Give me a million to buy a house

Emma Taylor

Meet the woman who wants you to make her a millionaire.

Emma Taylor has launched an ambitious GiveaLittle page asking one million people to give her $1 each.

The Palmerston North mum of two young boys is not holding her breath - "but stranger things have happened".

She wants the money to buy her family their first home.

"I have made it clear that I am not sick, I don't have cancer and I don't want to take money away from the deserving people who do, but I wanted to give it a go," she told the Herald on Sunday.

"I was always saying, 'If I had a dollar for every time ...' and I thought, 'well, if you don't ask, you don't get'."

Taylor said despite her and partner Michael Howarth working fulltime they still struggle to make ends meet.

"We would love to buy a house for our sons but there never seems to be anything left at the end of the week, something always comes up," she said.

"Obviously I don't need a million dollars to buy a house but why not aim big?"

Taylor will keep the page live for six months and has asked that each donation be limited to $1.

"I just want to see if it is possible and if it all goes well we will have a house."

Feedback has been positive, she said, and in the first few hours there were 28 donations.

"Everyone has been great about it and said, 'I'll give you a dollar.' There are a lot of people out there who would like to help."

The million-dollar scheme isn't new. In 2006, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from the UK, made $1m by selling one million pixels for $1 each.

Sold in groups of 100, each pixel linked to another webpage. They were used as advertisements by the companies that bought them. His scheme went viral and he made his million within 138 days.