Doubting this. I lived with my grandparents for awhile in the 1980s, in their neighborhood which was established in the 1950s. I remember everybody had their own everything - tools, lawnmowers, snowblowers, ladders etc. Borrowing happened, but there were socially acceptable reasons for it - something was broken, you just moved in from the city and hadn&#x27;t bought everything you needed yet, etc. Anyone who habitually borrowed the same thing over and over just because they didn&#x27;t want to buy it would have been ostracized.