About 'opening up our treasures'

Many of us may well be inclined to say, "What treasures! I don't have any, literally or figuratively,'' but what about such attributes as smiling, showing courtesy, kindness, thoughtfulness? All of us have skills of one kind or another if we only came to realise and recognise them as such.

'Opening up our treasures'  could be as simple as wearing our best clothes for church or when we go out; using our 'best' cutlery and crockery regularly and giving more than the asking price in charity shops.

This last idea came in a book called ''365 Ways to make the World a Better Place.'' It's one that took my fancy and one which I've tried to follow. That may seem very little, but, for me, it's another step along the path of countering my 'careful'  (or economical as I prefer to call them) habits!

There must be hundreds of ways in which we can open ourselves and our possessions up for the good of others. If, like me, you tend to 'save things for special occasions' then, considering that we may well be dead before we get our money's worth out of them may be an incentive to open up the treasures we do have, sooner rather than later.