But the noise lately has been more about the attitude of some shoppers towards free items, then the release of freebies itself, like Stephanie said.
And most likely this situation came from the many months of loads of quality free items around the grid…

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to show individual items, just folders, so it’s slightly less useful than first though.

Also being a “Blind Person in Second Life ” as a friend of mine put it is a bit of an odd and disappointing experience. I may as well be running IRC.

A small discussion about the ‘added value’ mentioned before. Assume two tshirts, both with a production cost (and various costs) of 10 USD. One is sold for 50USD, another one for 200USD. The only difference between the two is ‘brand name’, thus the value added through marketing. Is that actual ‘added value’ to you?

In conclusion, freebies are a great thing, but please don’t over-spam the grid with freebies and try to invest in their quality as much as you can. Because freebies should be at least as good as average products. Not a bit under and certainly not low-quality. (Stretched textures, bad attempt of creating a mesh using prims, over/under use of prims, etc.)

Centralized distribution would (maybe) do some benefit on server load, but it won’t work with moddable items. Maybe there are thousands of the same objects, but if somebody change a single bit in one of those objects, it has to be saved again with a new key. But yes, it is noticable that so many of us have loads of the identical items in our invs.

But…. no matter how your finger hesitate over the delete button - hit it! You now that you will never be bored enough to check what are those hundreds of more than a year old items. And you know that there is MAYBE one of them vorth keeping in every thousand of them. And, if you ever need it, you’ll easier find it at Yadni’s than in your cluttered inventory. Delete it!

That, it turns out, is already possible. Alas, I don’t remember the precise path, but you can open a new inventory window for just that purpose.

An offline inventory organizer would be *great*. I have long since given up looking through folders, or keeping things in organized folders - no-copy objects make that very difficult sometimes. Especially no-copy objects that you would use in a lot of outfits, like skins and shoes. Save just one outfit and you end up with quite a mess.
I just type in the keyword now, which means I don’t change outfits much, because I can’t remember what half my stuff is called.
I still have a folder of freebies to sort through - the folder is about a year and a half old, and I don’t think I have accessed it since I started it. *finger hovers over delete key but just can’t do it*
Maybe one day I’ll take the time to clean things out. Maybe.

Truthfully, I think a BETTER idea though over getting rid of freebies would be an offline inventory organizer. Some way I can sort through my items without being in world in a File manager style environment. eck, I’d be happy with being able to open multiple inventory windows in world so I can drag and drop between them.