Free

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

https://www.saintiowa.org/home

MP3 Player

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/

Good Notepad Apps

Notepad++ & QQ

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

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

Ebooks

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/

Audio books & Music

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

Free moives & Videos

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/

Free Health Care

Community Health Free Clinic

https://www.communityhfc.org/

https://condomfinder.org/

Free power help

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

Free fishing day

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

Not free but if you are over 65 years you can get some good deals at the national parks and hunting fishing etc.

Resident 65+ Lifetime License Package hunting fishing in Iowa link cost $188

Senior National Parks and Federal Lands Lifetime Passes link $80

Free Tax help

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

https://www.crlibrary.org/tax-help

Transportation

I have many pages covering this main one is car free CR page

But if you are over 65 years or disabled or low income you can get free bus rides https://www.cedar-rapids.org/residents/city_buses/free_fare_qualifications.php

Free Air?

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