Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
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.
smort@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Hopefully opportunity attracted you elsewhere, re: leaving Oakland?
smort@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
A huge loss, generally speaking. Darn the almighty dollar!