Secret Santas
If you haven’t heard yet, there is a nice little trend going on where people are going to Kmart and other retailers to pay off other people’s Christmas layaway. (Layaway is a program where people put aside items and pay for them a little bit at a time through the store).
In Grand Rapids, MI 20 Kmart layaways have been paid off in the last three days.
More than a dozen people have visited Bismark, ND Walmarts to anonymously pay off someone’s layaway.
An anonymous donor in Davenport, IA paid off four Kmart layaways.
Secret Santas have paid off layaways in Indiana, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, and Montana.
The phenomena seems to have started in Michigan and most of the incidents so far have happened in the Midwest. Donors have mostly asked to see lists that include Christmas toys and left a small balance, asking that the person who put the items on layaway be told that the bulk of their balance has been paid off.
Kmart, Walmart, Target, Toys R Us, and Babies R Us all have layaway programs if you are inspired to play Secret Santa yourself.
