This happened to me a few years ago, and is making me tear up still thinking about it.

My husband is in the navy, and due to deployment missed the birth of our son and would be missing his first Christmas. We were devastated by this. It was thanksgiving week, and my husband had duty, he had to spend the night on the boat. We had very little money, but I really wanted to decorate the house for Christmas a little and get a tiny tree, I maybe had $40 for both tree and decorations.

So I go to a certain orange home improvement chain store and unfortunately they started selling their real trees black Friday, and my husband would be gone by then. I found a worker, explained my situation and asked if they could possibly sell me one earlier. The lady talks to her manager for a minute, then leads me outside to the locked tree area.

I ask her which ones were the cheapest, then she told me her manager said to let me have any tree I wanted for FREE!

Because of their kindness I was able to give my husband an amazing first Christmas with our firstborn. And the look on his face when he walked in and saw everything decked out was absolutely priceless.

I will never forget those kind people.