Random Acts of Kindness – Cuties

by Jill on January 5, 2012

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Week 1 of Random Acts of Kindness

Inspired by this conversation on facebook, I decided to make a New Years Resolution to commit one random act of kindness per week and I have asked you all to join me.

Imagine how much nicer the world will be if we can all make someone else’s day brighter! This is a blog about saving money so my random acts aren’t necessarily going to be monetary in nature. I cannot wait to learn of all the kindness that you spread and I look forward to learning creative random acts! I would also LOVE to hear the reactions of the recipients if you are lucky enough to see them!

Random acts can be putting a quarter in an expired meter, passing on a coupon that you won’t use, paying for the person’s coffee behind you, shoveling your neighbors driveway (in the winter states, of course), leaving a flower on a friend’s car…. You can check that facebook post linked above for some really awesome ideas too.

I will post a Random Acts of Kindness post every Thursday so be sure to do something nice this week and post it next week. Since this is week 1 please feel free to post any type of random act that has been bestowed upon you or you have bestowed upon others at any time.

My random act week 1: Lunch for Jonesie is fairly late in the day. (Is it just horrible that I don’t know the exact time?????) So they have a snack time every day during the morning hours of class. The kids are supposed to bring a healthy snack – junk food isn’t allowed. Wednesday morning Jonesie asked what I had given him for snack, as he does every day, and I told him I gave him a Cutie (tangerine). Somehow we got on the subject of a kid in his class that never has a snack. I asked if he knew why and he said he didn’t. It got my mind wondering if the family just didn’t have the resources to send a snack to school everyday. I still don’t know what the kid’s situation is, but I stuck an extra Cutie in Jonesie’s lunch for him to “share”.