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As mentioned above this page is dedicated to freebies,
Free cinema tickets
I have personally received 5 sets of tickets for FREE, the films I have seen recently are,
Bank Job, 21, Spiderwick Chronicles, Ashton Kutcher rom com that I can't remember the name of, Hellboy 2, which wasn't very good.
these are completely free and are available at most cinema's, the way it works is, you get the free tickets you go and see the film at your chosen cinema 3 or 4 days before it is released to the public, then they hope you will tell friends and relatives, and then they will go and pay cold hard cash to see the film, it is very cost effective for films they think may struggle at the box office, all you need to do is sign up to, see film first, use the link below, and just tick the genres you are interested in,
http://www.seefilmfirst.com/homepage.welcome.action
then when a film becomes available, they will email you, you will also get a choice of venues to go and see the film, if it isn't available at a close cinema weigh up whether it is worth traveling to see it, a lot of times they will repeat showing at a closer cinema a couple of days later, I advise you to try and watch a trailer of the film on you tube,
http://uk.youtube.com/
try and pick the closest cinema as this will cost less in travel, normally the films start at 6-6.30pm week days, make sure you get there early as you can pick the best seats, if you are late and it has been over booked then you may be turned away, also if it is a cinema you have not been to before make sure there isn't a really expensive car park you have to use, i,e, Cineworld, this is normally only in city centres though, don't forget you can take your own snacks, as refreshments are ridiculously expensive at cinema's, unfortunately though sometimes all the allocated tickets have already been taken, as people post them on forums with the code you need to book the tickets, luckily though I know which forum they post on, see the next paragraph, HotUKdeals.
Hot UK Deals
Is a great site for finding bargains as the general public post deals as and when they find them, and then visitors vote the deal "hot" or "cold" it works really well as I recently bought "Aliens Quadrilogy" a 9 disk DVD boxed set from HMV online and only paid £9.99 including free delivery, plus 9% Quidco, (more about Quidco later on in this site) so I only paid £9, Woolworth's are still selling it for £60, the main reason it's in the "freebies" section, is that this site also has a "freebies" page, click the link below,
to get more details about each offer, just click on comments and there should be a list of people's thoughts on each deal, and also extra information from people that have already done it, I advise you to do this first and then decide to click on red "go to deal" link above it.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/all/freebies/new
Clicking the link above will send you to hotukdeals freebies section, this is where people post seefilmfirst.com codes and normally a list of the cinemas the film is available at, to use the code you do need to register with seefilmfirst.com, I would check hotukdeals at least 1 time a day, to catch the codes early.
Or just for general bargain hunting, go to this page,
http://www.hotukdeals.com/all/deals/new
Free "Pay As You Go" sim cards
Vodafone
Click on the link below, be quick as they will go back up to £2 each soon, only 2 per address, I don't think they come with any credit on,
https://www.v-store.co.uk/index.cfm?go=checkout.freesims
Orange
http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/simevent/searchfreesim?
Up to 4 sims per order, I don't know if you can order more than once.
There is also a promotion running with Orange, it's called "Orange Wednesday's", this is where you can get 2 cinema tickets for the price of 1, on Wednesday's only, click the link below to find out more.
http://www.orange.co.uk/film/orange_wednesdays.htm
Virgin
It arrives with £1 credit, and if you register it online they will give you £2 extra on top of that, only one at a time but I don't think there is a limit to how many times you can order.
http://www.virginmobile.co.uk/promo/duoSim.html
I did this when they had £5 on each sim plus £2 for registering online and you could order then in 4's, they might start this again in the future.
Tesco (works on o2 network)
2 free sims per address, they come with 20p credit, and if you do it through Quidco you get £4 cashback if you top up the phone.
http://www.tm-standardplus.co.uk/
Say no to 0870 .com
This site is very useful, as more and more companies are starting to use,
0808, 0844, 0845, 0870 & 0871,
instead of the old free phone 0800, what this site does is give you a list of alternative numbers available for the company you are trying to contact, click on the link that says "search to find an alternative number", type in the company's name and press search, if the company you want is in it's database the results will be displayed, then just take your pick of the other numbers that are available, I use it mainly to find normal landline numbers as all the 08 numbers cost me 20 pence per minute on my mobile, where as 01 & 02 numbers count as part of my monthly 400 minutes allowance and are therefore free.
Another good idea with this site is an option to add any freephone or 01/02 numbers you may have come across, just click on "click here and add a new alternative number".
http://www.saynoto0870.com/