A 25-year-old woman bought out an entire shoe store to donate to victims of thedisastrous floodingin Nebraska and surrounding areas.
According toGood Morning America, Addy Tritt from Hays, Kansas, was shopping in a Payless store last week — one of the 2,100 Payless stores in the United States and Puerto Ricothat are closingthis year after the company filed for bankruptcy. The store was selling its leftover shoes for $1.
“I was just walking around and looking and I started grabbing handfuls of shoes thinking, ‘This would be great to donate and this, this and this,’ ” Tritt toldGMA.“I’ve always made donations and it’s just something I’m always thinking about.”
Tritt ended up grabbing 204 pairs of shoes, but did not have the money to pay the large bill. She negotiated with a manager, who eventually gave her all of the shoes for $100. According to CBS News, the shoes were worth around $6,000 altogether.
“The sales associate called her manager and I literally sat on the floor in Payless going back and forth between phone calls and emails trying to [negotiate] for these shoes,” she said. “I finally got them all for around $100.”
Tritt told the outlet that she didn’t know who she was going to donate the shoes to at first, but quickly thought of the flood victims in Nebraska.
The historic flooding in the statekilled several people last monthand left over 8 million residents under flood warnings. “This really is the most devastating flooding we’ve probably ever had in our state’s history, from the standpoint of how widespread it is,” Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said in March, according toCNN.
Flooding in Bellevue, Nebraska in March.Nati Harnik/AP/REX/Shutterstock
Tritt then donated the shoes to a sorority at her alma mater, Fort Hays State University. The sorority was organizing a donation drive, and sent the shoes along with the rest of the donations to a Future Farmers Association (FFA) chapter in Wilcox, Nebraska.
Addy Tritt
In the end, Tritt said she doesn’t need any thanks for her good deed.
“I don’t want them to think about it or feel anything or find out who I am,” she toldGMAof the people who receive her donations. “I just want them to have the right shoes on their feet.”
“This is just part of being a human being,” she added. “It brings me so much joy.”
Payless did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
