Why Did These Things That Used to Be Free Cost Us A Lot of Money Now

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While inflation continues to bring the cost of things up, there are things out there people used to pay for that are now completely free. PennyGem’s Johana Restrepo has more.

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00:00while inflation continues to bring the cost of things up there are things out there people used

00:09to pay for that are now completely free you used to have to pay to invest but now companies offer

00:15zero dollar commission trades or exchange traded funds according to money crashers you can get

00:22free flights through frequent flyer miles or getting bumped from a flight people used to have

00:28to pay to see a copy of their credit report but now you're entitled to one free copy a year money

00:34talks news also points out that until 2022 you can request a free copy of your credit report from

00:40each company every week because of the pandemic you used to be able to listen to music for free

00:46even though it was usually illegal then you had to pay for music on platforms like itunes or rhapsody

00:53now you can enjoy music for free on apps like pandora and spotify if you don't mind the ads if the

00:59internet has taught us anything is that you can pretty much get anything for free if you know where to

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