I recently asked my FB friends list to name random acts of kindness they have either been recipients of or done themselves.. This is a list of 50 responses I compiled together for you.
- Buy a stranger coffee
- Helping someone with their groceries to the car
- Taking a lost dog home
- Racing after someone to give them their ID they dropped 3 blocks back
- Add coins to a parking meter
- Gifts and freebies like the Woolworths stickers that you don’t collect – hand them to the people behind you in the line and see the kids faces light up
- A cooked meal for someone doing it tough.
- Go to someone’s house and help them with some chores, picking up the kids etc
- The massage therapist taking the hair tie out of my hair for me.
- Giving someone a coin for a trolley
- Messaging people and just randomly telling them you love them
- Posting something that someone needs (like medical supplies)
- Offer a listening ear for support
- Telling a stranger they look beautiful
- Give someone a smile (real, heartfelt)
- Leave a positive note on someone’s windscreen
- Bake a cake and take it to the fire station
- spend time at a nursing home
- 24 days of giving every December with my son rather than the chocolate calendar
- Take old blankets and towels to the local pound
- Ringing someone just to say you are thinking of them
- Giving up your seat for someone on the train
- Helping travelers up the stairs with their heavy suitcases
- Buy someone a carpark ticket or give them your all day one once you are done
- Buy a homeless person food
- Taking the time to listen to someone
- Write someone a thoughtful letter
- Stopping to chat to an elderly person you pass on a walk
- Giving a Mum a big smile & telling her she’s doing a great job, when her child is throwing themselves around having a tantrum in a public place. She’s probably a heartbeat away from tears herself. A smile can do a lot.
- leave $5 notes or kind affirmations at books in book stores.
- Giving hand massage and reiki to the elderly in a NURSING home.
- leave little packs of nappies/sample wipes/nappy sacks in parenting rooms.
- Messaging Abby Marie and telling her how amazing she is just to make her day better because I was having a bad one and I thought well if I’m having a bad day that means someone else is to so I seen Abby at MMF and never got to introduce myself so I took the time to message her and make her day much better.
- Can’t beat a free hugs stall in my opinion
- Buy sanitary items for homeless women
- stay focused on my customer and really listen
- Go to a random person, and say I get u and u r not alone
- Walk the elderly along the street or help out at meal time in a nursing home.
- Be in front garden and say hello to people going past
- Donate clothes to someone you know is finding it tough or just share between friends.
- Someone moving in the street, give them a meal to help out.
- Send a lovely card to someone with a scent on it
- Put a note in someone’s letterbox about a garden of theirs or a feature of their house that you’ve always admired
- Shared my Mango with this young hustler today
- Hold the lift door
- Deliver hampers to people in need over Christmas
- Buy someone a meal
- Hold a baby for a mum who needs to go have a shower!
- Cook someone a meal and take it over
- On that note.. this is a true story! y husband gave a homeless man $50 and 24 hours later his father rang and said You’ll never guess what happened? The man in front of me paid for my petrol. It was $50
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