April 13th, 2007 in Money
23 Things You Didn’t Think Were Free
RealSimple.com have a list of 23 ’surprising’ items you can get for free. Many are conditional, of course, and have a catch like long-lines etc. However, it does spur the question of what can you get for free now-a-days?
Particularly useful, to me, in this list is the free online courses from MIT and Apple Stores. You can’t get the degree, but knowledge is knowledge. Plus free icecream!
There’s a lot of great ways to get hold of useful items at no cost, so let’s throw some ideas around. This list is good, but I know there’s more. Maybe next week Lifehack will put together our own list.
Top of my list is Freecycle.org – worldwide freebies.
23 Surprising Things You Can Get for Free – [RealSimple]
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Technoshaman says on April 13th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Dude! Nobody mentioned Free Software! I see there’s an article here about Firefox, but there’s no mention of Firefox in this list… much less Linux, which comes with tools for everything from your digicam to your iPod to your great aunt Martha’s ancient scanner… and runs on computers folks give away…
just another satisfied Penguinista…
zura says on April 13th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
MIT isn’t the only university that offers courses free. Several of the larger schools do. Off hand Cornell is the only I can remember now.
Craig Childs says on April 14th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
yeh but i always thought software was free. [wink]