Comments on: RAK Reporting Day & Sneak Peak

By: tonya

tonya — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:04:26 +0000

Recently, I have been giving leather coats to the homeless. I finished up with a warm feeling of my own, and felt this my RAKs were done for the season. Then I saw the homeless man who sleeps out doors just two blocks away, and realized I had forgotten about him totally. I went through mine and my husbands coats and even though it really hurt-I gave him a shearling leather coat, hoping he wasnt going to sell it, but determined to try. Hes wearing the coat, and as he was sleeping out doors, I was glad for it as we’re in PA and the ice storms have been bad this year. A few days later, I was checking on his status with a neighbor who runs a handyman service, as I hadnt seen him and was worried. My neighbor looked at me in surprise when I told him what I had done and he said “Was that YOU? I felt so ashamed that someone had done this, when the poor man sleeps on my business front steps and it had never occured to me. When he told me, I offered him a job looking out for the property and allow him to sleep inside at night-I was really afraid I would come in one day to find him frozen or something!!!!” So my homeless friend is no longer homeless all because of a simple RAK that was egged on from reading this thread!!!
I had to share this, as you deserve part of the credit!!! Thank you for making me feel useful again!!!!

By: Doris

Doris — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:01:11 +0000

Hi Sheri,
I’m not sure if it’s too late for a RAK, but mine is. We went to my son’s high school hockey game last night. It was an away game and we decided to give to the 50/50 of the away team. We won. Our RAK is to donate the money back to our sons team so the coach can buy them pizza etc. to celebrate there win and hard work.
ps. would love to see new pix of the cats

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:41:46 +0000

Okay, this sounds kind of cheesy but all day in an MMORPG I’ve been playing I’ve been giving handouts to people. And today we put an extra quarter in the parking meter for whoever comes by the space next.

By: Susan Jane Caraccio

Susan Jane Caraccio — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:28:02 +0000

I donated a lead for an electronic knitting machine to an American lady as I didn’t need it, it was sitting doing nothing in my bag of leads (famous amongst my family – I collect redundant power supplies, old leads and connectors.

I also donated some square s I had a in an exchange which were completely the wrong colour for me to the people who are collecting squares to make blankets for the people who lost homes in the fire storms in the USA.

I also taught a left handed person to both crochet and knit who had never managed it before, took three lunchbreaks to get them to crochet and another week to teach them to knit.

By: Deepa

Deepa — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:16:56 +0000

Our local libraries in the Twin Cities have a self-checkout system. A few days ago I was in line behind a little old lady who looked utterly bewildered by it. I showed her how easy it was to use and let her practice scanning her books. We must really be Minnesota Nice because nobody behind us complained.

After we were done checking out I chatted with her about computers. She doesn’t have one yet but I think she’s going to ask her kids to get her one for Christmas.

Not a real big RAK in the scheme of things but good karma nevertheless, right? I used to be a library volunteer for an assisted living facility too, before I had my baby.

Happy holidays, everyone!

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:38:09 +0000

My most recent RAK occurred two nights ago. We had very heavy snow and the roads were in poor condition. My father, sister and I were on a four lane highway with heavy traffic when we came upon a man that had spun out in the ditch. None of us were dressed for being in the snow; we all had our office work clothes and shoes on but we didn’t hesitate to stop (unlike all the other folks driving by) and see what we could do. We were able to push him out at the cost of only a few pulled muscles. We were already back in our truck before he had a chance to get out of his car again but we waved when as he was calling “thank you”.

This is something my dad has always done; I’m convinced he drives around in storms looking for people to push out of the ditch! One morning last winter he helped four different folks out in the same situation. He is the epitome of RAKs in countless forms and I am grateful to him for teaching me how little kindness costs us but how much it can mean to the recipients.

Oh, and I love this blog!! Thank you for all your work!

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 06:02:13 +0000

Saturday afternoon was a snowy day in Madison and I needed to run over to the grocery store for a few items. As I parked my car an elderly woman was trying to push her cart to the rear door of her car. Her husband was driving and pulled the car up to help her manuver the cart. She has a cane and was not able to get the cart in the correct position to open the car door. I went over and said I will help you. I opened the car door and put her several items in the back seat of the car. Many thanks were offered. I had her take her cane and I pushed the cart on my way into the store. It always is great to help out when you can.

By: Marietta

Marietta — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:43:04 +0000

I had a neat one yesterday – it surprised me too. I was checking out at the grocery store & the clerk handed me my coupons at the end of a large buy . The lady behind me in line said (in a very friendly way), “I need to go home with you – just look at those coupons!” I just turned and asked her if she would like to have them – held them out to her – the look of shock & delight on her face was wonderful. She apparently needed them. That carried me all the rest of the day!
Thanks for asking,
Marietta

By: Jen in MN

Jen in MN — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:30:52 +0000

I sent off a huge box of yarn (from a fit of de-stash-ation) and extra knitting needles to a homeless respite program in MA. I had read that they needed donations for their programs. Here’s the info, if you’re interested:
Eliza Strode, LICSW
Boston Health Care for the Homeless
461 Walnut Avenue
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Namaste

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:20:52 +0000

You haven’t blogged today yet… does that mean I can still enter?

I made a batch of tarts and took them in to share with a class I’m in on Monday.