She asked me if I thought it was tacky of her to set it up and I said YES, it is. It has been up for 3 weeks and so far, she has collected ZERO. So, she set up this page for friends to contribute to celebrate her life. Yes, she is turning 50 in September and she wants to go scuba diving somewhere in the Caribbean (trying to collect $5K). Yet, another acquaintance recently set up her own GoFundMe page for.ready?.her 50th birthday party.
I contributed even though I had never met this coworker in person. It paid for the burial for their beloved son. Another coworker set up a Gofund page and they raised $7K within just a few days. the family is not wealthy and the funeral was a financial burden for them. Last year though, a co worker's only son drown in a terrible accident. Go Fund Me can be horribly abused, but not always. What happened to just giving cash/check out the wedding or the registry?Īnd a 2nd wedding! Go down to City Hall and have a small dinner with a few close friends and family and call it a day. It's amazing today how entitled people are. Just like your niece through something called Honeyfund you're asked to donate to their Honeymoon Fund or their so we can buy a house fund, as they also don't need anything in regards to household items. Nice couple in their late 20s who have lived together for about 5 years but are having this big formal wedding. I received a Save the Date from a couple and attached is their wedding website.
I've been trying to buy a house for 3 years - just don't have quite enough saved, maybe I should start my own GoFundMe account. My niece who got married for the 2nd time last year put on her invitations (after people were asking where they were registered) that they were combining their households and didn't need anything so "contribute to our GoFundMe account so we can buy our own house." I thought it was the height of tackiness and goes against every "Miss Manners" taught about etiquette. It should be reserved for unexpected tragedies not to fund your destination wedding. Unless a family is completely destitute I despise the whole GoFundMe concept. For a young, healthy person who doesn't smoke they should be able to get a $250,000 policy for about the same amount per month. I purchased one of those "don't ask - don't tell" life insurance policies just to pay for my cremation and have a small amount for my boys. Some well-meaning person sets up an account, and people feel like they can help. Some people really feel like they want to do something, anything, to help when someone dies or gets a terrible diagnosis. I do think some of these situations are pretty tacky, but I also think some are being unfairly judged. Even with life insurance, a stay at home mom can be faced with a terrible reality when the breadwinner husband dies. My husband has what sounds like a pretty hefty life insurance policy, but when you think about his earning potential over the next 20-30 years, it doesn't replace it completely. but that might only replace his salary for 5-10 years. Yes, to get that much money in a lump sum is a lot all at once, and no, she wasn't destitute. This was I feel about Go-Fund-Me funeral funds. Of course, she would much rather of NOT had her husband die but it did make some of us uncomfortable to remember how generous we were financially because she did not have any money and then she ended up getting a large insurance payout. It turned out that she received (in today's money) probably a half a million dollar insurance payout.
Go fund me funeral plus#
She ended up buying a new house for cash, she mentioned that her daughter's college education was completely set (no matter where she went to school) plus other things.
We found out later because she mentioned a few things and we "put two and two together" plus she shared the details with some people. Now, it was possible that she was not aware of it, but her husband actually had a fairly substantial amount of insurance through his job and since it was an on the job accident they paid double (or something like that). She had led us to believe that that there was not any insurance money. We found out a few years later that while it was true that she had a temporary problem with money, paying for the funeral, paying her expenses & the expenses of their young child it was a very temporary problem. Everyone, as far as I could tell, was extremely generous. They collected money at work for the funeral plus there was some type of fundraiser in the community because she was strapped for money. Many years ago, I knew someone whose husband died in a freak accident.