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OGB: Days Thirteen – Nineteen

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My oh my how I have been slacking on the OGB updates!!!  However, the mission rolls on, and has included the following:

  • Cleaning up the trash on roads in my neighborhood. Armed with a bounty of trash bags and heavy-duty plastic gloves, I set out to rid my streets of the nasty, sometimes mountainous, piles of trash accumulating near the recreation paths. I was amazed to see how much trash people haphazardly discard–and just what could be found. 2 hours and 7 yard-sized Glad bags, I walked home with a backache and smile. The best part of this one was the woman who turned her car around just to thank me for cleaning up other people’s messes.
  • Baking cookies & writing Thank-you cards for my mailmen. Pretty much self-explanatory–I wrote cards for each of my daily mailmen (one for Saturday & one for weekdays) and packaged up some homemade cookies & candies. They were left in my mailbox for their respective arrivals. One of them even left me a note the next day thanking me!
  • Returning renegade shopping carts. One of my biggest pet peeves with regards to shopping are lazy people who don’t at least put their grocery carts back into the corral when leaving the parking lot. There are people who have to retrieve them, let alone the dings/marks they leave when they roll into other people’s cars! So I spent an hour helping the high school workers at my local grocery store gather & return shopping carts. I got A LOT of weird looks for this one but the kids I was helping loved it!
  • Donating gift baskets to the local homeless shelter. I found a local organization, Heading Home, that assists the homeless in their transition to new living arrangements. I donated a ‘bathroom’ themed basket that was filled with toiletries and a ‘household’ basket filled with various cleaning supplies/tools. I like knowing that I’m contributing to the (successful) new beginning of someone else.
  • Buying strangers coffee. I invited 3 people I saw wrapped up in blankets on a park bench near the coffee shop to come inside and have a coffee on me. I tried to buy them breakfast as well, but they refused.
  • Delivering flowers. I delivered a large bouquet of flowers to the ER nurses at one of the larger Boston hospitals. I think nurses are sorely undervalued and overworked and I’m always thinking of ways to thank the ones I know. I left the flowers with the triage nurse asking her to put them in the break room and tell her colleagues they were from an appreciative former patient.
  • Donated toys & food to local animal shelter. Due to various security & procedural requirements, I wasn’t able to volunteer at the local shelter as originally planned, so I donated a large assortment of food, toys, and treats. My little monsters (see pic below!) bring so much joy into my life (even when they’re destroying my condo) that I knew I had to work in some way to give a bit back to the animals in the area, too.

Have you done any good deeds lately?
 Want to help me pay it forward?  Read how here!
      


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