Birthday Countdown: 14 days

In exactly two weeks I will be turning 30!  To celebrate the beginning of my countdown, I'd like to look back at what I did for my birthday last year.  When I turned 29, I decided I wanted to perform 29 random acts of kindness on my birthday.  I took the day off work and headed out with my mom to spend the day doing a number of different acts of kindness.  

Here's a partial list of what we did:

• Left a $15 gift card at Starbucks for the barista to give to a customer
  
• Gave a scratch-off lottery ticket to the man who filled my tires at Discount Tire
  
• Donated books and movies to the library
  
• Took donuts and a thank you card to the fire station
  
• Went to the police station and brought them donuts and a thank you card
  
• Left a $10 gift card in a copy of The Hunger Games at Barnes & Noble
  
• Took a basket of toys to donate to the Children’s Hospital
  
• Donated muffins for the nurses at the Children’s Hospital
  
• Left a $5 bill on a windshield in the parking lot of the Children’s Hospital
  
• Went to the Denver Rescue Mission and made a food donation
  
• Donated a $5 phone card to the Denver Rescue Mission
  
• Filled parking meters downtown
  
• Gave our waiter at the Mellow Mushroom a Mega Millions lottery ticket
  
• Taped a pre-paid parking slip to the payment machine so someone could get free parking
  
• Made a clothes donation at ARC
  
• Took a roll of quarters ($10) to the Laundromat
  
• Made a $10 donation to the Dumb Friends League
  
• Put a thank you card in my mailbox for the postman with a caramel apple to “brighten his day”
  

We had a great day and hopefully made a few people happy with the random kindness we showed them.  I'd like to think that our acts of kindness had a ripple affect and trickled down to other people along the way.

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Have you ever experienced a random act of kindness from a stranger?  Please share in the comments section!