# What would you do with twenty bucks from church? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2002, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149 "2002-12-16T19:56:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/21 "2002-12-18T05:50:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by iconoplast \* > \*\*I think I’d anonymously use it towards the purchase of someone behind me in line at a store. \*\* Was going to say “Split it in half. The next two times you go through a fast-food drive through give the car behind you 10 bucks.” ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/22 "2002-12-18T05:59:42Z")
Mail it anonymously to someone you know is in need. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/23 "2002-12-18T06:08:10Z")
I have a young girl in my sunday school class who wants her own set of scriptures in english. (They speak spanish at home, but she speaks and reads english at school and church.) I haven’t had the money yet to get them for her. We are going through bankruptcy and not getting many gifts beyond the two for our son. Anyway, that’s what I would do. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/24 "2002-12-18T07:16:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by In Conceivable \* > \*\*I think he meant drugs _for_ hookers. \*\* Oh I’ve heard of this program. It’s like the guns for money push. Turn in your drugs, they give you a hooker. Wildly popular, I hear. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/25 "2002-12-18T07:34:54Z")
Hey, **auntie em** , yeah, time’s fun when you’re having flies (or something like that). Hope you have great holidays. A specific suggestion for your mom: go to a thrift store, look for someone who appears to be shopping there for toys for the kids. Verify the notion with a brief conversation. Contribute the twenty to the kids’ Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/26 "2002-12-18T18:46:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*So my mom went to church yesterday, and surprise! The congregation was told that “an anonymous donor” had donated a sum of money to the church, and specified that everyone who came to church that day was to be given a $20 bill. > > Each person’s $20 was to be used to do something nice for someone else: donated to a charity, used to buy a meal for a friend, etc. > > My mom is giving hers back to the church with her next tithe. > > What would you do with it? \*\* Angel Tree- buy a needy kid a nice gift for X-mas. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@madcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madcat)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/27 "2002-12-18T19:12:53Z")
3 Step Plan: 1-Convert it to 20 $1 Bills 2-Crumple them into little balls 3-Scatter them at the feet of a group of: -lawyers leaving morning court session -drunks in a bar at closing time -the congregation of your church -group of your own choice Hilarity ensues. Laughter is good for the soul. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/28 "2002-12-18T19:16:58Z")
Excellent suggestion, **Gary**. Don’t know that she’ll follow it (the whole of her charitable giving, money-wise, goes to her church or to her shiftless kids ;)), but I’ll certainly pass it on. I myself don’t go to church, but am tempted to follow some of these suggestions with my own money! Oh… wait… what money? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/29 "2002-12-18T21:30:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mangetout \* > \*\*Is somebody maybe trying to pull a ‘parable of the talents’ stunt at the church? - maybe the bills are marked somehow and they are going to check how many come straight back into the offering plate (returning it with no profit - the equivalent of the foolish servant who buried it in a field). > > Eh? \*\* I think that’s exactly what it is. The “parable of the talents” part, at least! We just did that at our church after that particular sermon, only with 5 bills. Some people donated tham to charities, while others used them to make more . Like buying pie ingredients, then selling the pie and giving the proceeds back to the church, or buying craft supplies and selling what you make. I matched mine and gave it to Make-A-Wish. ---
**Author:** ![Splanky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Splanky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Splanky)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/30 "2002-12-18T23:00:44Z")
I’d buy a Megadeth CD and crank it to the max out of my window to passing joggers. Nothing quite like jogging and speed metal… ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149/31 "2002-12-18T23:40:40Z")
With the change, I’m buying a beer for **Xavier**! * * * She told me I was terribly handsome. Was I insulted? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-do-with-twenty-bucks-from-church/143149.md?page=1)