Comments on: RAKs Winners and New RAK Posts

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 07:30:18 +0000

My friend who is raising her son alone and had to file bankruptcy a few months ago lost her father last month. She didn’t have enough money to bury him, so I solicited some of my friends to help. My friends donated close to $1,000 to help defer funeral expenses. I hate asking anybody for anything, but I’m happy I was able to aleviate a bit of my friend’s stress.

Yesterday we baked fresh bread. Later that day we found out a friend lost his wife. So we took over a loaf and sat with him for a while last night. This is such a terrible time of year to lose a loved one.

By: ikkinlala

ikkinlala — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:40:10 +0000

I spent a day volunteering at the company I work for to package up food for the food bank.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:14:55 +0000

Thank you for reminding us to think about the people around us.
I took fresh baked cookies and visited an old lady, who has seriously health problems and can´t go out much. The family visits and helps every day, but they don´t have time as they have a shop. So I spend two hours with her and she enjoys a visit like that very much.

Also I sorted out toys and books and took them to our second hand shop.
And of course, since my BIL died at the end of october we help his wife everyday to cope and to organise life alone.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:14:51 +0000

First of all – I am sure that we all want to know where Mary R lives?

My random act of kindness this week has been to take care of as much work as I can for one of my co-workers. She is always overwhelmed and distracted at Christmas. We share an email in box and she doesn’t even know about most of the thinks that have quickly been dispatched.

By: Mary R

Mary R — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:02:08 +0000

My RAK this week is that I sorted through some of my yarn bins. I bagged up a huge bunch of yarn that needs to find new homes where it will be knit up and loved. I have given it to the local thrift shop so that they can sell it cheaply! The thrift shop is run to earn money to run the local food pantry, and I’m sure that there will be some knitters out there who are excited to score yarn for a bargain!
More yarn sorting this weekend if time permits. If not, it will wait until after the new year.

By: Jan Johnson

Jan Johnson — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:35:33 +0000

I gave some chocolate chip cookies to my co-worker’s wife who is struggling through health issues. I figure chocolate chip cookies always bring cheer, and I hope it helped her to know others are thinking about her.

By: Ardosa

Ardosa — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:03:14 +0000

My department holiday party fell through and no one participated, so i donated the scarf i made for the ‘yankee swap’ to someone who could use a nice scarf

By: Brianna

Brianna — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:06:52 +0000

This week I (finally!) finished knitting the 5 scarves and 2 baby hats I donated to the annual raffle to benefit the MakeAWish Foundation. I’m so happy with them- I hope they make someone else very happy too, and to benefit a good cause!

By: GinkgoKnits

GinkgoKnits — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:17:47 +0000

I was nice to the woman who called me back only after I had contacted the company and waited on hold 20 minutes so I could get someone else to refill the prescription that I had called her about five days ago — and multiple phone calls too. I was kind instead of being angry, but at the time it sure felt like a major RAK.

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:02:18 +0000

I have a wonderful newspaper carrier who is always on time every day and he gets out of his car and walks my paper up to the front door. I sent him a $100 tip today for Christmas.
My friend did a wonderful thing. She knit up several little santa hats for kids and went to the mall and handed them out to random kids. She said the look on their faces was worth a million dollars!