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[quote=Anonymous]I was one of those people before kids. Its not that I didn't want to return things, I just forgot all about them. Often times I'd put them in a "safe place" and forget where said safe place was. And i'd lend out things all the time and never think to ask for it back. There's an element of selfishness/privilege surely in there, but also (at least for me) just distractedness/absent-mindedness. In fact, I remember clearly constantly using my roommate's sanitary napkins stash she kept under the sink - because I just kept forgetting to buy some myself from the store. Finally, after months of this, I found a sticky note stuck to the pack saying "Once or twice or three times is fine! But you need to buy your own pads!!". I was kind of offended at the time, but now I find it really amusing. It stuck with me, because after that I was SUPER CAREFUL about returning things that I'd borrowed (and actually just avoided borrowing altogether since my memory is bad). I'm still not great about keeping track of what I lend out though. [/quote]

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