from AT&T(am
currently awaiting the arriving of the 3min inflight phone card from
them, not to mention other freebies, but those were the pick of the wk.

Freebies are rarely available for Canadian residents, but there is a
website that lists freebies good for Canadians too. If you would like
the URL, let me know.
Diane

Karl Pollak wrote:

>
> bbeck...@aol.com (BBecker717) wrote:
>
> >Here are some great FREE and postage only offers (and a great new web
> >site for crafting offers) that I have come across recently. Please
> >feel free to e-mail back any offers that you come across and can share
> >with me.
>

> Nothing in life is ever free. Nobody can stay in business when they
> give away free stuff. "Free Offers" are usually used as come-ons for
> gullible consumers.
>
> "We are making this free offer in order to introduce our
> product/service to the consumers" is the most repeated lie. The real
> description is: "We are dangling this bait so that we can identify who
> the suckers are in the market and what kind of bait they bite on the
> easiest."
>
> Any responder is usually put on a "hit list" or if you wish to be less
> generous, a "suckers' list" which are usually traded amongst mass
> e-mailers, telemarketing firms, mail-order houses and other people,
> legitimnate or not, who use similar marketing techniques. There is no
> limit to how many times does the same list get re-sold at a price
> between 5 and 15 cents a name. When you consider that such a list may
> contain hundreds of thousands of names, it is a pretty serious
> business.
>
> By all means, do take advantage of the offer if you wish. But go into
> the deal with your eyes open. Understand what you are getting into.
>
> Karl Pollak <kpo...@portal.ca>
> Richmond, British Columbia

[Karl Pollak]

[K. Marie Mennie]

freestuf (free...@pioneerPlanet.infi.net) wrote:
: Karl, I'd love to send you a picture of my 22gal barrel filled with

: freebies & the box filled with health/beauty aids, all obtained via
: internet & phone, and cost me nothing - NOTHING! So I might get a few
: junk mails now & then, I just delete 'em.

Seconded. I've gotten unbelievable free stuff through the net. If they
want an e-mail address or tel #, toss in a credible fake.

: Freebies are rarely available for Canadian residents, but there is a

: website that lists freebies good for Canadians too. If you would like
: the URL, let me know.

Post away. Niftier things this past year have been an enormous, rather
stylish mug filled with whole coffee beans (courtesy Sun Microsystems), a
4oz bottle of jojoba oil, more mouse pads than I could ever use (this
isn't quite true -- they've given me a sort of one large mouse pad), and
so on. AT&T is particularly fond of sending people mugs, mouse pads,
t-shirts...

`alt.consumers.free-stuff' is mostly dreck, but worth dipping into now and
then...

--
Disclaimer: Not actually an American. See alt.fan.kia-mennie for details.

[Stef Jones]

I ripped apart an extension cord that didn't work right and couldn't be
returned and extracted the copper wires from it. Maybe they will be of use
in jewelry making.

[najara]

>
> Nothing in life is ever free. Nobody can stay in business when they
> give away free stuff. "Free Offers" are usually used as come-ons for
> gullible consumers.
>

Of course the purpose for giving away freebies is to get new customers.
It's a way of introducing a product. I see nothing wrong with this.

>