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1O
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Joined: 4/11/2006
Msg: 51 | |
| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/21/2007 12:09:34 AM | .
Here's another way anyone can do a "good deed a day" online in a couple of minutes, for free.
Go to: www.dailyvisits.com/daily.html
There are at least 50 different "donate for free" buttons there.
The page is on a not-for-profit humanitarian website, and the buttons are for causes like food for starving children, helping save endangered animals from extinction, preserving the environment, fighting hunger, poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, homelessness, cancer, AIDS, violence, and others...
The site has no commercial advertising of any kind. No banners, no pop-ups, no sponsored ads, no flash ads, no DHTML or Fly-In ads, no adware, no spyware, no frames, no cookies...
You don't have to register, fill in any forms, or give out your email address. And it's free.
* Easier to remember: aFriend.ca will take you to the same page.
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/21/2007 12:36:36 AM | Has anybody noticed how SEVERAL women will say how nice their smile is, or how smiling their eyes are, or how they love to smile, or how smiling will be the key to their heart, or, or, or....I think you get it. Them you go look at their pics and they look like some psychotic on crack, trying to look real. How weird is that. It's like they have HATE written all over their faces. (You know who you are). YA! I'm going to jump on that in a heartbeat. FREAK | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/21/2007 5:43:53 AM | Truthtender, me thinks thou doth protest too much.
Smile and the world smiles with you.
I have to admit that I rarely smile. Looking at photos from my childhood... no one in my family smiled unless it was a fake cheese. We weren't always unhappy; just couldn't catch those laughs on film.
Everywhere I go, people tell me to smile and they seem to feel sorry for me.
Generally I'm just thinking, somewhere on another plane.
So, whilst this is on me mind, I thinks I'll just smile a whole lot today... possibly look like I'm stoned or crazed, but I'll DO IT, OK?
Back on target: I am wile-ing my days away serving the public. I make it a point to say something to anyone within 5 feet of me. I offer my assistance or just say hello; thanks for shopping with us (hey, another paycheck just walked by!). I have been approached by many customers proclaiming how much they love shopping there because everyone is soooo nice. Yall come back now, hear?
I do truly love people. The more character they have; the more age they have on them, the better. So being kind to little old ladies who need someone to talk to, or some guy who needs to vent is no problemo. Sometimes a person just needs a sounding board.... that's me,
says Ash as she smiles at those in POF land.   | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/21/2007 8:03:45 AM | | I found a digital camcorder on the Train the other day and I returned it to the conductor instead of taking it to the pawn shop. LOL does that count as kindness? | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/21/2007 12:15:52 PM | nomadd77,
That counts as having integrity, which seems to be much of a lost quality. But when the person that lost the camcorder has a Kool-Aid smile of relief, I guess it is also an act of kindness!
I hope you were not talking about me with the false smile thingie.
I wish everyone reading this a Great Day and hopefully no nasty, negative, stoopid people cross any of our paths!  | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/21/2007 12:19:52 PM | 10~
Thanks for the information! I will definitely make my clicks.
Also, folks, if you do on-line shopping, if you register with iGive.com and connect with your link via their site, a portion of your purchase will be donated towards THE CAUSE OF YOUR CHOICE! Same money spent, but results in a charitable donation, and you can choose your cause. | |
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rrip
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Joined: 8/9/2007
Msg: 57 | |
| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/22/2007 7:16:49 PM | Just reading through all the good dead's done... I thought I would add in my story.
I was looking for a beach umbrella for a trip I was planning with my daughter. Apparently if you start looking for these at the end of the season, they are ALL sold out... so, i broke the news to her and said we'd have to go without.
We were driving down the road near my house the other day, I spied a beach umbrella a a yard sale.... slam on the breaks.. whoo hooo... so, there were two young ladies (both around 9) running the sale, I asked how much for the umbrella.... they ran into the house, asked mom and came out and told me..$5.o0.... so, I asked if they were going to split that profit between them... they were. My gut told me they had been working hard all day and deserved a good sale, so I gave them each $10 for the umbrella, which was probably 5 years old... they had the biggest smiles on their face which got contagious... | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/23/2007 12:05:35 AM | Whenever I go downtown in the summer I always take an extra bottle of water with me to give to a homeless person, even though most of them give me dirty looks and tell me they'd rather have cash (I don't carry cash with me usually).
The other day I was sitting having lunch at Micky D's and two women came in. They both had toddlers, one had a newborn and the other one was very pregnant. When their order came up two men left their place in line to carry their trays to their table. I thought that was pretty sweet. | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 8/23/2007 1:46:46 AM | Two weeks ago it was very hot and humid and our sanitation workers were out doing their jobs. When they passed and I saw them sweating, I grabbed three bottled waters from my refridgerator. They were yelling at me to hurry up (but I did not have on a bra and I think they just wanted to see me run. LOL)
I caught up with them and handed over the waters: "It's not much, but thank you for all of your hard work!" | |
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Posted: 8/23/2007 12:41:43 PM | | Yep...would ahve been worthwhile see you run......but probably so dry they wouldn't have been drooling....hmmm....nice experiment to try and run..... | |
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Posted: 10/21/2007 4:22:54 PM | | Using the Hawthorne Effect to my advantage: a little one-two punch where I con the less than average to average students that they are smarter than they are, then motivate (con!) them to work harder to get into a better college. | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 10/22/2007 8:51:54 AM | I've always done the if someone is at the grocery and fishing for change or a dollar or whatever to finish paying. I'll hand the cashier the difference, if I have it. I've had people go you don't have to do that, I have the change/money. Mines out already so, it's easier. and walk off.
It's fun to do random acts of kindness. Someone on another board goes further than most would sometimes, He'll leave change, 1, 5, 10 etc dollar bills laying around somewhere and just watch peoples reactions.
I had a woman walk up to my car last December. Didn't know her. I was sitting inside dinking around with the cds. I thought she was just lost.. (I'm way out in the country, its not uncommon laugh) So I rolled the window down said HI. She handed me a 20 dollar bill and told me that is for you.. I was why? (yes I'm one of those people that has to ask why for everything rofl) She went, Because I choose to. Have a wonderful Christmas. Smiled and walked off.. I was totally floored.
I always do the grab carts for people and take them back to the stores, or help people load their groceries, and other things.
A friends son, was having issues with the atm the one time he was at the gas station, and he was getting frustrated. A woman walked up to him, handed him 40 dollars and walked off.
I had bought a new car, which had a funky gas gage.. (which I and the dealer didn't know about) drove to town, then was heading home. The car starts choking and sounds like out of gas, gage said quarter tank. Cars had been going by, trucks, no one bothered stopping. I'm on a side road, a older truck goes by, then comes back, a about 16 year old kid gets out, ask if I need some help. He didn't have a gas can, but he did help me push it off to the side of the road, (hadn't quite made it all the way before it quit rolling) then asked if I needed a ride anywhere. He ended up taking me home. Was ultra polite. What floored me the most was that it was a kid, that choose to do a act of kindness. But I loved it. I offered to give him money for gas, he turned me down. I wish that I had gotten his name, I would have called his parents and told them, what a great kid they were raising.
I love it when I see it, I love it when I do it. | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 11/13/2007 12:06:17 PM | "Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of
which have the potential to turn a life around." -- Leo F. Buscaglia
http://www.actsofkindness.org/inspiration/quotes.asp
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
~~Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | |
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keeona
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Joined: 11/4/2007
Msg: 64 | |
| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 11/13/2007 2:23:43 PM | | A year ago my car broke down on a rather quiet road ,I had no mobile or cell phone, it was a stinking hot day 39 c and i was an 1.5 hour drive from home. I had just been to visit my sister who lived about 20mins from where I was stranded. A young man stopped and offered to help.....he let me use his phone to call my sister, then said he would drive me to her place....ok, maybe a bit iffy but I felt safe with him so I went. He dropped me at my sister's refused my offer of a cold drink, accepted my gratetful thanks and left. I was trying to work out the best way to go about getting the car home when there was a knock on the door. The young man was back, he was a country lad down doing some road works for a few months, his family was 400 klms away. He offerded to get a trailer and take my car home for me. When I explained where I lived he said that's ok I had nothing better to do. So against my sister's advice. this young man ( Luke) took me to a place where I could hire a trailer, he then helped me get my car onto it and drove me all the way home.....in return I did his washing as he was on his way to the laundromat when he first stopped to help me.......I called a friend when I got home and she came around...just to be on the safe side.....and Luke stayed and chatted with us for an hour or so, then he left saying he would return the trailer on his way. I filled his car with diesel and told him to keep the 50.00 deposit I had put on the trailer, he phoned me and hour or so later to say the trailer had been safely returned. I thanked him and a few days later sent a card wishing him all the best ( he had given me an address of where he was staying) he rang and thanked me for the card. What a lovely young man he was. Yes I know I took a big risk, don't think I didn't have my sister and parents panicking over the fact that I got in the car with a stranger....but in my gut I knew he was just one of those very rare wonderful people that some of us are fortunate enough to meet once in a life time. | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 11/13/2007 8:35:53 PM |
so of course I hop on the band wagon and pay for the next car... now I think to myself, "When did it end?" Who was the greedy one to take the freebie?" I know it made my day and put a smile smile on my face!
Any other nice random acts of kindness, heart warming touchers?
Why would that person be greedy? When you do something out of kindness, you shouldn't expect anything from the recipient, including them passing it on. | |
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Posted: 11/14/2007 6:05:18 AM | We are weaving character every day, and the way to weave the best character is to be kind and to be useful. Think right, act right; it is what we think and do that makes us who we are. --Elbert Hubbard
Mike Batchelor invited the heads of 46 charities into his downtown office for one-on-one meetings to personally deliver the news. Nearby, on a small table, sat a box of tissues. And then he proceeded: A donor had given a staggering $100 million to the Erie Community Foundation, and all of the charities would receive a share. That was when the tears began to flow -- and the mystery began -- in this struggling old industrial city of 102,000 on Lake Erie, where the donor is known only as "Anonymous Friend."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/11/12/million.mystery.ap/index.html | |
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Posted: 11/26/2007 4:00:38 PM | I went to watch a movie Sunday. Left my lights on and battery was dead as could be when I came out. In the rain I asked several people coming and going if they had jumper cables. No, No, Not even the time of day. I walked down the steet to a restaurant to use the phone book to get a service truck to jump my car. These Pages were missing from the book.
Saw this eary twenties guy run to his truck. Asked if he had cables. Said no but thought someone he was with might. I follow him inside. As I ask their food is brought to the table. One of the guys has cables. I offer to wait until they eat. He says "no trouble lets go now." Drives me back to the theatre. Helps push car out of stall to reach the battery. Jump starts my car. All of this in the rain. All of this while his food is sitting on the table down the street. All of this while his friends were waiting on him. What did he want for his trouble? Nothing. He asked for nothing and tried to trun down my offer of money. I insisted and gave more than enough to cover the meal.
By the way, this guy was getting together with his friends for the last time before being deployed to Iraq. So if you wander what kind of people are still volunteering for the service with things as they are; It is the kind of people that would leave their food on the table to help a stranger in the rain and ask for nothing in return. | |
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Posted: 11/27/2007 11:07:01 PM | I have taken "risks" and been taken advantage of, but I have also experienced heart-warming rewards by taking chances. At any time, any one of us might find ourselves in a predicament, though I try not to make a habit out of it. There is a difference between a boost in hard times and an eternal crutch.
The other day, I ran into a woman whose piece of garbage boyfriend locked her and her children out of the house. It is approaching winter here in this region, and the young boy had short sleeves and no coat. I have a lot of "guy" stuff because of my job. I rushed home, and brought the boy back an almost new hooded sweatshirt and a super warm "guy" jacket (which I hated to give up because it was practically brand new). He put on the sweatshirt and the jacket immediately, so I knew the kid was freezing.
I probably would not have done that for an adult, to be honest. I do not ever give out cash, period.
How can some people be such monsters, to put a child out without a coat?
Sure, there will be people that take advantage of a caring heart, but then there are also those whose gratitude is tangible, like that little boy the other day who was grateful for the gift of no longer freezing.
A clean conscience makes a soft pillow. | |
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Posted: 4/26/2009 4:41:43 AM | When was the last time you committed a random act of kindness? Mine was yesterday, and the day before.
I learned a tremendous amount from my eighty-seven year old friend who just passed on how society used to be.
As we expand technologically, we are also corroding. | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 4/26/2009 5:23:00 AM | I just went to the website>> www.dailyvisits.com/daily.html
& "clicked" to:
feed hungry children
stop dogfighting
stop horse slaughter
feed animals in shelters
also am sponsoring senior dogs (2) in Washington State that were turned in b/c they were "too old" | |
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| Random Acts of kindness
Posted: 4/26/2009 9:20:51 AM | If I see someone is having a bad day. I smile and spend time with that person.
I do belief there are angels among us who seem to show up in our hour of need. Each and every one of us is given that opportunity to be an angel at some point. | |
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Posted: 6/4/2009 4:37:40 AM | During the summer when it is hot and muggy, I will offer my mail carrier and the sanitation workers bottles of cold water. My mother used to always greet our mail carrier with a glass of ice water before the bottled water trend.
My life isn't perfect, but whose is? Also, we are living in challenged economic times. I don't even know how it came up in conversation that I bought a pair of congo drums and the woman with whom I was speaking asked if she could buy one, since I said their only use was to be able to really annoy my neighbors.
I told her that she could just have one of my drums, which seemed to make her feel uncomfortable, so I told her she could buy me a sandwich sometime, and she then bought my dinner. I returned with a drum. She was so excited. She ran around from behind the counter and gave me a hug.
I have a theory on that whole concept. There are Givers and there are Takers. Generally, the Givers find Takers because the Givers give and the Takers like to take. Givers never find each other because they don't feel comfortable taking, and Takers never link up because they want someone to take from. Thus, the Givers find Takers and the Takers find Givers, and the beat goes on.
Yesterday, while I was walking my dog, a woman was walking on the other side of the street, and I smiled at her and she smiled at me in return. Small thing, but good interaction.
I am always, always leery of donating money when I look at a prospectus and see that the CEO is making six figures a year, and unfortunately that is most charities. People think they are helping a cause and 90% is going towards a private jet, a limo, and a vacation home.
Our senior citizens are a precious commodity and they have so much knowledge, wisdom, and experience to share if you set down your text messenger and take the time to give them the time of day. Yes, they physically move a little bit slower, but there are some sharp minds trapped in those bodies. Call your grandmother or grandfather today, and give them the time of day. Actually write a letter and buy a stamp, and you will be surprised how much pleasure that will bring that person. | |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 3:36:23 PM | | lol, my favorite subject... listening and talking to someone when their days are down, courteous and polite when smiling to complete strangers, giving money and food to homeless. | |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 6:56:31 PM | Wow a post who's last reply from 07 dug up.
Yes i do them, here are the last two i did.
Paid for the toll for the next person behind me at a toll booth.
When crossing the mackinaw bridge heading up to the U.P. in michigan i paid for the person behind me. | |
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Posted: 6/11/2009 7:23:06 PM | For mothers day each year my sons give me a scrap book filled with stories and dates of the times they do good deeds for no reason.Move a nieghbor,give a person envelopes with 5 or 10 dollars at the gas station.bring lunch for a co-worker,change a flat tire,help change a ladys oil or spark plugs,surprise someone with a thinking of you card.Feed someones dogs when they went on vacation.sawed a load of wood this winter for an old man up the road. They have built 2 handicap ramps.worked on this one ladies water pipes when they busted this winter.
I get so much more out of reading these scrap books than any other gift would have done.My kids know their gift of compassion means the world to me.
Im so proud of my kids | |
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