What's a dollar worth to you?

The area I come from originally is a rather finacially depressed. Living is cheap, but most there people struggle. When I was living at home, I was always giving money to my family (both myself and my parents working f/t, plus I was in grad school so not much of a life anyway). Im always one to give someone a spare couple dollars out of my pocket, even complete strangers, despite my scruples about what they are going to be used for. I always ask myself, whats a dollar worth to me when these people have nothing? Now I find the tables turned. I'm early in my career & in a job that barely pays to rent a small apt and buy decent meals, which is fine, but I also have to watch my family suffer, esp now that my father is retired. I look forward to helping them out again, and I thought about this website years ago where someone ask for a dollar for each visitor, it was a huge success to the person. I thought of doing that here, but I expected only ridicule. So I wonder, whats $1 worth to you?