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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)

submitted 8 months ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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pretty quiet week this week if you ignore whatever the hell is going on with our bathroom toilet, which has a diagnostic issue we can't troubleshoot and which has flooded once this week. calling maintenance once again to see if we can figure this out so i don't have to plunge every third time we flush (ironically it'd be way easier if we just had to plunge every time--but it's the times we don't that make this extremely bizarre)

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[–] apis@beehaw.org 4 points 8 months ago

Stuff like this makes me feel it would be cool to organise a local "stuff club", where people would bring things for others to try out.

That alone isn't going to motivate many to bother, but there could be a sell/exchange/donate facility, in lieu of using eBay or Freecycle, and so less stuff ends up in drawers unused.

Guess it could hook in with local Makerspaces, tool libraries such as Men's Sheds, or even regular libraries. If in alliance with Makerspaces, repair & modification sessions would be a cool extension.

Ostensibly harder in smaller towns & in rural areas, but with less access to lots of physical stores, perhaps more demand for it?