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Busy mum Karli Kirk finds joy in paying it forward

Liz Wylie
By Liz Wylie
Multimedia Journalist, Whanganui Chronicle·Whanganui Chronicle·
11 Jul, 2017 06:00 PM2 mins to read

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:Karli Kirk hopes her sons George (left), Toby and Angus will experience the good feelings that come from paying it forward. Photo/Bevan Conley

:Karli Kirk hopes her sons George (left), Toby and Angus will experience the good feelings that come from paying it forward. Photo/Bevan Conley

Busy Whanganui mum Karli Kirk loves giving things away and she regularly offers free things online.

"I have been through some tough times myself and I know how much I've appreciated help that came my way," she says.

Last week, Ms Kirk offered to give away some groceries and a pre-loved charm bracelet.

"The bracelet is not precious metal but it is one I have loved.

"I don't have a daughter and I thought I would like to pass it on to a young lady who will love it like I did."

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Ms Kirk says she hopes her young sons Angus, 4, George, 3, and Toby, 8 months, will embrace the pay-it-forward philosophy when they are older.

"I do it because it gives me joy to think that I have brightened someone's day," she says.

"I post a picture online and ask people to reply if they are interested."

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The post stays up until a designated time when Ms Kirk randomly selects a name from the list of applicants.

"I thought I would do it that way rather than just give things to the first person who asks.

"Sometimes people nominate someone who might be too shy to ask for themselves."

She even delivers the goods to the lucky recipients, because some people don't have their own transport, she says.

Paying it forward is a concept made popular by the 2000 film of the same name starring Kevin Spacey.

However, the practice of passing on a good deed to someone you have never met is believed to be much older than that.

It may have been first conceived by writer Lily Hardy Hammond, who described the concept in her book In the Garden of Delight, written in 1916.

Ms Kirk said she had chosen a recipient for her charm bracelet and would drop it off to them this week.

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