What is the last thing you donated money to, how much did you donate, and WHY?

• Choire Sicha: $40, to a friend’s fundraiser. ‪LS‬: How did you decide on $40? ‪CS‬: I never know how much to give. $20 seemed cheap, $50 seems too much. Then I was like “okay I went to the grocery store yesterday, how much did I spend? And it was like $40, so I was like, okay, well I could spend that much on food, so.

• Bennett Madison: My little sister is an elementary school special ed teacher and she asked people to donate money for her classroom supplies using one of those Kickstarter-type things that isn’t Kickstarter. I donated last week and gave a hundred dollars! LS: YES. BM: I probably would have donated less but I was slightly drunk.

If someone gave you $1,000 and told you to do something good with it, what would you do?

Deferred gratification is an important and difficult lesson for a child to learn—a lesson that shows that time invested in certain activities (studying, practice, etc.) will pay off in the end.