This post was written by Madame Deals. She is the one that challenged me to see what $5 can do. See what she and the other bloggers have done with their $5 as well!
Are you having a bad day, week, year? What if you had the power to change your situation?
The only difference between bad and good is perception. If you were given $5.00 could you make a big impact on some one? What would you do? I was given $50 with the mission to make an impact. I thought how can you make the biggest impact on the most people. I thought well pass it on. I took my $50 and I asked 9 of my friends to join me in my quest to help others. Why? I believe if you do something for someone else it changes how you feel. It makes your day better and brighter. If you have one rock it makes a splash if you throw several stones in from all directions you make a wave. I wanted to create a wave of change. Do you pay it forward? Can you? What would you do if you had the chance but not the change? Well at Madame Deals we believe in Making Dollar$ out of Change. Change the way you think, change what you do, and change someones life on thought, action, and endeavor at a time.
What did we do on just $5 each?
Here is my story.
Madame Deals (Amee)- I thought about what am I good at? I am good at motivating people. I am a teacher by trade and a mom to three lively children. I have always taught the children that were left behind and I change their perception of what they could do. I had the detention bound children coming to school early to study. How? I taught them to believe that what they do matters. Who they are matters and that education is important. Education changes your situation a single book, class, or conversation can change your course in life.
What kind of basket would I make with just $5? I wanted to make a basket for the women who are on bed rest waiting for their little ones to arrive. It was a year ago that I was on bed rest waiting for our third child. I never felt so helpless in my life. I couldn’t take care of my other children and I couldn’t leave my hospital bed. I also couldn’t determine the fate of the baby inside me. He was born and then taken after about 5 minutes to the NICU. I was so upset because I had waited so long to have him and he was taken away. I soon realized that I was the lucky one a lot of the babies didn’t make it out of the NICU. Their parent had to go through more than I did. It reminded me to look beyond myself and look at ways I could help others.
I am still collecting for my basket so I will post my picture soon. I have baby washes, pacifiers, nursing cover, and books and movies, I am working on gathering some beauty products for the moms while they are on bed rest.
I challenged my fellow bloggers to help out. I gave them each $5 out of my $50 gift card and here is what they did.
These toiletries will be going to a local Samaritan House in Virginia Beach, Va. After coupons, register rewards from Walgreens and +UP rewards from Rite Aid I got the following for $4.37. I threw in another deodorant from Target I had gotten for a few cents last month so the total is pretty close to $5.
The shopping trip above cost just $5.00. It is going to Web of Life, a local farm rescue center for all types of animals.
Laura-A Frugal Chick
Laura- Will be donating her $5.00 worth of groceries to a local cause. This haul is part of a shopping trip she made while being filmed by a TV crew. I will link up her trip when the link becomes available.
Charlotte – Stretching Your Budget
I love shopping and saving! I’m donating it to Sunnyside Ministries. It’s a local shelter in Winston-Salem, NC. The moms group at our church collects items once a month to take there. Here’s the basket I did. Everything I bought this week at Harris Teeter.
My total was $4.67 after tax. Saved $60.25!!!
Tabitha at Saving Towards A Better Life
We made Mother’s gift baskets for our local Maternity home, The Shepard’s Maternity House. The Shepard’s maternity house is a place where unwed moms to be who have no where else to go and go and be safe and have a safe place to live while pregnant and after having their baby.
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