I do freebies all the time for my products, but I do this for a living. If I spend 3 weeks just doing freebies, that's 3 weeks of no income at all.

How many weeks can you go without a paycheck?

And I already have a blast doing what I do. I love being able to pick n chose whatever I want to make.

In the past a back catalog of products meant you could go a month or so, learning new skills and software, but this year, even though I have over 30 products in my backcatalog, less then 20% of my monthly income is from my older products. If I don't put out something new, I don't make anything at all practically.

I didn't put anything out In Jan or Feb this year, and my total income for both months was only $600.. I couldn't even afford one month's house payments with that amount, let alone two!

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.