Feel Good Note, From Blog to Book to Course, Facebook Live Scripts and Marketing Planner PLR

Published: Sat, 10/24/20


We're getting some chilly weather here - supposedly with a high in the 40s on one day! Of course we also have a high near 90, but that's what's so fun. One day you're wearing shorts and a tank top and the next, you've bundled up like Ralphie in A Christmas Story and bought all the milk and bread at the store because that's what we do in cold weather here. 

I have some really heartwarming stories of what took place Thursday and beyond when Scarlett and I went on a random acts of kindness spree...read at the bottom if you need a break from negative news and want to feel good for awhile. 

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Heartwarming Feel Good Note

So with the current situation, media negativity, etc., I thought it'd be good to do some good deeds, and SHARE what we did - because it gets depressing reading about politics and pandemics and stuff all the time now. I think you'll LOVE what you see below, but it's a little long. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and unwind with it...

Thursday I took Scarlett out - told her we were doing a day of random acts of kindness. Our first stop was Walmart. We needed to buy gift cards and food because someone I know is going through some health issues and I wanted to cook them a big meal of enchiladas, seven layer dip, Spanish rice and homemade cookies. 

When we walked in, there was a little table set up and a man sat behind it, and said, "Excuse me..." Now normally, I'm the type in a hurry and I just say, "not interested" with a smile. But this was FEEL GOOD day! So I indulged him. He had a movie banner set up and some t-shirts. Turns out this man had led a sad life, been to prison, and reformed his ways. He was trying to raise money to market the film. So we bought a t-shirt we didn't need and wished him well with his endeavors. 

After shopping, we took the stuff home and bagged up everything for the day. I had printed out notes for the strangers to leave with the items. I rewrote them several times because I'd write something and go, "Oh gosh, that sounds creepy!" LOL! Like if I said, "We just wanted you to know you are a beautiful soul," I thought, "Yuck! That sounds stalkerish." So I got really simple with it and ended up saying things like, "With all the negative news in the world, we just wanted to bring a smile to our neighbors' faces and we thought we'd leave you these flowers to enjoy." Stuff like that.

We started off visiting the local nursing home. We left two large gift bags full of stuff. One bag was for the residents and contained sugar free candy, nuts, 2 books, magazines, coloring books and crayons, a beautiful puzzle, a card game, etc. The bag we left for the staff (they had asked for snacks) had candies, snack cakes, chips, popcorn, bath bombs and candles (since they work long, hard hours). We called them after leaving it on the porch as instructed and they came out and got them. Our note to them told them how much we appreciated all of them and how the community is thinking of them all (residents too). 

Next we went to Chick Fil A - we were going to buy the person behind us their food. Now this place has 2 lanes and there were people in both lanes - a line. We get up to the window and I try to buy someone's food and can you believe this? EVERY person in both lines had used their prepay app, so I couldn't buy anyone's food! LOL!

We went to the laundromat next. Now for most people, washing clothes is something we take for granted. For many, they have to haul their clothes to a laundromat, spend money and wait quite awhile. We had purchased 2 bottles of detergent, 2 boxes of dryer sheets and I'd gotten two $10 rolls of quarters at the bank. We divided this up into 2 bags with one of each item in it. Because I know people are proud, I drove up and rolled my window down when an elderly woman was exiting, pushing her laundry to her car and said, "Excuse me, ma'am...I got these for my son when his washer was broken, but he fixed it so now I'm stuck with this brand new detergent and dryer sheets and coins and I don't need them. Can you please take them?"

The first lady was overcome with emotion. She said "God bless you" and you could tell she really needed this. For some families, especially now, they might have to forego laundry if they don't have the cash to do it. We waited until she was gone and then drove up to another woman with the same story. This one was funny. She acted like I was some creep in a white van trying to lure her with a lost puppy story. LOL! She was hesitant to walk up to the car. And she kept asking, "How much you want for the quarters?" But eventually, she did take them and she kind of laughed incredulously that someone was giving her that. 

On to our local Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins store. We drive up - again, trying to buy something for the people behind us - and we get to the window and AGAIN, every single person behind us used their apps! We laughed. Can't do a good deed when everyone's prepaying. Ha ha.

Next up - we'd bought five of those $5 fall bouquets of flowers at Walmart and attached a note to them. We went to the Albertson's parking lot at put three on people's windshields and watched and waited. The first two ladies came out of the store and were smiling and looking around like, "awwww!" Then a man and woman came out of the store and got in the car opposite of the third lady's car where the flowers were waiting. They were looking at her car - at her flowers - and I told Scarlett, "I hope to God they don't steal those flowers" and sure enough... the lady got out of her car, stole the flowers, read the note as she walked back to her car and they laughed and drove off. 

DISGUSTING people.

Ugh. 

So we ran and quickly put the 4th bouquet of flowers on the car AFTER those thieves had driven off and the lady came out, looked overwhelmed with emotion (happy) and drove off. She kept putting her hand over her heart, reading the note and looking around. She needed that - you could tell. 

The fifth bouquet was funny. I actually felt SO bad about it. This lady came out, saw the bouquet and approached it like it was a sleeping lion. She timidly took the flowers, read the note, looked around cautiously, and put them in the cart return. We laughed but I felt bad because who knows what she's been through - maybe she has a stalker or ex boyfriend she worried about. Ha ha! This is why I tried making my notes so normal. But oh well. We put them on someone's else's car and this lady was so happy too. 

I had to laugh because my son Shawn, when we told him what happened, said, "I'd fling those flowers across the parking lot if some creepy stranger left a note and flowers on my car!" LOLOLOL! Some people just come at this from a different point of view. 

So then we went to hand out these $15 Whataburger fast food gift cards I'd bought. I had five. I handed one to a very overheated, exhausted looking cart return guy in the Sam's parking lot. I saw a mother and son walking to the store. We don't walk here. We drive. So I handed them two gift cards. We then put the other two on two peoples' driver's side windows in the Albertson's parking lot. I taped them there with a note. We didn't stick around to see who got them because it'd been six hours and we were exhausted.

The story doesn't end there, though...

I posted about all we'd done on my Nextdoor neighborhood account. Because I wanted 1.) the lady who was scared to know it wasn't anything spooky and 2.) the thieves to see it and feel ashamed. 

Guess what happened? I had a FLOOD of private messages, comments, etc. from people wanting to join in and continue doing this! Many said they LOVE the idea - that they could never come up with ideas like the laundromat thing - and they wanted to pitch in and do the same.

Now I had posted something days prior about wanting to help our neighbors with Christmas since so many families were struggling. I had two ladies contact me who needed help. One is a single mom. The other is a grandmother who is raising her grandkids (4 but 2 are now grown) and it was her daughter who contacted me. She said her mom raises her kids because she's a drug addict (recovering now) and the woman's husband just died from an accident. (Which I'd seen on the site months ago because it was a gruesome thing neighbors talked about).

In the post about her husband dying, I noticed people asking if she needed help and she just said "God's got me." But really, her daughter said she's struggling. She said she wouldn't want her to know she told me so I just reached out and said I'd seen the post about her raising her grandkids and her husband passing away and wanted to help with Christmas. She was open to it! She said they had decided to just volunteer and serve others since she didn't have money for Christmas. 

So yay! I got the kids' names and ages (16 year old girl and 10 year old boy) and her daughter told me a few things her mom likes too so I'm sneaking some gifts in there for HER as well. My kids and I can't WAIT to do this. I already ordered my first gifts - the girl likes to journal, so I bought her a beautiful journal with teen girl stickers and colorful pens. 

Now that's not ALL that happened...get this!

Another post on the site was from a neighbor who was seeking a large stroller she could put her 14 year old arthritic senior dog in because it gets sad when the younger dog goes on walks and she can't because of her ailment. Most strollers won't fit a 55 pound dog, so I looked on Amazon. They're $135 and up. 

I responded that if 10 neighbors chipped in with me, we'd each only have to spend $13.50. Or if 20 did it, only $6.75. Well right away, one woman in my private messages said SHE wanted to buy the stroller but remain anonymous, so she asked me to get her address. That pupper stroller is now in transit to old doggie. Yay!

I am just overwhelmed with happiness right now. My son Shawn said "If the lady needs help with a tree, (the one w/grandkids), we could buy her one and I'd bring it in for her and help her set it up." He also said, "I really prefer giving gifts, and I don't need anything." 

He's really excited about us doing this, too. 

Now I don't have money to just throw everywhere. LOL! I have bills and debt. But I DO set aside money here and there to help others. It helps to focus on lifting others' up rather than what all is wrong in society, right? I was annoyed with the thief (and have to admit I still am), but I try to focus on the fact that maybe she took them home and gave them to HER mom and maybe her mom is happy thinking her daughter did something kind for her. 

Some people in the thread on Nextdoor were saying they wish they had money to do random acts of kindness. But get this... if you find 4 quarters and have some tape, go stick them on a machine in the laundromat. Someone will be happy they were there. 

If you see someone old or tired in the parking lot, offer to take their cart back for them. Sometimes my knees hurt so bad I'm almost in tears - even AFTER surgery - and I'd love it if someone did that for me. 

Give compliments. "That is a beautiful purse!" (or scarf or "You have the prettiest eyes/smile!"). Hold doors open. Leave kind notes. Do better than I apparently did in writing them. Ha ha. 

I saw one of my sweet local Facebook friends who LOVES to grill out, take his grill under the bridge where the homeless are and he cooked them burgers and hot dogs! I mean - heart of gold. 

If you have old towels, take them to the animal rescue. Whenever you have maybe 1-2 extra dollars in your shopping budget, pick something up. A box of dryer sheets is $1.90 here - I grabbed a couple of boxes. Many who can't afford laundry won't splurge on dryer sheets. To them, THAT is a luxury. 

So it doesn't take much if anything to bring happiness to this world. We HAVE to do it at a local level. The people you run into every day. Take care of one another.  

That's it for me today - y'all have a great weekend!

Tiff ;)

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