Here is a great article all about the act of giving. Each year Ray's Toy Trucks gives donations and Toy Truck Baskets to many charities for kids and it was nice to read a story about someone giving the great gift of toy trucks as well. Here is their story below:
Today I watched as a man deposited 26 years of collectible Hess truck toys into a Toys for Tots donation barrel! The longer I watched, the more this man pulled out and placed in the Toys for Tots donation barrel. One toy after another, most still in their original boxes and in pristine condition. Somewhere this Christmas there are going to be some very happy kids. Maybe even more so there will be some happy dads trying their best to keep those kids from cracking open a collectible Hess Truck and running it into walls and doors.
I commented to the man that I believed I was seeing toys from a good twenty years of collecting. He stopped for a moment, thought a bit and said in fact it was 26 years. He had two such collections of which one was his sons and his son had in turn given it over to his son (this man’s grandson). He said that after having these for so many years this was the year he had decided they might be appreciated by others. He seemed to be taking great pleasure in dropping them (carefully) into the donation receptacle.
I was wishing later that I had grabbed a photo of all of those toys he left in that Toys for Tots bin. There were some classics! The photo above just shows a few of my own kids Hess toys from the last few years. All I can say is that my heart was racing a bit just to see this fabulous collection of toys being given away. Christmas is a good time and brings out good in lots of people. I hope that man had a great holiday!
