Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Every year businesses give away thousands of dollars in free money and gift cards as a way of promoting their websites or products. We’ve put together a list of of our favorites that will give you more than $1,700 in free cash right now. Some of them only require filling out a form. Some of them take a bit more effort, but you can easily knock out all of these in a couple of hours. How to Get Free Money Without further ado, here are the companies giving out free money right now: 1. Automate Your Savings With Acorns — $5 Acorns is a simple savings and investment app that rounds your credit or debit card purchases up to the nearest dollar and invests the digital change. You can connect the app to your credit or debit card and let it automatically round up all your transactions, or manually round up only the ones you choose. Contributor CJ Reid does the latter , accepting ro...