Would you loan your favorite sweater or earrings to a friend ?

oh thats a sad story, that your favorite sweater was not returned. but for me, i can still lend something to my "friend" a friend which means someone i trusted, someone i can depend on, someone who understand me, a real friend. and not just an acquaintance or a common friend. and if that friend didnt return the thing she borrowed from me, i can easily tell her that without offending each other. good luck. take care

Well, nobody would ever ask to borrow my clothing - it's so horrible even I don't like wearing it - hahahaha! However, my real love is books - and I no longer lend them out. Every time I've done this in the past, I've never seen the books again - and it makes me really mad. Once, I even approached the person and asked whether I could have my book back (in this case it was a juggling book, which came with a set of juggling balls) - but the person shrugged and said they couldn't remember what they'd done with it. The only person I lend books to now is my Mum.

It depends on the person asking and what the item is. Favorite things may or not be expensive, but if they get lost, the value can't be replaced even with money. So I know how you feel about your sweater and what I would feel if that also happened to me. I have friends who are very trustworthy and return things they borrowed even without me asking for them to return the items. However, there are "friends" who are blacklisted from my borrowers list. Like a guy who borrowed my sons' very sturdy crib when his wife gave birth to their kid. It has been used by 4 kids already but it's still as good as new because it was taken well cared of in our house. Our "friend" (actually, the brother of my hubby's best friend) even asked my hubby to drive all the way to their house (for two hours!) just to drop off the crib. But four years later, when my sister needs the crib for her coming baby, I asked 3-5 times if they can give it back to us since they're no longer using it and he kept promising and promising to bring it around but he never did. Now, my niece is already 2 years old and I never saw that darn crib's shadow :(