Some Anonymous Pay It Forward Ideas

1. Buy a bunch of “Get Well Soon” balloons and take them to your area children’s hospital. Stop at the nurse’s station and say, “Would you take these to the kids in the Burn Ward or the Cancer Ward?” Then simply walk away.

2. Go to the Post Office at Christmastime and ask for a Santa letter. Get the child whatever it is he/she has listed at the top of his/her wish list and have it shipped to them from “Santa”. Santa doesn’t HAVE to be a myth.

3. Pay for someone’s cleaning at the dry cleaners. If it’s the type of place where people pay at pick-up, tell the cashier to go back to the rack and pull an order for one or two shirts and pay the bill for them. Ask them to staple a “Pay It Forward” card on the order.

4. Donate Blood.

5. Have a bouquet of “Just Because” flowers to the “shy,” “quiet,” or “lonely-seeming” girl at the office. Feign shock and non-involvement…never taking credit and never letting anyone else in the office know you sent them.

6. Call one of your local utilities and ask to pay the bill of an elderly citizen. Or, if you know of a struggling single parent in your neighborhood, give the utility company their home address and say you’d like to pay something towards their current amount due (or past due amount).

7. Instead of throwing away the things you no longer want, donate your old clothing and furniture to the needy. If you hold a garage sale, pledge to give at least 10% of the proceeds to a local charity or the food bank.