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  • Today's good idea comes from Cassie. She says: "Hi Angela, I'm 15 and my mom and my sister

  • always accuse me of stealing their stuff. I just think I'm borrowing it. Then what?

  • Well Cassie, this is for you and all of the other teenagers out there who share clothes.

  • There are five simple steps for borrowing things that will get you out of the woods

  • and they will never again call you a thief. Rule number 1: Ask face to face, may I please

  • borrow your whatever it is, your shirt and if they say yes, then move on to

  • Rule number 2: When would you like me to return it? And then agree on a time.

  • Rule number 3: How would you like me to return it?

  • Do you want me to wash it, you want me to fold it, you want me to hang it up?

  • Want me to leave it on your bed so you can wash it with your clothes? Agree on how and then

  • number 4: Return it when you you said you were going to return it, and how you said

  • you're going to return it. Then number 5: is return it in the condition in which you

  • received it. That means if you rip, tear, shred, burn whatever...it,

  • you gotta replace it. So you have to return it in as good, or better, condition than which you borrowed it in.

  • And if you follow those simple steps you will never again have a problem for borrowing.

  • And if you follow those five steps, it's a good idea.

  • It's a good idea.

Today's good idea comes from Cassie. She says: "Hi Angela, I'm 15 and my mom and my sister

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