So many people are having a hard time in this economy, and Michigan has been particularly hard-hit, so I think this was an awesome thing for this person to do.
Best of all, it looks like the first anonymous Santa inspired someone else to do the same thing soon after the story was aired in the media.
What a great way to do a “random act of kindness”.
Sometimes I feel very misanthropic when I think about all the awful things the human race does. This kind of story is a good antidote to those feelings.
It’s nice if you know that person is really needy. It would be just my luck to do this and have the person I helped be a millionaire who just liked the concept of layaway. I recall in the 70s my mother used layaway, though we never needed to.
Yeah, but then the millionaire might be inspired to pay for everyone else, because your random kindness gave him his christmas spirit back, or something.
In Kansas City there is at least one person who randomly gives people money for Christmas. I’d seen news stories on it for a couple of years, but one of my friends was given $200 for her Christmas shopping while she and her daughter were at KMart. This was probably two years ago. He told her he just wanted her to have a good Christmas. She is a single mom with two kids and always was short of money so he chose well.
And just recently, someone dropped a diamond into a Salvation Army kettle in Shawnee Mission (Kansas City suburb.)
Yeah, especially nowadays. I feel like Kmart has declined over the last few years and is more grungy and depressing than it used to be (though my SO is convinced that it has always been that way and it’s just that I am remembering it better than it was).
Awesome news: More “copycats” have shown up and are continuing the awesome random acts of kindness.
What a cool thing to see! Hope it continues to spread. Do we have any Doper millionaires who want to spread this elsewhere?
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I feel like Kmart has declined over the last few years and is more grungy and depressing than it used to be (though my SO is convinced that it has always been that way and it’s just that I am remembering it better than it was).
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IME, they’ve always been a sad, grimy place. I was thinking that Kmart has done a decent job of cleaning up and brightening its stores, but still has work to do. Buying Sears a few years back didn’t really help them.
