If I gave you $5000--with no strings attached--how would you react?

Question

I'm talking MONEY. Not a check here, kids. You know: Grants and Ben Franklins? :0)

Answer 1

I actually read about someone doing that a while ago, except they anonymously delivered it into peoples letterboxes.

I think its a great idea, who wouldnt?

Of course, most people are going to ask you "Whats the catch?" Random kindness, especially of the monetary kind, is always a little suss.

Personally, I dont know what I would do!! I'd like to think I'd share it with my family and friends ....

Answer 2

I'd be shocked, of course!  Then I'd smack ya upside the head w/ it and tell ya to use it to publish your books!  Then,I'd ask that you dedicate one of your books to me for helping finance it.  LOL!!

Answer 3

thank you and give it to a good cause

Answer 4

I wouldn't believe it was for real - 5000 DOLLARS? that's more money than 4 months worth of wages from my job now, and you'd just give it to me without knowing me? Seriously?

I'd be pretty shocked, I have to say!

Answer 5

I would be way more than delighted and the majority of it would go to our ministry www.caringhandsministries.com bec I have been praying for a way to do more helping ppl and be under less strain of having to say no when ppl have real needs.   However if it was given to me personally not just to the ministry some of it would go to get my husband some much needed dental work and $100 would be for clothes.

Here's a challenge for you $5000 you may not haqve nor even $500 nor $50 extra bit most of us can find $5 or even $1 and believe it or not that can make a major difference.   Check out The Great $1 Challenge http://caringhandsmin.tripod.com/id14.ht...

Answer 6

I would probably get robbed minutes after getting it :(

Answer 7

I'd laugh to be quite honest though I wouldn't reject or question the act it would be my genuine reaction to laugh at such a situation.

Answer 8

I would say thank you and share it with friends and family.

Answer 9

I would take that money to the bank and have the teller break it down into the smallest possible denominations. Then, I would roll around naked in the piles of money for awhile.

After that, I would take the money back to the bank and deposit it in my account. A good portion would go to our charitable activities, and the rest would go to bills.

Answer 10

i would take it and be really paranoid about it.  i would call the police, bank, whateverr and get the serial numbers or check checked out.  just to make sure its not part of a money laundering scheme.  when everything seems like it is in the clear, i would write a thank you note with some flowers.

Answer 11

I'd be like thanks.

Answer 12

I would thank you profusely! I can really use the money. I'd also be sure to buy more toys and teddy bears for toys for tots. My toy closet is getting full, but my wallet is getting thin! LOL! I buy about 4 to 5 toys a week, and put them in the closet and save them till december. By the end of the year, I have over 200 toys to deliver. :) It's such a great feeling to know those children will have a great Christmas! :) If only food, gas and bills weren't so expensive. I'd be able to donate more. :/

Answer 13

I would react surprised, I would be grateful, I would be gracious and ask for your name, address and email to let you know how many lives you have touched with the $5,000.00.

$5,000 would provide food for a Soup Kitchen in a squatter camp in Soweto, South Africa for a year---feeding over 72,000!!!

$5,000 is enough to set up a sewing center in Soweto to enable women to make school uniforms for children living in the squatter camps so they can attend school

$5,000 would cover planting over 60 gardens with a simple drip systems to help alleviate hunger and teach the poor how to help themselves, while enhancing their diet with vitamin enriched, fresh vegetables.

$5,000 would provide 100+ bicycles for rural, poor Mayan children to get to school and back

$5,000 would provide materials to teach and equip over 65 pastors in Mexico with continuing seminary education and Bibles

$5,000 would provide transportation for hundreds AIDS patients to the hospital for treatment for 6 months

$5,000 would cover the cost of drilling a well to provide fresh drinking water for a village

Your $5,000 could bless any number of these needs.  You would be blessed many time over and make a difference in thousands of others.

Great question, it gave us an opportunity to dream!

Answer 14

I would give it to someone I know that needs it more then me.

Answer 15

i would be overwhelmed and excited....shopping lol

Answer 16

I'd do everything in my power to give it back to you.

I hate accepting money.  I don't know why, I just do.

Answer 17

I believe in Karma...so I think it would come back to you. Now how would I react? I would probably cry.

Answer 18

I would make two choices - I'd be thrilled and spend some on myself, and I would feel responsible and would 'pass it forward ' as well - so I'd give half of it away !

Answer 19

Yes, now I can pay some bills and get that pair of eyeglasses I've been needing.

Answer 20

Ok wheres the camera?

Answer 21

I'd probably be really suspicious, but then again Im sort of paranoid. (Id still take the money it would just take a couple of minutes to convince myself)

Answer 22

With surprise.

Why would you do that and what makes me deserving?

EDIT - No you don't *need* a reason, but it's not something that happens every day, hence Bill Gates making the news when he does it, and why I'd be surprised.  If you want to hand out money that's both unselfish and noble.  I, like most others would take it with glee.  But I still wonder why I would be deserving.

Answer 23

I would say thank you very much, I can use  it to have eye laser done so I can get rid of my glasses.

Answer 24

yeh that would be great cause im goin on a ski trip with my school and we are going shoppin that wpuld help me get there and give me some money to spend on clothes but i think you would have to tell them or it would be sorta scary

Answer 25

With gratitude. Give some to charity. A reputable one and help someone out that needed it.

Answer 26

I'd be very greatful.  Right now I would put most of it toward paying off debt.  My family is working on getting out of debt, with the end goal being that we could give generously in the future.  We'd give a tithe from that "increase" to our church, and then apply the rest to our debt payoff.  Then we'd make plans to "pay it forward" in the future by giving someone else the same kind of gift later.

Answer 27

**** YEAH!