Colin Wilson wrote:
I've brought this up on the local freecycle group - my mother always
used to give free aftershave / perfume samples, nothing else, just
free samples.

Sad to say, I think someone managed to top that, by getting a half
empty bottle of Baileys from their mother in law the previous year.

My notoriously stingey brother gave one of my kids one of those
disposable 35mm cameras - that wasn't so bad until the film was
developed, whereupon we found half-a-dozen photos taken by one of his
own kids at his birthday party (at which, on assumes, he received said
camera as a gift.

David