Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Good Samaritans pay off strangers' Toys R Us layaway accounts

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It's definitely that time of year when the spirit of gift giving is in the air. If you headed to the mall this past weekend, you know it was packed with people looking for the perfect presents for their friends and relatives. But with one in four Americans living in concentrated poverty, not every mom or dad has the means to walk into a store and hand over cash or a credit card to buy the latest dolls or LEGO Minifigure scientist sets for their kids.


It turns out that a few seriously generous folks in Massachusetts are taking the holiday spirit to the next level. They're heading into Toys R Us stores across the state and paying off the layaway balances of customers whom they don't even know. Read more...


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