Bright Friday How to Be Good to People Ideas

There are so many ways to Be Good to People on Bright Friday. We have put together a fun list for you below. We'd love to hear YOUR ideas too! Post your ideas on social media with #BrightFriday or email us so we can share them with others!

Visit your neighborhood grocery store and help shoppers load grocery bags into their cars
Leave little Christmas treats (a candy cane with a note, a $5 gift card for that store) in shopping carts for the next shopper.
Tape coins & candy canes to vending/soda machines at various stores in the area.

Deliver poinsettias, treats, and cards to the local assisted living center.
Deliver Christmas treats to the local post office & postal workers.
Take a veteran out to eat.
Send handwritten notes to people you haven’t seen in a long time and let them know what you love about them.
Take time to sit down and have a conversation with a homeless person and be sure to look them in the eyes and be a good listener.
Offer to return people’s shopping carts to the store for them.
Leave a simple note of encouragement on a random car in a parking lot.

Donate crayons, papers, art supplies and games to your local children's hospital.
Buy a bunch of balloons and hand them out to random children.
Take fresh baked cookies to local fire or police department with a note thanking them for protecting the community.
Pay for the person behind you in a drive thru.
Leave a $10 bill tucked into a corner of some diapers.
Feed the parking meter for the person waiting for your spot.
Leave a gas card at the pump.
Leave a big bottle of laundry detergent at a laundromat.
Leave a $5 taped to the entrance of a car wash.
Leave unused coupons next to those items on the shelf
Give the grocery clerk $20 and ask them to apply it to the next person in line’s bill.
Give a hug to someone who really needs it. Ask first though, just to be respectful of their space.

Leave an extra-generous tip to an exceedingly awesome server in a restaurant or barista.
Take lunch to your local police or fire department.
Offer hot chocolate or coffee to construction or sanitation workers who are out working on a cold day.
Bring board games, books, magazines, flowers, kind notes to a nursing home.
Leave a beautiful bouquet of flowers at the hospital and ask that the nurses give them to a patient who needs them most.
Stand at a busy store and open doors for shoppers.
Offer to carry people’s groceries or other packages to their car.
Put sticky notes with positive messages (e.g., "You look gorgeous!") on a restroom mirror.
Arrange to pay anonymously for a soldier's breakfast when you see him or her dining alone.
Send dessert over to another table at a restaurant.
Treat an elderly neighbor with a gift card to the local movie theater.
Pay the toll for the car behind you.
Strike up a conversation with someone who's standing alone at a gathering.
Find opportunities to give compliments. It costs nothing, takes no time, and could make someone’s entire day.
See a person or a couple trying to take a photo of themselves? Offer to take it for them.
Make cards for seniors, vets at the VA or a hospital.
Donate non-perishable goods to a food pantry and decorate each with a little love note or smiley face.
Give out free reusable bags at the grocery store.
Give a bunch of pens to your server at a restaurant.
Play board games or work on a puzzle with seniors at a nursing home or with vets at the VA hospital.
Say thank you to a cleaning person, trash collector, street sweeper – give a little gift card or note or even just a smile and a “thank you.”
Clean people’s windshields.
Shovel your neighbor’s sidewalk.
SMILE!!!