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10 Incredible Freebies of 2013


As the quote saying 'the best things in life are FREE' the love, affection, compassion, air, rain, nature, friends, family etc. are among the best in life for free but in economic terms, you can put a price on every thing right? However there's something here for everyone for free, we insist not to open your purse.


Free Food at Snack Bars
Some fast food and snack bar restaurant gave an annual freebie day, check them out throughout the year. For example, A free Rita’s Italian Ice in March., A free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Pretzelmaker pretzel, Cinnabon treat and Starbucks coffee in April., A free Haagen-Dazs ice cream in May., A free Krispy Kreme doughnut and TCBY frozen yogurt in June., A free 7-Eleven slurpee on 7/11 and a Chick Fil-A meal in July.

Free Sales Tax
Some states have tax-free shopping days at other times of the year.
Louisiana residents won’t pay sales tax on firearms, ammunition and hunting supplies on the first weekend of September. Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia have sales tax holidays for energy-efficient appliances. Alabama, Louisiana and Virginia have tax-free days set aside for buying generators and other storm-preparedness supplies. Visit http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/sales_holiday.html for more info.

Free Tuition
Get a college education for free at the Berea College in Berea, Ky., a full $20,900 tuition for all students, out of a combination of grants, scholarships and work-study. At Cooper Union in New York City grants a full-tuition scholarship -- valued at $150,000 over the course of four years -- to all students. And College of the Ozarks in Missouri requires students to participate in a work program rather than pay tuition.

Free Medicines
A free antibiotics at some drug stores, those are the Giant Eagle, Meijer, Publix, Schnucks, ShopRite and Wegmans. A free prenatal vitamins at Meijer and Schnucks. Free diabetes medications and supplies also given free at Publix, Price Chopper and ShopRite stores.

Free Flight Perks
Save up to $120 on your flight by checking-in your 2 bags for free at the Southwest airlines, while the other airline can give you a free all-you-can-eat snacks, access to TV, check-in one bag for free at the JetBlue Airways.

Free E-Books
Download thousands of e-books for free legally at the Gutenberg.org or University of Pennsylvania online books page. Some site like Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, iTunes.com and Kobo.com also offer a free e-books.

Free Fishing
TakeMeFishing.org gave you a list of states and dates for a free fishing days, a saving of about $7 to $30 for fishing without a license. Many states let kids fish for free year-round, check also your local fish and wildlife agency.

Free Music
Install their handy apps or access them online by streaming services at the Spotify.com, Pandora.com and Groovesshark.com.

Free Unlimited Texting
TextPlus - a free texting service that can send and receive messages as much as you want on your android devices by assigning a free phone number.

Free Entrance on Parks and Museums 
The Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, let you in for free on certain days of the week or month. Bank of America cardholders can gain free admission to more than 150 museums on the first full weekend of every month. National parks and some of the most beautiful scenery in the country don’t charge entrance fees, including the Great Smoky Mountains and Blue Ridge Parkway. See the schedule here: http://www.nps.gov/findapark/feefreeparks.htm              Link: Kiplinger




10 Hot News Image of 2010's Disaster and Violence

We recap the year that was 2010


1.) JANUARY: HAITI
Magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation of Haiti, damaging buildings and power lines, the most powerful to hit Haiti in a century. The death toll is estimated at over 250,000.



2.) FEBRUARY: CHILE
Magnitude 8.8 earthquake hits Concepcion, Chile's second-largest metropolitan area, about 70 miles from the quake center. More than 1.5 million people have displaced and 700 estimated dead by the quake.



3.) MARCH: UGANDA
People searching for the bodies after a mudslide in Bududa, 228 miles east of the Ugandan capital, Kampala. More than 300 people died.



4.) APRIL: CHINA
Magnitude 7.1 quake hits Yushu county in north-west province of Qinghai province,China that kills over 2,000 people and 10,000 were injured.



5.) APRIL: ICELAND
Dormant for 200 years, icelandic volcano near Eyjafjallajoekull glacier has erupted, spewing ash into the air over the north atlantic shutting down airports in Europe for about three weeks.



6.) MAY: INDIA
Air India airliner crashed and burst into flames when it overshoots the runway in the city of Mangalore, killing 158 people and 8 injured. The deadliest plane crash of the year.



7.) JUNE: U.K.
A taxi driver has gone on a shooting spree across a rural area of northwestern English town of Whitehaven, England, killing 12 people and wounding 25 others before turning the gun on himself. 



8.) AUGUST: PAKISTAN
The massive floods in Pakistan have spread to the southern province of Sindh, where hundreds of thousands of people are on the move after evacuating their inundated villages, killing at least 1,760 and leaving 21 million homeless. 



9.) OCTOBER: CHILE
Chile's trapped miners who have been trapped underground for almost two-month are finally rescued, The 33 miners climbed into a specially designed steel capsule and took a 15-minute journey through 2,050 feet of rock to the surface.



10.) OCTOBER: IRAQ
Al-Qaeda armed men stormed into a Christian church in central Baghdad, detonating three bombs before exchanging fire with security forces and possibly taking hostages in the church, killing 37 worshippers and two priests, wounding 60 others.

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