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Kind things under ten dollars
Small money, deliberately spent. The amount matters far less than the specificity — a $4 coffee for the person on the shift nobody wants lands harder than a $40 gift nobody asked for.
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Find out who is not allowed to accept tips
Many of the people who help you most are barred from taking money. Something small they can accept works instead.
5 minutesUnder $10A stranger
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Leave something out for the refuse crew at Christmas
The crew that has taken your rubbish every week for a year passes your house in the dark in December.
5 minutesUnder $10A stranger
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Turn up for the team that is losing
Supporting anything is easy when it is going well. The useful attendance is in a bad season.
OngoingUnder $10A friend
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Do the jobs that need a ladder
Light bulbs, smoke alarms, curtain hooks. A short list of small jobs becomes impossible at the same time.
Half an hourUnder $10A neighbor
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Put a cold box out in a heatwave
Delivery drivers, refuse crews and postal workers do forty-degree days on foot with no realistic way to stop.
5 minutesUnder $10A stranger
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Leave quarters at the laundromat
A few dollars in coins, left on the machines, for whoever counted wrong tonight.
5 minutesUnder $10A stranger
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Bring something to whoever has the worst shift
Someone is working Sunday night, the holiday, or the 5am open. They are having a different day than you.
Half an hourUnder $10A friend
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