- What kind of people will you approach?
- What will you say to get the conversation started?
- What is your plan for the conversation?
- Out of five attempts, how many dollar bills do you think you will be able to give away.
So I went to the mall in the city that I live in. When I was a little kid I remember I did some
survey and got a dollar and I thought it was really cool, again I was probably 5 years old. My
Plan is to go to the children's room and just talk to the kids that are on their tablets or playing a
game. ( I will ask a few parents around the room to make sure I do not come off as a creeper,
But the kids will have no idea what I am doing).
I plan on just approaching each kid and giving them a dollar. I wont have much of a
conversation with them because the kids wont know how to react.
I was able to give away two dollars at the same time! Turns out theses kids are brothers.
For some reason the video will not attach to this post, so here is the link!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnbeZKqHeME
I was surprised the older brother was a little hesitant to accept the free money. Although, I think
If I asked adults they would have been more skeptical about the whole thing. Giving away free
money was much easier when the kids were younger than 7-8 years old. After that the kids
seemed more skeptical. But at least none of the kids asked why!
My personal reflection of this exercise. Why on Earth am I giving away my money teacher?
Do you have any idea how hard it is to get $5 as a college student. Yeah it was cool to give
some kids some money, but that was my money. Next time have people give away high fives
to strangers high fives are free unlike free money. Exercise lost me $5 dude, not cool.
Stephen,
ReplyDeleteGreat and creative strategy on giving a dollar away. I am also a little shocked on the older kids reaction yet then again it could be the way you gave the money. It was pretty challenging to give away money to strangers, I was able to give 4 out of 5 dollars away. A little feedback is to turn your phone so you are filming horizontally not vertically this will eliminate those black bars on the side of your videos.
Overall keep up the great work!
Feel free to leave some feedback on my post
http://qdesousaent3003.blogspot.com/2016/02/free-money_21.html
I wasn't even assigned to you. I just saw your link on someone else's blog and decided to see what approach you took and LOL - I thought it was hilarious - down to your comments on the experience. Made my day
ReplyDeleteThanks! I try to have fun with the class whenever possible. If I take it too seriously the class would be boring and that's a waste of money! Thanks for the good vibes.
DeleteStephen,
ReplyDeleteI really liked your approach to giving away the free money. I thought it was very cool that you went back to a place where someone gave you a dollar as a kid, that probably made the experience much more meaningful and memorable. I was also surprised with how difficult giving away a dollar could be. I also thought your reflection was hilarious, I was shocked when I read that we actually had to give away our own money for this assignment. Feel free to check out my post, the link is:
http://colehouser.blogspot.com/2016/02/free-money.html