I have a new addiction. It was born out of necessity, but has turned into a monster.I'm addicted to free stuff.It started with the couponing. We went about a month where money was so tight we couldn't afford to pay attention most days. I couponed because I had to, but I started finding that when you combine an item on sale with a coupon, sometimes the item turned out to be free.Free? Really? I saw this stuff on TLC's 'Extreme Couponing', but here it was, in real life, right in front of me.I'll tell y'all now, I was scared the first time I tried to get free stuff at the grocery store. I was doing a normal grocery store run, but the store I shopped at had some individual cups of Greek yogurt on sale for $1 each, and I had a coupon for $.30 off, which my store's coupon policy upgrades to $1. I had 2 coupons, so I put 2 cups of yogurt into my cart, pulled the coupons, and finished my shopping. When it came time to pay, I just knew they were going to call me out on it. I was trying to take 2 cups of yogurt out of the store, without paying a cent for them. They'd catch me, I just knew it. I watched as they scanned the yogurt, then scanned my coupon. $1 charged, $1 taken off.I had gotten away with it. Free yogurt. Holy crap, let me tell you, it was exhilarating. I decided at that moment that 'free' was awesome, and I would get whatever I could (that would be helpful for my family and I) for free.Yes, that day, a Free Stuff Monster was born.At the moment, we have a drawer full of toothpaste, a fridge with a half a shelf full of yogurt, and a medicine cabinet full of body wash and shampoo, because of 'free'. Well, the body wash cost me $.29 each, so I guess that's not technically 'free'.My first free sampleWhat started with the couponing began to transform into getting stuff for free online. Some budgeting blog I was reading one day mentioned free samples, and listed off a number of free sample websites. I ventured to Freefly's

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