MISSION: Little Boxes of Love

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I think it’s only fitting that I post a few of the sweet VDay missions that my agents are completing.  Rest assured, no sappy, romantic stuff here.  Just loving messages and acts of kindness, with the intent to remind us all that we are loved and worth being loved…in all kinds of ways.

After all, that’s what Valentine’s Day should be about.  All kinds of love, for every.single.person.

No exceptions.

DATE:
Thursday, 10 February 2011

OPERATIVE:
Affiliated Agent T

LOCATION:
various locations around a town in western Pennsylvania

TIME:
11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

I love my town. I really really love my town. In fact, I wish there was a way for me to give a Valentine to my entire town, I love it that much. So, one night, an idea struck me to do a massive Valentine’s Day themed mission, and I had just the thing to use.

When Affiliate Husband S and I got married, our wedding favors were these little white boxed filled with candy. The boxes had stickers on them with our names and wedding date, and a simple “Thank you for sharing our special day”. The candy inside was wrapped red and white puffed peppermint candies, so yummy. Everyone loved them. Unfortunately, I made way too many favors, and we had a lot left over, over six dozen actually. So, instead of throwing them away (so wasteful) or eating all that candy ourselves (so fattening), I decided to turn the extra favors into a mission.

I took all the stickers off the boxes, and hand wrote on each box “For you, yes you!!”. Then on the tags, I also hand wrote on one side “A random act of Valentine’s Day kindness. – An Affiliate of Secret Agent L.” and on the other side I put the Secret Agent L web address and Twitter handle. This took me about a week to do this, working on a few at a time. Finally, after they were all done, the little boxes of love for my town waited patiently for delivery.

I decided to go to lots of different places to leave boxes. I went to 18 different places around town, including the post office, library, mass transit station, laundromat, and several businesses. Along the way, I stopped for lunch, because, hey, even secret agents need to eat, and I left one for my waitress with her tip. It was so fun to put the little boxes around. I tried to place them strategically, in the Valentines sections of stores, and in some cases handed them to the workers in the businesses as well.

Valentine’s Day can be a little lonely for some people, so I hope in some small way I helped a few people realize how loved they are, not only on Valentine’s Day, but every day of the year.

I know this is a few days early for Valentine’s day, but I just could not wait any longer to do this mission. I have been working on it for a couple of weeks, and when I woke up to sunshine, the excitement got the best of me, and I knew today had to be the day I carried out the mission. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Affiliated Agent T, I LOVE this mission (no pun intended!).  You exemplify the meaning of unconditional love, of kindness, and of community.  Thank you for once again extending your heart in such a pure way.  (And I LOVE the Secret Agent L t-shirt you’re rockin’ in the third photo!  You go, girl!)