Thread: The Official "Pay it Forward" Post

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I would like to introduce myself:
I am Pay it Forward. I am an idea from Spookilicious Mama. The Goal is to make someone feel good and not expecting anything in return


Here is Spookilicious Mama’s Story and Plan:


Ok so something happened to me this weekend and it got me to thinking. So Friday night I came home very late from work exhausted! I was working a school dance and spent the entire night trying to keep the middle schoolers from grinding on anything that didn’t move so anyhoo I get home tired and starving and there is a package waiting for me. Now I haven’t ordered anything and I already received my S.R. gift so I had no idea what it was. Then I see the name on the return address...NOWHINING!!!

Well I open it and it is the book and candle prop that we all commented on and loved that she sent her secret reaper. I can not tell you how surprised I was and how great it made me feel that she took the time to send that to me knowing how much I would love it! So it got me to thinking..... What if we started a Pay it Foward here at the forum??

Here is my plan. Since I was so moved by what Nowhining did for me I decided I am now going to send something I have that I know a certain someone on here would appreciate I am hoping that the person who receives my little surprise will do the same and send something they own to someone one else and so on and so on and so on....
I am not asking you to send your most prized possession however we all have things that maybe we like but not love or are attached to. If you have one of those items and you know there is someone on here on the forum who would appreciate it more than you I encourage you to send it to them

I will be sending my Pay it Foward gift out this week. If you think you would like this idea and would like to do the same please go for it! This is a completely selfless task but the reward of knowing you are going to make someone’s day without expecting anything in return will be outstanding. So below is the pic of the great surprise I received and when Pay it Foward gift is received I hope they post a pic as well and also keep the whole Pay it Foward idea going.



I decided to edit this post: If you receive a surprise in the mail and you just don’t have anything you think anyone would want or have anything you really don’t mind parting with...NO WORRIES This is designed to be a selfless act you are not expected to send out anything right away...maybe later on in the year you come across a find that you wouldn’t mind sending out and that would be fine too or maybe you never do. That is ok too. Those of us that are participating are simply doing it for the Joy of giving. No expectations from the receiver at all. However if you do have something then by all means Pay it Foward!

So this account will be ran by me, SniggleZ and I am using the Pay it Forward account to collect any address of anyone who is interested in this great idea. Once you PM your address real name/user name you are saying it is ok for me to give your personal address out to any HF person who wants to send you something. If I do not have an address for someone I would have to contact them personally and ask if they are ok with me giving out their address. I will not give out any contact info unless you give me the ok for it.

PLEASE KEEP IN MIND IF YOU GIVE ME YOUR PERSONAL INFO OR LEAVE IT AS A PM ON “PAY IT FORWARD’S” ACCOUNT (NAME AND ADDRESS) PLEASE UNDERSTAND I AM SHARING IT WITH OTHERS ON HF AND I AM IN NO WAY RESPONSIBLE “IF” SOMETHING BECOMES OF IT. I WILL AT NO TIME EVER GIVE OUT ANY PERSONAL INFO TO ANYONE OTHER THAN THE PEOPLE ON HF. PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES NOTES AND GIFTS CLEAN AND APPROPRIATE

I hope everyone here has fun with this. Please remember if you do get something don’t feel you have to send something or send something ASAP. This is like Spookilicious Mama said a selfless act.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask

I did ask Larry about the Sticky Post this was his reply:
At this time, we cannot make this a sticky. Luckily, it probably will get a lot of activity so it should stay visible. Thanks.

Thank you Everyone and Have FUN.

I would like to have a better Avatar more Halloween looking if anyone is interested in making a Pay it Forward Avatar for this account please PM me. Thanks

Nice to meet you pay it forward lol.
I am bumping it for you.
And thanks for taking this over.

I was thinking if you give me your address to add I will mark you as a friend this way people can look at the list of friends to see if the person you want to give a gift too is listed here. I hope to get PM's soon.

PiF

Originally Posted by Pay it Forward

I was thinking if you give me your address to add I will mark you as a friend this way people can look at the list of friends to see if the person you want to give a gift too is listed here. I hope to get PM's soon.

PiF

Great idea.. I'll get the ball rolling and PM you now..

YAY you did it!!!! This is so great! Thank you again for taking this over

I wanna play. Sending the PM.

Its nice to see that people are starting to send in their info. I have about 4 friends and waiting for 2 more to approve me. I sent out a few emails being a few didn't understand everything so hope to hear from them soon. Then hope we see pictures soon once people start sending gifts out. Remember the way you become a friend of Pay it Forward is by sending me a PM with your real name and address. This way when people see the friends list they know I already have those address's

Thanks
PiF

Hey there just wanted to BUMP this up so more people will see it and hopefully participate

I love this. Sending my info now.

I want in on this! I have met the most wonderful group of people here. And honestly when I joined I was a little worried. I thought I love Halloween but I'm not some gothic weirdo like these people must be. Then I join and I have never felt more welcome. No one cares about what you do, where you live. Everyone is so NICE. I feel so blessed to have found this place. I mentioned in a different thread that I have had a horrific week. I lost a friend and was devastated and added my profile to a Facebook thread and only got one friend out of it. Usually no biggie. But this past week it really bummed me out. Well I open up my FB this morning and I had four more. How nice was that?

I can't say how much little acts of kindness mean. I suffer from Social Anxiety and leaving my house can be a real challenge some days. I have worked very hard for two years to overcome it and while I still have a long way to go I have been doing so good. Then this past week someone I cared deeply for told me they don't want anything to do with me. Why? They think I am lying about a minor detail in my past. I wasn't but I wasn't even afforded the opportunity to clarify. I was just cut out of their life. For anyone this would be hard but for someone with SA it can be life altering. I have been wrestling very hard to hold on to all the progress I have made and not do what instinctually I want to do - which is delete my FB account, not answer my phone, lock myself In my house and forget about friends. To know that people here saw my sadness and mind you I didn't go to this detail - well they have no idea how much that little act of friending me on FB helped me. It was so incredibly kind. I love this forum and it's people.