30 Ways to Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day {Today and Everyday!}

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30 Ways to Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day {Today and Everyday!} | Columbia SC Moms BlogThere is always a surge in community service and giving around the holidays. People seem to be in such a giving mood because it is Christmas – which I love – however the giving does not have to stop there. Feb. 17 is Random Acts of Kindness Day, but really it can be recognized any day. 

When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Mississippi, I was the recipient of the Luckyday Foundation Citizenship Scholarship, which was created in honor of Frank Day. Mr. Day was known for doing random acts of kindness in his lifetime, including anonymously funding college for students. It was this legacy that developed into this remarkable scholarship program honoring the spirit of helping others. The program centered around servant leadership and the idea that in order to lead one must serve. Random acts of kindness can have big trickle-down effects. You never know the difference you can make.  

Here are 30 ways to celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day today (and everyday):

  1. Who doesn’t love a sweet treat? Bake cookies or other goodies for your neighbors. Put them in a disposable container so you don’t burden someone with getting the plate back to you.
  2. Put coins in meters that are about to expire or are already expired.
  3. Place dollars in envelopes around the toy section in the Dollar Tree. Provide an explanation so parents and children who find them do not think it is stealing.
  4. Pay for the person behind you in the drive thru or coffee shop line.
  5. Hold the door open for people behind you.
  6. Leave hats and scarves in areas the homeless frequent with notes explaining they are for someone who is cold and could use them. See this article for more details. 
  7. Contact your child’s school and ask what school supplies are lacking. Donate school supplies for children who need them.
  8. Make cards for a nursing or assisted living home for residents to enjoy.
  9. Pay the tab for children who have a lunch money balance at school.
  10. Go through your closet(s) and donate clothes that no longer fit or you never wear.
  11. Hold the elevator for someone near.
  12. Say yes at the store when the cashier asks if you would like to donate to a cause.
  13. Pack ziploc bags with travel size toiletries and non-perishable items to keep in your car and give to people you see asking for money on the side of the street.
  14. Pay for a coffee or meal for a first responder/police officer/military person/veteran in the restaurant.
  15. Offer to babysit someone’s kids for free to give them a date night or much needed break.
  16. Leave coupons near items in the grocery store that you do not use or need.
  17. Help someone load or unload their groceries.
  18. Send flowers to someone unexpectedly for no reason other than to brighten their day.
  19. Let someone go in front of you in the check-out line.
  20. Leave change in the vending machine.
  21. Donate unused/outgrown toys to a domestic violence shelter.
  22. Start or donate books to a Free Little Library.
  23. Gift an inspirational book to someone who could use it.
  24. Tip more than you would normally to your server.
  25. Pick up litter around your neighborhood or favorite park.
  26. Leave coins at the laundry mat with a sweet note.
  27. Leave a surprise in a library book – a note, a gift card that does not expire, the possibilities are up to you!
  28. Start a piggy bank for a cause and donate it on Random Acts of Kindness Day 2019.
  29. Send a care package to a college student you know who lives far from home.
  30. Send a thank you note to someone from your past (a teacher, mentor, anyone that has made a difference in your life). Let that person know how you are changed for the better because of her or him.

30 Ways to Celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day {Today and Everyday!} | Columbia SC Moms BlogHow will you celebrate Random Acts of Kindness Day 2018? 

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Tabitha Epperson
Born and raised in Mississippi but making Columbia her second home since 2008, Tabitha is a sociologist, doula, college instructor, and sorority house mom. She knows more details about pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding than most people care to talk about and loves her three chihuahuas (Toto, Gumbo, and Shrimp). She is currently working on her dissertation for her Ph.D. and dreams about the day when she will be finished. Tabitha crafts but not that great, and if she used Pinterest more, she could probably be on a Pinterest fails page somewhere. She’s an avid reader but mostly reads things related  to her dissertation these days. As a house mom, she never knows how her day will go when she wakes up, but she mentors and guides over 200 women on a daily basis and loves accompanying them on the path to full adulthood. She volunteers often and tries to make the world a better place. 

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