Hi Friends, I am so happy right now!
FINALLY I have given some money away. It took me over a year but better late than never right.
When I started this experiment I thought it was the best way to make money to give away. But I found that it was much harder than I thought to live without spending money and I still haven’t quite got the hang of it. Most of my energies have gone into my own survival and trying to find people to play this game with me.
I recently realised that I need to give people the option of trading with me or paying me for my services. When they pay me 50% will be given away to a cause chosen by the person who pays me. The other 50% I am giving to my parents to say thank you for looking after me for many years as an adult. This isn’t going to rent (that would be spending money) it will be going towards a long term home make over project. I know it is the thing that my parents most want and need. It is high time I started ‘paying them back’ for all they have done for me.
So, now onto Ouma Emily.
A while ago I negotiated a coaching contract with a lady by the name of Desiree Potgieter. She was originally assigned to me as a client as part of her Consciousness Coaching training course, but she chose to continue with me as her coach. We agreed on R3000 for 6 sessions.
When I told her about the what I do with money when it comes she told me that she wanted the money to go to an elderly person in need. Not to an organisation, she wanted the money to go to someone in particular and she challenged me to find the right person. Thanks Desiree for helping me make the contribution I want to make!
Being a social media guy with a pretty healthy network I decided to crowdsource it by putting up a Facebook status and tweeting about it. Within 2 minutes I got my first hit and 12 minutes later Princess Julia Malema (not the name her momma gave her) told me about Ouma Emily.
Don’t you just love Facebook?!?!
I asked Julia to help me help Emily and then we started talking and making plans. Emily is exactly the kind of person that Desiree wanted to help. She is 80 years old and Julia tells me she lives alone and is really struggling financially without much help from her family. When she called Ouma Emily to give her the good news she had to sit down because she couldn’t believe something like this was happening to her and even started to cry. I am so happy that Julia helped me the perfect person to receive this help.
I arranged for my dad, Graham van Ryneveld, to send the money to Julia by EFT (my dad is my accountant and will all handle all money transactions like this for me seeing as though I don’t have a bank account!).

But, I didn’t just want to leave it there, I wanted to be involved with this. I wanted to meet Emily and be there when she got her new stuff. Besides, I had only know known online as well and was really keen to meet her too!
So, this morning Julia and Emily met me at the Pick n Pay in Milnerton. Emily brought a shopping list and the biggest smile you ever saw! She told me how grateful she was for this surprise. She said that when she turned 80 in February there was no money to celebrate at all, so this was her birthday present!
First we went to Pick n Pay and got her a nice big trolley full of stuff for her home.
Then it was off to Pep to get some shoes, slippers, clothes, a towel and some other nice things.
I can’t tell you how great it was to see Ouma Emily so happy. She was like a little kid at Christmas! I can’t wait to help someone like her again soon!
Thank you to Princess Julia Malema for stepping up and helping me make this happen. And so great to finally meet you in 3D!
Thanks for reading.Much love
Adin the No Money Guy
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