It happened this past Saturday, and we now know that layaway Santa is Greg Parady, a local financial planner who was supposed to be here buying bicycles for Toys for Tots, when he decided to do a little more.
For years, nobody thought much about the identity of the real life tot, instead it was simply an adorable presence beaming and gurgling over a happy land.
But the end result of all these appeals is that, for the second quarter of this year, Ukraine has so far totted up grants totalling only about $4.5bn, against a fiscal shortfall of $15bn.
Totted up, analysts at Capital Economics, a consultancy, reckon that the bill to households will work out at $6bn or so a month-closer to shaving off about 0.3 percentage points from America's growth.
" Have you ever bothered to tot up the number of cock-and-bull stories this boy has come out with, Dumbledore, while trying to cover up his flagrant misuse of magic out of school? "