Technically, there is no such thing as a "free" gift.

I don’t believe that there is really such a thing as a FREE gift, whether this gift be material or not. There is always effort involved in giving a gift to someone, whether it be physical or emotional. In the reading, on the first page, it states that charity is meant to be a free gift, yet whatever amount of money that a person donates to a charity they had to earn it by working. The work was an expense to this person perhaps both physically and emotionally.
I think that a “free” gift only works in theory as something is never entirely free. I agree with Don in his final sentences as he stated “So by handing off a “free” gift it doesn’t really entail that it is free, someone along the line had to pay for the product, the time, the labor for something in order to made that gift exist.” Let’s say that the person who donates any amount of money to charity feels reimbursed by the good feeling they get from doing it. In their minds perhaps the charitable donation was an even trade for sense of "good-doing" that they got from it.
In the literal sense perhaps a person can give a "free" gift such as a mother finally trusting her lying son. This gift of trust probably had to be earned by the son and it probably took the mother alot of time and worrying to be able to give this "free" gift to her son. The trust may not have cost any money however it was not free.