neither a lender nor a borrower be....

[dancingleaf]

I know a dancer who has a large quantity of performance and instructional VHS & DVD's.

On occasion she has been known to 'rent' them out for a nominal fee.

I love performance videos but I'll admit I do tend to watch them once, twice maybe more but... rarely.
I have a good number of beginner videos that I hang onto to refresh my mind occasionally when I need a new way to explain something to my students.

I had been giving some thought to this - 'renting' out my collection so as to further expand the quantity of material.

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UNTIL I realized today... that I cannot find my Mata Hari DVD.  It's a movie - not bellydance.  But I know I lent it to someone... some very long time ago... and never got it back.

Now I have to decide how to politely ask two or three different people... "who has my Mata Hari DVD & could you please return it ASAP."

Comments

[ishtara.livejournal.com]

On the subject of videos, what do you think of Dolphina?

I bought one of her DVDs. It wasn't bellydance. I like it, but I couldn't imagine her as a bellydancer.

[dancingleaf.livejournal.com]

oh dear.

I once borrowed someone's goddess dance - it was dreadful- her costumes were lovely but the cameraman was an idiot. She'd be talking about hip movements and the camera would be focussed on her face or her cleavage. I have her zills video - it was ... okay. I wish she'd used recognizable patterns instead of catchy little phrases.

At best she's very...'new age-y'

[ishtara.livejournal.com]

I got her burlesque work out. I think she has the right look and attitude for it. They had a preview of her belly dance ones and I couldn't see getting in it at all.

[ata1anta.livejournal.com]

Ages ago my mom got me "Book Lending Cards" - they're two part cards that you fill out with the book and borrower info so you can track who you lent the book to. The closest I could find was this. Not quite the same, but you get the idea. IMO the only way to get things back is to keep track of it in some "library" manner.

Which reminds me, have to get "V for Vendetta" back to a friend of mine....