Borrowing

 Families over here have a sense of "borrowing" which means in effect, you will never see it again!

It is not if they cannot afford to buy the item for themselves, but they see yours and figure you don't need it since you are not always around.

When constructing the house Binnie bought a wheelbarrow.  Very handy.

Now she is back and once again into gardening and the wheelbarrow is gone.

Then this morning she was going to bake banana muffins only to find her tray gone.

She was not a happy camper!!!

Thus she got onto the family WhatsApp chat group and fired a message to her 10 siblings saying this borrowing had to stop and she wanted her stuff back!

A few replied with smiley emojis but the youngest brother who had the wheelbarrow for 3 years, went off and bought us a new one from the hardware store.

Consequently we now have a replacement wheelbarrow and like everything else of ours, where appropriate, it has been sprayed with bright red spray paint.  Thus, my tools, the rake, the water tank, etc., everything is marked so there is no arguments who the owner is!