Despite the fact that a lot of people are becoming more and more selfish and concerned mostly about themselves and how to get themselves ahead, there are still those that care about the needs of others.
Here in St. Louis on Friday, a Secret Santa went around and just gave people in need 100-dollar bills. The only stipulation was that the recipient do something nice for someone else.
One person who received money had just borrowed the same amount of money from her mother a few days prior to buy food. The Secret Santa went all around town including the Goodwill, a health clinic, and a thrift store.
All together $20,000 in $100-bills was given out in St. Louis -- and for those of you who are wondering, the money was not given out as a way to get a tax deduction - it will not be claimed for that purpose.
It is just people being nice.
You can read more about it here -- read how the tradition started almost 30 years ago by a man named Larry Stewart and how his friends are continuing his legacy in more cities as they try to spread it to more and more cities.
I love this. I saw this on the news last night and it just made my heart warm that there are such warm caring people out in this world still.
ReplyDeleteI agree. It is very touching.
ReplyDeleteMakes me wish that I had more disposable income to give to make people that happy. I guess I'll just keep giving my little amounts to various charities and hope that when they use the money it touches people in that way.