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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

A friend of mine who lived in Berkeley in the early aughts was a member of her local tool library. I thought it was a brilliant idea. You just had to be live in the community and getting your library card was free.

At one point my roommate needed a drill to complete some home improvement, so I got the drill, committing to be the drill guy the buddy that had a borrow-able power drill.

Curiously, when I moved, I needed to reduce my stuff drastically, so my roommate inherited the drill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yeah I borrowed a bunch of hand and power tools from the Oakland public library when I lived there in the 2010s. They also had a shit ton of video games

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Hopefully opportunity attracted you elsewhere, re: leaving Oakland?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Housing was too expensive and we wanted to move back east closer to family. Most of our Oakland friends took a similar path between ‘18 and ‘22

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

too expensive … [people moved elsewhere]

A huge loss, generally speaking. Darn the almighty dollar!