Random Acts Of Kindness Ideas ♥

It was an oh-so simple gesture, but one even sweeter than the item being presented: on Friday night, as I plodded about my local shopping centre, I was greeted by a group of young boys who were dispensing lollipops to the community, all in the name of performing random acts of kindness. As I watched a flurry of people swarm towards them, amazed, appreciative and completely charmed, I thought ''gosh! Isn't that Foxtel 'EOFYS' commercial ANNOYING?!'' Oh, wait. That's not it. No, what I truly contemplated was other similarly lovely tasks that could be performed, all with the intention of cultivating smiles! Here's a few: 

x Purchase small florist vases at thrift stores or garage sales, buy wrapped flowers and arrange them in the vase. Open up the local phone book, select a few names and deliver the bouquet to someone's doorstep, early in the morning before they awake! (Okay, I admit that this could also be interpreted as slightly scary, too, but it's still an enormously cute idea!)

x Print out some inspiring signs and quotes and post them around town.

x Buy a stranger a coffee. Next time you're lining up at Starbucks, why not lay a five-r down on the counter and purchase a drink for the person behind you in a queue? You could also extend this idea to the bus, a train or a sandwich shop!

x Leave your change in a vending machine for the next person. It's a pleasant surprise!

x Tape a dollar to a pay phone with a note welcoming anyone who needs it to use it.

x Throw together an assortment of your favourite baked goods and take them to the police station, fire station or an emergency room, as a thank-you to the people that spend their lives helping others.

x  Visit your local Post Office in mid December and pick one of the letters written to Santa. Buy and send or deliver the gift on Christmas.

x Cut out your favourite comic, horoscope or picture and tape it to a friend/stranger's locker, car, door, office, etc.

x S-M-I-L-E!

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Have you recently fulfilled an extraordinary deed, or been on the receiving end of one? What random act of kindness could we accomplish to brighten someone else's day TOMORROW?

xoxo

(Image thanks to Pink Sherbet Photography.)