The Big Give

I hope everyone had a good weekend and a Happy Easter (if you celebrate the holiday). I was very happy to have a 3-day weekend, although our Easter was fairly low key. We had a good meal and a nice visit with our parents, and we were home by 6 P.M.

While I don't have any FOs to show, as I had hoped, I did spend a lot of time crocheting on my sort of secret moebius shawl. It's about three quarters done, which is good, but I spent so much time crocheting the past 3 days that I had a sore hand again last night, which is bad. Specifically, my left thumb was starting to just ache, whether I moved it or not. So I put down the projects and wrapped my hand in an ice pack for a while. It feels much better this morning.

As I sat there with the ice pack on, I watched Oprah's The Big Give. I don't know if any of you are watching this show, but I have become quite addicted to it. None of the challenges so far have gotten me thinking as much as last night's show has. The contestants were each given $100,000 to give away in 24 hours. They could only spend $500 per person or $10,000 per organization, and they couldn't just give money. They had to buy goods or services with the money to donate to the individuals or groups. I was very impressed with some of the ideas the contestants came up with (going into impoverished areas and buying groceries for people, paying for people's car repairs, giving people a shopping spree at Target). As it turned out, only one of the 7 contestants managed to give away all the money in the time period, and he had some help from his father, so it wasn't an easy challenge. But I think it's an interesting question - how would you do it? One of my first thoughts was find an animal shelter, and one of the contestants did just that. I think I would also try to find a way to give to the public library system, because that would benefit everyone. So how would you give away $100,000?