It could be a costly adventure to have a baby. The study of the US Department of Agriculture conducted in 2008 tells that for a middle class family, the expenses of child till the age of 17 will be $291,570 approximately. The first two years of your baby are expensive due to diapers, clothing, health care, wipers and others supplies which are some major needs of the baby.
Everybody wants to reduce the expenses made in earliest years of his/her baby’s life. Now-a-days, there is a great competition among the companies, particularly the diapers and formula companies. To earn profits, these companies are striving to capture larger number of customers and to retain them permanently. To make you their regular customer, they use business tricks such as offering free samples, free advice, free baby stuff , free parenting information and coupons.
Doctors
Doctors and hospitals are good means to promote the products of these companies therefore they send samples of their products to the doctors and hospitals as they tend to give those samples to the patients. To get those samples you have to ask your obstetrician or pediatrician that they have any samples to give you.
To get free baby stuff , you can directly contact to the companies through mail or telephonically. Show your interest that you will use their products if they are better than those you are currently using. Internet is also a good means of marketing; therefore many times these companies promote their products through printable coupons or on their websites directly. To see these promotions of the companies, just visit the website of the company or search the company by name on internet. If the company offers printable coupons then they can be downloaded according to your need or wish.
There are many parenting websites that offers free baby stuff if you sign up at there websites and become a member. Multiple companies that offer free baby stuff and you can avail these offers by signing up at their websites. There are many schemes which are included in baby freebies such as free baby magazine subscriptions, diaper samples, coupons, and sweepstakes to win prizes. These offers can be sent you too directly from manufacturing through snail mail or email.
Because of many grocery stores chain offers, you can cut the cake of your baby’s first birthday free of cost. To do so, you just have to find the bakery section of such large stores and ask for it.
Sometimes restaurants provide an opportunity to your family to come out of your house and enjoy a great meal almost free of cost. To get the information of such promotions of restaurants, jus call the restaurants of your area. You should make clear your schedule to make this opportunity a family time because many times these free days are weekdays.
Wait and Enjoy the Baby Sales
You can also take advantage of mega sales held by bay specialty and departmental stores from time to time or on special events. These sales are typically held at the end of the year because the stores have to clear their old inventory and have to make room for the fresh stock. Your savings are very important for you so if you are pregnant and need the nursery fixtures, you should make shopping right now because this is the best time for this type of shopping. The stores which you mostly use for shopping can update you about such sales and you can also check their websites. These newsletters will notify you in advance about every sale so can plan for the sale.
