Have you ever found a letter meant for someone else?

What an excellent idea!  I've been extremely blessed by resale stores, and am fascinated by what I have found in them.  Thanks for sharing…….can't wait to start doing that too!

You have just made my regular day into a super lucky day with just a few pixels. Thanks for this big old grin you have just put on my face. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

This is a brilliant idea and I am so glad you shared it here! thank you !!
I am off to write - I Love You on a million peices of paper and I am going to radomly leave them in pokets on my travels… Why stop at second hand stores? I am going everywhere :)

in fact, I have some lovely love poems that would be great for this too :) Cheers for random acts of letter dropping !

I love that! I'd be so delighted to find a special note in a pocket!

You are such a little fairy~ What a great idea!

How lovely this world is,because you exist.
Dittoing Dawn,thank you thank you thank you

Echo to all of the above comments.
How lovely you are  :)

Ditto, ditto , ditto.  What a simple and brilliant way to make a difference!

“I like thinking that I have the power to do that, to make a regular day into someone's lucky day out of nothing but paper and ink. I like smuggling the little notes in unseen, stealing something into a store” is just so generous.

i'm a very frequent shopper at thrift stores and i always check the pockets….but haven't found anything yet:(  that would be amazing, and really lift my day if i did though.  i really like the idea of leaving change for the children too…although my own children would probably catch onto my scheme, and try to get some for themselves instead.  they've already figured out the majik of the tooth faerie.  another good idea would be to leave little toys, or money around a park like an easter egg hunt…

Tink, just another example of why I read your every post. I am absolutely am in love with the notions of epistolary relationships – and this idea! A friend of mine has a plan to write notes in the covers of books and then slip them into the stacks at the Harvard library. And once, I found a wilted balloon on a walk across campus. In the attached note, this guy wrote that he and his family launched balloons every spring with notes attached to see who would write to them. So I responded and we wrote back and forth for months. Of course we then tragically ruined it by meeting. Alas … Anyway, I would love to be a guinea pig for your great idea of leaving a letter somewhere and seeing if someone would mail it. I'll email you my snailmail coordinates and feel free to give me yours if you'd like me to do the same. A letter from the hand of a fairy on the edge – a thrilling prospect indeed!

reading this post was the sweetest thing ever. thank you. i hope to stumble on one of your tattered notes someday. i feel inspired.

Jeannie, my heart sings reading about your kindness. this is a wonderful thing to do & I'm soo gonna copycat you. I love shopping secondhand & like the notion that there are stories hidden in the fabric of clothes I buy. And later today I'll send off a couple of balloons, one for you & one for Lil..

I recently watched a doc on tv about human behavior in big cities vs smaller towns. one of the experiments was leaving a letter on the street for bypassers to pick up. The letterbox was close by & the interesting thing was that folks in the smaller town picked up the letter & posted it. No one did in the big town.

The conclusion made from this & other experiments was that we become alienated towards each other & dare I say, our own humanness as well? when we live cramped together. Maybe it's our primal instincts that come into play because we are surrounded by way to many strangers in big towns & subconsciously are on alert when we live in a human zoo.

OMG.  Your big wide enormous open compassionate playful heart has me in tears.  Wait!  I'm on my feet now!  Searching through my pockets…just maybe…

I am sooooo going to follow in your footsteps.  Deep bows. 

I do this too! But I do it in regular stores–sneaking little messages into pockets of jackets or jeans or leaving little notes tucked into books at bookstores. Sometimes I even leave money (nothing big, just a dollar or so) tucked into a hidden niche. It's so much fun and such a treat to think about who might discover it and what they might think, and the notes themselves are ever so much fun to write. Sometimes I sign them “an admirer;” sometimes I write them so as to appear that the recipient was picked out specifically; sometimes I make them appear to be from a little nymph or otherworldly creature.

Positive social deviace. It's one of the best non-consumer leisure activities out there. :)

I love it when Siona pops up!
And here on this blog with Tink, it feels like the fairies are gathering and I can see magic dust all over my screen and now puffing  out around my room
:)
Positive social deviance indeed
I used to write little positive anonymous letters to people who would leave magazines on trains with their name and address stickers on the front.
My X husband likes to sneak onto front lawns in the fall and plant crocuses in the neighbourhood.  He has a special tool to make the process quick and effective.
Be the change eh?

Benevolent mayhem! That's perfect. Is there an opposite to terrorism? Appreciationism? Wonderism? Amazementism? I think we should start a subversive movement where we whisper good things behind people's backs and sneakily plot to make the world outrageously fun and wonderful.

And thank you, ruth. :)

At work everything is public awards driven.  Displays of worthiness in comparison to peers.
There are even little guardian angel lapel pin awards:  donation cards for patients to fill out and 'name your guardian angel' when they send in a cheque.  So some staff  wear angels on their lapels.  That's very nice actually.
But so much nicer is anonymous good will and anonymous sprinkling of love and fairy dust when there is no public secondary gain for the giver.  Then all win.  Then you know you are not causing feelings of unworthiness among some others,  based on public back slapping.  Only good will that goes round and round.
You are an inspiration.
I shall have to think of a new project… hmmm…..

Ab/Fab, Jeannie, love the mere thought of unknown treasures hidden in pockets, waiting to be found!

Ruth, every fall, in the dark of the night I plant daffodils in front of my funny little apartment complex, just to see the double-takes on my neighbors faces the next spring!  This year, red, red tulips.  My (our) daffies now number around 100!  Covert bulb planting at its finest.

This entire post, from everyone, has given me perma-grin.  My heart is elevated about 2 miles higher, and I'm absolutely GIDDY imagining you all, and your beautiful acts of kindness, and this post which encourages us all to join in on the fun. 

Here's to “Benevolent mayhem”!  Oh my gosh…  do you think we could get Brad Pitt to star in a new movie with us? 

Oh Jeannie-us, I am in awe of your letter-al thinking!!!

All my love, Rosy :-)

hey – I did it!  My first time.  I left a little scrap of paper with a poem on it in the pocket of a coat at the thrift store.  It was my first time.  it was thrilling!!   Thanks for the great idea.  I feel like a secret agent of luuuuuv.  :-) 

Oh Jeannie, Jeannie, Jeannie, I've said it before and I'll say it again - you are an absolute Jeannie-us!!!  

I'm so, so, so, so, so happy because the love letter you planted for me finally made its way to London today - yippee!!!  

I tell you, I'm drunk on sn-ale mail - thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!  

All my love, your Rosebud-dy :-)

To all the fans of this post, next time you’re giving a book away or taking a pile to donate to the library or thrift store, read this article first and be inspired!