neither a lender nor a borrower be....

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."