. My favorite act of kindness is about a young lady who came into the store I work at. She wanted to get her dad a couple small items for Christmas. She picked out a hat pin and a bumper sticker. I chatted with her as she dug through her bag looking for what little money…
. A friend of mine recently posted on facebook for anyone who could donate leftover school stationery and other items for three kids whose dad recently passed away (he was a single parent). She was blown away by the response and generosity of people who just want to give and it has resulted in more…
. When I used to live in Perth, Australia. There are a lot of homeless persons there due to the imbalance of riches. At Christmas, I would make a huge gluten-free Christmas cake, slice it into about 20 decent size slices and wrap them in gold paper and ribbons and hand them out on Christmas…
. Guess what! You will never believe it, someone paid off my layaway at Walmart! We live in Phoenix, Arizona, I went to the Walmart on 95th Ave and Camelback to payoff my layaway and the lady said its already paid. I said, I didn’t pay off my layaway! She said a good samaritan paid…
At Christmas time my 4 little ones and I would go to the toy store and buy whatever my kids thought were cool toys then we would drive around and look for people that had little kids. We would randomly stop at bus stops where we would typically see mothers waiting with their children for…
There are going to be times your gift of giving is not well received. In some cases I have been asked by the recipient to please give them more, and early on iI did because I felt I had so much. One holiday season I contacted a women’s shelter to adopt a single mom with…
We’ve had a tough couple weeks. We’ve had a burglar in the neighborhood and bills over our head. My daughters iPod touch (she got for Christmas) was just stolen after only 2 weeks of having it, my husband’s company is on it’s way belly up, our heaters are broken in our home so it’s been…
This past Christmas, I sent a bunch of Christmas cards to a nursing home I used to work at many years ago. I enclosed a note saying to give to the residence there that are lonely and needed some cheering up. I received a thank you card a week later saying the cards were much…
Since joining this group my mind has been working on ways to be kind to people. And I am finding that thoughts have been coming to my head that seem small, but end up being huge to others. For example, some friends gave me a gift certificate to the grocery store for Christmas. It was…
I work at a children’s gallery in a contemporary art museum and we love the Ripple Kindness Project! We try to encourage children to explore ways that they can use art to make a positive impact on the world around them.
This year I bought a gift for someone I know who has no family nearby. I presented them with their gift on Christmas day and invited them to spend some time with my family with no obligation to come over. It felt good sharing my family’s Christmas with someone who would otherwise be alone. –…
Today I went to my hairdresser and she did her magic! I thought my friend and I were going in together to get her a Christmas gift, but it did not work out like that. While she was doing my hair and we were talking, she told me what she liked to order at Starbucks….