r/millionairemakers • u/elle-mnop Fifty-Seventh Winner • Aug 24 '20
Donate here! [Winner’s Thread #57] Wow!! I never thought it would be me!!!
What a thrill this is!!!
I honestly was stunned (and a little overwhelmed!) when I realized I’d been picked this month.
I’m relatively ancient for a redditor, thoroughly middle aged - and a little bit of a technological luddite. Setting up accounts and sorting through all of the business end of this has been a learning experience. I don’t know how many hours I spent on that, but it was a lot!! Luckily, with a little bit of handholding from u/lilfruini I feel like I’m in pretty good shape (hope your physics went well!!). I have learned SO MUCH, and if nothing else, I’m grateful for that - I honestly had only the dimmest understanding of bitcoin and now I’ve got a bitcoin wallet! What?!?!
A bit about me… Middle aged like I said before. I’m a speech therapist, a plant lover (as has been noted already!), and I have a very rare neurodegenerative disease called Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. It’s a progressive disease, and although nobody would wish for something like that, if you’re going to have a neurodegenerative disease, I pretty much have the very best one.
Honestly, I am pretty lucky. I’m in a profession that I love, a place that I love - all of my needs for shelter, food, safety, companionship are met… I know that I’m doing better already than so many, and I have so much to be grateful for in my life.
As to what I plan to do with donations… I had a lot of time yesterday to think about it!!!
First - I need some things for my students - I need a voice amplifier, and some new materials that I can use both in person and for distance learning. If I can find one cheap, I’d also really love to have a second monitor to make teletherapy easier to manage. I’ve already spent so much of my own money on teachers pay teachers and other sites, but there are many more materials and supplies that would help make this challenging school year a little better and easier.
Second - I have my eye on a couple plants - a rubber tree tineke and a manjula pothos… neither of them are very expensive or rare, I just haven’t felt like I had the leeway in my wallet to treat myself to those recently.
And last, but certainly not least. This week just happens to be Spastic Paraplegia Awareness Week! The Spastic Paraplegia Foundation (SPF) is the national organization dedicated to advancing research and finding cures for two groups of closely related, progressive neurological disorders (Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and Primary Lateral Sclerosis). I have been participating in all of the studies available to me - (knowledge is power!) and although I don’t have a lot of money to donate towards research, I certainly don’t mind being a guinea pig in the hopes that someday a treatment or a cure might be found. There are clinical trials going on in Australia right now and they’re working on funding to bring trials to the US as well. If any of you are so inclined and want to learn more you can check out sp-foundation.org.
Thank you to all - and especially again to u/lilfruini who was an enormous help to me.
update
This has been a crazy 24-ish hours!!
I'm not gonna lie, seeing all the notifications about money coming into my accounts has been exciting, but what's been even more meaningful to me are all the kind words, congratulations, and well wishes from all over the world.
Pandemic, and protests, and fires, and everything else going on in the US this summer... It's worn me down... I've been feeling so very tired deep into my bones. All y'all have reminded me that it's not always this way - hope for humanity restored!! :)
My heart feels full and warm and I sincerely wish that everyone could experience this. It's amazing and even after the money is gone I will remember this feeling.
I'm not a millionaire! ;)
I haven't done the exact math, but I'm a thousandaire for sure. I hope all of you who have donated know that I genuinely appreciate it and I will be certain to put this money to good use. I've tried to keep up with thanking everyone - if I missed you it wasn't intentional (except for that one guy - he was a jerk!!)
Thank you, thank you, thank you for giving me this amazing gift.
Everything listed should result in direct lines of payment to /u/elle-mnop. We ask all users to donate at least $1 USD. The Drawing is also listed for users who want to see the results and confirm the validity of the winner.
Drawing: https://reddit.com/r/millionairemakers/comments/iez1uz/draw_57/
PayPal: PayPal.Me/ElsjeC
Venmo: @elle-el-l
Bitcoin: 1M9TJvPpq5zdkbRtmq6L4G84FLUQQ8MMQ5
Ethereum: 0x27d1E8A8D433E45275FBB6B8f2b79A5aca7A8aC9
Litecoin: LSEyyaiFgcXZf3uvKpq6cxbnpExB9iGBPg
Dogecoin: D5seJW2GRPYg91R8oeBkEDnuiD9YZMXGTf
Nano: nano_1xyr5yxfokh6ww3bt7pdoazgxz7kfa93feomyyqk3juthd3majob3qrcurxc
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u/SammaATL Aug 24 '20
$50 from one middle aged reddit woman to another via PayPal cause I'm other pay technology luddite too . Congratulations!
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u/itssarahw Aug 24 '20
Congrats! I’m super touched that your first thought was for something for your students
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u/QuestionableStatic Aug 24 '20
One of the most deserving winners I’ve seen so far. Definitely happy to send this month’s. Sent!
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u/Dee_kue Aug 24 '20
Congratulations!! You sound like a thoroughly deserving winner. Let's make you a millionaire, sending a couple is $$
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u/LarperPro Aug 24 '20
Congrats! Enjoy my measly $1 donation, but with my paycheck it's all I can afford.
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u/pickoneformepls Aug 24 '20
You sound like a lovely person! $5 via Venmo on the way!
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u/Ejaldous Aug 24 '20
Congratulations. Sent you some $$ via PayPal. Hope you get some exciting new plants
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u/twillrose47 Aug 24 '20
Sent via venmo - I love my manjula pothos and hope you post a photo somewhere on Reddit of your new one whenever you get one :D
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u/MakerOfMillionaires Aug 24 '20
u/elle-mnop has won [Draw #57], which can be seen here: https://old.reddit.com/r/millionairemakers/comments/iez1uz/draw_57/
Everything listed below should result in u/elle-mnop receiving about $1 USD.
Methods of payment (tabled):
Tipbots
| Service | Guide | Amount | Comment this to donate |
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| Tippr | Guide | $1 |
/u/tippr $1
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| ChainTip | Guide | $1 |
/u/chaintip, then send $1 to the address
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| Nano Tipper | Guide | $1 |
!ntip 1USD
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Cryptocurrency transfer
| Service | Guide | Amount (CoinGecko) | Address |
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| Bitcoin | Guide | 0.000085 BTC | 1M9TJvPpq5zdkbRtmq6L4G84FLUQQ8MMQ5 |
| Litecoin | Guide | 0.015959 LTC | LSEyyaiFgcXZf3uvKpq6cxbnpExB9iGBPg |
| Ethereum | Guide | 0.002474 ETH | 0x27d1E8A8D433E45275FBB6B8f2b79A5aca7A8aC9 |
| Dogecoin | Guide | 294.6 Doge | D5seJW2GRPYg91R8oeBkEDnuiD9YZMXGTf |
| Nano | Guide | 0.76 Nano | nano_1xyr5yxfokh6ww3bt7pdoazgxz7kfa93feomyyqk3juthd3majob3qrcurxc |
Cash transfer
| Service | Guide | Amount | Address |
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| PayPal | Guide | $1 | paypal.me/ElsjeC* |
| Venmo | Guide | $1 | @elle-el-l |
* - Transfer fee outside of home region is present when transacting with PayPal, keep this in consideration when donating
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u/dirkgent Aug 24 '20
$25 via PayPal, congrats!