Not all families are fortunate enough to give their children the kind of generous, gift-filled Christmas they might be hoping for. But one man is doing his part to try and change that.
According to ABC11, Jim Annis of North Carolina spends every Christmas season meticulously hand-crafting beautiful wooden toys for children from low-income families, and it's a tradition he's proudly kept for the last 50 years.
Every day, he spends hours in his home workshop, carving, sculpting, and sanding blocks of wood into colorful toys for the local children in his community.
"It feels like you're sort of forgotten about at Christmas time."
He averages that he spends somewhere around $1,000 for each year's batch of wooden toys. However, Annis said, to him it's not about the money.
"My dad, he worked, but didn't make a lot of money," Annis explained. "It's hard to have a big Christmas with five kids."
So, he said, it's not about the money for him, but rather about making these children from low-income families feel cared for.
His 50-year-long tradition is one he hopes to keep up for as long as possible.
"I tell them my pay is when I see the smile on kids' faces. I hope to be able to do this until my toes curl up."
h/t: ABC11
