Wednesday, December 7, 2011

homeless helper?

I just saw a cute idea for helping the homeless without giving them money. If you feel bad for people standing on the street corner here is something you can do that will only take a few dollars (if you use coupons) and will truly help someone if they are truly homeless. It is called a blessing bag. You take a Ziploc bag, of your choice, and fill it with things that would be of help to someone who does not have a home. You might put travel size toiletries in there, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, or a bar of soap. You could also put some single serving high calorie food items, a protein bar, cereal bar, individual apple sauce (with a spoon of course) also a great idea would be to stick in a to go bottle of pain medication, such as Tylenol or Advil. Any individual edible item would work great in there. You can either do a gallon size bag with a lot of stuff or a sandwich size with a little less stuff and be able to make more bags. Anyway this is a great idea for all year round not just around the holidays, I would also suggest making bags and just taking one and keeping one in the car until you are ready to hand it out, then once you give one away grab another one from home and you will be ready for the next person in need.

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