Random Acts I would like to do:
- Leave something tasty for the mailman
- Leave quarters on a vending machine
- Take a few bouquets of flowers to the hospital for whomever the nurses think need some extra love
- Take some flowers to a nursing home for some people who need a little love
- Leave some coloring books and crayons in a waiting area for a hospital or doctor's office or something (preferably somewhere economically needy)
- 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)
- Hide a few dollars at the dollar tree kid's section
- Pay for a few people behind me at a toll booth
- Secretly, pay for someone else's lunch
- Clean up trash at a local park
- Feed parking meters
- Drop off donuts and a thank you note at the police station (Thanks for serving our community)
- Leave a few gift cards hidden among the books at Half Price Books
- Hand out balloons to children shopping with their parents
- Take cupcakes and cookies to a homeless shelter or a soup kitchen
- Play with animals at a local animal shelter
- Buy a favorite children's book to leave in a waiting room (Maybe the Collin County Advocacy Center?)
- Deliver some nice bottle of hand lotion to the hospital for Doctors and Nurses
- Write a heartfelt note to manager telling about a friendly employee
- Leave a thank you note and small gift for recycle and trash collectors
- Something seasonal (Cold day- pass out coffee, fall- rake leaves for everyone in a neighborhood, Christmas time - angel tree, September- donate school supplies, etc)
- Donate new make up, perfume, and cosmetics to a center for abused women
- Free Hugs
- Register to donate bone marrow
- Stand and hold the door for people in a public place (maybe for an hour?)
- Pull every trash can in a neighborhood back up after trash has been picked up
- Donate hair!
- Send a care package through http://anymarine.com/
- Make a blanket to donate to http://www.projectlinus.org/
- Pay off library fees for a few people
- This one kind of scares me BUT I keep thinking about it so it might be worth it: Volunteer for a suicide/crisis hotline
- 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
- Babysit for free
- Volunteer with Habitat for Humanity
- Leave quarters around a laundromat
- Possibly take Ellie to play at a nursing home
- Buy hot chocolate for Salvation Army Bell ringers
- Ring the Salvation Army bell
- Eyebombing (Attaching googly eyes to inanimate objects- it makes people smile when they see them)
- Put paper hearts on random windshields with notes like "Have a happy day!"
- Leave a sidewalk chalk message: YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL
- Leave boxes of sidewalk chalk at a playground for kids to find
- Leave a few new baby toys on top of changing tables in public places
- Ding Dong Ditch (Leave a sign telling the person something like "You are awesome!")
- Stretchy Kindness: http://kindnessgirl.com/2011/03/20/guerrilla-goodness-rubber-kindness/
- Ice Cream coupons: http://kindnessgirl.com/2011/09/02/guerrilla-goodness-back-to-school-treasures/
- Leave ponchos and umbrellas (From the dollar store) around public places on rainy day
- For Bryan's birthday, I'm going to leave a soccer ball in a local park for some kids to find
- Valentines day cards: http://www.secretagentl.com/missions/mission-secret-agent-l-spreads-words-of-love/
- Leave pick me ups (notes and candy maybe?) around NIRSA
- Magnet Mission: http://www.secretagentl.com/missions/mission-the-power-of-one/
- 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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