This story makes me feel greedy for wanting a house with one more bedroom and bathroom for my family of seven. Buried behind all the news of John McCain, Barack Obama, the summer Olympics, and Nicole Kidman’s new baby  is this story posted on www.CNN.com today. Thanks to my friend Charles for emailing me the link (Charles, if you read this in the next 60 seconds and email me the names of ALL seven dwarfs, you’ll win a brand new car!). Anyone else want to play?

Here’s the story:

Hannah’s Lunchbox was created by the Salwen family in Atlanta, Georgia, as a way to make a small difference in world hunger. Our belief is that we have more than we need while others don’t have enough; so we decided to sell our beautiful, large home (that’s a picture of it on the left side) and move into another one half the size and half the price.  We are giving half the sales price of our old house to a life-changing program run by The Hunger Project that is helping hundreds of thousands of people in Africa  move from poverty to self-reliance.

What financial worry do you have today? How could you think “differently” about it? You MIGHT not want to sell you house and give the profits away BUT there’s probably something you could do that would help others. Let me know what you are thinking…

Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies, associations, and national conventions. He is the founder of the The Worlds Biggest Blog Party an event which will connect bloggers from all over the world to raise money for charity. He is also founder and president of the Bill Walter Melanoma Research Fund and co-founder of the Jeffrey Roth Cycling Foundation. Click here for more information on professional speaker Tim Richardson.

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3 Comments to “Lions and tigers and housing crisis and mortage defaults, oh my!”

  1. Charles | July 8th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    Sneezy, Dopey, Doc, Grumpy, Bashful, Sleepy, Happy
    If I made if within 60 secs, I’ll be “Happy”. If not, I’ll be “Grumpy”!

  2. Tom | July 14th, 2008 at 7:06 am

    Did Charles win the car? Hate to have him be Grumpy.

  3. Tim | July 15th, 2008 at 11:20 am

    Tom - you have come out! We can remove the lurker tag. You are free! Come back and comment anytime.

    Sorry Charles didn’t win the car. He was too sleeply (slow) in responding.

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