Looking for Ways to Serve This Holiday Season? Here Are 30 Easy Service Ideas to Get You Started

• Drop off a kind note in secret to someone each day for 12 days before Christmas. • Make holiday cards for nursing home residents and then go give them out. • Babysit for busy parents. • Bring a meal to a friend or neighbor. • Donate toys and clothes to a local donation center. • Buy a bag of healthy groceries and donate it to your local food bank. • Shovel snow or rake leaves for a neighbor. • Volunteer at a local soup kitchen. • Hold the door for people behind you, especially if that person is carrying packages or bags. • Take your neighbor’s trash to the curb while you are taking out yours. • Pay for the person behind you at the drive-thru. • Donate blood to a local donation center. • Help an elderly person off the bus or across the road by taking their • Write a letter or e-mail to a friend or family member to let them know how much you care about them. • Offer your seat on public transportation to someone around you. • Pick a day to smile at everyone you see. • Surprise your unsuspecting spouse with breakfast in bed. • Come up with a list of twenty compliments and then give them out to twenty people throughout the day. • Bring someone a plant or some fresh flowers. • Make your family members or roommate’s bed. • Set the table for dinner. • Pick up trash that someone else dropped. • Call your grandparents and tell them that you love them. • Deliver homemade cookies to a neighbor. • Write a thank-you card to someone. • If you are in a long line, invite the person behind you to go first. • Put sticky notes with positive messages on a public restroom mirror. • Relay an overheard compliment. • Dedicate a song on the radio to someone you know is listening during his or her long commute. • Forgive someone. Repeat as necessary.