To not allow DP to use my mat?

[BestestBrownies]

DP wants to use my lovely new pilates mat (thick, spongy one), as a mattress when he goes camping at a festival this weekend.

He has form for taking without asking borrowing my belongings and/or lending them out to others without first seeking my permission, so my annoyance may be coloured by his past behaviours.

YANBU Your lovely new mat will absorb all the gross camping/unwashed body smells and will never be properly clean and useable for pilates ever again.

YABU It's no big deal and the mat can just be cleaned afterwards.

Do not let him take it. It either won’t come back or it will come back ruined. He can buy his own sleeping mat ! 👍🏻

He finally saw sense and bought an inflatable mattress and pump from Argos this afternoon, so my mat is safe

Great News OP!!! Glad you stuck to your guns 😊

@BestestBrownies no, still hide it. I suspect something else could happen otherwise 🫣

Good news op!

How did he explain thinking it was OK to do that to you, op?

Don't do it OP!

DS took my Pilates mat to Explorer Scout Camp without asking because he couldn't be bothered to go in on the lift to get his. Anyway, it's all ripped and muddy now and smells of woodsmoke. I've told him he may as well keep it. I didn't particularly like it.

Can you link me to your lovely mat please @BestestBrownies ? I need a new one.

Leave him to his strop, the big man baby!

Nope! He can buy a cheap camping mat