Ask End about his loud proclamation at the bar last night....depending on where you were in the bar, it either sounded like he was "outing" Russ, or proclaiming his love for Russ for ordering a Perrier....

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You must've fallen asleep watching TV or something.

Its almost a month until Christmas, with Thanksgiving around the corner. While my
situation has changed, the need for common good will has not. I was reminded of this thread and the time to recharge myself to do this by the forthcoming of the Kansas City Secret Santa.

I encourage each of you to think about what you can do to help someone else as we enter winter, and the holiday season. There are things you can do, that won't cost money.

1. Help someone plastic their windows.

2. I found the gift cards to the elementary guidance counselors very, very well recieved last year and plan on doing this again, and possibly recruiting some others to buy one or pitch in to do even More. If you have the means, please consider calling your local guidance counselor, offer them a gift card, to use to purchase coat-boots-shoes-snow pants for a struggling family. I guarantee every one of them will have an immediate idea of the best use. They can take them with a parent, make the purchase, and make sure it is used for its intended purpose.

3. I've joined a group in my area, and will be for the first time helping deliver some thanksgiving meals for 3-4 families.

I'm sure others have great ideas, that can be linked here.

I may very well try to build on the idea of the gentleman from KC and try the "$20 secret santa" someday.

The company where I work does what's called "Christmas in October." It's an organization that helps the elderly/impoverished/ill with home fix-ups. This year was the first year I got involved. It's amazing how much work 20 people can do on a house in a day. We painted, caulked, fixed a couple of broken windows, cleaned and repaired gutters, fixed a leaky faucet... well, you get the idea. She was so appreciative and we all felt great lending a helping hand.

If you live in NE Kansas I work for a Community Action Program providing help to impoverished families. If you would like to help in some way check out the website.

http://www.nekcap.org

Monitary gifts and volunteers always welcome.

What have you done? What can you do?

I challenge each of you to start small today.

Hold a door open for someone you don't know and normally wouldn't. Say Hello to someone passing in the street.

I'm always interested in great ideas.

Doing the Right thing....feels good.

My company adopted a family in need. There are 6 kids living with their grandparents due to their parents being incarcerated (sp?). They range from 6 months to 16 years old. I'm glad you bumped this thread. It reminds me that I need to stop by Wal-Mart before going to work to pick up a few more things to take in.

As for holding the door open for people and saying hi to people passing by, I do those things all year. Christmas isn't the only time of year you can be courteous. :)

My kids and I delivered Thanksgiving meals for our church. That was pretty cool.

I always make it a point to drop whatever change I have into the bell ringer's bucket.

I always feel that there is more I can do, but so far that's it for this year.

Bingo! I'm pretty sure that Jesus didnt mean for you to try and love one another for a just a few days a year. Holidays can make hypocrites out of many.

People should be nicer to others all the time, especially Mr. Bob Dole.

Christmas is just another reminder that we can and should reach out to our fellow man. Above the waist.

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Wait a minute; are you trying to say Bob Dole isn’t nice?

Indeed. I try to do stuff throughout the year, but I must admit, I do more during the holidays. I guess it's laziness. My church is pretty good about reminding us all year long, so I am getting better, but it's amazing how fast time goes when you are over 30...seems like just yesterday we were all bitching about the Dallas Cowboys loss, and here it is a year later...

I make it a point not to flip people off in traffic for cutting me off, I always try to help people with holding doors, or carrying stuff for them...little things like that. But I know there is more I can do.

Good post.

Yeah, I was trying to figure out if that meant that we should be nicer to Bob Dole or that Bob Dole should be nicer to everyone else. :)

My apologies for the confusion. I meant that we should all be nicer to Mr. Bob Dole.

After all, he is named after a can of fruit.

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