# Secret Santa is paying off layaway items again this season.

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**Created:** [December 9, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-is-paying-off-layaway-items-again-this-season/825856 "2018-12-09T18:08:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2018, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/secret-santa-is-paying-off-layaway-items-again-this-season/825856/1 "2018-12-09T18:08:54Z")

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What a wonderful surprise for any family. Here’s a Google search that will put a huge smile on your face.  
[https://www.google.com/search?q=secret+santa+paying+off+layaway&oq=santa+paying+lay&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.9565j1j7&client=ms-android-motorola&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#scso=\_iVUNXPLcIoSesQXK166wCw1:828](https://www.google.com/search?q=secret+santa+paying+off+layaway&oq=santa+paying+lay&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.9565j1j7&client=ms-android-motorola&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#scso=_iVUNXPLcIoSesQXK166wCw1:828)

My wife & I have agreed to look into participating this season. Several articles mention that toys on layaway can be paid off.  
[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.journal-news.com/news/local/secret-santa-paying-off-local-layaway-bills-again/S9ZcmR4IJqubXbfEaaTaCI/amp.html](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.journal-news.com/news/local/secret-santa-paying-off-local-layaway-bills-again/S9ZcmR4IJqubXbfEaaTaCI/amp.html)

We aren’t rich by any means. But, even a couple hundred dollars would buy toys for several families.

We’ve already dropped off our donation for Toys for Tots. We’ve done that for many years.

Has anyone tried playing Secret Santa and paid off some layaways? Is it just Walmart? Does Target participate?

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> Late Monday afternoon, Ceceli Abernathy was at the cash register at the Dayton Mall Walmart when she was told that Secret Santa had quietly erased her $50 deficit for toys she purchased for her daughter.
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> “Oh My God! That is so wonderful!” the Kettering resident said, hugging the jolly man himself. “I got my layaway paid off by a Good Samaritan.”
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> She called it a beautiful gesture.