How to Christmas

Here are just a few ideas to spark your imagination: 



• wash someone's car windows while they are pumping gas
• offer free babysitting so new parents can go have a date night
• make a home cooked meal for a neighbor (single mom, elderly)
• rake leaves for a neighbor
• buy the meal for the person behind you in the drive through
• take your friend's kids for the afternoon on a play date so they can go Christmas shopping
• send a note of encouragement for no particular reason
• show up with a bouquet of flowers at someone's workplace to brighten their day
• make baked goods for the local volunteer fire department
• donate blankets to the local rescue mission to hand out to the homeless
• take a hot meal to one of the area panhandlers that you pass on the way to work
• send a care package or thank you to a soldier 
• leave a gift card for fast food under a busy mom's windshield wiper
• leave someone a Christmas card with a coffee gift card inside
• pay for a stranger's groceries
• donate used books to a library with a kind note inside
• visit the elderly in nursing homes
• help someone with home repairs
• return shopping carts at the grocery store
• make homemade handwarmers for those who work outdoors
• take books or movies to someone who is bedridden
• leave a box of canned goods on someone's porch anonymously
• donate blood at a blood drive and Christmas the technicians
• take breakfast to a coworker
• send craft and school supplies to local teachers
• thank your parents
• leave a special note for your mail carrier
• praise a parent for their child
• help someone move
• gift someone a vacation
• leave inspirational quotes or scripture for someone
• make someone laugh
• let someone in front of you in a long line
• give your seat to someone
• donate used toys to a needy child
• buy diapers for a new mom you see shopping
• leave a generous tip for a server
• bring in a neighbor's trash cans
• pet sit for a friend who is traveling for the holidays
• volunteer at a food bank
• give someone movie tickets
• share your umbrella
• carry packages for someone
• make a wish come true
• give away your parking spot
• leave quarters at the laundromat
• help your sports coach or teacher clean up after practice or class
• invite your neighbor over for coffee
• leave spare change in vending machines
• help a store associate straighten a trashed display in a store
• share the holidays with someone whose family is far away
• pay someone's parking meter 
• donate filled stockings to a kindergarten class
• pay someone's past due library fees
• ​clean out all your old clothes and donate them to someone in need
• wash your neighbor's car
• buy housewarming gifts for new neighbors
• drop off your old eye glasses at your local LensCrafters as a donation to the OneSight program
• redirect gifts-- instead of having people give you birthday/holiday gifts, have them donate to a good cause
• become a mentor to someone in need
• bake cookies for your colleagues
• take the time to teach someone a skill you know
• leave a copy of a really good book you've read in a cafe for someone else to enjoy
• offer to do pro bono work on a project where your skills are needed
• send a box of bagels or donuts to a construction site
• next time you leave a foreign country, give all or some of your currency to someone who resides in that country
• next time you are at the airport, offer to pull the bags belonging to a woman or mother out of the conveyor belt
• put a generous tip in a street musician's tip jar
• offer the FedEx or UPS delivery person some hot chocolate (with marshmallows of course!)