For example.
There's this crochet project I've had my eye on for a while. It's actually the reason I learned to crochet. I have been keeping an eye out for the right yarn for this project for a year or two now and I finally found it over the summer! The perfect yarn - 50% bamboo, 50% microfibre - soft and shiny and just right. Except I only have 6 balls of it and I figure I need 12 to do a nice sized blanket. And the store doesn't have any more. It's kind of a discontinued German yarn. Can't find it online anywhere. Tried ordering it from a German shop online but they refunded my money and said they were sold out, so I really literally can't find it anywhere.My last hope was to find someone with it in their yarn pile who would sell it to me. I contacted one person through Ravelry (a knitting/crochet website) but they wanted to keep theirs (they had 10 balls too!!), which is totally fair, as this yarn is awesome. There was only 1 other person -I contacted her and she didn't need it so she offered to put it in the mail and said I should make a donation to a charity instead of paying her.
It's wonderful online experiences like that that restore my faith in humanity. Random acts of generosity and niceness. I need to do more random acts of generosity and niceness myself.
Also - yay, yarn!
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Knitters and crocheters are really the nicest people on the planet. I swear its true. I've got anecdotal evidence!
A good friend of mine, on her birthday, asked us all to do a random act of kindness. SO MUCH FUN. I'm stealing the idea, if you did too, there would be a lot of kindness in the world come February :).
I also have anecdotal evidence! I have some plans for February to increase goodness in the world, just wait. :)
You made my day! And banished my post-election blues. So more random niceness!