IDEAS

Looking for an idea of a random act this Christmas? Try one of these or one of your own.

1. Buy a stranger a free pizza.

2. Pay for someone’s gas at the gas pump.

3. Give a roll of quarters away at a laundry mat.

4. Pay for someone’s gas at the gas pump.

5. Shovel someone’s sidewalk

6. Leave change at a payphone.

7. Pay for someone’s bus fair.

8. Rake leaves for someone.

9. Buy a cup of coffee for someone.

10. Buy a few children’s books and give them to someone with small children

11. Buy a soda or bottle of water from the machine and leave it on the desk of a co- worker you have not made friends with yet.

12. Buy a gift card or homemade goodies and leave it with a bank teller, garbage man, mail person, etc…

13. Buy donuts at the local bakery and leave them at the police station, fire station or school.

14. Buy some McDonald gift certificates to pass out to the homeless.

15. Get to work before others and leave candy, brownie, fruit, flower, etc. at every desk.

16. Leave enough money in a vending machine for the next person to get it free.

17. Tape candy, gum, free iTunes, coffee shop gift card on someone’s locker at school

18. Buy a poinsettia and leave at a business, office, neighbor’s house, etc…

19. Paper clip a bill to the card and give it to someone.

20. Pay for the carwash for the person behind you.

21. Deliver fresh-baked cookies to city workers.

22. Visit a nursing home and leave a small gift such as small bags of sugar free candy

23. Pay for the order in the car behind you at a drive thru.

24. Hand out balloons to passersby.

25. Give free sodas to motorists.

26. Pay for the meals at another table at a sit-down restaurant.

27. Wipe rainwater off shopping cart and give to a customer

28. Hold umbrellas for shoppers on the way to their cars.

29. Give away an umbrella’s on a rainy day.

30. Give a pair of tickets to a baseball game, concert or movie theater to a stranger.

31. Leave an extra big tip for the waitperson.

32. Buy book marks and give them away at the library or a bookstore.

33. Send a card with a small gift certificate to someone in the phone book.

34. Buy a pack of gum or candy and give to the person/child I line behind you.

35. Roll an elderly person’s garbage cans to the street for trash pick up.

36. Pay for someone’s parking meter.

37. At the post office leave some extra stamps in the stamp machine.

"But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.” - Matthew 20:26-28 (NLV)