Three Wishes for Ruby's Residents

Three Wishes for Ruby's Residents We are a youth-led organization that fulfills small wishes to nursing home seniors across America.

WE FOUND SOME GRANDMAS AND GRANDPAS WHO NEED US. One of our little “Three Wishes Pop-Up Clubs” is working with a rural n...
09/03/2026

WE FOUND SOME GRANDMAS AND GRANDPAS WHO NEED US.

One of our little “Three Wishes Pop-Up Clubs” is working with a rural nursing facility between Austin and Houston, TEXAS.
They have collected WISHES from each senior & last night they sent me a little more about some of the seniors who live there.
Now I really want to get this list filled!

Lillian is 95. She gets up every morning, fixes her hair, puts on her makeup and then apparently beats everybody at dominoes. She’d love a few more sets.

Guadalupe and Leroy like to sit together on the front porch. There’s a language barrier between them, but they don’t seem too worried about it. They just like sitting outside together being together. Their wishes? Less than $15 dollars.

And Rita walks every single day, tends to her flowers like they are her babies and loves being outside.
Her favorite treat?
A Tootsie Pop.

So yes. We put Tootsie Pops on Amazon.

The rest of their list is just as simple.

A wallet. Sweatpants. Word searches. Bingo prizes. Cookies. Peppermints. Fidget blankets and activities for memory care. Scarves and ties for their senior PROM!!!

They also have a few bigger things that would give everybody something fun to do together, like a karaoke machine, tabletop jukebox and popcorn machine.

Nobody is asking for anything real fancy.

This is exactly why we started Three Wishes.

The list ships directly to our Texas Pop-Up Club.
You can pick one thing, two things or just send Rita some Tootsie Pops.

Let’s wear that Amazon driver OUT. 😂
And if he happens to be cute, I have a feeling nobody over there is going to complain about seeing him every day.

Texas Amazon Wish List link
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/SGOG4XGI1MTE?ref_=wl_share

🚨 AMAZON DEAL ALERT! $14.99! 🚨Make a nursing home senior smile BIGLinkhttps://a.co/d/08KKRBTSWe CANNOT keep pajamas like...
09/01/2026

🚨 AMAZON DEAL ALERT! $14.99! 🚨
Make a nursing home senior smile BIG
Link

https://a.co/d/08KKRBTS

We CANNOT keep pajamas like these in stock on our Wish Wheels.
Amazon has these pajama sets for less than $15 today and if you’ve ever wanted an easy way to help a nursing home senior, THIS IS IT.
We can use ANY COLOR 💗💙🤎
Our biggest needs are Large, XL and 2XL.
Buy a pair while they’re on sale and send them our way.
We promise they won’t sit on a shelf long. In fact, I suspect we will be out again by the end of September.
Main office for shipping:
Three Wishes
Open weekdays 12-5pm
102 W Stephenson Ave
Harrison, AR 72601

Who can snag us a pair before the price goes back up?

SHE IS 98 YEARS OLD. She was born in Arkansas in 1928.She grew up when clothes dried on a line in the backyard and bacon...
08/31/2026

SHE IS 98 YEARS OLD.
She was born in Arkansas in 1928.
She grew up when clothes dried on a line in the backyard and bacon grease was saved because you “didn’t waste anything that could be used again”.
There was no TV in her home growing
up.
Families gathered around the RADIO.
She was 13 when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
She still remembers where she was. It was a Sunday after church, they were getting ready to eat a big meal.
Polio wasn’t something in a history book either. Her sister had it.
She remembers ration books. News coming over the radio and boys from little Arkansas towns leaving home to fight, many not coming back.
She graduated from high school in 1946.
The war was over.
Life went on.
She got married. Worked. Raised a family. Hung more “laundry on a clothesline” than she could possibly count. You can tell that was one chore she didn’t like at all.
And one day, for the very first time, she saw a television. Black & white.
Imagine being able to remember a world before television?
Then living long enough to watch a man walk on the moon.
She has buried people she loved.
She has watched babies become adults and adults grow old.
At 80, she got cancer.
She beat it.
And now she’s 98.
She doesn’t have family coming through the door to visit anymore.
That sounds like the sad part.
It isn’t.
She’s lived in this nursing home for 11 years.
And when we asked her about those 11 years, she told us something we weren’t expecting. At least I wasn’t.
But she said some of the best friends she has ever had in her entire life are here.
Not were here.
ARE here.
The woman she looks for at breakfast.
The friend who can tell something’s wrong without asking.
The people who notice when she isn’t sitting in her usual spot.
The staff who have heard some of her stories more than once and listen anyway.
At 98 years old, she found her people.
She says when you don’t have a lot to distract you, you bond with the people around you in ways that other people will not understand.
So we asked her what she feels luckiest about after nearly a century of living.
She didn’t say anything grand.
Holding a brand new baby.
Sunday dinners at a big table.
Laughing so hard she tooted.
Having enough to eat.
A sister she loved.
A good cup of strong coffee.
Beating cancer.
The first warm day of spring.
And good friends.
Especially the friends she didn’t know were still waiting for her at 87 years old.
She doesn’t want anyone feeling sorry for her.
Neither do we.
She’s had 98 years.
The really good ones and the really hard ones.
She has loved people and buried people. She has been scared and brave. She has been somebody’s little girl, somebody’s sister, somebody’s wife, somebody’s mother and now somebody’s very good friend.
And she’s says she’s not finished yet!!
That’s what we wish more people understood about nursing homes.
Behind these doors are people who remember a world most of us have only seen in black and white photographs.
They aren’t just old people.
They aren’t just patients.
They are living history.
And every time one of them leaves us, a library burns.
So while they’re here, sit down.
Ask a question.
And listen.
Because 98 years is one heck of a story.

** We have students interviewing seniors in multiple states.
Send us a DM and together we can record their amazing history.

08/29/2026

We talk about how teachers can help bring colorful murals to nursing homes. We provide the plates, you supply the kids and together we create beautiful art for the seniors who need us most.

He had us at the rhinestone cowboy hat. Dolly would approve.Around here, we fully support a little sparkle at any age.
08/27/2026

He had us at the rhinestone cowboy hat. Dolly would approve.
Around here, we fully support a little sparkle at any age.

Our win this week?Finding out we can buy a 50-pound bag of black sunflower seeds for $16 plus a 50-pound bag of corn for...
08/27/2026

Our win this week?

Finding out we can buy a 50-pound bag of black sunflower seeds for $16 plus a 50-pound bag of corn for half that.

Vernon had one wish: to never run out of birdseed again.
And to keep the squirrels away.
Turns out, some wishes are easier to keep than we thought.

$16. Fifty pounds. $8 and the squirrels are happy on the OTHER side of the building.
One very happy Vernon.

08/27/2026

Meet Pork Chop.
Former nursing home resident.
Current nursing home reject.
Official Three Wishes mascot.
We sent him in at 17 pounds.
He came back at 23.
When your entire business model is convincing grandmas you haven’t eaten since 1947???? A nursing home is a VERY profitable territory for a wise cat.
His placement may have failed but….
His commitment to senior citizens remains strong. He inspects Amazon packages, lays on boxes and always makes us smile.
Welcome to the team, Pork Chop. 😂

08/26/2026

What happens if you cherry pick all the clothes your grandma would ROCK?

Sag Harbor. Alfred Dunner. Liz Claiborne. SAS shoes. Polyester everything.

All the perfect sizes. All the perfect colors.

Then you put the whole thing on wheels and roll it into a nursing home.

Magic.

That’s what happens. ❤️

Wish Wheels trip #2 and I think we’re onto something.

Turns out, old ladies still really, really like to shop.

Can’t wait til our next stop.
Thank you to everyone who sent clothes, shoes and food. You did it!

THINGS THEY ASKED US FOR: 8 pens.We asked one of our seniors if there was anything she needed.She thought about it and a...
08/23/2026

THINGS THEY ASKED US FOR: 8 pens.

We asked one of our seniors if there was anything she needed.
She thought about it and asked us for eight pens.
Eight. Odd? But she made it make sense.
She LOVES crossword puzzles and told us she thought eight pens would last her a long time.
I don’t know why, but of all the things we’re asked for, this one has stayed with me this week.
I guess because I can’t remember the last time I worried about running out of pens?

There are probably 10 of them scattered around my dorm. In drawers. In my purse. In the car. Pens are something most of us don’t even think about.
But she did.
And asking us for them wasn’t easy.
That’s something we’ve learned doing this work. Sometimes the smallest requests tell you the most.
So I’m just sharing the things seniors have quietly asked us for when they didn’t have enough.
Today, it’s pens. Yesterday it was Oil of Olay for someone in assisted living.
We just created a NEW Walmart Wish List filled with the everyday things our seniors ask us for.
If you’d like to help, pick one thing.
We’ll put it in the hands of someone who asked.

Walmart Wish List:
https://www.walmart.com/registry/RR/204c4a38-0e69-4772-9bca-1d723846c85a

Amazon wish list

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3MQ1S89BENZIG?ref_=wl_share

08/22/2026

Nobody warned us they were going to EMPTY THE RACKS. 😂❤️

Last week we tried something we had never done before.

We rolled racks of clothes, shoes, pajamas, jewelry, snacks and little gifts into a nursing home and told the residents:

Go shopping. Pick what you love. It’s yours.

Their reactions told us everything we needed to know.

Our first “Wish Wheels” was supposed to be an experiment.

Now we can’t wait to do it again.

Next nursing home: 3 days. 🛍️

We need 2 things- more nursing homes to sign up and sponsors to keep it stocked. If you know a business in NWA that wants to really make a difference, we’ve got the opportunity.

Address

102 W Stephenson Avenue
Harrison, AR
72601

Telephone

(870) 517-5353

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