Yes, you can have a free Second Life.

A day in the life of a freebie-loving resident.  

I belong to an inworld chat group.  It's the Virtual Vagabond group chat which is related to the Virtual Vagabond blog written by SpaceCase M.  So I log-inworld and the group chat pops up and one of the members, Toni (aka JC Sundial), posts a tip about free stuff at a store called AlaFolie. Toni includes a slurl-embedded link, so I click on it and land right smack dab in front of the freebies.  

https://my.secondlife.com/leehere.absent/snapshots/51f80f60530d5379dd000001

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/AlaFolie/110/143/39

Six gift boxes containing six different dresses.  100% free.  No group membership requirement.  I snag all six.

Then I head over to the spot where Toni says there is a free pendant.

https://my.secondlife.com/leehere.absent/snapshots/51f811cb2aad643a2c000001

Right there in the red heart-shaped box.  Also 100% free.  I snag that too.

Then I wander around the store and notice that there are Lucky Chairs here.

https://my.secondlife.com/leehere.absent/snapshots/51f81320df463855c8000001

Lucky Chairs give away free stuff when you sit in them at the moment the first letter of your first name appears.  Your Resident name.  So I sit in them when "L" shows up on the board and I get free stuff.

So there you have it.  That's how you get good free stuff in Second Life.  Totally doable. 

http://virtualstreetcorner.yuku.com/topic/52/master/1/?page=3

http://www.virtualvagabond.com/

Hilarity Ensued (More Peening)

So Whiskey Monday, who is a marvelous writer (check out her blog and her Twitter feed), put a bug in my ear and a bee in my bonnet when she told me about a contest in Harlow Heslop's blog post, "The Golden Peen...Contest?".

I read Harlow's post and it immediately captured my attention as it did several others who found the idea irresistible.  Take the shining, polished golden peen and make creative and/or funny pictures with it and submit them to Harlow for judging.  Golden!  (Submissions are due Friday, May 25, 2012.)

Harlow says the idea came to her when Strawberry Singh (another blogger) gave her a golden peen as a gift.

Sales of the golden peen exploded and the creator, Chefkoch was, naturally, curious.  So he posted about it and guessed that the sales were generated by a blog post made by SpaceCase Munster on her (super fun) blog, "Virtual Vagabond."

SpaceCase let him know that not only were the sales largely generated by interest in Harlow's blog post, but that people were enthusiastically posting their peen pics on the Second Life Feeds and Flickr and other places.  Chefkoch went hunting for peen pics and found a veritable treasure trove.  He was delighted!  So he put together a mash up of the current entries as of today.  His post is a great way to see all the pics in one spot.  Check it out and see if you don't catch Peen Fever.  Join the fun!  If you do, link us!




Fine print:  Pardon all puns, intended or otherwise.

Links:
http://whiskeyshots.wordpress.com/
http://www.harlowheslop.com/archives/2761
http://strawberrysingh.com/
http://www.virtualvagabond.com/
http://www.virtualvagabond.com/free-metropolis-rosie-robot-avatars/
http://sambadibanana.tumblr.com/post/23566337561/since-3-days-i-am-experiencing-an-unusually-large
http://sambadibanana.tumblr.com/post/23643618433/mystery-of-mesh-penis-gold-sales-rate-increase
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Mesh-Penis-Gold-High-Glow-FULL-PERM/2659774?lang=en-US
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/other-web-sites/68797-crimes-against-convention-lee-here.html#post1561533
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/members/leehere-albums-harlow+heslop%27s+golden+peen+contest.html
https://my.secondlife.com/