Receiving and Giving

I'm among those who don't see anything wrong in gifting out my slightly used items like clothing. Instead of waiting to accumulate enough money to buy new before I gift out, I easily prefer to pick from my collections and gift out. Also, it's a measure I adopted to keep the receiving and giving out chain going because I do receive a lot from people. I firmly believe in the principle of 'gift out to receive more'.

Look at the way I do mine;

_{Whenever I receive a clothe gift, I make sure I gift out one or two within the space of three months, although sometimes it spans to four to five months, I try to keep it at three months. This doesn't mean that I gift out with the measure I received no, I just make sure I gift out something within that space irrespective of the volume I received}

I've been doing that until last year when I received a navy blue trouser. It was new; someone from church decided to buy and gift it to me. At that moment, I thought maybe I wasn't dressing well, which is why the person decided to buy it for me. But no, I had a very good trouser already, which was as good as new. So, I just accepted it as a cheerful gift.

At that time, I needed to release one trousers from my collection, one of which I looked out for in our environment but found no one who would fit into plain trouser wear.

Actually, there was a boy, a 17-year-old boy who was the same height as me, but the challenge was that I saw him as someone who would not appreciate it because he's into 'big boy' things already and follows internet fraudsters in our street. You know, those kinds of people don't fancy things like that because they have money. However, this boy is not fully involved; he was just following them, and I know he's getting initiated gradually, and with that he's already influenced.

As for me, it's not like I go around checking people I gift clothes to see if they're using them, no, but I love to gift someone I know would use it and not just dump it or use it as rags.

I tried many times to make the move of calling the boy to come and take the clothe but no way, my mind didn't settle for it, I needed to give it out by all means so it doesn't break my principle.

I checked thoroughly around and didn't find anyone in the street. Unfortunately, I wasn't close enough to family members in my church where I could have searched and given it to anyone of my height.

For people my age, I don't feel okay to give out my clothes to them because it always looks as if I'm downgrading them. Oh yeah, I did it many times in school, and I got that result.

Luckily for me, the following Sunday of that week, an announcement was made about donating items to be used for outreach. It was as if God saw my heart and moved the Church's evangelism sector to make the announcement.

On Wednesday of that week, while going for midweek Church service in the evening, I took it along and submitted it when the church closed, and I was relieved and satisfied.