I agonised over a gift for my sister’s 60th birthday, as she has most things. At our age, we usually don’t give gifts, and it’s not like we are very financial. So, I just decide on a $20 lottery ticket which was probably more than I could afford.Â
Last week I thought I had about $300.00 of brake repairs to be done. My van was scheduled to be taken into the shop that day but when I went outside and loaded up my kids to take them to school and my son to work, the van wouldn’t start. It couldn’t be jumped either…
I had so much fun when I went to a Bazaar at a Senior housing community this past weekend. I bought a bunch of cute/nice stuff I really didn’t need just to see the smiles on the seniors faces and sparkle in their eyes. My plan is to donate what I won’t use. To me,…
When we asked people what made their world a wonderful place, we were delighted by some heartwarming responses. Enjoy… A local butcher brought me a huge gift basket of different types of meat, spice rub, etc. It had to be valued at $100, but he just dropped it off yesterday for my family telling me…
As a full-time hypnotherapist, I have many clients that come and go through my doors, but there is one client, Liliana, who I will certainly never forget. In about 2010 Liliana came to me for a few sessions and we became friends. After knowing her as a client for only a few months and as…
I work in a bank and today an elderly customer came in concerned because he was overdrawn in his checking account by $18.01. If he didn’t deposit that amount within an hour he would be charged a non-sufficient funds fee.
I was happy that an opportunity for kindness was set before me. On a recent shopping trip to a clothing retailer, I overheard the store owner and the young manager discussing that the manager did not close out a debit card sale properly. This meant the customer had left with the merchandise without paying. The…
I can’t quite remember when I started thinking about donating my kidney; it was probably some 10 years ago. From when I first became aware of the possibility I remember thinking, wow wouldn’t that be an awesome thing to do. I have always been a healthy person and believed that I could do it. I…
. I’m a single mom to girls, I work 30 hours a week at the local university and attend graduate school there full time. My ex no longer pays child support and it made it hard for us to make ends meet. I started to think about dropping out of grad school so I could…
. Yesterday I was doing errands and decided to take our dog to a dog park in an area we lived in 10 yrs ago. Needless to say the dog part of the park no longer exists, so I began driving home. Traffic was pretty heavy and all the sudden I saw a man with a cane…
.When I first left my husband with my two kids 4 & 2, we moved into city housing. Every Saturday I bought ice-cream from the truck that came round. Apartment kids started hanging around using my kiddie pool, sprinkler and games, so I started buying for them too. Word got around and I soon had 17…
Today, as I was shutting down my hot dog cart (Lil Joe’s Heavnly Dogs), a young man rode up on his bicycle and asked “how much for a soda?” I was busy breaking down my equipment and without really noticing him, I replied “$1.00”. As I turned to look at him, I noticed he was frantically…