2. Buysomeone a coffee or pay for the persons
order behind you in a drive through or line
up
3. Making your lunch for work? Make 2 and give
one away to someone who needs it.
Buying a meal to go, grab an extra one to
give out on your way back home or to work.
Cook a warm meal, gather your friends to
help distribute the food around town to
people who are hungry.
4. Goingon a winter vacation this year? Bring a
few extra pairs of flip flops and give them to
some of the locals.
5. Help start a community garden in your area
or just volunteer. Another idea is to plant
flowers/plants in rough or ugly areas of your
city. There has been a huge movement called
"Guerrilla Gardening"-Google it and you can
find some really cool stuff!
6. Send a good ol' fashioned thank you card.
One of my fave ideas: when you get really
great service somewhere or someone went
out of their way to help you-send them a
thank you card or make sure to really
highlight it to their manager to make them
feel noticed and appreciated.
7. Give a gift to someone who least expects it
(mail man, delivery person, a teacher, local
fire or police department etc.)
8. Pick
up garbage when you see it or take 1
hour on your weekend to collect garbage in
your area
9. Volunteer somewhere, only if it is only for
one day.
10. Giveblood. If you are not afraid of needles-
people are in desperate need of blood and
you could save someone's life.
11. Helpyour parents, roommate etc with
cleaning/chores that they would usually do
themselves
13. Donate used clothing, canned goods or your
time to a charity who needs it. A great idea
is to hang all of your hangers backwards in
your closet, then after 6 months, all the
hangers that are still backwards and have not
been moved...those clothes get donated.
14. Buyfrom companies that are doing the right
thing. Examples: Ten Tree Clothing & Toms
Shoes. They are called one for one
companies. You buy from them and they give
back to a cause or people in need.
15. Go into a movie theatre and purchase tickets
from the automated machines and leave the
tickets there with a note saying- enjoy the
movie!
16. Buy local or handmade. Challenge yourself
this Christmas to buy from only local stores,
local products. A great site for this is
etsy.com they have many handcrafted items.
17. Openthe door for people, say please and
thank you. Smile-it goes a long way.
18. When driving in rush hour or winter
conditions, let people in, be polite-it might
just make their day
19. Parked near a lot of other cars when it has
just snowed? Brush off their vehicles for
them.
20. Shovelall the walks for your elder neighbors
or rake their leaves
21. Get
passionate about a cause and spread the
word! Nothing better than word of mouth
