Four years ago on June 18th the Alden Family lost a part of our family and our heart. We would like to honor our Heather Alden by making kindness a priority. She never met a stranger and changed the lives of everyone she met. We at Alden Roofing will be focusing on acts of kindness from June 1st through June 18th and “checking in” to the Alden Roofing Facebook page as well as using #HeartLikeHeather. This is all for a good cause as well!
We hope you will help honor her and make someone’s day by making kindness a priority as well.
We hope you will help honor her and make someone’s day by making kindness a priority as well.
Here are some Random Acts of Kindness Ideas!
- While you’re out, compliment a parent on how well-behaved their child is.
- Cook a meal or do a load of laundry for a friend who just had a baby or is going through a difficult time.
- If you walk by a car with an expired parking meter, put a quarter in it.
- Email or write an old teacher who made a difference in your life.
- Compliment someone to their boss.
- Leave a nice server the biggest tip you can afford.
- Leave your New York Times or Us Weekly behind for someone else to read at the coffeeshop, the doctor’s office, or on a plane.
- Let the person behind you at the supermarket checkout with one or two items go ahead of you.
- Write someone a letter. Like a real letter, on paper. And mail it!
- Give someone a book you think they’d like.
- Be the person who puts a tip in the tip jar at the coffeeshop. (Fewer people tip than you’d think!)
- Bring in fun office supplies to liven up the workday for everyone.
- Donate your old eyeglasses so someone else can use them.
- When you’re throwing something away on the street, pick up any litter around you and put that in the trash too.
- Put sticky notes with positive slogans on the mirrors in restrooms.
- Stop to talk to a homeless person.
- Play board games with senior citizens at a nursing home. Sixty percent of them will never have a visitor during their stay.
- Babysit for a single mom for free.
- Leave some extra quarters in the laundry room.
- Write your partner a list of things you love about them.
- Send dessert to another table.
- Purchase some extra dog or cat food and drop it off at an animal shelter.
- Make two lunches and give one away to a homeless person.
- Say yes at the store when the cashier asks if you want to donate $1 to whichever cause.
- Buy lemonade from a kid’s lemonade stand.
- Offer to return a shopping cart to the store for someone loading groceries in their car.
- Have a clean-up party at a park. (kids would love this one)
- Send a post-card to a distant relative.
- Call your grandparents.
- Foster a dog from a shelter.
- Volunteer at a shelter.
- Give out refreshing drinks to crossing guards.
- Send flowers to the nurses station at a hospital.
- Write a letter to a soldier who doesn’t get letters (email Info@aldenroofing.com for a name and address if you can’t find one!)
- Donate clothes things to the Salvation Army.
- Donate food to your local food bank.
- Pay for the meal or coffee in the drive through for the person behind you.
