DO NOT use your regular email address. Before starting to look for Free items, you should go to one of the free email sites such as Gmail, Yahoo and set up a new account that you will use only for your freebie and samples. This is especially helpful if you are signing up for Newsletters and announcements as your regular email account will not get filled up with these notices.

This may seem like a common sense tip to you. But many times we see a free sample or a free item or even a free font on a web site, without thinking we have entered in our regular email account. It may not always be the case, but often this sets you up for spam. You do not want your regular email box to get loaded with lots and lots of junk mail. If you have a free email, you can easily go in there and just delete all of the unwanted email.

Some of the companies offering you free items do sell your email name. It is always excellent to check out their privacy notice. I find that if I give them an email account that I have just set up for such offers, and then it is just so much simpler to manage.

Do this as well if you are signing up to do free surveys. When signing up for these offers, I start an email account just for the particular survey company I am working with. I give this email to them, and then I only use it for offers from them.