A frugal life is an easy life!

Unlike the 3000 or so other websites/blogs out there in internet land, product reviews on FrugalWays, are slightly different.

For a start, they are rare, products reviewed here are genuinely purchased and then used in our house. Not donated or sent here for a trial period, etc. (although it would be nice to be offered a trial now and again)
So if a vacuum (for example) claims to be "pet friendly" and it doesn't pick up dog or cat hair, instead moving it around the carpet, I'll tell you.
I get many emails asking if a company, "can work with frugal ways," almost always, the company want to send me some text/images of a product for me to copy and post.
It'll be OK, just put on that it's a sponsored post by [insert company name here] and everything will be fine.

Actually, no it wont.

I'm not sat here writing posts from a £200,000+ house in the country, while my better half is out earning as the main bread winner, earning a promotional income from my website, that I can write on, while the maid cleans the on-suite bathroom to bedroom number 3, while professing that I am just trying to get by on a basic income (sounds tempting though).

There are a few rules if you wish for your product to be promoted here;

• provide me with a sample (obvious? You'd be surprised how many companies forget this basic point)
• I'm happy to return said sample if needed
• your product will be genuinely used here
• any product review will be an honest one (rather than the promotional bumph you send me)

In return, your company will see the review before it's posted to the website, if we do not agree with the review, it will not be posted and that will be that.
It will cost your company nothing, a sample to try is all that's needed.

If we agree on the review and your happy to go ahead, then it will be posted, social media included, word of mouth, etc. 
Your sample may be given to others to try out for themselves.

Does that sound fair enough?
(We are currently in the market for a new tumble dryer, as our old Hoover one is about to pack up after 7 years).