Posted on 12/16/2011 4:39:53 AM PST by BfloGuy
Um, where will you be tonight? Just askin'.
Not fun for the store management (as trying to manage layaway accounts, payments, and making sure only the right party picks up the layaway are major pains in the arse). But touching and heartwarming nonetheless.
Honestly, with store credit cards being as easy to get as they are, I had no idea layaway still existed.
Similar thoughts crossed my mind, too. But in the end whatever's going on is pretty nice.
Conservatives are more generous than liberals, but they don’t get the credit. Even most conservatives probably think liberals are the more generous ones, based on media perceptions that they follow without challenge.
He has contempt for anything that is not run by Commies.
I was listening to a Christian radio station yesterday and heard a woman saying her family had paid off lay aways at Walmart. She heard about it from other listeners of the station who had done the same. I guess those listening to the station are hearing about it and choosing to do the same in their communities.
He'll probably try to tax the gift as income.
A couple of years ago I was at a restaurant with my little daughter and two other little girls, who were all a bit rambunctious after their skating lesson. When it came time to pay my bill, I discovered that two older gentlemen had already paid it and left. They probably recognized me as a single mother (true, although only one child was mine) and figured that with a brood like that I could use some help. Anyway, I was very touched by their kindness and resolved to pass it on myself, perhaps to someone more needy than I. But I’m sure that God counts it to them as righteousness.
I am SO DOING THIS when I get done with work today!!!
“My wife worked with a woman who went around to the local malls hanging her kid’s name on those ‘buy me a gift’ trees.”
Depriving the deprived, that’s pretty low.
Not at all. We bought Christmas for 347 kids this year before the money ran out.
The preacher and congregation gave away 120 Christmas Trees today. Just parked a trailer of them and put up a sign.
We also threw FEMA and the Red Cross out of our town during the Labor Day fires. We took care of our own until HEB Grocery came to the rescue and then it was all done with volunteer help and donations. USFS Fire Team 3 are welcome anytime though.
The best thing government, especially most of the FEDS can do is DISAPPEAR. Government has a role but not a big one just the critical mass things that don’t happen very often but are too big for one community to handle or prepare for. Forest Fires and War come to mind.
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