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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 Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] trusty@feddit.uk 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The one in Chicago is great. They also had a huge collection of free seeds this spring.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago (7 children)

This is great! I've rented things from home improvement stores, and it's often half the price of actually buying said thing. Hopefully this can get the price down a bit.

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago

i thought this was called having neighbors? Nonetheless, i'm not complaining. Less waste is better waste.

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Priced out of living in communities where you have friends and family to share things with? Hooray! Now you can pay us for that stuff in addition to your increased cost of living!

/c/orphancrushingmachine

[–] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess it's easy to be cynical, but no, this is not at all orphancrushingmachine material

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[–] FrostKing@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Our library in the last place we lived (Midwest of the US) let you take pans from their large collection of cake pans. It was actually really useful.

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[–] kayazere@feddit.nl 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For anyone in Germany: https://connect.oclc.org/bib-der-dinge

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I should start my own rental thing. I tend to buy what I need for DIY projects and I'm on the build up of tools phase. I can pretty much build my own house if I wanted, or fix anything in my car. So I got a number of toys just catching dust most of the time. But toys are fun.

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