Sunday, July 15, 2012

Random Acts of Kindness

I'm thinking I would like (Once I'm earning money again) to do a spree of Random Acts of Kindness. November 13th is World Kindness Day. I could do it then, or I could do 26 RAOK on my 26th Birthday. Or one a week for an entire year. There are  a lot of really cool ideas out there right now on this subject.

Random Acts I would like to do:
  1. Leave something tasty for the mailman
  2. Leave quarters on a vending machine
  3. Take a few bouquets of flowers to the hospital for whomever the nurses think need some extra love
  4. Take some flowers to a nursing home for some people who need a little love
  5. Leave some coloring books and crayons in a waiting area for a hospital or doctor's office or something (preferably somewhere economically needy)
  6. Collect all the random carts in a parking lot and bring them back up to the store (And offer to take care of anyone's cart)
  7. Hide a few dollars at the dollar tree kid's section
  8. Pay for a few people behind me at a toll booth
  9. Secretly, pay for someone else's lunch
  10. Clean up trash at a local park
  11. Feed parking meters
  12. Drop off donuts and a thank you note at the police station (Thanks for serving our community)
  13. Leave a few gift cards hidden among the books at Half Price Books
  14. Hand out balloons to children shopping with their parents
  15. Take cupcakes and cookies to a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen
  16. Play with animals at a local animal shelter
  17. Buy a favorite children's book to leave in a waiting room (Maybe the Collin County Advocacy Center?)
  18. Deliver some nice bottle of hand lotion to the hospital for Doctors and Nurses
  19. Write a heartfelt note to manager telling about a friendly employee
  20. Leave a thank you note and small gift for recycle and trash collectors
  21. Something seasonal (Cold day- pass out coffee, fall- rake leaves for everyone in a neighborhood, Christmas time - angel tree, September- donate school supplies, etc)
  22. Donate new make up, perfume, and cosmetics to a center for abused women
  23. Free Hugs
  24. Register to donate bone marrow
  25. Stand and hold the door for people in a public place (maybe for an hour?)
  26. Pull every trash can in a neighborhood back up after trash has been picked up
  27. Donate hair!
  28. Send a care package through http://anymarine.com/
  29. Make a blanket to donate to http://www.projectlinus.org/
  30. Pay off library fees for a few people
  31. This one kind of scares me BUT I keep thinking about it so it might be worth it: Volunteer for a suicide/crisis hotline
  32. I can't give blood (too little, I end up fainting 3/4 of the time) but I could help out at a blood drive
  33. Babysit for free
  34. Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity
  35. Leave quarters around a laundromat
  36. Possibly take Ellie to play at a nursing home
  37. Buy hot chocolate for Salvation Army Bell ringers
  38. Ring the Salvation Army bell
  39. Eyebombing (Attaching googly eyes to inanimate objects- it makes people smile when they see them)
  40. Put paper hearts on random windshields with notes like "Have a happy day!"
  41. Leave a sidewalk chalk message: YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL
  42. Leave boxes of sidewalk chalk at a playground for kids to find
  43. Leave a few new baby toys on top of changing tables in public places
  44. Ding Dong Ditch (Leave a sign telling the person something like "You are awesome!")
  45. Stretchy Kindness: http://kindnessgirl.com/2011/03/20/guerrilla-goodness-rubber-kindness/
  46. Ice Cream coupons: http://kindnessgirl.com/2011/09/02/guerrilla-goodness-back-to-school-treasures/
  47. Leave ponchos and umbrellas (From the dollar store) around public places on rainy day
  48. For Bryan's birthday, I'm going to leave a soccer ball in a local park for some kids to find
  49. Valentines day cards: http://www.secretagentl.com/missions/mission-secret-agent-l-spreads-words-of-love/
  50. Leave pick me ups (notes and candy maybe?) around NIRSA
  51. Magnet Mission: http://www.secretagentl.com/missions/mission-the-power-of-one/
  52. Leave travel games at a rest stop

Not sure how long I'll be able to keep this up but I'm going to try starting in January. I'll also be looking for RAKs to present themselves to me. Unplanned. Let me know if you have any other great ideas to add to the list.

And just a little food for thought:
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