Thank you gift you gave.....

[dereksbicycles]

Many years ago, my Dad was just starting his own home based business. He did not have a fax machine. He would go to next door neighbor to use their fax machine a lot.

Later on, he got tickets for 4 of us to go to Bulls basketball game. 4 of us---Mom, Dad, my brother, and me. Well, my brother decided that he did not want to go. So Dad had an extra ticket. He decided to offer ticket free to next door neighbor as a goodwill gesture because of all the times Dad went next door to use fax machine. Neighbor was more than glad to accept the good will gesture.

What was one "thank you" gesture you gave or got??? Don't tell me you simply wrote a thank you note and that is it. I want to know about action(s) that was taken.

 

[jazzy]

Here, we bought our neighbor a brand new carthart jacket ($150.00) for Christmas gift from us for all his help us for last few years with trash cans. My husband has bad back and sometime he could not do it so our next door will come in our backyard and take the trash cans out to put front for trash man to pick them up. I usually take the trash cans out night before but sometime I forgot and/or hurried to go to work in the am. I sometime hope my husband would do it for me but sometime he could not move because of so much pain. There he go our neighbor, our rescue. Once in awhile we give him our eggs from our hens. I am sure we have alot to give other people too but I cant remember the rest.

 

[rockin'robin]

We had an elderly couple that were moving in to their house. My sons were outside at the time...the couple were struggling with some heavy stuff, so my sons asked them if they needed any help......About a week later, it was Xmas...and they came over with gifts and food...it was very nice of them....they also hired one of my sons to do some landscaping and paid him very well for it....soon as they got settled in, we gave them a new Coffeemaker, sort as a welcome to the neighborhood and for being so nice. We remain friends to this day.

 

[green427]

An old classmate from my high school said "Thank You" on Facebook recently. I asked her what I did.....she said that I helped to carry her from the high school prom dance floor to her car after she hurt her foot.

I honestly do not recall doing that, but, the fact that she has been grateful all these years made me feel like I actually made a difference in someone's life.

 

[KristinaB]

For a number of years while in Missouri, I would make crib size quilts to donate. Seems I did well enough that I was asked to put in a tag with my name. I must have made a good 400 of them or more. Well, I think I was left totally speechless when I was invited to go to the neighbor's church. I thought it was a simple service I was going to. Not so. After the service, we went to the fellowship hall for a luncheon. While there, these 3 families appeared on stage. They all had toddlers with them. I got a standing ovation and hugs from all of them as well as handwritten notes thanking me for my quilts. They had traveled from India for this. Each of the toddlers was holding the quilt I made that they had received. The families had adopted the toddlers from the orphanage.

 

[Grayma]

Kristina, that's beautiful! You have truly blessed so many people with such a precious gift. Our second grandson spent his first 40 or so days of life in the NICU and there were a couple of hand-made gifts that local women made and provided to the hospitals for NICU babies. I can't tell you how much those touches of something home-like and personal meant to the NICU moms.

When we were a young family stationed in Okinawa, we had the single and unaccompanied military members from our church over every weekend for games and home-cooked meals.
To thank us one year, some of the guys got together and gave me a very expensive set of cooking pans. That was around 1989, and I still have them and cook with them every day.

When we moved away, the women at church got together and made me a hand-made quilt appliqued with fabric cut-outs of their hands and their children's hands.

A couple years ago a friend of my daughters' graduated from University but didn't have a job yet. We let her stay at our house rent-free while she looked for a job. She makes us a huge box of home-made fudge in several different flavors every year at Christmas.

 

[SneakerNet]

When BGE start cleaning out all the trees near power lines, that including cutting the trees down. There are two trees front of my house that is near the power line and been cut down. So, I have two stumps sitting there and I want to get rid of it. One day, the owner of construction company brought along the tree stump removal machine. He came up to me and asked if I would like to remove the stumps, I was thrill and he went ahead and do it. He didn't ask for money or anything like that. So, when he finish it, he was about to leave, I holler him and came to him, I gave him $100 to say thanks. He was totally surprised, even though he is wealthy but I still give him as appreciation. No matter what if we are wealthy or poor, but I still give it to him. Then I told him, next time he bring his huge tractor, I would like to borrow it! He said, "No problem!"