Today it was a little harder to complete my gift for the 29-Day Giving Challenge. It’s the weekend, and for me, this often means I am home the whole time, with no one in sight but my husband.
Of course, my husband is a perfectly legitimate and worthy gift recipient, but somehow it seemed too easy to focus solely on the people that are directly before me every day. Thus, when we went out for Steak N’ Shake, I bought a $5 gift card and left it with instructions that the cashier give it to the next person who ordered a milkshake. Congratulations, your milkshake’s on me! I also left the URL for the website on the card with a note about the Challenge.
This brings up some questions for me. Days 2 & 3 have both involved buying things. I don’t mind this, but somehow it makes me feel like I am doing the Giving Challenge ‘wrong.’ And Not until today have I given anything to anyone that I didn’t know. Somehow that seems important too. So what are the guidelines here? What would you feel compelled to do? I know there are no hard and fast rules, but I want to make the most of this if I am going to go through with it.
October 27, 2008 at 12:03 am
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