I'll confess: I love yard sales. I love eBay deals. And I most certainly love anything free! I love the hunt of finding freebies for this list, so check back often because you can count on it growing! (I have the most quality business freebie list that I've seen anywhere! Please: correct me if you think I'm wrong!)
There are plenty of free business tools out there that you should not ever consider using if you want to be taken seriously. Webhosting is the biggie. Free webhosting is bad. Reasonably priced webhosting is good. I don't feel that I have recommended anything shoddy. Not all of these are tools that you'd want to use forever in place of their more expensive counter-part, but they will greatly help in the beginning as you figure out where you are going to take your home business. Some are long-time faves; the fact that they are free is a happy bonus. I would have paid, had they asked. ;-) (But don't tell them that!)