I want my stuff back!

Jacket - Fashion jacket
@paula27661 (15811)
Australia
March 8, 2009 11:24pm CST
I lent my friend my favourite jacket and I am still waiting for it to returned! We have lost touch a while back; she had my jacket for a few months back then. I guess I won't be wearing the jacket anymore if she returned it because I'm quite sure it is out of fashion by now, after all it has been 3 years! I've been through this a few times in my life, people have borrowed CDs, books etc... And a lot are yet to be returned. Why won't people give stuff back? OK people time to fess up, what do you have right now that belongs to somebody else? Or are you still waiting for something to be returned to you? Talk to me, please...
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9 responses
@MaryLynn321 (2680)
• United States
15 Mar 09
I am still waiting for my girlfriend to return my cooler. I let her use it to take some meat from our freezer, then she used it for fair. That was I believe in 2007. Or it could have been 2006. Well anyways, I asked her about it again, and she said what cooler, so I told her, and she doesn't have it. So she said she would buy me a new one. I wonder when that will happen.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
15 Mar 09
Don't you love it when, not only they do no return the item but they forget they borrowed it in the first place!
• United States
15 Mar 09
right I hear you on that note, I don't know about you, but it is hard to not remember that I have something of someone else's, maybe it was just the way we were raised.
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
10 Mar 09
Ive had it happen alot to me also. I almost never borrow stuff and I always return it. If something happens to it...I replace it. I have had so many things "borrowed and never ever returned. Either that or they returned it damaged. which is just as bad. Now I don't lend anything (including cash) unless i won't be upset if it isn't returned. It's a pretty good policy and saves friendships.
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
11 Mar 09
A real friend would not get upset at "no". A real friend, you would not question that you could trust that they would return your stuff in a timely manner. I do have a couple of friends that I would not hesitate in lending anything at all too. I trust them 100% and I have no doubts that they would return my stuff and in the same condition they borrowed it in. These friends don't borrow often but when they do...I just know it is ok.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
10 Mar 09
That's a good idea but I have friends who get upset when I say no! Thanks for the response!
@mammamuh (582)
• Sweden
9 Mar 09
I don't think I have something here that someone wants back! I hope they will tell me if it's so! I have a couple of things that people have borrowed from me that I haven't gotten back. One of the things is a baby sling that I was going to lend to another friend now as she had her baby a month ago, but the person that borrowed it hasn't returned it nor called me about it - I've tried to get in touch with her several times. She's had it for a year now!
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 Mar 09
That sounds familiar! I'm pretty good at returning things, that's why it annoys me so much when friends don't do the same. Thanks for the response!
@Sandoz (31)
• India
9 Mar 09
it happens, it might not be intentional done to deceive you. sometimes others won't take it seriously or forget about it due to job responsability. there are many occusions when we forget to give back things of others.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 Mar 09
It's annoying though don't you think? Thanks for the response!
• Philippines
9 Mar 09
i bought a sunblock lotion in advance so that i have something to use when we go to our summer vacation. i just left it in my kit along with my other stuff at the apartment i share with 2 friends. then one of them who has a partner went to the beach. i looked for my sunblock lotion and its missing. i asked them if they took it and they said no. im pretty sure where i last left my sunblock lotion and its not there anymore. i feel so bad. and i want my sunblock lotion back huhu it maybe shallow for some but i feel bad about losing stuff and distrusting friends since we're the only people who come and go in that apartment
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 Mar 09
It's awkward when you know one of them must have taken it; you would think they would own up though. Thanks for responding and I hope you get your sunblock lotion back!
• United States
9 Mar 09
Oh wow. I'm sorry to hear that you lost your jacket to someone. In my opinion, you should just let it go. You're not going to get it back, she might have already thrown it away, and even if she hasn't you really don't want to have to talk to her in order to get it back. I know that an old friend of mine has one of my mom's dvds. It really upset me because it was Finding Neverland, which my mom still hasn't seen. Anyways, my friend was a HUGE Johnny Depp fan so I lent it to her so her and her mother could watch it. And I asked for it back a couple times before our friendship ended and she would simply tell me that she forgot. I never pushed it but now I wish I had. The only things that I can think of that I still have that belong to someone else are my best friend from middle school's hair scrunchie, and an old crush's hoodie. Now the scrunchie is torn and bright silver so I hardly ever wear it. I can't get myself to throw it away though because she was such a big impact on my life. The hoodie on the other hand was given to me by the guy. I've never worn it in public and it doesn't have his scent anymore but it's still something of his and he was important to me as well. He might have only been a crush but I still hold onto it and if he were to ask for it back today I would tell him I threw it out because I didn't want to be reminded of him. Hehe, that sounds silly.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 Mar 09
It's not silly to want to have reminders of people we cared about. An old boyfriend of mine left his shirt at my place many years ago and I had it for so long, I eventually got rid of it when I was ready after a few years. As far as my long lost jacket as I said it's probably out of fashion now; I let that go ages ago! Thanks for responding!
@gracie04 (4549)
• Philippines
9 Mar 09
yay, i hate it when it happens and i hate people for doing that.. i've experienced the same thing.. one of my friends wayback in college borrowed lots of books from me(chicken soup inspirational books)... she promised to return the books to me after a month but she didn't.. yay! after that incident, i've decided not to lend my stuffs to her anymore.. she is really annoying!
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 Mar 09
The best solution is not to lend your stuff anymore. Thansks for responding!
• Australia
9 Mar 09
Sometimes people hope to be able to keep the things and hope that the person they borrowed it from has so many things on there mind that they forgot about it and who gave it to them. 3 years? Well that's not such a great friend then, is it? You should never give anything to anybody to lend if it is special to you. No matter if they get angry.
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 Mar 09
Yes I have learned that lesson! No she's no longer a friend. I'm still working on the saying no part! Thanks for a great response!
@mizstress (719)
• Philippines
9 Mar 09
my friends usually borrow my stuff, and and they always forgot to return it to me so i tend to go to their place and pick my stuff. hehehe what hurts me is sometimes the stuff that they borrowed from me, are gone coz they lend it to someone else.. :
@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
9 Mar 09
Oh yes, that's happened to me as well! That was lost forever.What gives someone the right to give what they've borrowed from you to someone else; it is beyond me. Appreciate the response, thanks!