(Day 1) 29-Day Giving Challenge - A place for sharing.

[Damummis]

Deb & Writer, never thought of meal tickets. There is always some fund raiser dinner going on. It is giving twice the way you guys did it. NICE

 

[Damummis]

Writer,
I checked out your etsy store............. Nice work!!! I have great appreciation for people that can draw like that. Living things are hard to capture.

 

[rainplace]

I'm not going to lie. This is frakkin hard. Much harder than I thought it would be. Yesterday I didn't give anything. By the time I was done working outside I remembered it was Thursday and it was time for me to head to work. It's my overnight day. When I realized what a funk I had gotten into because I didn't give, I thought, "well it's over for the day." In retrospect I still could have done something.

I'm not gonna beat myself up about it (gift to myself

) and today I'm going to go through all those clothes that are EVERYWHERE and start putting them in boxes for the goodwill. I can kill two birds with one stone that way... clean the bedroom, laundry room and garage and give as well. I hate to admit it, but I have often thrown out good clothes because the idea of getting them fresh, packing them up, and getting them to the drop off overwhelms me so much that I end up not doing anything. Hrmm... speaking of overwhelming, maybe I won't think of it in terms of going through everything, and start with the goal of getting one box down there.

Weavegarden, thank you so much for lending me your ear last night. It's rare that I'm able to be open that way with someone. I'm finding you to be a wonderful person to know and an awesome friend to have.

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Camelot Farms, I'll take that challenge! Thank you for your words of support!

Damummis, I agree, the meal tickets idea from Deb and Writer are a great idea. And thanks for the KUDOS. I'll take some of that

yummy!

 

[weaveagarden]

Rainplace. You did give something yesterday. You gave me the gift of trust. I know that was very hard for you to give. And not to get all gushy and make these other readers ill, but I hope you know how much your friendship means to me.

By the way, I am proud of you for taking up the challenge. Good for you!

 

[feathersnuggles]

Hey rainplace, I think you're a wonderful giving person! Thanks for putting this challenge together and thanks for your honesty. It means a lot! (((hugs)))

Thanks everyone, for your comments. I am just getting caught up again. These are great ideas for me. Weavegarden, I am glad you posted about giving to your dog. I love giving to animals, because they ALWAYS accept! LOL. It makes me feel loved in return.

Yesterday, I *think* the only gift I gave, and outside my comfort zone, was for a person holding a sign that said they were homeless. I stopped, smiled, asked him how he was doing. Then I gave him a little money. Normally I give to organizations that help homeless instead of directly to panhandlers. But this was a challenge for me: to not judge, and to give a little trust. It made him happy. He shouted out: THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Then we both burst out laughing.

 

[rainplace]

Thank you, fethersnuggles! Very good on stepping out of your comfort zone. I need to start doing the same.

I entered the walk-in-closet. I don't know why we still call it that since no one could walk into it. Talk about overwhelming... sheesh.

(side note, what does whelm mean? I don't know if I've ever heard the word "whelm" used before <runs off to the dictionary> lol... looks like whelm means "to engulf entirely with or as if with water." so how can one be more than entirely? basically whelm means the same as overwhelm. I love words! back to our regularly scheduled program)

So yeah, I went into the closest and came back out with a box of nice clothes. Some business clothes (in style

), leather coat, sweaters, two pair of slightly worn shoes, and some summer tanks that are a little too tight across my bust these days. The best thing is that with just a little fiddling around we now have a walk-in closet again! I'm off to drop them off so I don't jinx the new closet!

 

[jojo54]

I gave away some more eggs today. I decided to give each of my regular customers a dozen (I have 5 regulars) Today my customer tried to pay for the extra dozen and I said no I was giving it to her. She had a strange look on her face like she couldn't understand what I was doing.

 

[sonew123]

sheesh Ive been off and on for 2 days with sinus problems and therer pages and pages to read...you guys are making me cry with all your sweetness and love flowing around this thread I gave alot of help and patience at work today-I have a woman that works for me and she drives me CRAZY! Instead of almost ignoring and tuning her voice out I actually listened and show care and concern--mind you it killed me but I did it so she felt needed and she is. She is a great worker -very hard worker but a basket case-a medical basket case--always has something wrong with her and has to see every doctor imaginable..Im really trying to be patient and kind--I mean I am like that most of the time but you know when theres someone that makes the hair on the back of your neck stick up--yup I got one of those..

 

[Damummis]

I sent my 8 year old niece all my Sew News mags. I hear she is a little me in the making

. I can't wait to hear her squeal.
Other than that I had gotten a jump on spring cleaning.

 

[weaveagarden]

I gave 2 dozen eggs today. That is all so far, but I am thinking that I want to be open to doing something on the internet also. We will see what giving opportunities the universe provides.
I tried to post yesterday and got everything written out and then all of a sudden all of my words were just gone off of the page. I am not sure what happened. I didn't even hit the send. Anyway, it took the wind out of my sails, and I just decided I wasn't meant to post. So I hope I do better this time.