The holidays about family, love, joy and community. We've rounded up the best ways to be a part of something bigger and give back this year. Here are a few ways to give back this holiday season.
- Sponsor a family on an angel tree
- Bake cookies for your neighbors
- Make cards for residents at a nursing home
- Be a Dollar Store Angel and leave $1's and $5's in random places on shelves for others to find and use
- Volunteer at a local soup kitchen or animal shelter
- Wrap blankets for Salvation Army and homeless shelters
- Mail holiday cards to the troops
- Donate your child's books they no longer read
- Leave a homemade treat with a kind note to your mailman
- Pay for someone behind you in the drive-thru line
- Give your delivery driver an extra tip
- Donate pet food and cat litter to a local shelter
- Make holiday cards for your local first responders
- Let your kids shop for a local food pantry donation
- Shovel the sidewalks in your neighborhood
- Leave snacks on your porch for delivery drivers (UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc.)
- Contact a local homeless shelter and ask what's on their wish list -- many are collecting hats/gloves in addition to non-perishable food
- Donate blood or plasma to a local blood bank
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