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  1. Clean all the bathrooms in your house without being asked.
  2. Offer to babysit younger siblings or cousins "pro bono" (that means for free).
  3. Offer to help wrap gifts for extended family and friends.
  4. Give everyone a card with a heart felt message of love inside.
  5. Introduce a "cyberphobe" to the wonders of the internet.
  6. Offer to sit at the "kids" table when there isn't enough room at the "adults" table, even if somebody younger than you ends up sitting with the big people.
  7. After the big family dinner, organize an activity to keep the littlest members of the family entertained, or rent a popular kids video and make the popcorn.
  8. Call your grandparents, your sibling who is away at college or another relative you hardly ever call on your own.
  9. Create an online tribute (personal web page) to the people you call "kin".
  10. Clean your room without being asked and get a big bag of old clothes ready for the local shelter.

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