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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 7 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] 1 points 7 months ago

I hear you. I'm not the everything sucks and nothing matters if it's not complete, type of person. This just seems like a bandaid for breaking up community. It's good to solve problems, but I'm concerned we shouldn't have this problem.