re: Do you have issues lending stuff to people?

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Have you confronted them with the issues? If you did and they didn't offer to compensate you, they should no longer be friends.

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My brother in law was an expert on borrowing and breaking. After he borrowed and returned it, I found out that the main gearbox of my big shite spreader had a broken shaft after it was fully loaded and I got to the field with it. When he borrowed my set of OTC gear pullers and used long cheater bars on the wrenches to break puller arms and strip threads he simply said that he wasn't responsible since they were a piece of crap when I bought them.
He has passed on now and I truely do miss him. We had some great times together - when he wasn't borrowing.

I don't have a problem lending things out, but I've yet to have a problem. Granted, most of the time it's my husband's tools or big saws that need borrowing.

My husband lent out a brand new pop up tent to a good friend and it ripped (I think), no big deal, it was an accident and things happen. He was honest about it. They just worked out a deal where the friend kept the new one that had ripped and bought my husband another one of equal value.

Just don't lend thing out to people who you don't trust or that don't take care of their stuff and generally it shouldn't be an issue.

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Now, there's some people I trust lending stuff to, I know they'll get it back to me as soon as they're done with it, bring it back cleaner than you gave it to them, or fixed if they break it.

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This is how I was raised and this is what I do

When I worked radio I knew a guy that wanted to borrow my new R-DAT.
He was nice guy but those things are not cheap to repair. I just told him that head drum was damaged and I was going to have to get it serviced.

I felt bad about lying but one never knows.

I have two of almost every basic tool, a good one for me and a crappy one to lend out. I started that when a friend of mine was getting into woodworking and wanted to try planning instead of sanding. So I loaned him my Bridge City smoothing plane because it was the only one I had set up and sharp at that moment plus it has multiple iron angles so he could try out different angles of attack with a single plane. He came back sheepishly a few days later and said it fell off his bench and broke (there was more to that story that I still don't know). He said he would buy me a new one and I told him how much they were and he started laughing thinking I was joking and he got really serious when I showed him the website. While he did pay me he was mad at me for months for loaning it to him...

Now moochers get the crap tools and if they want to borrow something I don't have a cheap version of I will either do the job for them or just tell them I don't have one.

Neither a borrower or a lender be - William Shakespeare

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It’s also the reason I don’t borrow anything I can’t afford to replace immediately, even when it’s freely offered.

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You mean you’re not joy riding in your homie’s G Wagon every weekend?

In all seriousness, my friend was the girl several years ago who was killed in the Lamborghini crash into the wall on Tchop. Dude driving it was borrowing it from a friend. Big yikes. Owe your friend a Lamborghini AND you kill a young woman while driving intoxicated.

I offered a neighbor some jackstands, so he wouldn't kill himself. Got them back 18 months later. Also loaned him 10mm socket, got that back in 30 minutes.

I always have issues lending stuff.

My neighbors all know I have just about every tool known to man so they're always asking.

My problem is I lend them tools to DIY stuff, which subsequently means I become their resource/reference for their diy project. It usually bucks up my whole day. So now I give out tools with an offer to help for whatever they think is fair.

Honestly, I think I have a bigger issue borrowing something from someone than I do lending things out