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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 10 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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[–] bluGill@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

drive the retail areas of town and look for the rental signs. yellow pages. They want to be found by locals so look in the places locals might. hardware stores either rent stuff or will tell you if you ask.