If you are over the age of 65 years you can get a free cat but they have some really low cost cats too at $50 or so. But they still have on going cost 

https://www.cvhumane.org/cat-companions 

Musicolet

Is an ad free basic MP3 player app that I am using on my phone now I dig it keeps the MP3 files local no data used for streaming just download it https://krosbits.in/musicolet/ 

VLC media player is good for viewing a lot of content free and open source. 

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ 

Libreoffice

The Free MS Word and Office suite that uses Free and open source software but is almost as good and the price is right :)

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Google Docs also works great two and you can use both free I used Google Docs more I have this site on goole and have many online docs that I look at and use. 

https://docs.google.com/ 

more info on that http://frugaling.org/google-is-the-internet/

Notepad++ & QQ

++ 

Is great for Windows  https://notepad-plus-plus.org/ 

QQ

https://notepadqq.com/s/ Linux based alternvie tab notepad app 

Project Gutenberg - Free books offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. Most books are in the public domain.  

OpenLibrary - download out-of-copyright books, borrow in-copyright books

https://freecomicbookday.com/

LibriVox - Free audio books

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. Website 

Podiobooks.com - free audiobooks mostly from self-published authors.

International Music Score Library Project 

https://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page 

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/music?filter=composer 

Documentary Heaven - Free documentaries

See yourself at the Univerity of Iowa  https://osc.uiowa.edu/pentacrest-webcam 

If you visit see it free https://www.earthcam.com/usa/iowa/dyersville/?cam=dyersville 

TopDocumentaryFilms.com and FreeDocumentary.tv - more free documentaries 

Free food 

https://www.findhelp.org/food/meals--cedar-rapids-ia 

http://www.linncommunityfoodbank.org/ 

 https://www.littlefreepantry.org/ 

College kids can get "free" food https://freefoodalert.com/ 

Community Health Free Clinic

https://www.communityhfc.org/ 

https://condomfinder.org/ 

What is your Cedar Rapids power bill tool

https://www.alliantenergy.com/accountandbilling/billmeterrates/averageenergyuse 

The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) assists eligible low-income households with their heating and cooling energy costs, bill payment assistance, energy crisis assistance, weatherization page 

https://www.takemefishing.org/how-to-fish/how-to-catch-fish/free-fishing-days/ 

https://www.irs.gov/filing/free-file-do-your-federal-taxes-for-free

soon 

https://www.freeairpump.com/about/ 

I setup a Lowes Pro account since I am in property management and am able to use the Free Air that they offer there https://www.lowes.com/l/Pro/New-For-Pros 

https://quad9.net/ 

Firefox 

Mozilla Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ 

Brave 

Brave is a free and open-source web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. based on the Chromium web browser. Brave is a privacy-focused browser. 

I would also put free over the Air TV in as part of this because once you buy the TV and antenna its free for life :) 

https://www.channelmaster.com/pages/free-tv-channels-by-state

$20 then its free for life https://www.channelmaster.com/collections/indoor-tv-antennas/products/flatenna-35-indoor-tv-antenna-cm-4001hdbw

https://www.thefreetvproject.org/ 

https://titantv.com/Default.aspx?r=t

https://www.antennaweb.org/results 

https://kreloc.github.io/useful-info/financial/

https://www.heyitsfree.net/

https://www.thefreesite.com/Other_Freebie_Sites/ 

https://gasprices.aaa.com/aaa-gas-cost-calculator/