When you buy in bulk, share your surplus by putting aside one of the nonperishable food items aside to drop off at any TSA location.
Bring flowers to work and share them with your coworkers.
Volunteer to be a tutor in a TSA after-school program.
Join TSA in their visits to sing to seniors and residents of nursing homes.
Offer a couple of hours of baby-sitting service to friends and family.
Have a TSA Day at work, with employees bringing nonperishable food and toys to donate to the charity.
Pay a compliment at least once a day.
Dial a smile and call or visit a housebound person or older relative.
Say something nice to everyone you meet.
Volunteer at your local TSA Corps.
Give the gift of your smile to everyone you meet.
Do the WRITE thing by sending a few kind words and a cookie or two to our soldiers overseas.
Tell your husband/wife or children why you love them.
Spread the word about The Salvation Army. Log on to SixDegrees.org to create a “badge” explaining why TSA is meaningful to you, then integrate a link to your badge into your e-mail signature.
Give blood.
Give your stuff a second life by donating old clothes to The Salvation Army Thrift Stores.
Tell your coworkers that you think they’re doing a good job.
Give toys to children at a TSA shelter.
Make a daily donation to The Salvation Army. If you can’t afford to give a hefty lump sum to charity, put aside a dollar a day.
For one week, act on every single thought of generosity that arises in your heart and notice what happens.
Get an A for effort by helping The Salvation Army’s after-school programs. By donating as little as $25 you’ll earn a gold star!
Relinquish a parking spot to someone at the mall.
Say thank you.
While in a restaurant, pay for the meals at another table. Instruct the waitress to give you that table's check, quietly without notice.
Cut someone's grass or weed or plant flowers in someone’s garden.
Wash someone's car.
Scrape, prime, and paint someone's garage or tool shed.
Pay for the food order for the car behind you in the drive-through, fast food restaurant.
Pay for the toll of the car behind you on a toll road or toll bridge.
Pay for the movie of the third person behind you in line at the theater.
Make arrangements to pay someone's gas, water, telephone, or electric bill. Call the utility company and offer this for a total stranger.
Drop off a bag of groceries on someone's doorstep.
Go to the dry cleaners. Pay for someone's dry cleaning.
Pick up every garbage can you see in the street.
Go to a nursing home and take a perfect stranger out for lunch or bring an anonymous bouquet of flowers
Put quarters in expired or about-to-be-expired parking meters.
Buy a coupon book of gift certificates from a fast food restaurant and randomly pass them out to pedestrians.
Buy a dozen long-stem roses and pass them out.
As you’re walking down a crowded street, watch pedestrians coming toward you and select a beneficiary. Have a $10.00 bill hidden in your hand. Just as you pass your chosen recipient, tap him/her on the shoulder saying a $10.00 bill just fell out of their pocket.
Hand out People Mover tokens to Detroit pedestrians.
Walk into a restaurant and hand a chosen waiter/waitress a $10.00 bill
Buy movie coupons from the cashier. Hand the coupons to selected recipients while they are standing in line.
Bus drivers never get tips. When a bus arrives at a bus stop, go up to the driver and give him/her a $5.00 bill.
Buy 10-local newspapers. Hand the free newspaper to people getting on the people mover or bus.
Buy car wash certificates to keep in my car to use through out the year. Why not give the attendant 2 tickets, one for you, and one for the car behind you?
John McElroy 12/02
John McElroy shares his thoughts on the plans sent by the big three auto companies to congress.
Poletown Plant 12/02
Hamtramck Mayor Karen Majewski discusses the controversy surrounding las acquisition for General Motor's Poletown plant. Mayor Majewski also discusses impact of an auto industry failure on the nation.
The Education Minute 12/02
WWJ's Pat Vitale gives education tips beyond the classroom. A joint production of Eastern Michigan University-Education First! and WWJ.
Making the Grade 12/02
WWJ's Greg Bowman looks at current issues with schools and education and how they affect your children.
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