Opinions on letting people borrow your stuff.

[Charz777]

For my questions go to the bottom, if you want to read my on-topic rant, continue here


Okay, so today I started watching Lost (well started season 3) on DVD. I've had the 6-season boxset for a couple of years but only watched them once.

Anyways, I lent the boxset out to someone knowing they are generally careless with just about everything and against my better judgement but it's kind of a shared owned DVD set between me and my SO so it wasn't really my choice to not lend it out. Anyways, we got the boxset back and some of the cases were pretty badly damaged after just a couple of weeks. But I let it go which was a big deal for me because I'm rather particular about DVDs (ie leaving them out of cases, getting them scratched and so on).

So, I just went to put a disc into my player and I noticed it didn't sit right in the dvd tray. So I twiddle it thinking it was probably just in at a dodgey angle, but still nothing. I took it out to try again and I noticed something fall from the disc onto the dvd tray. It's like smushed old bread or cake or something. Turn the disc over, and I kid you not, there are 14 chunks of smushed food on the back of the disc and one is smeared leaving a massive smudge. So I'm livid by this point. My disc and DVD player are covered in this gross stuff, not to mention the unit and myself...

I check out the other discs in that season case and they are all scratched, covered in this same stuff and what looks like dog hair and are really dusty. I'm going to have to clean out the case and somehow clean the discs without damaging them. To me it looks like the borrower just left all 7 discs out in the simple pile of gross-ness.

How can anyone be so disgusting and inconsiderate? I'm hoping the discs still play...

My questions:

-Do you lend your stuff out?
-Do you expect it to be treated well?
-Have you ever had anything of yours treated badly? Do tell.
-Do you borrow people's stuff?
-Do you take care of anything you borrow?
-Have you ever lent something out and not gotten it back / kept something lent to you?

[scottish]

-Do you lend your stuff out?

Typically yeah, depends what really but usually if I have something someone needs or wnats I'll let them borrow it even though I know sometimes specific people it'll be a hassle getting it back from

-Do you expect it to be treated well?

Yes, inconsiderate not to

-Have you ever had anything of yours treated badly? Do tell.

No, usually it takes a bit of effort getting it back (they never remember, etc)

-Do you borrow people's stuff?

Not that I can think of

-Do you take care of anything you borrow?

If I did I would

-Have you ever lent something out and not gotten it back / kept something lent to you?

No I keep mentioning it until I get it back


I hope it works though, for sake of watching Lost, I'm going to watch it soon (and force @buttons; to) but probably watch it on netflix.

[FlyingJesus]

I don't really have anything that people want except books and anyone who cares enough about books to want to borrow them ought to be good with taking care of them

[Chris]

Ouch, if I was you I would be fuming with whoever the item was lent to. It's why I'm so reluctant to let people use my things.

-Do you lend your stuff out?

Very rarely to be honest.

-Do you expect it to be treated well?

Of course, I wouldn't want it to get damaged

-Have you ever had anything of yours treated badly? Do tell.

Not that I can remember, but then again I haven't lent too much out.

-Do you borrow people's stuff?

I do but only if they offer.

-Do you take care of anything you borrow?

Yeah because I know how I would feel if something of mine was damaged.

-Have you ever lent something out and not gotten it back / kept something lent to you?

Yeah I lent a game to somebody that I never had back. I wasn't too fussed though as I didn't play it much.

[Yawn]

thats awful. boxsets arent cheap either wtf

[Charz777]

thats awful. boxsets arent cheap either wtf

I think it was about £60 :/

[buttons]

-Do you lend your stuff out?
no one really asks but ive taken hairspray etc to friends because they've asked me to take and never got them back. it's kinda a rule with us that if u leave hair products and spray or alcohol at someone's house then you're not getting it back unless u ask for it lol. idc bout stuff like that. i wouldn't lend out anything i don't want to lose.

Do you expect it to be treated well?
again, wouldn't give out anything id be upset about being destroyed so doesn't really come into my head


-Have you ever had anything of yours treated badly? Do tell.
nope not that i remember so couldn't have been that important.


-Do you borrow people's stuff?
i rarely ask to borrow anything but ive had friends offer me clothes, books etc they think i might like which is usually meant for a short time but i end up keeping them for years lol would give thm back if they ask tho obv


-Do you take care of anything you borrow?
nope, burnt a hole in one friends top (accidently), ripped bits out her book (idk y, we fell out a lot and it was only like the top right of the pages, too scared t do it all), no wonder she's such a bobba to me now. also snapped a bring it on DVD someone let me borrow to impress people, y didnt i just ******* keep the DVD, i love that film!!!


-Have you ever lent something out and not gotten it back / kept something lent to you?
yes buffy tapes i never got back from someone. have kept tops dresses etc people have given me idk like if they don't ask for it back i sometimes forget it's even theirs :/ i borrowed heels from my mum like 3 yrs ago n never gave her back tho lmao always think they're mine until she reminds me...



if i ruined someone's stuff id tell them, try fix it and if didnt work offer to pay for new ones (unless it's like £60 shut up @scottish did they just give u it like that without explaining there might have been a mess

[zombies]

-Do you lend your stuff out? just xbox games i guess
-Do you expect it to be treated well? yes or they can buy me a new one
-Have you ever had anything of yours treated badly? Do tell. not really, unless you count a bit of pizza inside an xbox game
-Do you borrow people's stuff? not really
-Do you take care of anything you borrow? if i do, then yes
-Have you ever lent something out and not gotten it back / kept something lent to you? no never

[!x!dude!x!2]

-Do you lend your stuff out? i lend out like pens and pencils at school and the odd video game
-Do you expect it to be treated well? yes. or I would make them buy me a new one
-Have you ever had anything of yours treated badly? Do tell. I let my friend borrow one of my game boy colour and he broke it
-Do you borrow people's stuff? rarely
-Do you take care of anything you borrow? Yes
-Have you ever lent something out and not gotten it back / kept something lent to you? Nope. I make sure I get everything back and I give everything back I get

[GoldenMerc]

I let Sam my gf borrow my car, returned it was scratched alloys. Obviously not her...

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