GB
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That is such a cool idea PF!
Random Act of Kindness - start the wave DC!
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It just takes one generous person or set of people to come up with the first loan to help someone out. After that it takes care of it's self. Our fund is run by two people who hold the fund and the paperwork of who has loans. In all this time only one person has run out without paying back and it was a small loan.
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CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
I didn't do this, but when I was talking with my best friend today, she told me that her husband has a letter that my mother wrote to him in 2007 (when she was still herself). Back story: My parents went to MA. They flew into Hartford. My best friend lives about 30 minutes away. I have flown into Hartford many times. The idea of my father driving out of there and heading to Springfield MA in a strange car scared me, so I drove down and my best friend's DH took me to the airport so I could drive my parents to Springfield, and then he picked me up. I then drove them around for 4 days and then they went their way and I came back to Canada. I arranged for him to escort them back to Hartford (they picked up my brother at Logan and went to Maine, but had to fly back to MN from Hartford). My mother wrote him a letter after he did that and he has kept that letter for me.
One day that letter will mean the world to you. What a nice thang you both did.
kadesma
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Left the money in my cart again today, and helped a lady collect her pop cans that blew out all over the parking lot. Yeesh! I would have been mad if that were me, but she was still pleasant and thanked me.
Claire
Master Chef
Today my husband was out taking our dog for a long walk. When he got home, he said, here, you take her, Mrs. Smith's (not her name) dog is out! Call her daughter. This neighbor is very elderly, and her teacup poodle is even older, and both are very delicate, and the woman has Alzheimer's. So while I contacted the daughter (who only lives and works a few blocks away), my husband found the dog and brought her back to the neighbor's house while her daughter got off work to come and meet him there (the neighbor undoubtably wouldn't know either of us, I think is at the stage where she doesn't always recognize her own family). So a good deed done.
I helped a harried mother by cleaning up her soiled toddler while she held her screaming infant. Poor thing was at her wit's end, the toddler was ill and she was trying to get her medicines and get back home.
simonbaker
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I brought homemade vegetable beef soup & homemade bread to our neighbors..One side of our house is a widowed elderly man. The other side is a childless couple where the husband has been in & out of the hospital with some type of parasite in his intestines.
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I'm so proud of you guys. Its so nice to hear the stories about doing something good for someone else. I get tired of hearing how awful folks are to one another.
VegLover
Assistant Cook
This thread has cheered me up big time! We're having a very tough time financially at the moment, I'm newly pregnant with 3 miscarriages behind me, our home-based business isn't going so well, and I'm doing a temporary pastry chef job at a bakery to help pay bills and am very tired. My OH also has a mystery 'painful arms' condition and just had to get a million vials of blood taken at the hospital. We were just looking at our finances tonight and realised that we've only got enough to survive until June. Rather depressed, I turned to this forum (cooking is a great form of escapism!). The tales of kindness and good will out there in the world really cheered me up. The world is a good place and there's lots of good karma out there after all, it seems! Thanks for cheering me up!
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Hang in there Veglover things have a way of turning around for us. If we can help cheering you up then life is not all bad. Here's hoping your life fills with goodness and you life becomes happy.This thread has cheered me up big time! We're having a very tough time financially at the moment, I'm newly pregnant with 3 miscarriages behind me, our home-based business isn't going so well, and I'm doing a temporary pastry chef job at a bakery to help pay bills and am very tired. My OH also has a mystery 'painful arms' condition and just had to get a million vials of blood taken at the hospital. We were just looking at our finances tonight and realised that we've only got enough to survive until June. Rather depressed, I turned to this forum (cooking is a great form of escapism!). The tales of kindness and good will out there in the world really cheered me up. The world is a good place and there's lots of good karma out there after all, it seems! Thanks for cheering me up!
kadesma
VegLover you are in great place. This site is great for your self esteem. People show their interest and respect, make you laugh, and there is always the Venting thread to let it all out. You feel better having vented, and sometimes someone can offer a suggestion or solution to a problem.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
This thread kind of died, so I thought I'd breathe new life into it as the holiday season approaches.
A few weeks ago, one of the members of the curling club died. I never win the 50/50 draw, but that week, I scratched out my name on the sheet and put the name of the deceased member's brother (also a member). Well, wouldn't you know it, I WON! (I had already left, so told the gal in charge to give the money to the brother). Well, the next week, I was given the $, and gave it to him. He was really touched. I will never win again <g>. And, it wasn't a lot of money, it was just I wanted him to know that he was missed that week and thoughts were with him.
A few weeks ago, one of the members of the curling club died. I never win the 50/50 draw, but that week, I scratched out my name on the sheet and put the name of the deceased member's brother (also a member). Well, wouldn't you know it, I WON! (I had already left, so told the gal in charge to give the money to the brother). Well, the next week, I was given the $, and gave it to him. He was really touched. I will never win again <g>. And, it wasn't a lot of money, it was just I wanted him to know that he was missed that week and thoughts were with him.
Cool CWS!
Paid the balance of an old fella's medications, he was busy putting things like bar soap and toothpaste back on the shelf because the cost of his meds was out of his range.
Paid the balance of an old fella's medications, he was busy putting things like bar soap and toothpaste back on the shelf because the cost of his meds was out of his range.
Good for you PF
I gave my dialysis neighbor an extra pair of head phones. His were falling apart. Also gave him the last of the HOT peppers I had DH pick. Not much of any thing but this fellow has no legs and is so sweet and nice to everyone. Makes me wish I could do more.kades
I do what I can for my elderly, who knows, my few dollars may keep him out of my nursing home and living independently for a few more months.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
What a little act of kindness does is let the person he/she is not alone, someone cares.
CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
How very sweet--but it is sad that he couldn't afford the necessities and his meds. What is the world coming to?
buckytom
Chef Extraordinaire
it's coming to people who say they're not religious but rather spiritual.
the only spirit they seem to care about is their own.
religion is the practice of being spiritual. it might even be looked at as "spiritualism for dummies", lol. (sorry, i've been reading a lot of "for dummies" books lately)
so if you don't find one that suits you, be sure to act upon the goodness that you say is in your heart.
sorry, you may have your soapbox back now.
the only spirit they seem to care about is their own.
religion is the practice of being spiritual. it might even be looked at as "spiritualism for dummies", lol. (sorry, i've been reading a lot of "for dummies" books lately)
so if you don't find one that suits you, be sure to act upon the goodness that you say is in your heart.
sorry, you may have your soapbox back now.
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CWS4322
Chef Extraordinaire
About a month ago, the hard drive on my laptop died. I admit, I hadn't been backing up everything as often as I should have...my life was on that hard drive--pictures of my beloved, now departed dogs, etc. The guy at the computer shop in the village tried FIVE times to clone my hard drive. Finally, he was able to get everything onto an external hard drive for me. He charged me cost for the new hard drive, no labor, and gave me the hard drive and USB cable. I was "random act of kindnessed." I stopped in with a gift card to the local Tim Horton's a few days later.
