Free

Page I setup for where to Donate Things but also could be a good place to get things Free or cheap :)  

Page I added for Student Discount

Page for  Low Income  Resources 

Money saving page 

Free Media 

Free Cat 

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 

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

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/ 


QQ

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 Health Care 

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 

 

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 



Free DNS 

Web Broswers 

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.