Hasta La Gadget!

Mary Sauter doesn’t make much money. But whatever funds the retired schoolteacher scrapes together, she spends on enough gifts for kids in need to fill a 7,000-square-foot warehouse.

For her annual holiday mission, Sauter has been dubbed “Angel from Albia.” Since she started discreetly doling out presents 20 years ago, she’s spent an estimated half-million dollars on gifts for children whose family don’t have much, the Des Moines Register reports.

“Some people golf or fish,” Joe Nelson, principal at Mitchellville Elementary, told the paper. “Mary shops for kids.”

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