Do you let people barrow things?

United States
September 16, 2009 11:34am CST
From personal experience I do not let people barrow anything anymore. I found out the hard way that most of the time I never get back what I let them barrow. It is really a shame because they are people and friends you are suppose to trust. When you barrow you suppose to give back what it is you barrowed and in most cases it never comes back.I do not even ask others to borrow anything from them. So I do not let anyone barrow anything I own.
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25 responses
• India
16 Sep 09
yes i allow ppl to borrow my things ...bt i hav noticed that ppl forget or they do it intensionally i dont know bt they dont give it back...n i also dont lik to let them know tat they hav borrowed my thing they r suppose to giv it back to me ..
• India
17 Sep 09
hehe ! this always happens with me too. I lend things to others without thinking twice and then keep wondering where my things have gone ... I've seen people keeping a log of what they have given to whom and when. The fun part is when they show the borrower the log and say, "Do you remember that I had given you my book on Monday, look I've written it here !!! " Take care buddy, happy mylotting...
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
I do let people borrow my old things because I don't have to worry if they'll return it or not... But for my new things, I'll say no... Because it's true that you'll get upset if you noticed the thing they borrowed are not like what you used to when you lend it to them...
• Myanmar
17 Sep 09
I always let people borrow my things and I even let people to take permanently my owned things. But I never let people borrow things that I borrowed from others.
@kmkmurli (12)
• India
17 Sep 09
I do let people borrow my things. I got my things back whenever I gave my things to them. But in some cases it happens that people borrow things but they don't return them back, it is really annoying. So, I think it is better you don't allow people borrow things from you if you are not getting things back from them, because some things may be very important for you.
@satyabs15 (119)
• United States
17 Sep 09
Hi friend, You are correct. It is very difficult to get back thing which we give it to some one. But i am not that kind of person. If somebody comes and ask me i will give. and after that i wont get that in some few case. But in most of the times i get the thing which i give to my friends/neighbour
@calai618 (1773)
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
I still let people borrow things from me especially relatives and closest friends. I have experienced the same things you have but despite that, I still feel the need to provide them with what they need from me. I can't quit lending them for the reason that I would expect them to lend me stuff I need from them as well. Though it really hurts when your most beeloved stuff gets lost or has not returned. maybe you just have to remind those people of how important these stuff for you are so they'd feel guilty not returning them. One of my friends who frequently borrows stuff from me told me once that she deliberately keep some stuff she borrows for the reason that these stuff would serve as her remembrance of the people she had borrowed them from.
@winstar (29)
• Singapore
17 Sep 09
yes, i agree to you, it happen that my friend barrow a cook book from me until now already more than a year, she still didnt return me, and i keep hinting at her and she just keeping acting blur.. dont know where on earth have this type of people. So i too do not let anyone barrow anything from me (if possible).
@kissie34 (2294)
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
Well, I'm still letting them borrow my things because for me its just a material things and it can be changed. Same experienced as you, I never get back the things that I let them borrow. When I asked them about the things that they had borrowed, that's the time I get it back. If the things are too important to me and if it is very expensive, most of all when I know that person doesn't know how to return things then I won't let them borrow even though they'll promise to return it right away. I believe that promises are always broken..
• Qatar
17 Sep 09
well, no I don't barrow things from people or even my friends perhaps we haven't got the chance to need each other stuff hahaha !! and ya they never ask me for something to have ,but if they did I would give them coz I trust my friends ,however people around would be hard to give them ur things
• China
17 Sep 09
i have a deep sympathy! several my friends, who borrow my moeny,but they cann't give back,now i feel very disppointed to them. in fact,they had commitmented that they will give back several,however,on the exact day,they don't mention it!even they never mention it!
@drakkar (50)
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
Borrowing is not a bad thing. The only thing that makes it bad is the user of the action. Those people love to borrow coz they simply dont like to buy for themselves. Most of the time borrowers never return what they had borrowed because they wanted the things and because the owner of the thing is a best friend or something, he/she might think that it would be okey if he/she will not return it. Well thats one thing I dont like when somebody a borrow a thing on me. :)
@dex1007 (556)
• Malaysia
17 Sep 09
I guess you are right, I know a classmate who has some of my money, and i don't know how to ask her back. I'm not sure i even want to, what if she doesn't have it. Besides its sort of a small amount i should just get over it, so i keep telling myself. haha. but i know you are right, people borrow stuff but they don't give it back. Doesn't mean we should stop borrowing, there are some people who did give it back, right? And at that moment they may have a deep need for it. we are supposed to help each other out, even in the most simplest of ways. If everyone just stops bothering... it can only get worst.
@mansoak (510)
• India
17 Sep 09
I would help people who wants to borrow. In some cases the person may require some thing urgently and he borrows for eg he has no pen to write exam. in that situation we should help him. I fell happy to lend things to other person . I let people to barrow things.
@ansh0727 (83)
• India
17 Sep 09
I am not on same path which you follows....i have no problem in sharing my things i thought that my money will be return to me if more people make a advantage of it... but i rarely came across the problem that i don't get the things back that i wanted at a particular time.
@buping (952)
• China
17 Sep 09
well, i did lend anything i can offer before in college, cash most time. but now i know that borrowing is annoying thing. few months ago, a friend that i trusted ask me to borrow her cash and promised me to give it back in one month. so i lent to her. since after two months, i called her for money back, but she did not answer the phone. i am really annoyed about what she did.
@dodo19 (47317)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
16 Sep 09
There are some people that I would really mind lending things to. There are some people whom I know to whom I know they would return my things promptly and in the condition that they borrowed it. However, there are other people to whom I actually do have a problem lending some of my things to. In my case, it just really depends on the person in question, the friend that we're talking about.
@hotsummer (13837)
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
i hate people or even friends who borrow and don't bother to return the item. sometimes after repeatedly reminding them to bring the item back next time they will just keep saying they forgot it again. i feel that they were forgetting it intentionally cause they had no plan to return it or would like to keep to themselves just because the item is quite expensive and useful for them. but they are not real friends mostly they are just user friendly.
@xchyler (258)
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
good day tuckersheri! hi to you my friend! Me I don't also let borrow my personal things because it can cause some quarrel if they don't gave it back to you. GOD BLESS xchyler
@jen14ed (865)
• Philippines
17 Sep 09
hi tuckesheri yes I agree with the barrow thing i never get back to you!.for me i will not allowed my friends borrow things for me because the things is will never get back because of that i will be mad of my friends. if my friends borrow things for me like t-shirt i was told to him that I'm sorry i will use that t-shirt i give a reason to a friends in that way my things not borrow if my friends borrow my cellphone i will told to him that I am sorry this is a private things i will not allowed you to borrow my cellphone because this is important to me and this is personal thing for me that you never you borrow. in that way my friends understand me. but if my friends borrow things not important to me i will allowed him to borrow that things like money small money yes i will allowed my friends to borrow money for me but is small amount of money not big amount of money. not personal things!
• United States
17 Sep 09
I use to let people borrow things until they did not return them to me like I gave the item. Years ago I let a two friends of mine at different times borrow my electric typewriter. When I got it back one of the keys was broken and I did not know who did it. The next thing I let out our lawn mower and it too came back not working. I only let someone borrow maybe a cup of sugar and I do not want it back. It will not be a lost.
@renea129 (11)
• United States
17 Sep 09
Yes I do. But, I will get my stuff back! I have never had a problem with borrowing my things out. I usually borrow likewise, and if I don't get my stuff back, they don't get their's back and it works out just fine!