February 15-21st is Random Acts of Kindness Week. This is the perfect year to throw around some extra kindness so we put together some free and low-cost ideas to help you get started!
| FREE- Let someone in line in front of you at check-out.
- Share posts for a small business.
- Give someone else the good parking spot.
- Help someone carry their groceries.
- Give an unexpected compliment.
- Return someone’s shopping cart for them.
- Leave a positive comment on someone’s social media.
- Read a book to someone.
- Smile at someone who looks sad.
- Give blood.
- Sign up to help in a soup kitchen.
- Donate your used blankets and towels to an animal shelter.
- Rake your neighbor’s leaves.
- Mail a kind note to someone – teacher, essential worker, friend.
- Let your spouse sleep in.
- Hold the door open for someone.
- Leave your unused coupons with the product for the next person to use.
- Leave a positive review about a business you enjoy.
- Tutor a child
- Hide rocks with inspirational messages around town.
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| LOW-COST- Purchase gift cards to a restaurant to hand out to people coming inside.
- Plant a tree.
- Send flowers to a nursing home.
- Pay for the person behind you in the drive-thru.
- Send a care package to a service member.
- Participate in a charity event
- Make a box for the pediatric hospital ward.
- Donate to a charity in your friend’s name.
- Print a special picture for a friend and frame it for them.
- Drop off a special treat for an unexpecting friend.
- Buy a book for a child.
- Pay for someone’s dry-cleaning.
- Pay for the person behind you in the car wash.
- Buy some extra groceries while you’re at the store and drop them off at the local food bank.
- Surprise a friend with a pretty decoration for their front door.
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