Category: Business Ideas, Personal Money is not that Important
After getting a new job, getting cheated on last year and other things in my life I realized that money is not that important. Maybe that is a strong way to put it since if you are hungry and starving, money is very important at that moment. I guess it comes down to circumstances but if you are comfortable with money; gaining more of it over personal relationships, free time and happiness seems pretty low on my tandem poll. So I had an idea, yea I love when the sentences start off like that.
I previously gave away $500 to someone who had a great idea so they can go pursue that. The new idea is to help people help people. Oh I love corporate slogans and cheesy lines.
What’s the deal: You email me your mailing address and I mail you $1 (yes a real one).
Why: Because it is only $1 and then you will take that dollar and give it to someone you like. Seriously.
Huh: No, I will not mail you other things, no I will not sell your address, yes I like doing things that are fun. It’s only 1 dollar.
Is money everything? # of people mailed $1 to: 11/100 (updated 1/27)
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Noah Kagan wrote Money is not that Important on January 23rd, 2006 and there are 12 comments. There will be one more after you add yours, though. Read more posts by Noah Kagan.
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12 Responses to “Money is not that Important”
January 23rd, 2006
4:51 pm
Um, so you give me a dollar and then I give it to someone else? They then in turn sit there and go ‘what can I do with a dollar’? I don’t exactly get it. Can I get a dollar and 9 more for my friends? In fact, I have a lot of friends I need to give dollars to…
January 23rd, 2006
5:30 pm
I knokw its complicated for your Devin. I will write an example:
1- Devin thinking: Yay my name is Devin and that really hip guy Noah is giving away dollars
2- Devin doing: hey Noah my mailing address is 1234 yourtown lane boulder, Co 12345
3- Noah doing: getting an envelope and mailing devin a dollar
4- Devin receiving: wahoo! i got a dolla, holla. okay enough. hey Jim you are a great friend here is a dollar
noah happy
devin happy
Jim happy
the end.
January 23rd, 2006
5:55 pm
Jim says ‘but whats the catch’, Devin says ‘its just a symbolic expression of my strong affection for you and our relationship’. Wow, I’m already happy…
January 24th, 2006
8:27 am
[...] Ideas like this one makes me think of the potential of generosity over internet (GoIP?). Is there a business model based on a win-win situation? I am thinking of something along the lines of the movie Pay it Forward… [...]
January 24th, 2006
10:43 am
I refuse to give you my mailing address for a dollar. But i’ll take a free facebook lunch anytime!
January 26th, 2006
5:32 pm
I think it’s a beautiful idea, Noah. I won’t take your $1, but I like the thread.
January 27th, 2006
7:45 pm
more so random gifting meme than value of money, but in 1998 I had a ticket to the NCAA basketball files in San Antonio. Three days before the event my plans changed and i couldn’t go. Rather than scalping, i picked a random name from the San Antonio telephone book (i was in SF at the time) and fedex’ed it to the address.
Don’t know if they went, heck I don’t know if they even received the ticket, but I’ve gotten much more joy wondering what happened to that ticket than I could have for the few hundred dollars selling it would have brought.
February 5th, 2006
2:23 pm
i need card and its number
February 18th, 2006
12:50 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/devdev/101264191/
March 3rd, 2006
7:53 pm
[...] So a little over one month ago OkDork.com posted an idea on how to help people. He wanted to send people $1, and in exchange they would turn around and give that money away. I thought this was an interesting idea and sent him my address. A few days later a dollar bill arrived and I began to search for someone to give it to. [...]
November 1st, 2006
7:32 pm
i still don’t get it!
how many did you end up giving away?
December 5th, 2006
8:09 pm
how many people u mailed that dollar already…
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