Anonymous donors pay strangers' layaway accounts

[jeff of pa]

"It just gives you a warm feeling," said Stearnes, 53, of Omaha. "... With all the things going on the world, just to have someone do that is so, I don't know, it's hard to put into words."

At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers' layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn't afford, especially toys and children's clothes set aside by impoverished parents.

Stearnes said at first she thought it was a joke when someone from the Omaha store called to say someone had paid off most of her layaway bill for toys and outfits she bought for the youngest four of her seven grandchildren.

The total bill was about $250, but after the stranger helped, she only had a $58 balance, she said. Stearns, who cleans medical instruments at a hospital, said she and her husband, Lloyd, live paycheck to paycheck and that layaway often helps spread out the costs of Christmas.

A similar random act of kindness happened at a Kmart in Indianapolis, where a young father wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots, stood in line at a layaway counter alongside three small children.

He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn't be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter.

"She told him, 'No, I'm paying for it,'" recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. "He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn't, and that she was going to pay for him. And he just busted out in tears."

Before she left the store Tuesday evening, the Indianapolis woman in her mid-40s had paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. On the way out, she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts of toys for a woman in line at the cash register.

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[spartacus53]

That is a generous act, especially at this time of year. Although I find it a bit difficult a woman in her mid 40's is doing this, I would like to see the store tape of her in action. Then I can hunt this lady down and have a sugar-momma of my own

[jeff of pa]

Yea I Could use a few sugar-mommas too.
Only under 40 or over 90 need apply


my guess it's alot of Lottery Winners.

I'd do this quicker then Donate to a Charity
that spams Lottery winners,
or begs on tv for money.

Simply because this way you Know where the $$$ Are
realy going

[FarmerChick]

very cool to read something decent happening.

not many sugar mommas left out there. economy took them down also

[iCandy]

Yea I Could use a few sugar-mommas too.
Only under 40 or over 90 need apply


my guess it's alot of Lottery Winners.

I'd do this quicker then Donate to a Charity
that spams Lottery winners,
or begs on tv for money.

Simply because this way you Know where the $$$ Are
realy going

Jeff.....I got a few prospects for you....but along comes baggage! Interested? The baggage will be a surprise....!!

[jeff of pa]

that baggage better be filled with
Cash & Treasures Adrian

[iCandy]

Well heck....that rules them out! Keep on being picky Jeff....it's kinda like metal detecting....discriminate a little bit...& get rid of the junk!!