Just got an email from a reader who stopped into the Freedom Wireless Cricket cell store in Bolingbrook (on Bolingbrook Drive) and found they were giving away cell phones!  She was told that the corporate stores are having a Buy a phone for $10 and get $10 in minutes promotion, but since this store is a franchise, the owner decided to just give away the phones for free.  The reader is a current Cricket customer, so she was able to swap her older phone for a much nicer Samsung model at no charge!  Note that this was not a smart phone (she doesn’t want one).

So any of you people thinking about getting a phone for your kids from Cricket or maybe have one yourself, it’s something to check out.