Stimulate This

I recently received my stimulus check.

I originally intended to save the entire $600 bucks for my first vacation in seven years.

But I’ve given it some thought, and since I don’t really NEED the money (as in the real definition of neediness), I’ve decided to use a portion of it to help stimulate someone else.

I am going to donate $100 of my check to Kiva.org and I hope I can get other people to do the same.

Now if you’d rather donate it to another organization or individual, so be it. If you didn’t receive a stimulus or aren’t an American getting fed a few hundred bucks in hush money, I still encourage you to consider the idea.

I could give the speel about giving rather than receiving, but you’ve been fed that line before.

This is an easy way to do something for somebody else with money we otherwise wouldn’t have had in the first place.

Any attempt to Just MakeItBetter is one worth doing.

I’m gonna try to get other bloggers in on the action. So do harass your favorites about it and/or please click on the links below to attract my blogger friends’ attention as well.

Thanks all, I appreciate your support.

White on Rice

Retire Syd

In My Heels

Millionaire Mommy

Frugal in the Fruitlands

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Continue reading » · Written on: 05-25-08 · 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “Stimulate This”

  1. White On Rice Couple wrote:

    Sounds good, we’ll do the same when we get our check. Thanks for getting us to “Just make it better”.
    Please check in with us in a few weeks to make sure we do it. We need you to keep us honest!

    May 26th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
  2. Nicole wrote:

    How ’bout enlisting your readers too :!:

    May 26th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
  3. Retired Syd wrote:

    Very nice idea. I won’t be getting one of the “thank you for spending” checks, but will take you up on the idea. I’m still contemplating the charity–I’m looking for something with some symbolism here (something ironic about getting money from the government.) Maybe something like Planned Parenthood–the exact opposite of what the current administration, in its infinite wisdom, had in mind.

    Still thinking . . .

    May 26th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
  4. Nicole wrote:

    hahha.

    Love it.

    May 26th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
  5. Millionaire Mommy Next Door wrote:

    Awesome, Nicole. Kiva is my one of my favorite organizations. Count me in (although I filed an extension, so it’ll be awhile - if I qualify, anyway…)

    Millionaire Mommy Next Doors last blog post..Does This Mom Hold The Key To A Profitable Small Business?

    June 7th, 2008 at 10:38 pm

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