Just a note for the thread starter.
If you put '#' like #Freebies, this will be account based, meaning the other characters will not get their freebies.
If you do what Emistry said, then it will be character based.
NOTE: Character based freebies can abused like (create-storage-delete-create) method. To prevent this thing, you must add the Freebies to item_trade.txt and make it non-tradeable, non-storageable, non-dropable.