When I drive into any particular neighborhood I love to look at all of the homes and the landscaping surrounding them. I think if your neighborhood is looking pretty, it reflects on everyone who lives there.
A few months ago I became the crime watch neighborhood block captain and love volunteering my time for that. Then last week I got together with a few of my neighbors and we are forming our own neighborhood beautification group.
Next weekend several of us are volunteering our time for 4 hours to walk through our neighborhood to clean up trash, help the older neighbors to do lawn care, plant some new flowers and other things. We have several seniors living in our development and we are going to help them clean up their properties & so forth.
We just got permission from the township to plant some pretty flowers near the entrance into our development & we are looking forward to do that too! I will try to remember to get some before and after photos to share here on the blog.
Do any of you work on projects like this with your neighbors? Our neighborhood people were not a close knit group until we moved in and started putting things like this together. Next month we are hosting a neighborhood-wide yard sale too!
I live in a condo and sit on the gardening committee – and I must say we do a great job! A friend of mine does work on her neighborhood beautification project and they rallied for permission to plant a veggie garden and install a free library stand. They were successful on both and the results have been a breath of fresh air for the center of their neighborhood.
Congrats to the winners.
We have a neighborhood townhouse yard sale every year. A lawn service does the lawn & trees & shrubs but individuals have a bit of space and usually have flowers.
This is such a wonderful idea. I am all for picking up trash in your area and I love helping seniors. Just last week I was at the hair salon and there was this VERY elderly lady getting her hair cut. We started talking to each other and she mentioned that she walked to the salon that day. I yelled “You Walked Here!!!!!!!” It was 105+ degrees outside and I could barely walk into the salon from my car. I told her you are NOT walking home I will not allow that and I drove her home.
I love that you do this kind of thing for your neighborhood I can’t wait to see the pictures. Oh and I love the big yard sale idea.
That is fabulous Heather! I love hearing things like that. We can ALL do more to help pay it forward!
I think that its great to get together and do things like that with the neighbors. My neighbors ar not so much into stuff like that so, no, I dont get the opportunity. But I have lived in neighborhoods before where we could/did! Have fun at the garage sale!
I think everyone needs to do their part to keep their communities looking nice. Way too often I drive down the street and see junk in the yards, trash & litter all over the street & yards and no one does a damn thing about it.
Congratulations to the 2 winners.
You really are great organizer and I don’t know where you find either the time or energy to do everything. I am sure that the seniors will appreciate your help. I would like to see the before and after pictures.