31 Days of Giving

Here is my new thought for December. Take the 31 days during the month and do something for someone else other than those in your immediate household cuz I know that you do it anyway. Involve your family if you want and make it a daily event for everyone. Discuss it at breakfast or dinner and decide how you are going to make it happen. See if you can go out of your way and out of your comfort zone to give some sort of service EVERY DAY during the month of December. Some of these ideas are simple and some require a little more of you. Here are a few ideas to help you along. Post a comment and let me know how you are doing and if you have noticed a difference.

1. Give a few dollars to the people you see holding signs on the corner.
2. Smile at atleast 10 different people.
3. Wave to people in 10 different cars.
4. Call someone just to check on them.
5. Write a thank you note to someone.
6. Clean out your closets and toy boxes and give the items to someone who could use them.
7. Doorbell ditch BUT leave treats.
8. Take some cans of food to a food pantry.
9. Go Christmas Caroling
10. Start the 12 Days of Christmas for someone. (this could be 12 days of the 31!)
11. Take your neighbors Christmas treats or gifts.
12. Shovel someone's walk or rake someone's leaves.
13. Say thank you to every person who does even the smallest thing for you.
14. Leave a tip for your garbage collector.
15. Purchase a book for your child's teacher or for your library.
16. Make a quilt and donate it.
17. Gather your surplus blankets or coats and donate them.
18. Work at a soup kitchen.
19. Make some sack lunches for the homeless.
20. Pay for the person behind you in line at the convenience store, donut shop or fast food restaurant.
21. Visit a care center.
22. Make decorations for a care center.
23. Babysit for someone.
24. Pick up trash around your neighborhood.
25. Put away someone's garbage cans.
26. Take someone to lunch.
27. Donate to the Toys for Tots
28. Pray for someone specifically.
29. Take a flower or small gift to someone just because.
30. Substitute for a Primary teacher.
31. Send a thank you/Christmas card to your family doctor, your hairdresser, your mailman etc.
32. Give up your parking spot to someone.
33. Let someone go ahead of you in a checkout line.
34. Spend time with someone letting them talk.
35. Hold the door for someone.
36. Make extra for dinner and take it to someone.
37. Pass along some magazines you've already read.
38. Send out a letter/Christmas card to a missionary or soldier.
39. Invite someone to a holiday dinner.
40. Put your loose change in the Salvation Army bucket.
41. Teach someone something.
42. Read to a child.
43. Clean your church building.
44. Give someone the benefit of the doubt.
45. Help someone with their groceries.
46. Watch over someone's house while they are away.
47. Forgive someone.
48. Tell someone you are sorry.
49. Participate in the Angel Tree
50. Make humanitarian kits, newborn kits or school kits.
51. Spend one day or one hour pondering how the Savior would serve then try to do.
52. Ask the Lord to tell you where He needs you to serve today.

OK that is 52 ideas and I know that there are lots of other things you can do. Don't forget to comment!