Pay it Forward Today

Today is Pay if Foward Day.  I love to share this idea with my kids.  Last year, we paid for someone's coffee at Starbucks, donated books to the school and brought muffins to the teachers.  

Get your kids involved.  Pay if forward today. 

1. Put money in someone’s parking meter that is about to expire.
2. Pay for someone’s food behind you in line.
3. Bake some goodies for a new neighbour or any neighbour for that matter!
4. Let the person in line behind you go before you at the cash register.
5. Volunteer at a non-profit organization that helps the needy
6. Support a good cause either financially or physically
7. Visit an ill patient at a hospital
8. Volunteer at an elderly home or an animal shelter
9. Offer to baby sit for a family
10. Make a meal or help clean for a family who recently had a baby
11. Loan something to someone and don’t ask for it back
12. Put money in a street performer’s jar
13. Donate clothes, toys, books to a shelter for battered women and children during the holidays and/or anytime of the year
14. Donate time/money/energy towards a fundraiser for a school
15. Give your services pro bono
16. Help grow a community garden
17. Donate your hair to Locks of Love or other organizations that make wigs for people who need it
18. Plant a tree or clean up garbage at a park or the beach
19. Pay for a stranger’s meal at a restaurant
20. Pick someone at the bank, post office or grocery store and make a special card with your child and/or buy a gift to give to them

Julie

Comments

[Asons]

Visiting someone in hospital is a fantastic idea. Often a patients friends and family work during the day, so they will spend the majority of this time alone. If you're at a loose end during the day, this is an excellent way to pay it forward.