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[quote=Anonymous]Gift it to her as a gift, not a loan. I love the ideas for doing it anonymously. I just gave $4000 to someone I know (not a close friend) who needed it as a deposit for housing. She has several kids and can afford the rent but had nothing saved for a deposit. I will never see that $4k again, because surely they will trash the house in some way, etc, so she won't get it back. And because of who she is, she will always lurch from one crisis to another, so it's not as if this solves all her troubles. But, hey, it solves one big immediate problem for her family, and makes really no material difference in my life. You can call me a sucker. Yes, I could have put that $4k in an index fund and had gobs more money 20 years from now. But they call it personal finance for a reason, it's personal, and personally I get a kick out of being a random guardian angel now and then. [/quote]
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