Acts of Kindness
· Buy a meal for a young couple or family sitting next to you at a restaurant.
· Buy shoes or clothes for a family in need.
· Bake cookies for a neighbor or teacher, just because.
· Help an elderly person with yard work or grocery shopping. Many elderly people have a story or two to tell about their own baby that died many years ago.
· Visit a nursing home and bring cupcakes. Sit and visit with a few of the residents. You'd be amazed at the loving reception you will receive as many residents rarely receive visitors.
· Volunteer your time at a local homeless shelter or a crisis nursery.
· Buy a new calendar for a workmate.
· Donate some grief books to the library or a local support group.
· Leave an extra large tip for your food server!
· Buy the meal for the person behind you at the fast food drive through.
· Leave a bouquet of flowers on someone’s front door step.
· Bake goodies and take them to the police station, fire station, or hospital.
· Pay a local teen to mow an elderly neighbor’s yard.
· Crochet a baby’s blanket and take it to the hospital nursery. Premature babies can always use tiny booties and caps.
· Buy a balloon bouquet and ask the nurses at the children’s hospital to deliver them to a child.
· Make a memorial donation to honor your loved one and a friend’s loved one.
· Take a box of doughnuts to an elementary school for a classroom.
· Plug someone’s parking meter.
· Adopt a street or just pick up litter in the neighborhood.
· Leave your change in the soda machine for the next person. It's a nice surprise.
· Buy coffee for the person standing behind you in line.
· Write to management at places where you get especially good service and commend them (specify names!)
· Send your child a note in his lunchbox. Remind them how special they are to you.
· Pay for a small child's candy at a convenient store.
· Pay for someone's toll and/or gas.
· Look for opportunities to open the door for someone or give up your seat for someone.
· Buy a toy for a child in the store and ask the clerk to deliver it after you’ve gone.
· Send a ‘ Thank you’ card or note ‘from a local citizen’ to the officers at your local police station. Rarely are these people ever thanked for the protection they give or the risks they take.
· Do a chore that is normally your spouse’s job.
· Send a nice card to two people you randomly select from the phone book.
· Drop coins in someone’s garden so when they are weeding they get a surprise.
· Buy a meal for a young couple or family sitting next to you at a restaurant.
· Buy shoes or clothes for a family in need.
· Bake cookies for a neighbor or teacher, just because.
· Help an elderly person with yard work or grocery shopping. Many elderly people have a story or two to tell about their own baby that died many years ago.
· Visit a nursing home and bring cupcakes. Sit and visit with a few of the residents. You'd be amazed at the loving reception you will receive as many residents rarely receive visitors.
· Volunteer your time at a local homeless shelter or a crisis nursery.
· Buy a new calendar for a workmate.
· Donate some grief books to the library or a local support group.
· Leave an extra large tip for your food server!
· Buy the meal for the person behind you at the fast food drive through.
· Leave a bouquet of flowers on someone’s front door step.
· Bake goodies and take them to the police station, fire station, or hospital.
· Pay a local teen to mow an elderly neighbor’s yard.
· Crochet a baby’s blanket and take it to the hospital nursery. Premature babies can always use tiny booties and caps.
· Buy a balloon bouquet and ask the nurses at the children’s hospital to deliver them to a child.
· Make a memorial donation to honor your loved one and a friend’s loved one.
· Take a box of doughnuts to an elementary school for a classroom.
· Plug someone’s parking meter.
· Adopt a street or just pick up litter in the neighborhood.
· Leave your change in the soda machine for the next person. It's a nice surprise.
· Buy coffee for the person standing behind you in line.
· Write to management at places where you get especially good service and commend them (specify names!)
· Send your child a note in his lunchbox. Remind them how special they are to you.
· Pay for a small child's candy at a convenient store.
· Pay for someone's toll and/or gas.
· Look for opportunities to open the door for someone or give up your seat for someone.
· Buy a toy for a child in the store and ask the clerk to deliver it after you’ve gone.
· Send a ‘ Thank you’ card or note ‘from a local citizen’ to the officers at your local police station. Rarely are these people ever thanked for the protection they give or the risks they take.
· Do a chore that is normally your spouse’s job.
· Send a nice card to two people you randomly select from the phone book.
· Drop coins in someone’s garden so when they are weeding they get a surprise.
Repeat as often as possible!
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