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Days Ten, Nine and Eight of my RAOK Challenge
On the tenth day of random acts of kindness, the universe gave to me:
I desperately needed a new winter coat and noticed that Old Navy was having some super sales. Plus I found a coupon for 25% off so I knew I’d score a super deal there. I ran down there after my hubbie got home from work and picked out a pillowy, oven warm jacket that will totally help keep the Victoria winter chill out of my bones…so basically it’s good for 2 degrees and up! I was standing in line and pulling out my coupon when I noticed that my hubbie had accidentally printed off two. There was a lady in front of me waiting to pay so I tapped her on the shoulder and asked if she already had a coupon. She did not so I gave her my extra one and she also saved an extra 25% on her purchase. She was super thankful and wished me a merry christmas!
On the ninth day of randome acts of kindness, the universe gave to me:
I needed a couple of items to make dinner last week so I quickly stopped off at our local Safeway to grab them. As I pulled up, I noticed that there was a big transit bus parked in front of the store and a big sign saying they were accepting food donations to “stuff the bus!” I didn’t know this charity event was going on but when I went into the store and grabbed my couple of items, I decided to spend a few more minutes putting together a full bag of non-perishables and dropped them off to the charity on the way back to my car. I was so glad they were there as I hadn’t had a chance to go through my pantry yet for the food bank….which I promise to do this week!
On the eighth day of random acts of kindness, the universe gave to me:
I’ve had this basic ceiling fan for sale on UsedVic for months now and no one seemed to want it, even when it was thirty two degrees in the summer. So I was shoked when I got an email yesterday from a guy wanting to buy it. I have no idea what anyone would need a ceiling fan for in the middle of December (to push the smoke out of the house in case the turkey burns?) but I didn’t question him and told him he could come pick it up. I had to go out in the morning so I told him I’d leave it on the porch and he could just put the money in the mailbox. As I was about the leave the house, my RAOK angel tapped me on the shoulder and said, “hey why don’t you just give it him for free?” I replied, “what a fabulous idea!” and left a note on the ceiling fan wishing the man a merry christmas and that the fan was his for free!
Starting to feel the pressure as I’ve only got 7 days left until Christmas and still need to perfrom 7 more RAOKs! That’s literally 1 a day!! Universe, please don’t fail me now. Anyone else do an RAOK lately that they’d like to share?
Carly Russell
Community Coordinator at UsedVictoria.com, blogger, social media junkie, proud mama, fabulously frugal, proud to be from our beautiful city!
Jason
A bit of RAOK today. I’m a “Jack of all trades….master of none!” I know a lot about renovations and basic mechanics. A friend of mine in Ottawa was recently hospitalized and is unable to work for the next couple of months and he and his wife are having a difficult time to make ends meat. Low and behold, the brakes on their car need to be changed, which I do for $75 + materials. It’s about an hour out of my time to do the work. With Christmas and all, we are all in need of a few extra dollars and some need money more than others. I purchased the materials and didn’t mark up the price for my friend and didn’t charge him labour to do the work. He needs the money more than I do. Just a friend helping out another friend.