How to Spend Taylor Swift’s $1,989

by CMT.com Staff 1/15/2015

Since Christmas, Taylor Swift has been on a gift-giving spree, sending all kinds of heartwarming, personalized presents to her fans.

One of the most incredible went to Rebekah Bortnicker in the form of $1,989, intended to help pay for student loans.

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Obviously, Bortnicker was beside herself with gratitude for her idol, so that got us thinking. What would you do if Taylor Swift gave you $1,989?

We sent a camera crew to Nashville’s honky-tonk lined Lower Broadway to ask people on the street.

Responses ranged from trips to Hawaii and down payments on a house, to not accepting it at all, but a few kindhearted people said they would follow Swift’s generous lead and pay the gift forward.

“Nobody’s making any money because it’s so cold that (tourists) aren’t out,” one man said of the musicians playing in bars up and down the street. “So if I had that money … I would distribute it the tip jars throughout the bands that are playing. That’s what I would do with it.”

CMT.com Staff