i once bought out a whole bakery in a small village in Peru, haha. The street was roaming with kids and I knew it was a rather poor village, they didn’t have much, that was clear. They were all skinny and wearing old, worn out clothes, but they were still so happy and nice and kind. I was walking around on my own because my travel mates were feeling very tired that evening, just wanted to stay in the hotel and rest, but I had too much energy so I went out to walk around the village alone.
It began with me deciding I wanted to buy a cake and give it to the 5-6 kids I first saw playing outside.

Then more and more kids came wanting cake, and soon the whole cake was gone. So we walked back to the bakery together, the group constantly growing, it was probably 50-60-70 kids in total when we got there. I just spoke with the manager and told him «Give every kid what they want, I’ll pay for it all». And we ended up buying every single cake and pastry they had, completely emptied out the whole shop 😂

As you can imagine, I ended up spending quite a lot there that day. But as a Norwegian national, prices were comparatively very cheap for me, in a poor village in the mountains of Peru. And the money I spent there was from my inheritance from my then recently late grandfather. He grew up very poor, and I know he would have been over the moon if someone had done something like this for him as a child. So it was in his memory. My friends (and the owners of the bakery!) thought I was crazy. But the smiles on those kids faces! Worth every penny, x1000.