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We might not expect a typical garage sale to make the Washington Post,

but what happened recently in Arlington, Virginia, was anything but typical. Susan Thompson

Gaines recently staged her third annual kindness yard sale outside her home. The two-day event was a

kindness sale in two ways. One, you could pay whatever you chose

for any item. If you wanted to hand over $5 for 20 dresses or $10 for a bike, she simply thanked

you. Two, she will spend the money not on herself, but to help others. After last year's sale, she and her

husband threw a virtual beach party for a group of people living with Alzheimer's disease,

kept an outdoor pantry filled with food, and added coffee pods to a teacher's lounge. She also helped

111 neighborhood children write letters to Santa.

Thompson Gaines then wrote each child a personalized letter from Santa,

and gave them a wrapped present under a tree,

adorned with ornaments from people across the neighborhood.

This year's sale raised more than $11,000.

People across the next year will be helped by her remarkable

kindness as a result. What Susan Thompson Gaines does with her kindness yard sale is both

extraordinary and ordinary. She touches hundreds, if not thousands, of lives with her unusual generosity,

but her yard sale is something nearly everyone with a yard could do. It requires no advanced

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