My Birthday Project

This year for my birthday I wanted to do something different. I wanted to give back instead of getting. I told Brian about this Facebook site called The Birthday Project and said I wanted to do 28 Random acts of kindness for the 28 years I have been alive.

I started off making up a list and getting all my supplies ready to do my RAOK projects. Then I decided that I would spread this out over a week because if I were trying to do it all on my birthday I would not be able to do it all on my own. So we started the Saturday before my Birthday.

1. Send coupons to over sea solder families. They can use coupons that are 6 months expired. It is a wonderful place to donated to for more information go to Coupon donation

 

 

2. Give the mailman a thank you candy bar.

 

     3. Leave change in a vending machines. This one was fun!!  When I walked back by someone already used it so I put more up.

 

4. Leave a gift for our server.

 

 

 

5. Leave diapers and wipes in a changing station. I did this at the changing station in a outlet mall. I hope whoever found this enjoyed it!

 

6. Smile at everyone and give out complements. This one made me feel great about myself because everyone smiled back.

 

7. Take coloring books and colors to waiting room of the houspital. I took these things in and the nurse at the nurse's station was happy to let me put these things out for the kids!

 

8. Made banana bread for a few friends. They were happy to get these.

 

 

9. Leave a box of sidewalk chalk at the local playground.

 

 

10. Tape lotto tickets to gas pumps that say it’s your lucky day. I wonder if they won anything off it.

 

11. Tape lotto tickets to the inside of a bathroom stall that say it’s your lucky day.

 

12. Put quarters in toy machines. I seen a lot of kids walk by and get toys out of them they were all smiling and it made me so happy to see.

 

13. Hold the door for everyone I see.

 

14. Tape happy signs to bathroom mirrors.

 

15. Sent a birthday card and gift to an Internet friend.

 

16. Leave an extra big tip for our server.

 

17. Returned all the carts in the wal-mart parking lot. This one I about didn't do because it was raining out but I did it because I said I was going to so I did.

 

18. Leave pennies at the local playground for kids to find.

 

19. Left bubbles with notes for the kids who find them.

 

20. Leave coupons on items at the grocery store. I liked the idea of this because it is always nice to save a little money when you can.

 

 

21. Sent a card to someone I haven’t seen in a long time. I forgot how nice it feels to write a letter to a friend the old fashion way.

 

22. Put change in every charity bottle I seen.

 

23. Picked up trash wherever we went.

 

24. Pay a strangers tab at a restaurant. This one was fun to do but the waitress didn't know what to think at first but she was so happy to deliver our message to the little family that we paid for.

 

25. Tuck happy notes in windshields of cars in a parking lot.

 

26. Opened the phone book and mailed a card to someone I randomly picked.

 

27. Leave a thing of laundry soap and quarters at a laundry mat.

 

   28. Put change in Automatic riding machines. I knew this one would bring joy to a lot of kids.

 

This made me think of how luck I am to be able to do this. What if BIRTHDAYS became less about getting stuff, getting attention, and getting older and more about MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE?

 

I will be doing this again next year. I don't even think I will wait until my next birthday to do some more Random Acts of Kindness.