Get Your BeachBucket - And All The Other Free Stuff

If you have spent any time at all on your campus you have, no doubt, observed the numerous displays, booths, card tables and friendly individuals offering you 'deals', usually including free gifts.

The presence of these company's' representatives, who present offers to students, is common at this time, the beginning of a new school year.  Companies, large and small, value college students as customers.  These company's presence on campus, usually part of an overall marketing campaign is to introduce you to their products or services. Their hope is if you try their product or service you will become a customer for a long long time.

The variety of offers can be dizzying. Automobile dealers, fashion retailers, phone plan providers and retail outlets all attempt to entice students with a variety of gifts, premiums and discounts. Often these gifts come with an offer.  The offer is usually an extension of  a discount, that is the product or service costs less than usual.  Along with this, as we have said, you may be given a gift, sometimes a small trinket like a key chain but sometimes a very useful object like a flash drive.

One popular gift with companies who sell grooming products; shampoo, body wash, deodorants, and such is a plastic bucket, a typical toy a child might get for the beach. But this bucket is different. It contains samples of the products which the provider hopes you will begin buying.

If you have been shy about accepting gifts like these from these businesses Planet College suggests you think again. You really are under no obligation to continue using the products when they run out. The gifts are free. And if you live in a residence hall the plastic buckets are handy for carrying your bathroom articles, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush and scrubbing sponge back and forth to the showers.

That is the Planet College tip today. Free stuff? Go ahead. Help your self.