Layaway Angels That Is
I’m all choked up after reading about mysterious donors paying off layaways across the country. For you youngsters out there, layaway was the way we, “old school” folks, got our Christmas goodies. Our parents picked out our toys, clothes, etc., and paid on them in installments, no credit cards were used just good old cash. With the rise of credit cards and as retail modernized, layaway was eliminated but in recent years and perhaps a reflection of hard times some stores have brought it back.
Here are some snippets from the story in USA Today:
- Many of the angel visits have been at Kmart stores, where more than $412,000 has been donated to more than 1,000 layaway accounts, says Shannelle Armstrong, a spokeswoman for Sears Holdings Corp., which owns Kmart’s 1,300 stores.
- Wal-Mart spokeswoman Dianna Gee says layaway angels are visiting its stores “from coast to coast.” At a Haleyville, Ala., Walmart, a man donated $11,000 to pay the accounts of 75 families.
- Last Friday, a man walked into a Hayward, Calif., Kmart with $10,000 cash to pay down layaway accounts. He used $9,800 on 63 accounts and dropped the remaining $200 in a Salvation Army kettle as he left the store.
Read that and weep because that’s what it’s all about… paying it forward and random acts of kindness. Our elected leaders could care less, most of them are so far removed from the struggles of the everyday person that they can’t even pass legislation to continue a payroll tax cut which in effect is a cut in wages come January.
It’s always has been and always will be us helping each other and it’s heartwarming to know that even in hard times that spirit continues.
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