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 Hear me out, if someone steals something from you. Do you buy the same thing again? Or let it go? 
 Let it go 
 Depends on how important it is to me 🤔 
 Depends on what it was 
 Hunt it down and shoot it. 
 What’d you lose? 
 Got robbed once. Only some valuable aruff were taken, fitting in a big backpack I guess (a bag pack was even stolen, probably to store the stolen stuff). Insurance covered everything, but I end up buying back for half of this amount.

Sometimes I'm wondering what I would miss if my entire place burn down completely. Probably not much. Could even be a relief somehow.

However, don't touch my sats, or I will track you down to hell. 
 got my bike stolen once. immediately replaced it within a week. 
 Probably follows the same rule if it's broken, time to upgrade! 
 If necessary, replace. If not, 🤷‍♂️ 
 Replace with an upgrade. This is especially true with who your dating. 😂😂😂 
 It would be superstition to link the two. If you need the thing, you buy it. Nothing else matters. 
 I think deeply about every non consumable item purchase I make. So I don't have the luxury of letting theft taint my ability to purchase and use an item I painstakingly picked among everything else. 
 If it's something you use everyday I'd deal hunt for a replacement on the used market. If its something you don't use often Let it Go. 
 It depends... If it's something that I can replace with something I already have or if it's not really useful, I'll tend not to buy it.

But if it's something that I need or really want to have, but that I see a risk of being stolen again, I'd think hard about choosing something less expensive and/or that attracts less attention. 
 say: I will find you, and then kill you! jks. only if you really like it. otherwise i buy another style that i always wish for. 
 someone stole my favorite jacket yesterday that I had immediate rebought after losing it several years prior. I'm upset as I'm struggling to find the exact one again online since I bought the original in 2019 and my replacement in 2022. I'm legitimately upsett because I love that jacket 😔 
 depends if it's a necessity or not 
 I work in the trades, so if someone stole certain tools, I would have to replace or not be able to work.