26Humanitas Home
There is a long-term care facility in the Netherlands that allows college students to stay for free in exchange for 30 hours of volunteer per month. When students come home from a class, concert, or party, they share those experiences with their elderly neighbors, some of whom are over 90.
27. Benjamin T. Babbitt (a famous soap businessman) was one of the first known people to offer free samples to entice people to purchase his soap in the 19th century.
28. Neils Bohr was gifted a house with free beer for life on winning the Nobel. A beer pipeline was connected from the Carlsberg brewery next door to this house. Bohr stayed there from 1932 until his death in 1962.
29. If you are in the USA and you earn less than a certain amount of money (currently $69,000) you can use the same software to file your taxes for free. The system is called Free File, and companies that sell you tax software are trying very hard to make it difficult to find.
30. Many large universities in the USA have their courses online for free, like MIT OpenCourseWare.
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31Unlimited Google Drive Storage
If you have a “.edu” email id through your school that uses Gmail, you get unlimited Google Drive storage. Also Amazon Prime is half-price with a .edu address.
32. “Topclassactions.com” is basically a site that lists active class action lawsuits you might qualify for. It's a cool way to hold corporations semi-accountable, and score some money/freebies for any wrongdoing that went under the radar.
33. USPS and UPS both will deliver free packaging boxes, envelopes, bubble wrap, etc. to your house. It literally doesn’t cost a thing and you can get about 50 boxes at a time.
34. “Amazon Smile” doesn’t get you anything for free, but by just shopping from smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com you donate a portion of anything you buy to a charity of your choice, at no extra cost to you. Sadly this feature is only available in the USA.
35. You can borrow all sorts of things from public libraries - books, e-books, games, free internet, power tools, fishing rods, and lots of other things.
