Day #29 Gift > Hooray for 29 days of giving

OK, tomorrow I’ll do a ‘best-of’ for the past 29 days of giving, but first I just gotta tell you what a truly amazing experience it has been for me.

Based on the website 29Gifts.org, the premise is that you are supposed to give something away every day for 29 days.

Most of my gifts were posted here on the blog, and a few others were more quiet.

Some make the house smell great (baking cookies), and other gifts made me feel awkward while I ran away (buying a woman’s lunch in a restaurant and having the waitress nearly give me away in her disbelief).

And then there’s the banana bread.

For yesterday’s gift, I was going to bake 3 banana breads for “Chez Doris,” a Montreal drop-in centre, where you can knit, play cards, watch TV, see the doctor, and get fed three meals a day.

When I suggested that some of you might want to also sponsor a few banana breads, well, I’ve received 12 confirmed sponsors so far …

This afternoon A. went out to a corner store and found somebody with dead bananas for sale… lots of them.  I told him to bring home 36 bananas (i.e. 3 x 12 banana breads = 36).  He instead decided it seemed like a good idea to buy ALL OF THE DEAD BANANAS this store had.  All of them.

Want to know what 52 dead bananas look like?

this is what 52 dead bananas look like

There are so many, in fact, that we’re going to have to store them in a plastic container outside in the snow because I don’t have enough fridge or freezer room.

So that means that I can make a few more if you’re interested in a tiny sponsor?  It’s $2.50 per banana bread (which is $2.05 US).

Don’t feel like you have to buy 4 or 5 of them.  You can just raise your hand for one.  I’ve set up the link here.

Tomorrow I’m going to ask you what your New Year’s Resolutions are, so get ready now …

All best & happy banana bread,
Shelley