Anonymous Woman Dubbed as the "Layaway Angel" Pays off $20,000 of Layaway Balances for Children

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Anonymous Woman Dubbed as the "Layaway Angel" Pays off $20,000 of Layaway Balances for Children

This gal who appears to have remained anonymous, has paid off $20,000 in layaway balances at a Toys R Us store for children's Christmas presents. Love to hear these acts of kindness, looks like others were doing the same type of thing! :) http://www.milforddailynews.com/article/20141211/NEWS/141219023/?Start=1

BELLINGHAM — When Linda received an unexpected call from Toys R Us on Wednesday, she dreaded answering, so concerned that the store wanted to cancel her $50 layaway purchase for missing a payment.

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Instead, the store told the Franklin resident to come pick up the gifts for her two sons: A complete stranger had paid for them already.

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The Hartford Avenue Toys R Us needed to make similar calls for more than 150 layaway accounts that day. Dubbed a “layaway angel,” a still-unknown woman had come in during the afternoon and the evening to pay for $20,000 worth of merchandise, clearing the store's entire balance.

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Described by employees as a bubbly older woman and a local, she offered the store manager a hug and reportedly said, “If you have it, give it."​
One employee said the woman told her that knowing the layaway purchases were taken care of would help her “sleep better at night.”

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The woman is one of many "layaway angels” who have glided into Toys R Us stores and retailers across the country in recent holiday seasons to “pay it forward,” said company spokesman Bjorn Trowery.​
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