My neighborhood trick-or-treat is tonight but I don’t think we’re going. My older guy has already done it three times, the little guy twice. Plus it’s supposed to be pretty cold here which means I’d have to cover up their costumes anyway and this is probably the last year that I can get away with not taking them. Next year they’ll both be begging to go.

We’ll go out to dinner instead. A few restaurants are offering free meals for kids.

Here are a few more websites you can sign up for to get free things. A few of them I already mentioned as part of the post I did on surveys.

Bzzagent: They offer you the chance to try new products in exchange for you “buzzing” about them. In other words, you try it, hopefully you like it and encourage your friends and family to purchase it. I’ve gotten lots of cool things from bzzagent, including organic vodka!

Pssst: This is only General Mills products. When they come out with a new product, they send it to you, or send you coupons. Again the idea is that you’ll tell friends and family about it.

Vocalpoint: same as the two above, but from various companies. More likely to get coupons than products. And when you do get products it’s usually just a sample size unlike Pssst which will send you a full size box of something.

Houseparty: This site has the best products but is the hardest to get. You apply to host a house party to debut a particular item. Recently I’ve had two friends get a few hundred bucks’ worth of Fisher Price and Star Wars toys. But you have to apply–and thousands apply but only 3-10k are chosen, depending on the product.

Free Stuff Finder: I don’t have a direct link to this site. If you are on Facebook, look for it and “like” it. I don’t particularly care for it because most of the free stuff you get is trial sizes. The last thing I need is for my house to be junked up with tons of trial sizes of things.

To be honest, I don’t really consider any of these things to contribute significantly to my grocery savings. But, it takes very little time and it’s fun to get free stuff in the mail!