Free digital prints

We live in the digital age and as a mother, I am always taking pictures of my son.  Yet, I've never had to pay for my digital prints, because I always get them printed through online services.  When I signed up for a Shutterfly membership years ago, Shutterfly included 25 free digital prints. Now, there's an increased incentive, so if you sign up at Shutterfly, you get 50 free 4x6 prints! Plus, if you sign up at Clark Colorlabs, you get 20 free prints right away! Then, you can also sign up at Kodak Gallery and get 50 free prints too. Oh, and I just stumbled upon another service, Winkflash, where you get 50 free prints on your first order, so I'll be signing up for that to get my holiday prints free this year!

Now, that alone is a lot of free digital prints!  Periodically, Shutterfly will generously offer free prints (like 8x10's, poster prints, cards or photo boooks) to its existing customers and all you have to do is pay for shipping. Now that's a deal!

If you want to increase the number of free prints, you can do what I did. I have signed up at all these sites with different e-mail addresses (I have a "dummy" e-mail address that I use when I sign up for things and then I have my regular e-mail address, and plus our internet provider gives us additional e-mail addresses, so I end up having quite a few e-mail addresses to use for these freebies!), and I seem to constantly be getting some kind of special offer or freebie! With a little patience, I just wait until the offers come out and then take that opportunity to get free digital prints.

Over the past 5 years, I have never paid for a digital print! I have only paid for shipping, which is reasonable.

If anything, the introductory free digital prints offers give you an opportunity to sample each website's quality of service and product. If you don't like the prints, you are not obligated to make future purchases.

PS: I totally forgot about Snapfish! They give away 25 free prints when you sign up too!