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Free Stuff: How Others Get Free Money, Booze, Gasoline, And Everything!

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Another one of Paladin's titles which damage its credibility as a publisher. Most of the techniques in this book are far more trouble than they are worth, and the rest require commiting crimes and ripping people off. Anyone with a little ingenuity can figure out how to do most of the techniques described within, oftentimes better than the author.
Is it really worth it to go to a gas station at night, driving from pump to pump collecting the gas stored in the hoses (especially when one considers gas was less than a dollar a gallon at time of publication)? How about walking through the mall every morning and spraying yourself with samples of cologne so you don't have to buy any? Or writing a fake letter stating you are interested in advertising so you can get a free magazine (which probably won't work, anyway)?
The paper this book was printed on could have gone to something far more worthy, like a microwave cookbook or a parking ticket. If you have obsessive-compulsive leanings towards the saving of money, this book is for you. Otherwise, avoid.

This book was kind of interesting in the sense that i love free stuff. But some of it was like con artist type stuff. I sign up for a lot of free things online now. Plus a lot of things in the book are outdated. I'd get more into detail but i cannot seem to find the book.