January

• Recycle your bottles and cans from New Year’s Eve and donate the money.
• Help your neighbor or a friend take down their holiday lights.
• Let someone go before you today, at a store or in your car.
• Drive a child home to help another parent.
• Recommend a business you frequent to others. In addition, you can post about it on FB, Twitter or a blog!
• Share your expertise to help teach another person something beneficial to their livelihood.
• Say a prayer of gratitude when you eat breakfast, lunch or dinner today.
• Provide cheer to someone who is ill.
• Drop by unexpectedly with flowers for a friend, neighbor or elder. It will brighten up this winter day.
• Take your “mitzvah dog” to a retirement center or nursing home.
• Scoop Your Poop.
• Don’t wait to be asked, offer something you can do to help a friend in need – see post January 12th.
• Take your neighbor’s garbage up from the curb.
• Invite someone to join you for a meal.
• Support a Girl Scout. Buy some cookies today.
• Behave with patience when you must wait.
• Gladly hold the elevator for someone running to get it.
• Offer to watch another child or drive them to school late so the parents can work.
• Check in with a friend whose recently lost a pet or a loved one to see how they are doing.
• Put away someone else’s weights or mat at the gym.
• Do you have a great recipe that everyone loves? Make copies and give it to anyone who asks for it.
• Use a recyclable bag with you on all your errands today.
• When you order your coffee this week and stay to drink it ask for a “for here” cup ie. not styrofoam.
• Give a Tisbest charity gift card in honor of a friend’s birthday.
• Donate a book to a Children’s Book Bank.
• Donate your used eyeglasses to the Lions Clubs Eyeglass Recycling Centers.
• Fill a thermos of hot chocolate and pass it out to unsuspecting recipients ie. anyone working outside.
• Light a candle to signify the end of Shabbat or at sundown acknowledge the passing of another day. Say a prayer of thanks.
• Comment today on someone’s blog to let them know their words have positively impacted you.
• Give someone the benefit of the doubt.
• Stop to give directions to a stranger today.  

February       Happy Random Acts of Kindness Week – February 13-19, 2012

• Pick up some trash while you are out and about today.
• Send a funny card to a friend undergoing chemotherapy.
• Donate to your local Humane Society to end petlessness.
• Visit a friend who’s going through a rough time and needs some cheering up!
• Give someone a sincere compliment today.
• Help make someone’s job easier!
• If you have skills to help someone get a job like resume writing or appropriate connections offer them.
• Plant a tree.
• Help someone get to their car safely.
• If you have a ticket to a game, lecture or event that you can’t use, gift it to someone who can use it.
• Unplug from electronics and spend uninterrupted time with someone.
• Donate your used magazines to a doctor’s office or hospital waiting room.
• Treat a friend or stranger to coffee today publicly or anonymously!
• Bring chicken soup to someone who is sick.
• Help a friend do a mitzvah.
• Know a kid at college? Send ‘em a care package!
• If you are a listener, why not become a member? Support your local public broadcasting station.
• Return a lost item.
• Volunteer at a community fundraiser.
• Donate a dollar today to a charity.
• If you are a listener, why not become a member? Support your local public broadcasting station this week.
• When a friend shares a grievance they have with you. Listen, try not to be defensive and understand that they share this with you because they want to connect more deeply.