Ideas for November

Inexpensive Ways to show Thanks and Giving this November.

1. Write a Note of Thanks and Encouragement to your Pastor
2. Write a note of THANKS to a best friend, colleague, childhood mentor
3. Find silly items like fury socks and mail them to the Best Friend
4. Place a baggie of candy with a Thank You note for the mail person who always delivers.
5. Bake up a batch of irresistible cookies or brownies and drop them off to a neighbor
6. Offer to host Small Group or clean up after small group
7. Buy the Marines BEER and Pizza on the USMC Birthday (Nov 10th!)
8. Grab a bag of unused toiletries and donate them to a Vets Homeless Shelter for Veteran's Day.
9. Volunteer time at the Veteran's Office/VA homes.
10. Walk the neighbors dog
11. Bake homemade dog/cat treats for the neighborhood pets
12. Invite friends over for a homemade dinner
13. Invite Single Marines to Thanksgiving
14. Buy water bottles and pass them out at a local park
15. Buy some movie passes and hand them out to parents at church
16. Give Starbucks giftcards to Worship Leaders at church
17. Sponsor a Child through Compassion
18. Write letters to Grandparents with a box of hershey's hugs and kisses
19. Buy some hats and gloves and donate them to homeless shelters along with gift cards to grocery stores
20. Make your spouse's favorite home cooked meal 
21. Buy pencils, blue, crayons, paper and donate to local elementary school
22. Collect BOXTOPS FOR EDUCATION and donate to schools
23. Volunteer at local YMCA, Christamore house, Big Brother Big Sister
24. Spend quality and intentional time with friends. Put down the cell phone.
25. Make a date night with the Spouse.
26. Pay Cash for your gas and tell them to use the extra on the next customer.
27. Over-tip the Pedicure ladies/gentlemen
28. Find recipes that remind you of home and mail them to siblings
29. Plan road trip to see family and friends during the holidays
30. Invite family home for the holidays
31. Buy giftcards for teachers 
32. Host a blog giveaway
33. Send expired coupons to military families overseas
34. Host a Book Swap, giving away more than you're taking
35. Buy flowers for patients in Nursing Homes
36. Volunteer at Nursing Homes
37. Hold a Cookie/Chex Mix party
38. Donate all those extra Bibles to the local Church association. 
39. Donate a bag or two of free after coupon food to food pantry
40. Create a playlist and burn to cd for friends
41. Give away books once you've read them
42. Send Christmas Cards to deployed military members
43. Purchase small flags, post them in the cemetery on Veteran's grave sites
44. Vote in local elections
45. Donate Halloween candy to the Dentist buy back programs
46. Donate toys EXCEPT stuffed animals to Toys for Tots program
47. Donate money to an adoption fund of fellow bloggers
48. Buy enough Thanksgiving food for two dinners, give one away
49. Host a Christmas Music swap
50. Donate UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATERS, unless you're having an ugly sweater party...

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