Sell Your House

I heard an inspiring story on NPR late Thursday about a fourteen-year-old girl who was telling her mother that their family should do something about global inequality.  The somewhat exasperated mother finally said: "What should we do, sell our house and give the money away?"  "Great idea," responded the daughter.  So they sold their huge home, replaced it with one half as large, and spent a year researching what to do with the money they had saved.  They ended up donating several hundred thousand dollars to the Hunger Project (they owned a really big house in one of Atlanta's most exclusive neighborhoods).

Of course not all of us have an extremely expensive house that we can sell off.  And, by definition, most Americans are not in the top 1-5% of the nation's wealthy.  But the great majority of us could spend much less money on ourselves than we do and still live very, very comfortable lives--and in the process greatly enrich the lives of hundreds if not thousands of others, people born into less fortunate circumstances.

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