Free is a very good price

A corollary to conserving resources, reuse of resources, is to get something for nothing. Yes sometimes Free is a very green price. So I have become a bit obsessed with the depth and breadth of free offers. Now I am not talking free things that actually have a cost like Radio and TV. The cost being your attention. Free email with ads. Some minor attention payment is fine, but major attention sucker like Evite is too much. So what is out there that is truly free? Or free “enough” with minimum attention cost?

Therefore a new category “Free is a very good price”. Here you will find not only reuse commerce but also offers from companies of free stuff. I will post stuff that I think are actually attractive offers. Where the “cost” in attention or contact information is small enough to be worth the free item.

One of the first to catch my eye was 000webhosting.com. 250MB disk space, 100GM data transfer and zero ads. All the stuff you expect from web hosting but no costs. They support it because they know you will need more space, more domains, more email, whatever. So you will upgrade. These are very effective offers. Just like the drug dealer. The first one is free. Razor and Razorblade. I like. And many times the first one maybe all you need.