Most of the time when you look for a list of freebies and samples on the Internet you come up with a lot of spammy links. I got an email today to do a review of MySavings.com and was pleasantly surprised to see that they have some great, legitimate freebies on their site! While some of them are freebies that I have seen in other places, most were new to me. What I really loved were the comments on each that told me whether it was worth it to try them or not.

For example, I had just blogged about Suave Dry Shampoo earlier today and MySavings actually had a link to take a quiz to get 2 free Suave products! When I clicked on it, it explained the whole process and even how likely I was to get the 2 free products versus 1 product or just a coupon (I ended up getting 1 free product–which is still awesome).

While I am sure that the list changes frequently, here are just some of the samples listed today: Olay Regenerist Night Renewal Elixir, Curves, Arby’s, Benjamin Moore Paint Color Sample, Beech-Nut Starter Kit, and Carvel. Visit MySavings.com to check out their entire list of free samples and freebies.

I’ve tried a number of survey companies and most of them are very similar. Many of them pull their surveys from Greenfield and you earn some kind of points or credits by doing them. While those surveys are fine if you want to accumulate money or rewards over time, my favorite survey company is MySurvey.com (sometimes called NFO Surveys). What I love is that once you get into their system and prove yourself, you can start getting products to try. Most of the products are brand new and some are not even on the market yet.

This year alone I have tested makeup, household supplies, and even snacks. In one case I was given a month’s supply of a household product that is name brand and generally pretty expensive. I’ve loved some of the products and hated some of them. In either case, I got to try them for free. For reasons of confidentiality, I can’t disclose the products that I have tried or the brand names. But suffice to say that these are major companies with things you use everyday anyway.

Although you do get points that you can exchange for cash or prizes (I cash out for about $100 a year), I would do it just to try the products. I love new things, but I hate spending money on them if I am not sure if I will like them. Take a chance on signing up with MySurvey.com. Take their surveys for a few months and if you take it seriously and do them regularly, you will start getting to try out new products for free as well.

I’m one of those people who loves to try new products before they hit the shelves or as soon as I see them advertised. I’m all about the newest makeup, floor cleaner, or hairspray. Lucky for me, there are ways to get free samples of a lot of those things just for giving my opinion about them. The best part? All of the companies I am going to mention are completely legitimate! My favorites:

NFO/MySurvey.com I’ve written about this one before, but it is worth mentioning again. Often their surveys are just your opinion about products that are already out in the marketplace. But sometimes you get lucky and if your demographics are right, you get to test a new product and then give your feedback. I don’t mind telling them when the product is crappy either. For example, I got a makeup sample recently and I hated it! I would have done the test of the product and given feedback even if they hadn’t given me “points” for it. I just wanted to try the product. I ended up not liking it at all and told them exactly why. I haven’t seen the product being sold yet, so hopefully they are fixing it! I’ve accumulated enough points to even cash out for a couple of $20 checks from them. Not much, but it’s really the product reviews that I do it for anyway.

SheSpeaks.com This is one that I don’t see many people talking about yet, but I love it! You don’t get any kind of points for doing the product tests, but you do get some great products to try. You usually get a nice packet of information about the product along with some coupons to give to your friends when you try out the products. I currently have a nice sized sample of Bliss Best of Skintentions and have had things like Oral B toothbrushes for my kids and OPI Nic’s Sticks. Geared toward women, I love the types of campaigns that they offer.

BzzAgent This is kind of a combination of both of the above. You take surveys about products in addition to getting to try them out and spreading the word about them. You do accumulate some “points” that you can cash out as well for gift cards. BzzAgent campaigns are not primarily geared toward women, but those are the ones that I get most. I’ve tried makeup, window cleaners, and even a toothbrush sanitizer. You have to kind of work your way up the ladder there to get the best campaigns. One cool thing is that it integrates with your Facebook account. The site is a little more convoluted than the other two, but if you really get into it, you can get some cool product opportunities.

Taking all three of these together, I probably end up with at least 2 new products a month to test. And I’m not so heavily into it that I visit the sites daily…or even weekly. I pretty much wait for them to email me with opportunities. But I’ve had great luck with all three and hope that you will, too!