The amount you’d leave if you dropped it…?

Aim: Donate the amount you’d walk past if you saw it in the street! A penny, notes? Whatever it is donate the amount not worth picking up.

Hello!

Before we start, I spent an hour creating this page and thinking what to write then once I had published everything I realised the minimum donation Is £1. I further realised you cannot donate in pennies and can only choose whole pounds/euros/dollars!! Please ignore this project/page as the premise is useless for this platform!

I’m sat here watching a movie and I had a strange thought… I wonder, around the world regardless of country or status, if you were walking down the street and saw money on the floor, how much would be ‘too little’ for you to pick it up? Would it be a penny? A pound/dollar/euro? Would it be all coins or would you walk past some notes too??

So, I decided to create this crowdfunding page to answer that very question and see exactly how much the public of the world would simply ignore and walk past. My mindset is: “if you’d walk past it in the street then you wouldn’t miss it if it came from your bank balance/pocket 🙂

In the same way; and a similar question I suppose, is: “how much change from a purchase would you say is too little to bother about”? How much would you likely say “keep the change” to? Likewise, how if your child was playing with pennies and wanted some more from you, how much would you offer knowing they’re likely to disappear forever and never be spent? Or even, if money fell from your pocket and you noticed it happen, what amount would be too little to stop and retrieve it? In essence “what amount of money isn’t worth the time or effort to keep?

In a way this page is about gaining knowledge and answering these questions and seeing if there are cultural or global differences. Some of you may chose to leave a message or support that says “I wouldn’t ignore anything, I’d always pick it up” or you may have a really low amount that’s below the donation threshold and leave a comment to say so. However any interaction is worthy of a comment and in visiting this page (unless you are the first!), you can also join my journey and see in real time how the entire world thinks about this intriguing and curious question.  

What about the money? Where does that go? im glad you asked. I like to be honest… there’s no charity or plans to use it specifically… the money itself would, based on the premise of this idea, lay left on the floor were you to walk past it. To most it wouldn’t be worth the effort to bend down and pick up 🙂 So, I plan to pay off all my debts, treat myself and depending on how well this goes… live my dream of owning my own home in the country, debt free and comfortable (for that to happen in 12 weeks which is the maximum length of a project on here, I would need this to go viral globally!). If you don’t like the sound of giving the loose change you wouldn’t bother stopping to pick up to someone whose doing it just to answer their own meaningless question and keep the profits then you’re welcome to say so and not give a penny. I completely respect that and your mindset.

So anyway; if you’ve made it this far, thank you. If you’ve donated your “not worth it” amount then thank you too for believing in this idea and also in contributing to (what I hope will become) the growing body of live research on the question “what amount is too little that I wouldn’t bother making any effort to hold onto!

One last thing - the target on this is £100,000 because this will never reach that amount in 12 weeks and I want it to stay open for as long as possible. If things go well I will pay for a web designer to create a page that tells this story and keeps a record so people can view this project and what happens/happened for years to come.

‘Money makes the world go round but sometimes it drops and the world just spins on by’ 

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 24th August 2025 at 10:48pm