O.K. This week was good....
I want to see what ya'll would do in the same situation....Remember you've got to give it ALL away.

Someone hands you $100,000 in CASH!
Then tells you... You have 24 hours to give it away (these folks weren't in their home town at the time but we can pretend we are)
However, Rules are....

You can not give anyone "cash".
You can not give more than $500.00 to any one individual and
You can not give more than $10,000 at any one location.
and ps.. I don't know if it's a rule or not on the show but for here.... You are NOT allowed to give it to a family member.
Where do you go? What do you do?

GIVE BIG!!!!

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That was a good show, I only watched the very first one and then stopped until last night.

I would love to go to a gas station and buy gas for whoever comes in, the truckers fill up and it has to be close or over $500 a fill up now. That would help out a lot of hard working people who get no appreciation. The word would spred on the cb's and think of how wonderful that would be to have all of those trucks lined up at the pumps!

I loved the going to the store and giving it away as groceries, we can all use that too.

And then maybe a local charity or 2. Like buy field trips for our school they were canceled last year because of budget cuts.


The local historical society works realy hard to improve the community maybe buy them supplies.

It is hard to think about the whole $100,000.

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Depending on the challenge of course I would love to take a big amount to make a difference in someone's life with maybe enough for a year of college or a car or to pay some bill for a year or something like that. And I would love to have a little to just randomly do things like paying for the senior citizen's groceries in front of me in line or someone's lunch or just randomly handing a few people twenties, fifties, and hundreds.
That seems to carry it on from and to a greater number of people.

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I would go and buy a ton of pet food and supplies and then drive around to various shelters and drop off 10,000 worth to each.

I would have to combine a few things mentioned before, and add my own...

Give $10,000 in groceries to whose shopping (would pay for folks groceries)
Give $10,000 to the schools in our area to be used for field trips, assemblies, etc.
Give enough money to the car repair shop in town so that it covers all repairs for the upcoming week (up to $10,000)
Give $10,000 to the local food bank
Give $10,000 to the animal shelter
Give $10,000 to the Boys And Girls Club (local branch)
Would pay for $10,000 in gas to the people coming through the three gas stations in town
Would give $10,000 to the local energy company to help pay the bills for folks in town
Give $10,000 to the local college for books for the incoming freshman
$10,000 to the local chapter of american cancer society

I really feel like those things would make a huge difference in our community...we are not incoporated, but have a population of about 10,000 plus...

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Join the Relay for Life

Awesome post!! I was so frustrated with the one who kept getting lost and the one who promised to help the officer's funeral expenses , both ultimately had to leave the show.

I also would have gone to the schools in the area and dropped off 10,000 worth of supplies.
I loved the idea about going into the supermarket and gas station.
The repair shop was also a great idea.
I would have also found daycare centers and homeless shelters to donate too.

Ohhhh, how nice to be able to do that.

Judi

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What a great post.......

I would love to find an organization that gives out clothes for people to go on job interviews with and donate new outfits to help the cause.

Buy tons of diapers, wipes, formula, car seats, outfits, toys and then go to hospital in a poor area and hand them out.

Call a food bank and have them shop for food to fill the pantry especially with items they are always running out of or items they don't get donated a lot.

I would love to help older people buy the medicine they are needing and can't afford, maybe contact an assisted living facility.

Go to a homeless shelter and hand out hygiene supplies, food, blankets, pillows, bus passes, toys and then large duffel bags for them to keep their items in, and $150 gift card to Target for them to get misc. items they need

Would of loved going to an orphanage and buy 10,000 worth of supplies for the kids.

Also donating 10,000 worth of computers to an inner city school

Loved the car repair place idea.....and buying everyones gas.

Then I thought a lot of the contestants were only thinking of BIG things to do..I would of done some fun smaller ones that would give to a large amount of people and wouldn't of taken up that much time

Would of loved going to a toll road and paying for XX amount of cars to pass free.

Going to a movie theater and paying for peoples tickets

Going to a dry cleaners and buying for everyones laundry

Go into a restaurant and pay everyones bill.

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I would go to different hospitals, doctors offices and pharmacies and give money to help people that couldn't afford treatment and medicine.

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I missed the show but here are my thoughts.

I would buy $500 gc and hand them out to uninsured folks at the pharmacy.
I would set up a fund, thru the program that just gave me my mobile home, so that others could get good refrigerators and stoves (we supply our own).
Some GC to some of the local nursing homes for patients with no families so that they can get things they need.
Some would go to the local children’s hospital and the local Ronald McDonald house to help other families in need.
My church’s food pantry would get a much needed donation.

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I would go to the grocery store and scope out people that are there with children or the elderly and hand out $500 GC to those that are buying all generic and stuff on sale.

I remember being poor - really poor - and my mom would always get Corn Flakes and Oatmeal - they were the cheapest cereal, and hamburger - never "real" meat. I would have been so excited if we could have just once, gotten a box of the fancy cereal I saw on TV commercials.

Then I would take half the money and go buy all kinds and sizes of clothes shoes and take them to schools in underprivileged neighborhoods and give them to the schools. My sister is a secretary in a school in Houston where the nurse is constantly going to garage sales and goodwill trying to keep the locker supplied with clothes and shoes for the kids who come to school in clothes and shoes that are way to small or falling apart. Not to mention coats for the kids that go to school with just a jacket in the winter.

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I would buy some of my clients the meds that they need and cant afford it.
I would put fuel oil in a few clients tanks
I would buy some clients the things they would love to have but cant afford. ( shampoos and such is a luxury item for some people)
I would visit the food bank and find out a few very needy familes and take them food.

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I recently heard of a group that tries to help foster kids that are turning 18 and about to get dumped into the real world with no support. I would love to be able to help them with all the basics needed to start a life like deposits for apartment or furnture or even college scholarships. Or just financial counceling. Life is hard when you are just starting out for anyone. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to go out into the world with no family or anyone to back you up.

I would love to try to do something for the people who do meals on wheels and the people they help. Many volunteers are having to drop out because they can no longer afford the gas to deliver the meals.

I would love to give every teacher a gift card for supplies.

I would love to give every kid a book.

It would also be fun to do little things. I was told by a parent once there was some one who would intentionally drop lots of change at little league games so the kids could find it. I remember the thrill of finding money when I was a kid. I would of course try to find the person who dropped it but remember the thrill of finding even something small.

Wow - I suppose that my tender spot is the elderly. I vote along with those to pay for prescriptions, groceries or perhaps go the the local utility company - there is always a list of people in need. Perhaps I could pay their heating/cooling bills.

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The hardest part was that they only had 24 hours to spend the money. At first I thought that I would go to a bunch of schools and have them go online and quickly spend $10,000 per school on expensive things like computers. Then I thought that wouldn't work because you had cash and you would need a credit card to spend the money that way. I thought the lady that spent the money at the gas station wasted her time because she only spent a couple hundred dollars doing it. I wonder how long she was actually there? Then buying small things at a pet store took way to much time even though she got it to add up to a lot of money. You needed to spend your money quickly on bigger things. It was sad the little amount of money she spent. She could have helped so many more places. She deserved to go home. Then the guy that said he would pay for the funeral and didn't. What a jerk!!! I was glad to see him go too. The guy that went to 4 different stores and bought all the appliences and computers was so smart. Most of them did a great job. I never thought it would be that hard to spend money. lol

I'd go to the facility here where they intake cases who are on the cusp of getting their utilities turned off, and I'd pay their bills.

Then I'd go to the office where they handle applications for food and make sure they had a GC to buy groceries that very day, not wait until they are approved.

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I would definelty go to a gas station and buy gift cards and hand them out to everyone in the station.
Go to the nearest oil company and have them fill up as many people as they can for the $10,000.
Gift cards for $500 is the best way to go, grocery store, targets, sears, etc.
It sounds so easy, but $100,000 is alot of money in 24 hrs.

Oprah inspires local altruist to give money to strangers

Linky dink to an article about this from our local paper...