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Last year I wrote this post and had no idea how popular it would become. So I decided to post it again this year and add some extra to it. I am hoping to do even more RAK’s this year and I hope you will join me. As always, if you have some to add please leave me a comment!

I would love to pay it forward this year. Do some fun things for people I don’t even know. If I could do just 1 RAK a week, imagine the difference I could make. If you just did 1 a week, imagine the difference you could make. I am a true believer that you can make someones day by doing a random thing. I know I have had RAK’s in my life and they blessed me in a way that is inconceivable.

So my challenge to myself is to do 52 Random Acts of Kindness for 2013. I already did mine this week. A woman was a $1.10 cents short at the 7-11 and I put it in for her. I am really excited about next week! I hope you will join me in this. No, you don’t have to post about it blah, blah, blah. But if you do a RAK I would love to hear about it! Also the list below is just suggestions, you can do whatever you like! My favorite is the balloon wishes, I am definitely doing that one!

52 Random Acts of Kindness ( one a week- 2013)

1. Hold the door open for someone
2. Teach a child something you wish you knew at that age
3. Tip a waitress more than you normally would
4. Spend some time with a senior citizen
5. Smile at a stranger
6. Compliment a stranger
7. Pay for a strangers meal at the drive thru
8. Put a quarter in a meter that is about ready to expire
9. Leave the mail person a thank you card
10. Donate unwanted items to a homeless shelter
11. Donate your unwanted suits to a place that caters to single moms re-entering the work force or older workers re-entering the work force.
12. Smile at the Walmart greeter
13. Mentor someone
14. Carry someone’s bags to the car at the grocery store
15. Walk or run for charity
16. Thank a soldier
17. Let someone go in front of you in line
18. Say “thank you” to the cashier
19. Donate books to a school or library
20. Give your box tops to a school ( found on General Mills products)
21. Start a stamp collection for a child
22. Bring flowers to a co-worker, friend, or someone that may be having a hard time.
23. Tell your family you love them.
24. Donate coupons that have expired to a military family
25. Buy that young mother a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread, and a jar of peanut butter.
26. Pay for an extra car wash
27. Leave quarters to pay for the next persons wash at the Laundromat
28. Instead of asking for gifts ask your friends to do random acts of kindness on your birthday.
29. Donate stuffed animals, coloring books, crayons, stickers, and little toys to the police station to hand out to sick, abused, or scared kids.
30. Donate items to the children’s hospital ( don’t forget about the parents)
31. Buy stamps for the person behind you at the Post Office
32. Send a sunshine box to someone that is sick (put in Kleenex, their favorite cough drops, magazines, and anything that might cheer them up. Don’t forget the get well card )
33. Hand out pennies at a wishing well or fountain. You never know whose wish you may help come true.
34. Surprise someone with a cup cake, muffin, cookie, etc.
35. Pre-stamp some thank you notes and hand them out, letting the recipient know to send it to someone they appreciate
36. Hide notes in library books for someone else to find.
37. Make or buy hats for kids that are suffering from cancer and donate them.
38. Donate gift cards, restaurant cards, etc. to organizations that help families with critically or terminally ill kids.
39. Stick your change in the Ronald McDonald box at McDonald’s
40. Make care packages and take them to a homeless shelter.
41. Leave your newspaper for someone
42. Donate blood
43. Donate school supplies to a school or preschool
44. Call a friend and let them know you are thinking about them
45. Volunteer at a school, library, food pantry, etc.
46. Mow the neighbor’s yard
47. Return a shopping cart for someone and save them the trip
48. Take new parents a date night kit. (Movie rental, popcorn, 2 liter of soda, and candy.)
49. Buy a few iTunes gift cards and when you see a teen listening to his iPod give him one.
50. Hand out Valentine cards with lollipops on Valentine’s Day.
51. Buy balloons, take them to the park and hand them to strangers. Tell them to make a wish and let them go.
52. If you are feeling extra, extra generous, pay for someone’s gas at the pump.
53. Bonus RAK: Thanks to one of my readers for this one! Take little care packages to a Cancer center. Fill them with a travel size hand lotion, chapstick, and purse size package of antibacterial wipes. They will be much appreciated!
54. Buy umbrellas at yard sales for 25-50¢ and keep them in your car to give to people who don’t have one when it is raining.
55. Say “I Love You” to at least one person, every day for 365 days. You never know how big of a difference those 3 little words can make

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